Orca AI

• Operating use

  2026-08-13 - Orca AI reports more than 1,500 vessels booked with its platform and more than 120 million nautical miles of data collected. - company platform fleet

  Source

• 2025-05-06 - Series B - $72.5M - Orca AI closes $72.5M Series B for autonomous shipping platform

  Orca AI closed a $72.5 million Series B led by Brighton Park Capital. - source: orca-ai.io

• 2024-05-23 - Venture round - $23M - Orca AI raises $23M for autonomous shipping

  Orca AI raised $23 million to expand autonomous-shipping technology for AI-assisted maritime operations. - source: orca-ai.io

• 2021-04-22 - Series A - $13M - Orca AI raises $13M Series A for maritime autonomy

  Orca AI raised $13 million in Series A funding for AI-based maritime navigation and collision avoidance. - source: orca-ai.io

• Ankona Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-05-06
• Brighton Park Capital - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-05-06
• Hyperlink Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-05-06
• MizMaa Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-05-23
• OCV Partners - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-05-23

• Dor Raviv - CTO and Co-Founder - Raviv leads the technical side of Orca AI maritime autonomy, including AI decision support and automated watchkeeping systems for commercial fleets.
• Yarden Gross - CEO and Co-Founder - Gross leads Orca AI as it scales maritime autonomy, automated watchkeeping, and fleet-safety analytics for shipping operators.

Events

• 2026-08-25 - Deployment - Eastern Pacific Shipping expands Orca AI across dozens of vessels

  The five pilot vessels accumulated more than 130,000 nautical miles using Orca AI. Close-encounter events per 1,000 nautical miles fell by 48 percent during the pilot. The expansion adds Orca AI SeaPod and FleetView across dozens of further vessels.

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• 2025-05-06 - Funding - Orca AI closes $72.5M Series B for autonomous shipping platform

  Existing investors Ankona Capital and Hyperlink Ventures participated. The funding supported autonomous shipping capabilities and expansion into defense and security categories. The capital supports maritime autonomy, underwater robotics or marine inspection workflows as Orca AI moves from product development toward broader commercial use.

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• 2025-03-24 - Deployment - Seaspan expands Orca AI adoption by 100 ships

  The rollout extended Orca AI’s navigational safety platform across a major commercial fleet. The event reflected fleet-scale customer adoption rather than a one-off trial.

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• 2024-05-23 - Funding - Orca AI raises $23M for autonomous shipping

  OCV Partners and MizMaa Ventures led the financing. The round brought Orca AI total funding to nearly $40 million at the time. The capital supports maritime autonomy, underwater robotics or marine inspection workflows as Orca AI moves from product development toward broader commercial use.

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• 2023-07-06 - Partnership - Orca AI enters distribution deal with Marubeni

  Marubeni agreed to help distribute Orca AI’s platform in Japan and Southeast Asia. The partnership targeted safer, AI-assisted navigation for commercial shipping customers. The partnership connects the company to a named customer, supplier, platform or go-to-market channel.

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• 2022-05-12 - Deployment - Orca AI powers autonomous commercial ship voyage in congested waters

  Orca AI powered what it described as the world’s first autonomous commercial ship voyage in congested waters. The voyage was conducted in partnership with NYK and the Nippon Foundation. The operation demonstrated AI navigation and situational awareness in a commercial maritime route context.

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• 2022-02-23 - Regulatory - Orca AI receives ABS design assessment for AI navigation platform

  Orca AI received ABS Product Design Assessment certification for its AI-based navigation safety platform. The certificate was described as a world-first PDA for an AI-based navigation safety platform. The approval supported maritime adoption of Orca AI’s situational-awareness technology.

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• 2021-09-09 - Partnership - NYK and Orca AI collaborate on autonomous-vessel safety systems

  NYK and Orca AI partnered to develop advanced safety systems for autonomous vessels. The collaboration focused on AI-based lookout and collision-avoidance support. The work tied Orca AI’s platform to NYK’s autonomous shipping development program.

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• 2021-04-22 - Funding - Orca AI raises $13M Series A for maritime autonomy

  Orca AI raised $13 million in Series A funding for AI-based maritime navigation and collision avoidance. The round brought Orca AI’s total funding to more than $15.5 million. The company positioned its platform as a retrofit path toward autonomous features on vessels already at sea.

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Relationships

• Eastern Pacific Shipping

  Maritime Fleet Customer - Eastern Pacific Shipping is expanding Orca AI maritime operations software from five pilot vessels to dozens of additional ships.

• Marubeni

  Distribution Partner - Marubeni entered a worldwide distribution deal for Orca AI maritime situational-awareness technology.

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Context tags

• Marine autonomy software layer - Stack Layer - Profile source supports this robotics context.
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• Maritime domain awareness - Workflow - Profile source supports this robotics context.