THE PROBLEM
The Scale Gap
Most ocean innovations get stuck in their missing middle: too late for venture and too early for infrastructure capital. Without a long-term, committed shareholder to lead scale-up, many stall before reaching their full potential.
THE SOLUTION
The Rypples Model
Rypples is not a fund. We invest from our own balance sheet with capital that is time and mission-aligned with founders. We act as long-term partners through the scale journey, becoming the anchor shareholders ocean innovators have been missing.
WHO WE ARE
Founders backing
founders
Rypples was created by two unicorn founders who built global, mission-driven companies at scale. That operator DNA shapes how we back ocean innovators.
Frederic Trinel
Co-Founder
Jerome Ternynck
Co-Founder
WHERE WE FOCUS
Ocean tech for
planetary impact
Rypples backs ocean innovators whose impact reaches far beyond the sea. We're most useful once product–market fit is emerging and the focus shifts from proving to scaling, across five verticals:
