Splash can reveal today the 15 names who have made it to the shortlist for maritime startup competition, The Captain’s Table.
The shortlist contains: Marified, a startup focused on the verification of seafarer certificates; Irwin Rotational Lining, a company that refurbishes old pipes; Hamburg-based fintech Oceanis, smart cargo predictor Portcast; TrustedDocks, a platform linking owners with yards; Quaychain, a cloud-based bunker supply platform; Towbotic Systems, an underwater drone berthing system; wind sail specialist Bound4Blue; bunker procurement optimisation tool, Bunker Metric; pallet manufacturtrer GShip; freight forwarder rates platform ImportWise; spare parts platform Kottackal; port call tool Kapsool; smart container specialist Loginno; and SeaRoutes, which has set out to become the Google Maps of the sea.
Five or six finalists will be announced shortly who will be flown to Hong Kong for mentoring ahead of the grand final of the competition on November 19 during Hong Kong Maritime Week when they will pitch their businesses to six well-known judges who hail from the shipping and tech industries with $25,000 in prize money on offer for the winner. Splash will be televising the final live on our site.
