Fast ground has raised doubts about Sulamani's participation and the five-year-old may yet be a last-minute withdrawal.
But incidents like the Costa Concordia grounding have raised questions about whether evacuation regulations are still applicable in the age of megaships.
Friends of the Earth had raised three grounds for concern: That the decision making process was unlawful.
To help get it off the ground, Sprig has raised $1.2 million in seed funding.
To get the operation off the ground, MakeSpace has raised $1.3 million from Upfront Ventures, Lowercase Capital, High Peaks Venture Partners, and Collaborative Fund.
To get its studio of video projects off the ground, Thirty Labs has raised $2 million in funding from a group of investors that know video and media.
To help get the business off the ground, Qloo has raised $1.4 million in seed funding from Kindler Capital as well as a few notable TV and media personalities, including Cedric The Entertainer and Danny Masterson.
Finally, at the point the company is well off the ground and has raised substantial capital and is achieving meaningful revenue, salaries can approach market.
To get the new project off the ground, the company has raised $400,000 from investors, which is separate from the money raised by Need last year.
To help get Audioair off the ground, the startup has raised $3 million in seed funding, $1 million of which is convertible debt, from a handful of local investors.
Finally, to help get Kin off the ground, the team has raised $4.0 million from investors that include Commerce Ventures, Omidyar Network, 500 Startups, Chicago Ventures and Portag3 Ventures, as well as angels from tech and finance companies like Avant, Square, Capital One, LinkedIn and Facebook.
