Maritime startups in Singapore
A genuine global niche: port and shipping tech around PIER71, from Portcast to Neptune Robotics and BeeX, built on Singapore's role as a maritime hub.
6 companies building in Maritime here.
Grace Chia & Goh Eng Wei
** Founded 2018 by NUS researchers, BeeX makes autonomous underwater vehicles (flagship "A.Ikanbilis") delivered as Autonomous Robotics-as-a-Service (ARaaS) for subsea inspection across maritime, offshore en...
Wong Hong Lee (CEO)
** Singapore bunkering-tech startup building digital solutions (e.g. BunkerMaestro) to remove pain points in the marine-fuel supply chain of the world's largest bunkering port. Raised ~US$600K from Bernhard ...
Sankar Ragavan (CEO)
** Established 2014 in Singapore as an independent entity of the family-owned Schulte Group, MariApps provides cloud vessel-management / fleet-operations SaaS (smartPAL) for shipping companies. HQ in Singapo...
Elizabeth Chan, Kate Hongqian Ma & Jacky Im
** Founded 2019 (via Entrepreneur First / SOSV-HAX), Neptune Robotics builds AI-powered autonomous robots that clean the underside (hull) of large vessels in-water, cutting fuel burn and carbon emissions — a...
Nidhi Gupta & Dr. Lingxiao Xia
** Founded 2017 (the co-founders met at Entrepreneur First Singapore), Portcast is an AI predictive supply-chain visibility platform that ingests 5M+ daily data points from 370+ carriers and 800+ ports to fo...
Dr. Avishek Kumar & Dr. Arjun Bhattarai
** Founded 2018 as an NTU spin-off, VFlowTech makes vanadium redox flow batteries ("PowerCube") for long-duration energy storage — relevant to port/grid electrification. Notably backed by **PSA unboXed** (th...
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