Bedrock Ocean Exploration
About
About Bedrock Ocean Exploration
Bedrock Ocean Exploration delivers high-resolution seabed surveys using proprietary autonomous underwater vehicles and a cloud data platform. The vehicles carry multibeam echo sounders, side-scan sonar and other geophysical sensors close to the seabed, following pre-programmed corridors at consistent altitude. Onboard computing checks coverage and data quality during acquisition, allowing operators to validate a mission before recovery.
Trident provides remote command, fleet monitoring and over-the-horizon communications, while Mosaic plans surveys and transforms raw sonar into shareable geospatial datasets. Compact launch-and-recovery equipment lets the AUVs deploy from vessels that lack a permanent survey spread. Bedrock runs the system as an integrated survey service for ports, offshore energy, subsea cables and infrastructure monitoring, from mission design through collection, processing and cloud delivery.
Products
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- Exail
Inbound - Positioning & Navigation - Bedrock bought Exail's Phins 9 Compact INS for integration into its next-generation autonomous underwater vehicle
Source
Funding
- 2023-07-12 - Series A - $25.5M - Bedrock raises USD 25.5M Series A for autonomous seafloor mapping
Bedrock raised USD 25.5 million in Series A funding for its autonomous seafloor data acquisition and distribution platform. - source: oceannews.com
Team
- Charles Chiau - CEO, CTO and Co-founder - Leads Bedrock's autonomous subsea survey vehicle and data-platform technology strategy.
- Anthony DiMare - Co-founder - Co-founded Bedrock around autonomous seafloor mapping and ocean data access.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-08-06 - Partnership - Bedrock and First Marine Solutions establish UK autonomous-survey hub
A complete Bedrock autonomous underwater vehicle kit will be stationed locally to support mobilisation across the United Kingdom and Europe. First Marine Solutions will provide the regional operating base, logistics and offshore support around Bedrock survey missions. The arrangement expands access to Bedrock hardware and data services without disclosing a minimum mission volume or contract value.
Source - 2025-10-08 - Partnership - Bedrock and PlanBlue partner on seafloor intelligence
Bedrock and PlanBlue partnered on seafloor intelligence for offshore infrastructure and maritime security. PlanBlue contributes subsea-imaging analytics to complement Bedrock’s autonomous survey workflow. The collaboration links autonomous data collection with habitat and asset-condition interpretation.
Source - 2023-07-12 - Funding - Bedrock raises USD 25.5M Series A for autonomous seafloor mapping
The USD 25.5 million Series A brought disclosed cumulative funding to USD 33.5 million. Bedrock uses autonomous underwater systems and cloud software to map and monitor subsea infrastructure. The round was directed toward broader commercial ocean-survey operations and offshore-wind development.
Source - 2021-08-24 - Product Launch - Bedrock launches electric AUV ocean survey platform
Bedrock introduced an electric autonomous underwater survey vehicle with cloud-based data delivery. The platform combined mission-planned AUV operations with a digital workflow for marine survey data. The launch established Bedrock’s commercial hardware-and-software approach to seafloor mapping.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- PlanBlue
Technology Partner - Bedrock Ocean partnered with PlanBlue on seafloor intelligence.
- First Marine Solutions
Verified Operating Partner - Bedrock and First Marine Solutions formed a multi-year UK autonomous-survey operating partnership.
Context
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Context tags
- Maritime robotics ecosystem - Stack Layer - Bedrock develops autonomous ocean-mapping systems.
- Subsea inspection workflow - Workflow - Ocean mapping supports subsea survey and inspection workflows.