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Maritime AI Tech Investors (Part 1)
Examples of companies that are investing in AI maritime tech companies include Mainport Innovation, Launchub Ventures, OurCrowd, Aleph, and ICV. Further details are provided below.
Mainport Innovation
- This is Mainport Innovation's website.
- The company is located in the Netherlands.
- Mainport Innovation invested €400,000 in the seed round of We4sea, an AI-powered solution that makes "non-CAPEX monitoring solution for ships, making fuel efficiency and emission reduction easy, fast and affordable." Other maritime tech companies they have invested in include SupplyStack and C Teleport.
- The company looks to invest in early-stage tech companies in the logistics, transport, and aviation industry, prioritizing solutions that are gaining traction and looking for funding to speed up growth. They are particularly keen on B2B or B2C solutions involving "sustainable infrastructure and materials, connectivity, mobility, intermodal transport, energy, digitization, internet of things, security & safety, seamless travel and big data."
LAUNCHub Ventures
- This is the website for Launchub Ventures.
- The firm is located in Bulgaria.
- Launchub Ventures invested seed fund of €360,000 (and an additional €50,000 seed) in Transmetrics, a solution that "provides cargo companies with data cleansing, demand forecasting and predictive optimization based on data science and AI."
- The company looks to invest in the seed stage of a company, preferring digital solutions that have "initial traction and founding team composition." They invest in all sectors, especially solutions in fields such as Enterprise Software, SaaS, Health-tech, E-commerce, IoT, and Mobile solutions.
OurCrowd
- This is the website for Ourcrowd.
- The firm is located in Isreal.
- The company invested in the early stage of Freightos, a "SaaS-Enabled Marketplace model, helping leading logistics automate their internal freight rate management, pricing/routing and business intelligence."
- Our crowd looks to invest in all kinds of startups in all industries, however, they recently launched Cognitiv fund following the success of their investment in Freightos. Its Cognitiv fund aims to "invest $100 million into early-stage artificial intelligence, robotics and digital manufacturing firms worldwide."
Aleph
- This is Aleph's website.
- The firm is located in Israel.
- Aleph invested in the early stage of Freightos, a "SaaS-Enabled Marketplace model, helping leading logistics automate their internal freight rate management, pricing/routing and business intelligence." Another of its maritime investment is in Windward, a maritime data analytics company that uses AI and machine learning to assess maritime risk.
- Aleph looks to invest in early-stage companies globally, prioritizing tech investments in sectors such as Artificial Intelligence, Fintech, SaaS, and Media and Entertainment.
ICV
- The website for ICV is found through the link.
- The firm is located in Israel.
- The company invested in the early stage of Freightos, a "SaaS-Enabled Marketplace model, helping leading logistics automate their internal freight rate management, pricing/routing and business intelligence."
- ICV looks to invest in early- and seed-stage technology and sustainability businesses, with a focus on Logistics, AgTech, Transportation, AI-powered solutions, CleanTech, Energy, Venture Capital, and Water-related sustainability solutions.