Oceanit practices a proprietary discipline we call ‘Intellectual Anarchy’ that reimagines innovation – empowering our team to break down traditional silos, transcend disciplines, and cross-pollinate ideas and expertise. We create breakthrough ideas, insights, discoveries, and developments — delivering the future as an interdisciplinary force. Through spin-outs, co-development partnerships, licensing, and direct manufacturing, Oceanit thrives in delivering solutions to market. Oceanit calls this practice ‘Mind-to-Market’; delivering deep science to disruptive, real-world innovations.
With headquarters in Honolulu and a culture built upon values of ohana, curiosity, and community, we employ ~200 scientists, researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs in Hawai’i, California, Texas, Washington D.C., and beyond.
We encourage inquisitiveness and are committed to pursuing responsible solutions to the world’s most difficult problems. Our culture values diverse teams with an elusive blend of people, expertise areas, technologies, approaches, and geographies to address and tackle problems like no one else. Across Oceanit, you will find uncanny teams of experts like nano-technologists, structural engineers, sustainability experts, and biochemists working alongside each other. No two teams at Oceanit are the same.
Empowering our teams to practice transdisciplinary thinking – with endless curiosity – allows for extraordinary problem solving across traditional boundaries. Originally founded as an engineering firm, Oceanit has grown to encompass scientists and engineers working in the fields of nanomaterials, sensors & communications, life sciences & medical, industrial products, artificial intelligence, energy, coastal sustainability, resilient cities, and space & defense.