Maritime Intelligence
Tracked companies
8
Products
3
Production / fleetwide relationships
1
Funding rounds on record
3
How this market is compared
Core companies
Scores stay pending until the evidence publication gate is met. Blank cells mean no verified record, not zero.
| Company | Products | Technology Score | Momentum | Evidence Confidence | Customers | Deployment scale | Latest funding | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kpler Public / Advanced | Maritime intelligence portfolio | 94 | 93 | 88 | — | — | Strategic growth investment · >$200M | Sixth Street |
| Windward Public / Advanced | — | Score Pending | Not assessed | Not assessed | 1 | — | — | FTV Capital |
| Vortexa Public / Developing | — | Score Pending | Not assessed | Not assessed | — | — | — | — |
| Spire Maritime Public / Advanced | — | Score Pending | Not assessed | Not assessed | — | — | — | Kpler |
| Pole Star Global Public / Developing | — | Score Pending | Not assessed | Not assessed | — | — | — | — |
Adjacent competitors
Adjacent players overlap this market from a neighbouring category.
| Company | Products | Technology Score | Momentum | Evidence Confidence | Customers | Deployment scale | Latest funding | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quartermaster Public / Early | SmartMast | Score Pending | Not assessed | Not assessed | — | — | Series B · $140M | — |
| Tidal Public / Developing | — | Score Pending | Not assessed | Not assessed | — | 43Ports · Company Reported | — | — |
| RightShip Public / Advanced | RISQ | 89 | 72 | 88 | — | approximately 250kVessels On Platform · Investor Reported | — | Permira |
Customers & deployments
Pilots, trials and partnerships are shown as such — never as deployments.
- Windward→United NationsProduction deploymentPrimary Record
Recent developments
Funding · September 2026
Quartermaster — Quartermaster raises $140M Series B
Funding · September 2026
Quartermaster — Series B · $140M
Funding · June 2026
Kpler — Sixth Street takes >$1B minority stake in Kpler
Minority investment · June 2026
Kpler — Closed · by Sixth Street
Acquisition · 20 May 2026
Kpler — Kpler acquires CITAC
Funding · May 2026
Quartermaster — Series A · $43M
Product launch · February 2026
Windward — Windward launches Maritime Intelligence Operations Center
Minority investment · September 2025
RightShip — Closed · by Permira
Acquisition · 25 April 2025
Spire Maritime — Closed · by Kpler
Take-private · 18 March 2025
Windward — Closed · by FTV Capital
Funding · April 2022
Kpler — Strategic growth investment · >$200M
Competitive landscape
Pairwise competitor links recorded by analysts, not inferred from cluster membership.
- Kpler direct competitor of Vortexa
- Kpler adjacent competitor of Windward
- Kpler adjacent competitor of Spire Maritime
- Windward direct competitor of Pole Star Global