Kpler
- Category
- Maritime Intelligence
Technology Score
94
Methodology MTI v1.0 · as of 30 Sept 2026
Large-scale maritime/commodity intelligence platform; customer deployment transparency remains less granular than corporate scale.
Momentum
93 / 100
Separate from Technology Score
Evidence Confidence
88 / 100
13 approved evidence records
What it does
Data and analytics platform providing commodity, trade, vessel and maritime intelligence through proprietary datasets and acquired maritime-data products.
Kpler combines substantial data scale with an aggressive acquisition strategy that has broadened its maritime intelligence footprint. Its April 2025 acquisition of Spire's maritime business added another major vessel-data asset, while the underlying satellite network remained with Spire Global.
Watch itemIntegration of Spire Maritime data assets and other acquired products.
Key metrics
Dated snapshots. Historical values are retained, never overwritten.
Key Metric
Spire Maritime acquired Apr 2025
Key Metric
Satellite network excluded from sale
Key Metric
~$238.9M final transaction proceeds
Employees
750+
Employees · as of 2026-09
Reported Valuation In Sale Process
nearly $5B
Valuation reported by Reuters sources during minority-stake sale process (not official company valuation) · as of 2026-04
Arr
$100M
Annual recurring revenue (USD) · as of 2024-01
Products & capabilities
Maritime intelligence portfolioProduct family
Post-Spire product structure, normalized separately from corporate acquisitions.
Customers, deployments & partners
Partnership, pilot, trial and deployment are distinct states and are never merged. Deployment scope comes from the cited evidence.
No verified customer relationships recorded.
Ownership & investors
Current / past owner · Minority investment
Sixth Street invested more than $1B for a minority stake; management remained majority owners, Insight Partners retained a stake, Five Arrows exited. Secondary/primary structure not an ordinary funding round.
Sixth Street · Closed · 1 Jun 2026
Investors
Acquisitions made
Funding rounds
Each round is dated and sourced. Totals are never summed from unverified figures.
Competitors
direct
adjacent
Company timeline
Ownership · 1 Jun 2026
Minority investment by Sixth Street
Funding · 1 Jun 2026
Sixth Street takes >$1B minority stake in Kpler
Ownership · 20 May 2026
Acquisition of CITAC
Acquisition · 20 May 2026
Kpler acquires CITAC
Ownership · 25 Apr 2025
Acquisition of Spire Maritime
Ownership · 15 Feb 2023
Acquisition of MarineTraffic
Ownership · 15 Feb 2023
Acquisition of FleetMon
Funding · 1 Apr 2022
Strategic growth investment · >$200M
Evidence & sources
Every material claim above traces back to one of these records.
Kpler's published acquisition history also includes ClipperData, JBC Energy, COR-e, Bridgeton Research Group and CITAC.
Source: Kpler — Acquisition History
Kpler acquired MarineTraffic and FleetMon in February 2023 to expand maritime ship-tracking data and analytics.
Source: Kpler — Acquisition
Reuters reported in April 2026 that a minority-stake sale process could value Kpler at nearly $5B; this preceded the Sixth Street transaction.
Kpler reported reaching $100M ARR in January 2024.
Source: Kpler — Financial Scale
Kpler's first external fundraise was a 2022 strategic growth investment of more than $200M led by Five Arrows and Insight Partners after being bootstrapped since 2014.
Source: Kpler — Historical Capital
Sixth Street invested more than $1B for a minority stake in June 2026; management remained majority owners, Insight Partners retained a stake, and Five Arrows exited.
Source: Kpler — Ownership / Capital
Kpler acquired CITAC on May 20, 2026 to expand African downstream energy intelligence.
Source: Kpler — Acquisition
Kpler completed its acquisition of Spire Maritime on April 25, 2025.
Source: Kpler — Acquisition
Kpler reports 750+ employees representing 35+ nationalities.
Source: Kpler — Company Scale
Kpler acquired MarineTraffic and FleetMon to expand maritime data and analytics.
Source: Kpler — Kpler acquired MarineTraffic and FleetMon to expand maritime data and analytics.
Goodwin / transaction counsel
Spire Global / SEC
Spire disclosed completion of the sale of its maritime business to Kpler for approximately $238.9M.
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