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Everimpact, a Climate tech start-up founded by former UN execs and headquartered at Station F (Paris), closes a €1.711M seed funding round backed by leading VCs, corporate ventures and institutions

Harbor Lab claims to streamline the disbursement account processes and identifies discrepancies, reducing port call expenses by approximately 6% per port call, and reduces administration costs by up to 75%.It’s now secured €6.1 million in funding to further develop its platform. The SaaS disbursement account analysis software calculates and evaluates port expenses against real-time port tariffs.VentureFriends and Speedinvest led the Seed funding round, with participation from additional inve...

BHP’s Rashpal Bhatti is the world’s biggest charterer of bulk vessels. He wants a global carbon tax of the seas and says maritime regulators aren’t doing enough.

“Once a vehicle is wired, it opens up a whole bunch of use cases,” says Visa’s Tony Petit.

More than eight maritime and supply chain leaders are coming together via (1.) an engineering collaboration and (2.) US1.6M seed round to bring Everimpact’s carbon measuring hardware onboard commercial vessels and to ports. “Accelerating the engineering of Everimpact’s hardware to measure physical carbon emissions on vessels will solve one of the shipping’s most overdue challenges. ...

In a seed funding round, Denmark-founded and Canada-based online marketplace Boxhub raised 2.7 million dollars. The round was backed by Niklas Östberg, Conrad

Technology startup Boxhub has raised a $2.7M seed round on its mission to become the leading online marketplace for shipping containers. The company’s latest funding round will accelerate its rapid U.S. expansion and fuel product development. The Copenhagen-founded, Toronto-headquartered startup is now backed by lead investor Niklas Östberg, Founder & CEO of Delivery Hero; Conrad ...

ShipsKart has closed an oversubscribed $2.7 million Series A to bring one of the maritime and offshore industry’s most analogue processes, the procurement of essential vessel supplies, online. The round was led by TMV and Hermes Offshore, with strategic investments from the likes of Motion Ventures, Tradeworks.vc and Eternia Investments. “In almost every industry today, ...

Shipskart raises Rs 20.5 cr from Trail Mix Ventures, Hermes Offshore, others

B2B supply chain startup in the maritime and offshore segment — Shipskart has raised $2.7 Mn in a Series A funding round.