Maritime tech company Seafair today announced its $5.7M financing round led by General Catalyst with participation from FirstMinute Capital, Signal Ventures, TA Ventures, SV Angel, Speedinvest and previous investors FJ Labs. The new financing fuels Seafair’s plans to build additional technology for seafarer vetting; broaden the scope of its software; and expand in new and .
The people who work on shipping vessels are vital to world trade, but they still experience a lot of arcane hiring processes. Many lack transparency about important things like pay or even the working conditions of they ships they will spend months on. Maritime recruitment platform Seafair was created to solve these problems. It vets […]
Singapore-based venture capital firms IMC Ventures and Signal Ventures, together with corporate arm of Japanese shipping heavyweight Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL), MOL PLUS have decided to invest in the Motion Ventures Fund established by a Singapore shipping start-up company.
Three new maritime and supply chain industry leaders have joined the corporate consortium driving Motion Ventures’ $30M investment fund to expand the corporate consortium’s geographic reach to Japan and Greece, and introduces fresh strategic capital to startups. The corporate investors include MOL PLUS – the corporate venture arm of Japanese shipping conglomerate Mitsui OSK Lines, .