Capital with a course.
A planned fund focused on founders connecting maritime hardware with AI-powered functionality. We’re interested in ideas that bring intelligence out of the screen and into the physical world.
SAN FRANCISCO / OPEN POSSIBILITIESCome aboard MOVE TO EXPLORE · CHANGE THE SWELL
The next frontier
is at the
water’s edge.
The ocean is full of possibility.
We’re here to build what’s next.
We’re developing a maritime venture fund, incubator, and studio in San Francisco’s Dogpatch. Our aim: connect founders, capital, and a working waterfront to help turn AI and real-world hardware into maritime companies.
For founders bridging existing hardware with AI-driven functionality. For ideas that belong out in the world. For people who see a future on the water.
Find your sea legsAmbition, meet
possibility.
Good company. Open water.
Building a community of founders, researchers, and maritime operators around ambitious ideas. Our aim is to connect technical curiosity with the practical knowledge of people who work on the water.
From concept to sea trial.
A studio concept designed to help bridge software and hardware. The vision is a place to explore, prototype, and move ideas toward the realities of a marine environment.
Silicon meets
salt water.
SF Boatyards.
Dogpatch, San Francisco.
With a planned home at SF Boatyards, Seamaphore aims to connect San Francisco’s AI talent and venture community with the practical knowledge of a working waterfront.
Our goal is a place where founders can get closer to the people, the hardware, and the water—and take ideas beyond the whiteboard.
Explore the neighborhoodTHE CITY × THE SEA
A WATERFRONT VISION / SAN FRANCISCO
A WATERFRONT VISION / SAN FRANCISCOBlue-sky thinking.
Just add water.
Three areas of interest. One shared thread: connecting intelligence with the maritime world.
Smarter maritime operations.
Sensing, autonomous systems, and tools that connect intelligence with real-world maritime hardware.
A closer look at the blue.
Technology to understand, monitor, and work with the marine environment, including ocean-science and biological applications.
Awareness in open water.
An area of exploration spanning maritime awareness, resilient systems, and real-world autonomy.
Founders.
With sea legs.
John Rodriguez
J-Ro
Brand marketer, startup founder, and angel investor. John brings experience working with incubators, accelerators, and venture-backed companies to help founders find their signal.
Alex Higby
Founder. Sailor. Builder.
A startup founder and marine project manager with experience on the 34th America’s Cup, 52 Super Series, and Extreme Sailing Series circuits. Alex is also building SailScan, a maritime computer vision platform.
06 / THE NEXT WAVE STARTS HEREBuild something
Build something
that makes waves.
Founders, investors, researchers, and fellow believers in the sea. Let’s explore what we can build.
Let’s talk
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