The fifth wave will be built
by people who meet early
Re-tooling a global industry takes founders, operators, researchers, and patient capital working in sequence. If you sit anywhere on that chain, we would like to hear from you.
Building maritime hardware
Early-stage teams in the US, UK, or Western Europe building physical systems for ships, ports, shipyards, or the energy infrastructure between them. Reach out before the prototype is finished — pilot access changes design decisions.
founders@fifthwavefund.comOperators & infrastructure
Fleet owners, ports, shipyards, classification bodies, insurers, and fabricators interested in structured access to vetted technology — as pilot hosts, first customers, or co-development partners.
partners@fifthwavefund.comForesight & academia
Universities, maritime clusters, and research institutes mapping the technical and economic bottlenecks of the transition. We collaborate on applied research and publish what we learn.
research@fifthwavefund.comInstitutions and family offices with a long-term interest in maritime industrial transformation are welcome to open a conversation at lp@fifthwavefund.com. Correspondence is informational; any participation in future vehicles would be limited to eligible persons and documented separately.
What to send
Three paragraphs beat a deck: what you are building or operating, why the timing is now, and what a first pilot or collaboration would look like. We read everything and reply to anything with a plausible path onto a vessel, into a port, or into the research agenda.