Marinitech Grand Prix 2023: Grand Prize Won by Yellow Duck Inc.

The MarinTech Grand Prix 2023 was held on Saturday, September 30, 2023 at the Center of Garage to select the winning teams for the Grand Prize and the Corporate Award.

Starting with the 2020 season, the Tech Planter will evolve its concept to "Deep Issue & Deep Tech Explorer," which will use "Deep Tech," a collection of science and technology, to solve unsolved "Deep Issues. Tech Explorer," which is a collection of science and technology to solve "Deep Issues" through "Deep Tech". We aim to encourage a global perspective from the early stage, and to accelerate new developments through collaboration with the 1371 teams (as of September 1, 2023) of Alumni and others in the overseas Tech Planter hosted by RIVERNESS. On the day of the event, the 12 finalist teams of the Marine Tech Grand Prix, selected from among the 336 teams that applied for Tech Planter 2023, passionately presented their ideas for solving social issues using the sea as a field.

The winner of the prestigious Grand Prize was Yellow Duck Co.
Yellow Duck Corporation gave a presentation titled "Hydrogen Generation and Wave Power DAC for a Decarbonized Society". The Grand Prize was awarded to Yellow Duck Corporation, as all the judges empathized with the representative's beliefs and promised to work together to create a way out and encourage Yellow Duck Corporation to take up the challenge.

Grand Prize winner Yellow Duck Inc. and the entire jury

Team Name	Theme name	winning (a prize)
Yellow Duck Corporation	Hydrogen Generation and Wave Power DAC for a Decarbonized Society	Grand Prize, Asahi Yukikai Award
Sakana Dream Co.	Hybrid Fish" Development Project to Create Dream Fish
ShrimpTech JIRCAS Corporation	Providing an environmentally harmonized complete shrimp closed system land-based aquaculture system.
e-Robotics Corporation	Vertical Weather Observation System Using Ship Moored UAV
muon acceleration	Innovative Imaging with a Compact Muon Accelerator	MOL Award,Real Tech Fund Award
AQSim	Aquaculture Simulation	Sanyo Chemical Award
shallow-sea bottom frontier	Visualizing submarine topography for regional revitalization
ECOQUA	Land-based aquaculture systems that do not require water exchange	Focus Systems Award
Marine Sensor Tech.	Current velocity sensor for ocean monitoring
Atuy Data Sea	Development of technology to visualize the inside of the ocean

 

Demo Day Implementation Overview

• • Grand Prix name: Marintec Grand Prix 2023
  • Location: Center of Garage (1-16-3 Yokogawa, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 130-0003, Japan)
  • Date: Saturday, September 30, 2023, 13:00-19:00
  • Eligibility: Closed, pre-registration required (entry teams, partner companies, Superfactory Group Professional Supporters)
  • List of Marintec Grand Prix:Marintec Grand Prix