Blue World Alliance Become a Global .Solver" Blue World Alliance generates practical solutions for the exploration, conservation and healing of our oceans through the GlobalSolvers' marketplace. The Challenge: The oceans, earth's life-support system, are at a tipping point for irreversible damage. Current efforts to reverse this trend are not yielding sufficient solutions. The urgency of the task demands a new model. The Solution: Blue World Alliance has created a breakthrough methodology in which prize-based competitions provide promising innovators with the funding, mentorship and strategic partnerships necessary to commercialize their solutions into products and services that yield tangible environmental benefits. These open competitions catalyze the creation of cross-discipline teams, deploying diverse skill sets, resulting in out of the box solutions to the oceans' most pressing threats. This is innovation through crowdsourcing—tapping the creative energies of a global audience to yield wide-ranging solutions. The Blue World Alliance methodology involves: • Harvesting a wealth of scientific research related to ocean-based challenges • Identifying and prioritizing challenges most suitable to prize- and grant-based competitions • Securing sponsorship for the prizes and administering the competitions on our web platform • Using our virtual marketplace to connect innovators through collaborating on challenges • Offering competitors start-to-finish mentoring throughout the competition process • Offering mentoring and business resources—post-Prize—in our incubator, Blue World Hatcheries • Providing competition winners access to investor capital to realize and scale their solutions • Creating partnerships with government, commercial, philanthropic and nonprofit sectors Funding Opportunity: The Blue World Alliance, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, seeks $10 million in start-up funds. There are three ways to invest: Founders Circle In