#13: Ocean Rainforest with Olavur Gregersen - Finding customers for your seaweed biomass, large scale farming in California and the financial ecosystem to enable scaling-up seaweed cultivation.

<p>This episode was created as part of <a href="www.insideseaweed.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">⁠Inside Seaweed⁠</a>'s partnership with <a href="https://seagriculture.eu/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">⁠Seagriculture Conference⁠</a>. </p><p>Olavur Gregersen is co-founder and CEO of Ocean Rainforest, one of the largest seaweed cultivation companies in Europe which also operates in California. Olavur has more than 20 years' experience as an entrepreneur and international speaker, primarily focused on seaweed cultivation and growth in the blue bioeconomy. He will be keynote speaker during <a href="https://seagriculture.eu/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Seagriculture Conference EU 2023</a> (June 21st-22nd in Trondheim, Norway), where he will discuss the financial ecosystem to enable scaling-up seaweed cultivation.</p><p>*</p><p>Check out the <a href="https://insideseaweed.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Inside Seaweed Newsletter</a>! Just one short email per month, no spam and you can cancel at anytime.</p><p>Would you like to get a super short email from me every month, with three actionable insights for your seaweed business? I will search the seaweed industry for the most important lessons, the most useful conclusions and relevant actions, condensed into a half page that I will share with you, each month. It's easy to sign up and just as easy to cancel. If you'd like to give it a try, head over to <a href="https://insideseaweed.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">insideseaweed.com </a></p><p>*</p><p>[1:38] Introduction to Ocean Rainforest</p><p>[3:13] Customer segments and the seaweed value chain</p><p>[6:05] Seaweed application in the dairy sector</p><p>[8:03] Seaweed as functional feed additive, and its benefits</p><p>[9:58] Finding customers for your seaweed biomass</p><p>[14:22] Cultivating in large scale in California</p><p>[17:00] Seagriculture Conference EU 2023</p><p>[21:52] The financial ecosystem to enable scaling-up </p><p>* </p><p><strong>Useful Links</strong>:</p><p>Olavur Gregersen on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/olavurgregersen/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/OlavurG" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p><p>Ocean Rainforest: <a href="https://www.oceanrainforest.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Website</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin