Top 9 Maritime startups

Updated: Jul 24, 2025
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These startups enable ship route optimization, maritime border surveillance, ocean pollution tracking, fishing activity monitoring, weather forecasting for navigation, etc.
1
Planet Labs
Country: USA | Funding: $573.9M
Planet is an aerospace and data analytics company that builds small satellites and delivers information about the changing planet.
2
HawkEye 360
Country: USA | Funding: $412.3M
HawkEye 360 is a data analytics company that develops space-based radio frequency mapping.
3
UnseenLabs
Country: France | Funding: €112.5M
Unseenlabs designs and develops a spectrum surveillance payload.
4
Ursa Space Systems
Country: USA | Funding: $72.5M
Ursa helps traders and analysts in the finance and energy industries make informed decisions.
5
PierSight
Country: India | Funding: $6.6M
PierSight is constructing a SAR satellite network to provide continuous monitoring for the maritime industry.
6
SI Imaging Services
Country: South Korea | Funding: ₩2B
SI Imaging Services(SIIS) is a leading Satellite Imagery Provider for Remote Sensing and Earth Observation.
7
Little Place Labs
Country: USA | Funding: $475K
Building machine learning solutions for space edge computing in a scalable way.
8
Pontos
Country: France
Pontos offers an interactive software to receive sustainable predictions for fisheries value chain. These insights allow fishing companies to manage their operation and production in order to optimize cost and reduce risks.
9
SARsat Arabia
Country: UAE
Reliable insights from SPACE for better decisions on EARTH
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Boris Maslennikov
Editor: Boris Maslennikov
Boris Maslennikov is a senior editor for Space-Startups. He has spent more than a decade covering the global space industry as a business journalist. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science from the California Institute of Technology. In his free time, Boris enjoys studying history and mathematics, with a particular interest in the history of mathematics. You can contact Boris at borismaslenikov(at)space-startups(dot)com