La Bella Verde

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Project description

La Bella Verde; pioneers of the green boating movement. In 2014 we started as the first and only company in Ibiza chartering solar-electric catamarans. Since our inception, we have been able to grow our charter fleet to 8 boats, including one that is operating as a franchise in Sydney. Our organic growth and success have led to private investment that entered the company in 2018. The investment allowed us to open 2 new branches of our company: Construction & Sales of new vessels and Refits. We are revolutionizing the way boats are built; together with our partner Innovation Yachts, we have developed the world´s first 100% recyclable composite boat in serial production, the LBV35. Using volcanic fibres, non-toxic epoxy and FSC-certified balsa wood we have found the way to build composite boats that form no danger or do any harm to nature. We have also partnered up with an NGO that is committed to cleaning-up floating plastic from the sea; we have fitted a clean-up net to all of our boats, including the new LBV35. Leading by example, we are committed to driving the change within the nautical sector.

The problem we are solving

End-of-life handling of the boat. The unsustainable nature of the nautical industry. Uniqueness, revolutionary, fun, perfect day-charter boat, high-performance sailing.

Comments

We have focused our marketing and sales strategy on selling our unique day-charter boat together with our branding; through a franchise model. In this way, we empower young entrepreneurs with a green heart to get their charter business off the ground instantly and it enables much faster global expansion of our brand. To achieve our main objective; revolutionizing the nautical industry to become truly sustainable, we are planning to roll out an LBV-model in every sector of the nautical industry: fully recyclable (and fully autonomous) surfboards, kayaks, small boats, live-aboard boats, etc.

Technology readiness level

Sustainable impact on Blue Economy

Reduces carbon emissions, Contributes to waste reduction, Increases the use of renewable energy resources, Encourages sustainable use of maritime resources

Basic information

Country

Spain

Sector

Blue energy, Coastal and marine tourism, Shipbuilding and ship repair

Brief biography of founders and CEO

Alistair Glover-Main & Maarten Bernhart are the 2 initiators of the idea/philosophy of La Bella Verde. Both are visionary entrepreneurs with big dreams and a massive and ambitious drive for change. Alistair is 31 years old and Maarten 27. Both have left high school to go and travel, create their own life, their own business, their success. Now they are in Ibiza, where La Bella Verde originated in 2014. Both Alistair and Maarten have big green hearts out of which the sustainability drive behind LBV derives. Everything they needed to learn to run their business, they learned along the way. To be able to handle the growth of the company, the team has expanded with various professionals.

Financial data

Finance needs

1750000.00

Planned Funding Uses

Improve our R&D, Sales and Marketing

Company profile

La Bella Verde

Company type:

Start-up - company younger than 3 years

Company description:

La Bella Verde is a company in sustainable boating. We started by chartering solar-powered electric catamarans that we converted ourselves. The success of our charter operations has led to a private investment which allowed us to open up 2 new branches of our company: Construction and Conversion. Conversion is simple: we can convert any sailing vessel up to 12 meters & 8 tons to electric-solar or electric-hybrid. Construction: We have started manufacturing our 10-meter day charter catamaran in 2018, we have constructed 2 (with conventional building techniques) and have sold both of them. One was sold with an additional system we developed to take floating plastic off the surface of the water. As our main objective has always been to make the most sustainable boat in the world we are now developing a new model which will be built sustainably; fibres will be natural and the other materials (foam, epoxy) that make up the boat will be recycled and/or recyclable.

Year of establishment

2014

Employees

Maritime Forum Themes

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