Terradepth

After hearing that a U.S. Navy submarine ran into an underwater mountain, Joe Wolfel was surprised to find out just how little both government and…

Terradepth wants to map the rest of the ocean floor

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Nursing is a tough job even in non-pandemic years (remember those?). Stress, burnout, exhaustion are all words one associates with the gig. I’ve seen a number of surveys conducted over the past year, and while the results differ wildly, the consensus is that a majority of nurses have considered leaving…

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At last count, roughly 20% of the ocean floor has been mapped. The remaining portion adds up to around double the surface area of Mars. A number of firms out…

Terradepth raises another $20 million to map the ocean floor with robots

Space attracts a lot of attention as an area of frontier tech investment and entrepreneurship, but there’s another vast expanse that could actually be more addressable by the innovation economy…

Oceans of opportunity: surveying 2020’s seafaring startup potential

I’m not a venture capitalist. I don’t play one on TV, either (though I might if anyone asked!). Still, after many years of covering startups, including as an editor with…

A highly subjective list of some of this year’s notable young startups

Plenty of the ocean remains unexplored, even though it’s a huge trove of potentially valuable information. Current methods for mapping and gathering ocean data, especially deep-ocean data, generally require humans…

Terradepth raises $8 million to build a fleet of autonomous deep-ocean data robots