Xocean is a rare thing in this era: A tech company and a data company that has a tangible hardware product. The Louth-based business, headed up by James Ives, has become known for its futuristic robotic boats that map out seabeds and gather data, essential for the development of the ocean economy – an economy that will be worth $3 trillion by 2030, according to projections from the OECD. Xocean’s primary industry is off-shore wind farming, and its clear-cut ambition is to become the dominant provider of data to that sector as the global appetite for wind energy picks up. …

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