Haddock Invention was founded in 2006 by Shawn Frayne with a $20 heat sealer bought on eBay and a lot of coffee. Since then, Haddock has grown and has worked on a range of cleantech inventions with brilliant partners in Guatemala, Bhutan, the Philippines, Haiti, New York, San Francisco, Paris, and Shenzhen.

A Million Garages

In early 2012, Haddock (with the Manila Mantis Shrimp) became a founding member of the Ocean Invention Network, a global group of highly talented invention teams operating from Hong Kong, San Francisco, Manila, and soon expanding to more cities around the world. We're developing this network because we believe paradigm-shifting, disruptive, confluent (insert punditry here) technologies, emerge from a different innovation machine than has traditionally been the engine of progress in the past. These new inventions are not churned out the “invention factories” that Edison created in 1876, where hundreds of engineers worked twenty hour days on the same punch clock under one roof. Nowadays, the biggest problems aren't near the wealthiest markets, and creativity is too spread out across borders.

Now there are thousands of garages in Delhi and Shenzhen and Manila with several orders of magnitude more genius than could ever fit under a roof in New Jersey, from several orders of magnitude more backgrounds and cultures. The most remarkable, wonderful change over the last few years is that the geniuses in those garages are beginning to talk to each other daily, flinging ideas and prototypes across borders at the speed of light.

Haddock aims to be one of these garages.

Here are some other "garages" we work with on cleantech inventions: