A GLOBAL PLATFORM FOR PORT-CITY INVESTMENT

Financing Maritime Innovation

Turning port-city challenges into investable opportunities.

Financing Maritime Innovation is the global platform connecting port cities, investors, corporates and innovators to structure, finance and deploy high-impact projects across maritime infrastructure and the blue economy.

THE CONTEXT

Port cities are at the center of the next industrial transition.

They concentrate the energy transition, global logistics flows, and the industrial transformations of the next two decades. Yet they face a structural gap between ambition and execution.

Project structuring

Viable projects exist, but few reach investability.

Public-private alignment

Decision cycles, mandates and risk appetites diverge.

Innovation fragmentation

Deeptech solutions remain siloed from infrastructure capital.

Capital orientation

Investors lack qualified, de-risked pipelines anchored in real territories.

OUR FOUR LEVERS

From strategic challenge to deployed capital.

FMI operates across four integrated levers, designed to compress the distance between problem identification and capital deployment.

01

Use-case co-construction

We work with cities and ports to translate strategic priorities into concrete, scoped, investable use-cases.

02

Direct access to decision-makers

Curated rooms where ports, mayors, public authorities and capital allocators interact at the level required to move projects forward.

03

Finance × innovation alignment

We convert technological solutions into structured investment opportunities.

04

Qualified ecosystem

Selective participation. Every actor in the room contributes to execution.

THE PLATFORM IN NUMBERS

A platform that already convenes the global maritime ecosystem.

200+

International decision-makers

150+

Port cities (AIVP network)

40+

Countries represented

3

Major editions per year

OUR INTERNATIONAL FOOTPRINT

Three strategic hubs. One coherent platform.

Monaco

GLOBAL LAUNCH

Strategic launchpad. Where the platform is structured and where the international agenda is set, in alignment with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.

Québec

NORTH AMERICA

Anchor for the North American ecosystem — innovation, water, energy, digitalization of port operations.

Dunkerque

INDUSTRIAL SCALE

Large-scale industrial deployment, leveraging the AIVP network and one of Europe’s most strategic port complexes.

LEADERSHIP

The voices behind the platform.

Financing Maritime Innovation transforms strategic challenges into structured investment opportunities, by aligning innovation, capital and execution capacity.

— GÉRALDINE ANDRIEUX, FOUNDER & CEO

Port cities must be at the forefront of the ecological transition. This requires structuring investments and directing capital toward concrete, high-impact solutions.

— ÉDOUARD PHILIPPE, PRESIDENT AIVP

The blue economy rests on a new approach to development, founded on collaboration between investors, innovators and public actors to generate lasting impact.

— PRINCE ALBERT II OF MONACO FOUNDATION

Join the platform structuring the future of port cities.

Whether you lead a port city, allocate capital, or build the technologies of tomorrow — there is a seat at the table.