We’re delighted to welcome Rhianna Davies-Smith to the Your Devocean team as our new Purpose & Partnerships Manager. With a background in climate education, NGO leadership, and forging meaningful collaborations, Rhianna brings the kind of empathy, drive, and strategic insight that will help scale our mission: turning ocean-regeneration efforts into transparent, high-integrity impact for businesses.

Our CTO, Jan Lindblad, shares Your Devocean’s vision: an open platform that turns ocean and freshwater project results into ESRS-ready, auditable ESG data. Built for CFOs and CSOs, it aligns actions with CSRD and Double Materiality so impact becomes measurable, comparable, and investable.

Your Devocean joins the Maritime Shark Tank at Digital Tech Summit 2025 in Copenhagen, Nov 5–6, showcasing verified ocean impact for ESG results. Maj Grove, CEO and co-founder of Your Devocean, will present our open platform for verified ocean impact—connecting companies with marine and freshwater initiatives and turning their contributions into measurable, auditable ESG outcomes.

When 16 tonnes of waste were lifted from the waters around Stockholm, it wasn’t just a world record — it was a breakthrough. The dive became the first real-world test of Your Devocean’s platform: transforming hands-on marine cleanups into verifiable ESG impact data, ready for audit and investor validation.

Hands2Ocean, led by founder Fredrik Johansson, has already lifted nearly 500 tons of waste from Swedish waters. Now they aim for a world record: 20 tons in 48 hours. Beyond cleaner seas, their mission inspires awareness, action—and hope.

Your Devocean joins Hands2Ocean in a world record cleanup in Stockholm, September 3-4, 2025. CEO Maj Grove shares why this mission is crucial for the Baltic Sea: measurable impact, biodiversity, and a chance for corporations, communities, and nature to win together.

Your Devocean joins Hands2Ocean’s world record attempt to remove 20 tons of waste from Lake Mälaren & the Baltic Sea in 24h. Together, we can turn trash into impact. Join us in Stockholm on October 3–4!

From toxic car batteries on the Baltic seabed to audit-grade ESG impact reports, Hands2Ocean and Your Devocean are rewriting what ocean regeneration looks like. Together, we transform invisible underwater threats into measurable climate, biodiversity, and social gains — scaling grassroots action into corporate-grade sustainability impact

From building telecom backbones to mapping 50,000 climate strikes — meet Jan Lindblad, our new Tech Lead. With decades of world-class technical expertise and a lifelong commitment to climate action, Jan brings the rock-solid foundation Your Devocean needs to scale ocean regeneration with trust and impact.

Your Devocean is building an open-protocol ESG platform for the ocean — turning NGO efforts into audit-grade impact companies can trust, report, and scale. Now, with Cecilia Hjertzell & Magnus Eneström joining the board, we are ready to grow, execute, and lead where business and biodiversity meet.

Today I announce that I am stepping into the role of CEO at Your Devocean—this company, which I co-founded with Robert Kornfeld on a simple conviction: The Ocean = Life. That belief isn’t a tagline; it’s our operating system. It guides how we build products, how we partner, and how we will scale a business that regenerates Our Ocean while creating durable value for companies.

Every second breath you take comes from the ocean.
Not the forests. Not the mountains. The ocean.

Yet, the true lungs of our Earth are choking. Acidifying. Losing their ability to regulate the climate and sustain biodiversity. If we can improve the ocean’s sequestration capacity by just 1%, it would absorb the equivalent CO₂ emissions of 100 million cars. That’s the size of the prize — and the urgency of the mission.

“I only had one choice — to survive. And run, and run, and run,” he recalls. The Boxing Day tsunami severed his connection with the ocean for a year. But a later trip to Hawaii — and a meeting with whales — restored it. Robert made a promise to his daughter: one day, he would save a whale for her. It would take years, but that promise planted the seeds for Your Devocean.

On August 20–21, Your Devocean will join innovators, NGOs, researchers, companies, and investors at A’Pelago in Åbo — a gathering that puts the Baltic Sea and the Blue Economy at the center of the conversation.