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How Karen May’s optimism helped Xocean raise €115 million and revolutionise ocean mapping


by Fiona Alston
15.04.25

There’s power in positivity – just ask Karen May, the co-founder and CFO of Xocean, a company which closed a €115 million investment round earlier this year. She shares why loving your job matters and how realising your voice counts can change everything.

Karen May, our Stem Professional of the Year at the 2024 at the IMAGE PwC Businesswoman of the Year Awards, loves her job. She is the co-founder and CFO of Xocean, a company that provides seabed mapping services for environmental monitoring using uncrewed surface vessels (USVs). In fact, May has loved all her jobs to date. She’s one of the lucky ones who can say she is exactly where she wants to be.  “Life is for living...