This weekend we are heading to Brooklyn, NY to the Allied Maritime Tech Conference as part of Deep Tech Week NYC. We are excited to meet fellow attendees in this important space, if you are going come say hi!

https://www.deep-tech-week.com/nyc-2026

Pittsburgh Coastal Energy just won 2nd place and $25K at the Baylor New Venture Competition! This is a huge milestone, because we have now won over $500K in non-dilutive funding for our startup! 🥳

Thank you, Baylor Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation, for getting us one step closer to building the subsea power infrastructure we need to power the blue economy 🌊

We are honored to be featured in the Pittsburgh Business Times for our win at SXSW! Ten startups from across the globe out of 45 finalists were named SXSW Pitch 2026 winners in their respective categories.

Pittsburgh Coastal Energy won the Student Startup Pitch Competition at SXSW! 🎉

This recognition reinforces what we’ve believed from the very beginning. That the future of maritime autonomy will be powered by ocean waves 🌊

As an added bonus, Garry Tan fromY Combinator was the one who presented us with the award! Huge thanks to the judges Justine Juillard, Michael Psarouthakis, Gail Christine Gannon, Akif Malik, and Bryan Liu for the opportunity and great questions!

We are honored to be recognized as one of Technical.ly’s 2026 RealLIST Startups in Pittsburgh!

This list features promising early-stage companies in the region that are making an impact in their respective markets and communities. For us, that means bringing wave power to autonomous marine systems so they can operate independently in the ocean.

Congrats to the other honorees and runners-up!

This Friday, Pittsburgh Coastal Energy will present during the Startup Demo portion at the 2026 Dual-Use Innovation Summit, hosted at Carnegie Mellon University in conjunction with Tepper DART Club | Defense, Aerospace, Robotics & Tech and SOSV HAX.

As an emerging dual-use startup, this will be a great opportunity for us to present in front of investors, founders, and leaders in the dual-use space. We can't wait to share how our subsea wave energy converter will improve the endurance, charging logistics, and stealth of autonomous vehicles to enhance the readiness of the warfighter.

Pittsburgh Coastal Energy has been selected as 1 of 15 teams to participate in the 2026 Stage 2 cohort of VentureWell’s Ocean Enterprise Accelerator program. We're excited to participate in Stage 2 of the Ocean Enterprise Accelerator alongside these other great startups in the cohort! The next few months will be heavily focused on prototype development and engaging with stakeholders as we continue on our path toward commercialization. 

This week we traveled to Washington Clean Energy Testbeds in Seattle, WA to wrap up our participation in Stage 1 of VentureWell’s Ocean Enterprise Accelerator. During the program we received mentorship from individuals who helped us work towards the next steps of our SERPENT prototype and solidify our business model for powering autonomous underwater vehicles. We are excited to put what we learned into action and plan to apply for Stage 2 of this program. 

Pittsburgh Coastal Energy CEO Priscilla Prem will be presenting at Pittsburgh’s WITCON 2025, speaking about her journey as a hardware entrepreneur. Her session titled “The Grit & Grace of Building a Hardware Startup” focuses on launching Pittsburgh Coastal Energy and navigating the challenges of building a physical product on a bootstrapped budget. This presentation dives into the challenges, creativity, and audacity required to bootstrap a physical product company, along with the unique rewards that come from persistence and vision. 

Pittsburgh Coastal Energy is proud to announce acceptance into VentureWell’s Ocean Enterprise Accelerator Stage 1 Cohort. This program, supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), supports the future of coastal innovation through three months of targeted mentorship and virtual sessions, a three-day in-person workshop, and a $15,000 Technology Development and Commercialization award for each company. We are excited to connect with other Blue Economy Innovators and take our technology closer to commercialization. 

We wrapped up our participation in the Defense Tech Accelerator sponsored by the Defense Innovation Unit, Pacific Northwest Defense Coalition, and Defense Innovation OnRamp Hub: Washington. These last 4 months have been a game changer on getting us up to speed on the ins and outs of defense contracting, and introduced us to many partners who will help us with our journey. During the showcase, we pitched our SERPENT (Subsea Energy Recharging Platform Enabled by Nanogenerator Technology) and presented a demo of our nanogenerators in action. We look forward to taking the knowledge and connections we made and applying it to bring much needed operational energy technology to the DoD and beyond.

This Tuesday (7/15), Pittsburgh Coastal Energy will be featured at the highly anticipated Energy and Innovation Summit highlighting Pittsburgh as the next hub for AI and energy innovation. Check out the article by Chloe Jad here.

Pittsburgh Coastal Energy was highlighted in this week’s ‘Our Region’s Business’ on WPXI. We appreciate all the support from the efforts by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, Keystone Space Collaborative, and Parallax to support Data, Robotics, Energy, AI, Manufacturing, and Security (DREAMS) in the Pittsburgh region.