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James Ives

Founder and CEO of XOCEAN (2017), an Irish marine robotics company operating uncrewed surface vessels for ocean data collection across offshore energy and civil hydrography sectors. Previously CEO of OpenHydro (tidal stream turbine developer), which was acquired by Naval Energies in 2013 for approximately $173M. XOCEAN operates in 23 regions with clients including BP, Shell, Orsted, and SSE Renewables.

Irish · 1 current role · 1 founding


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  • XOcean Founder and CEOsince 2017-01-01Secondary-verified

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  1. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/xocean-secures-115-million-investment-to-accelerate-growth-of-its-ocean-data-services-platform-302346644.html
  2. https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/xocean-raises-119m-to-capture-ocean-data-with-uncrewed-surface-vessels/

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