Swarm Technologies is providing a constellation of tiny satellites that deliver internet access in drips and drabs to all types of devices. Sofar Ocean Technologies will use Swarm's platform to gather data from thousands of floating weather sensors in the Pacific Ocean.

“Specific to the ocean, this is a game changer,” says Tim Janssen, the co-founder and CEO of Sofar. “Distributed sensing has massively accelerated sensing on land and in space, but not yet in the ocean.”