Good-based Cosma, a DeepTech firm specialising in mapping deep-sea ecosystems utilizing autonomous automobiles, has introduced a €2.5 million funding spherical to industrialise its drone fleet.
The spherical was led by WIND and Ternel, with backing from 50 Companions, Caisse d’Épargne Côte d’Azur, and IFREMER – the scientific establishment that initially launched the mission. The increase is complemented by important non-dilutive public funding, together with France 2030, which might doubtlessly double the entire quantity secured.
“Cosma was born from the conviction that organic information needs to be simply as accessible and dependable as bodily measurements in marine tasks. Our know-how permits large-scale operations whereas inserting biodiversity on the coronary heart of decision-making,” stated Frédéric Mittaine, CEO of Cosma.
Based in 2022, Cosma is industrialising the stock and monitoring of benthic ecosystems; striving to contribute to the preservation of ocean biodiversity. They deploy autonomous underwater robots that gather as much as 100,000 pictures per hectare of seabed, paired with a 3D photogrammetry system and algorithms able to recognising habitats and species.
Their cloud-native processing platform & AI toolbox generate photographic seabed fashions and find protected species.
The ensuing digital twin reportedly supplies repeatable, dependable, and easy-to-interpret information – particularly on benthic ecosystems.
“To this point, solely 25% of the ocean flooring has been mapped with excessive precision (lower than 100 m x 100 m), and fewer than 1% of marine species are recognized. The necessity for information is immense, and COSMA opens up new views to raised observe, perceive, and defend our ocean,” stated Romain Charraudeau, Director of Expertise Switch at IFREMER.
Their outcomes are helpful for conducting scientific research and in addition serve to assist keep away from delicate species throughout offshore building, make sure the integrity of important underwater infrastructure, and higher perceive the position of seagrass meadows in coastal erosion.
“WIND was satisfied by Cosma’s groundbreaking know-how, its potential to change into the ‘Google Maps’ of the seafloor, and its skill to guard each marine ecosystems and significant infrastructure,” added Olivier Mougenot, Normal Companion at WIND.
The corporate’s early shoppers already embrace RWE (a pacesetter in renewable power), EGIS (a number one engineering agency), the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and the French Navy (Marine Nationale).
“Cosma embodies precisely the type of innovation we need to help: an distinctive group, a transformational mission for the ocean, and a transparent imaginative and prescient for impression. We’re proud to co-lead this spherical alongside WIND,” stated Timothée Poulain, Companion at Ternel.
Cosma has benefited from robust scientific and technical help from IFREMER since its inception and continues to be hosted at the moment throughout the institute’s underwater methods unit in La Seyne-sur-Mer.
This new funding will permit Cosma to:
- Industrialise its drone fleet to function in deep-sea environments.
- Strengthen its software program platform and AI-powered evaluation instruments wanted to course of
large-scale datasets. - Construction its operations to serve each private and non-private shoppers at a European degree.
Cosma believes that their positioning as a supplier of high-resolution, surface-level seafloor information responds to a rising demand from public and industrial gamers for dependable measurement applied sciences – in a context the place safety and biodiversity have gotten new requirements in main maritime infrastructure tasks.
