Eoceans Research and Consulting

Name

Eoceans Research and Consulting

Legal name

eOceans Research and Consulting Inc.

Website

https://eoceans.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Dartmouth

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Subscription Plans (SaaS): Tiered subscription model with free mobile app entry point, PRO plan for individuals ($/month or annual), Starter Team plan for small teams, and Enterprise pricing for larger organizations. Non-enterprise plans designed for individuals, students, and small NGOs with limited budgets. Plans are flexible with ability to upgrade or downgrade.
2. Blue Economy Consulting Services: High-value consulting engagements for complex marine decisions. Services include environmental assessment, fisheries management, biodiversity assessment, marine spatial planning, policy support, stakeholder engagement, and decision-support systems. Work with governments, international organizations, developers, funders, fisheries associations, and conservation organizations.
3. Magic Uploads Feature: Paid access to upload existing datasets into the platform. Users pay based on dataset size for data formatting and processing services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

eOceans is a patent-pending, all-in-one environmental intelligence platform that automates the end-to-end pipeline from real-world observations to decision-ready evidence. It combines a free iOS/Android mobile app for offline field data collection with a web-based dashboard for project management, data analysis, visualization, and automated report generation, serving citizen scientists, researchers, governments, NGOs, fisheries, and offshore industries across 38 countries.

Product overview

eOceans is a Canadian research and technology company offering a unified platform architecture centered on the eOceans® core platform, which provides an all-in-one system for environmental data collection, management, analysis, and reporting. The platform integrates a free mobile app (iOS/Android) for field observation logging, a web-based dashboard for project management and analytics, and tiered subscription packages (Free, PRO, Starter Team, Enterprise). Key modules include Magic Uploads for legacy data integration, the MPA Health Tracker and Smart Fishery Tracker for domain-specific monitoring, and the Impact Tracker for individual contribution measurement. The platform supports multiple citizen science sub-brands including eShark, eManta, eSeal, eSeaTurtle, eWhale, eJellyfish, and eSeahorse for targeted species monitoring. Consulting services for Blue Economy strategy complement the self-service platform offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• eOceans Platform All-in-one patent-pending platform for environmental intelligence that transforms how organizations collect, manage, analyze, and share data on ecosystems, communities, threats, and policies. Automates the data-to-evidence pipeline at any spatial scale, delivering continuously updated, traceable outputs, reports, and publications for researchers, governments, NGOs, and enterprises.
• eOceans Mobile App Free mobile application for iOS and Android enabling real-time observation logging offline in the field. Supports data collection for biodiversity, threats, environmental variables, human activity, and custom metrics using any sampling method, with features including 'ID me please' for species identification, peer-to-peer validation, and built-in field guides.
• Blue Economy Consulting Services Professional consulting services helping organizations deliver high-stakes decisions across the Blue Economy. Services include environmental assessment, fisheries management, biodiversity assessment, marine spatial planning, policy support, stakeholder engagement, and decision-support systems for governments, international organizations, developers, funders, fisheries associations, and conservation organizations.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 80% faster results compared to traditional data processing methods
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered core, strategic and minor.

• Marine Conservation Institute (MPAtlas)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative partnership for the Global MPA Workforce Study 2025-26. Partnership aims to understand the workforce behind current Marine Protected Areas to inform 30x30 conservation goals. eOceans provides the data platform and technical infrastructure for the study.
• Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partner in Global MPA Workforce Study 2025-26. Contributes scientific expertise in wildlife research and conservation methodology.
• IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Global MPA Workforce Study 2025-26. Provides global policy expertise and network for protected area governance research.
• Re:wildcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerConservation organization partner in Global MPA Workforce Study 2025-26. Focuses on restoring native animals and ecosystems worldwide.
• Blue Nature AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Global MPA Workforce Study 2025-26. Alliance working to protect 18 million square kilometers of ocean through marine protected areas.
• Ocean Science Analytics (OSA)strategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on Towards 30x30 initiative setting new benchmark in protected area monitoring and accountability. Joint case study on Marine Protected Area observations using eOceans platform.
• Ocean Frontier InstitutestrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch institute partner listed among consulting services clients. Collaborative research in ocean science and marine systems.
• Dalhousie UniversitystrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partner listed among consulting services clients. Collaboration in marine science research and education.
• Fisheries and Oceans CanadastrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment partner listed among consulting services clients. Collaboration on Canadian marine science and fisheries management.
• The Pew Charitable TrustsstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerNonprofit partner listed among consulting services clients. Collaboration on marine conservation and policy initiatives.
• IUCNstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational organization partner for conservation and environmental policy collaboration.
• Mud RatminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCo-winner of Ocean Changemakers Challenge 2026. Partnership in initiative to demonstrate scalable solutions for ocean health and blue economy.
• MarineSituminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCo-winner of Ocean Changemakers Challenge 2026. Partnership in initiative for AI-driven underwater monitoring technologies.
• Washington Maritime BlueminorGTM or Marketing PartnerAccelerator program accepted into in 2020. Seattle-based maritime startup accelerator providing mentorship and networking.
• Almanustra (Indonesia)strategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in shark monitoring and conservation initiative across Indonesia. Joint project for shark population research in Indonesian waters.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• NatureMetrics: NatureMetrics provides a subscription-based environmental DNA and biodiversity monitoring platform that standardises field sampling, automates analysis, and delivers reporting dashboards to enterprises and conservation organisations — closely matching eOceans' SaaS-based environmental intelligence offering.
• Wildlife Insights: Wildlife Insights is a Google-backed citizen science and AI camera-trap platform that turns field observations into standardised biodiversity data and analytics for conservation practitioners — analogous to eOceans' mobile-app-driven crowdsourced wildlife monitoring model.
• Global Fishing Watch: Global Fishing Watch operates a data and analytics platform that turns vessel-tracking and ocean activity data into intelligence for governments, NGOs, and researchers — directly comparable to eOceans' model of converting environmental observations into decision-ready insights via SaaS and partnerships.

Broad incumbents

• Allen Coral Atlas: Allen Coral Atlas combines satellite imagery, AI, and field data to map and monitor coral reef ecosystems globally — a comparable marine-environmental intelligence platform that overlaps with eOceans' MPA and reef-health monitoring use cases but at much larger scale.
• iNaturalist: iNaturalist is a much larger, broadly adopted citizen science platform for biodiversity observations that competes for community engagement and ecosystem-mindshare but does not target the marine/enterprise/government monitoring workflow that eOceans monetises.

Emerging players

• Reef Life Survey: Reef Life Survey is a citizen-science dive program that systematically collects reef biodiversity data worldwide — overlapping with eOceans' eShark/eManta ecosystem projects but lacking an equivalent commercial SaaS and consulting layer.
• Smartfin: Smartfin is a citizen-science program that equips surfers with sensor-equipped surfboard fins to crowdsource ocean temperature and wave data — a smaller, niche ocean citizen-science initiative overlapping with eOceans' Marine Heatwaves and field-data-collection projects.

Others

• OBIS (Ocean Biodiversity Information System): OBIS is the IOC-UNESCO global open-data repository for marine species occurrence data; it represents the public-good alternative against which eOceans competes for government and research mindshare, particularly on interoperability and data sovereignty.
• Marine Conservation Institute: Marine Conservation Institute is an MPA-focused NGO and partner of eOceans on the Global MPA Workforce Study; it operates MPAtlas and complementary tools for protected-area tracking, making it a closely aligned ecosystem participant rather than a direct competitor.
• World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS): WoRMS is the authoritative taxonomic database that eOceans already integrates with for species naming; it functions as enabling data infrastructure in the same ocean-biodiversity value chain rather than a competing platform.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat7 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/watch?v=5mdhrcYQGAo
• Xx.com/eOceans_sci

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors6 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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