S3 E97: Investing in the Ocean Economy with Kate Danaher
From shipping to seafood, where investment and innovation can make the ocean a climate solution.
This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re kicking off a mini-series on the ocean — the world’s largest carbon sink, a source of food for nearly half the global population, home to 80% of animal life on Earth, and, you know, heating faster than expected and therefore further destabilizing the global climate which is increasingly showing up as more and more extreme weather.
It is also a climate tech category full of untapped investment opportunities.
Our guest this week is Kate Danaher, Managing Director at S2G Investments, where she co-leads the firm’s oceans and seafood strategy. S2G is a seed-to-growth-stage (get it? S2G?) investment firm focused on food and agriculture, clean energy, and the ocean economy — and Kate’s work connects all three for maximum systems-level impact.
We talk about:
🚢 Why the ocean is more than a philanthropic cause — and how multi-trillion-dollar industries depend on it
🌬 Decarbonizing the maritime industry, which moves 80–90% of global goods and emits 3% of total greenhouse gases
⚡️ The technologies gaining traction fastest: route optimization, air lubrication, wind-assisted propulsion, and batteries
📡 Building better ocean intelligence with satellites, sensors, and unmanned vessels — and why balancing proprietary data with the public good is tricky
🐟 How aquaculture can take pressure off wild fisheries, and the tech making it cleaner and more efficient
🌍 Why global regulation (with or without the U.S.) is creating momentum for change
From high-tech sails to land-based fish farms to ocean intelligence, Kate shares how aligning economic value with ocean health could unlock massive climate impact.
Join me next week for an absolutely wild conversation about extremely tiny bubbles. Trust me, it’s climate stuff. See you then!