Best Maritime Tech Companies in Germany
The 97 best Maritime Tech companies in Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: FUELSAVE.
Germany's Maritime Tech scene is smaller than the headlines suggest, but it's moving. Our directory tracks 97 companies with $63M in total disclosed funding, and one name skews that number hard: Fuelsave has pulled in $38M, nearly 60% of the entire pool, leaving the rest of the field working in the low millions. Flowfox is the next closest at $7M, then Zero44 at $3M, Tilla and Kaiko Systems at $2M each. No unicorns yet, but the concentration of capital around fuel efficiency and emissions compliance tells you exactly where investor conviction sits right now.
And the activity underneath those headline figures is worth watching. Median install growth across 28 maritime apps is running at roughly +13% YoY, which suggests real operator adoption, not just VC enthusiasm. Hot themes this quarter are EV powertrain advancements, next-generation EV platforms, and battery technology built for marine environments, and if you want a sense of how defence priorities are reshaping the broader sector, that pressure is adding another funding lane on top of the decarbonisation push. Recent momentum in maritime innovation also points to digitisation of vessel operations as the connective thread. Backers like EIC Fund, Atlantic Labs and IFB Innovationsstarter are the ones writing the early checks here, so that's your signal on where the next cohort is likely to emerge.
Ranked: Best Maritime Tech companies in Germany
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FUELSAVE Provider of solution to improve fuel efficiency of engines 29Moat top 32%Funding top 33%Patents top 35%Talent top 38% All 7 signals ▾Moattop 32% Fundingtop 33% Patentstop 35% Talenttop 38% Innovationtop 44% Globalbottom 42% Marketbottom 20% Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 5/10 · IP moat: 93 patents Funding: Raised $37.8M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 8 yrs (0.9/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 29/100 | $38M | 47 mo ago | Deadpooled | Heino Eckerich Co-Founder | 2012 | — | 93 patents Fuel-efficient propulsion and retrofit solutions for internal combustion and marine drive systems | — |
| 2 | Flowfox Provider of automated container management solutions 14Funding bottom 49%Talent bottom 49%Global bottom 39%Market bottom 28% All 4 signals ▾Fundingbottom 49% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 39% Marketbottom 28% Funding: Raised $7.3M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 3 yrs (0.3/yr) Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 14/100 | $7M | 16 mo ago | Series A | Martin Orthen Co-Founder | 2018 | — | — | — |
| 3 | SeaRoutes Provider of a web tool to calculate distance and routes for voyage planning | $3M | 54 mo ago | Seed | Pierre Garreau Co-Founder & CEO | 2019 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+15 | — | — |
| 4 | ZERO44 Developer of a carbon ledger platform for the maritime industry | $3M | 36 mo ago | Seed | Nils Obermann Co-Founder & Managing Director | 2022 | — | — | 2 awards |
| 5 | PlanBlue Provider of intelligent monitoring camera for seafloor area scanning | $3M | 49 mo ago | Funding Raised | Joost Den Haan Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | Node.jsReactstyled-components+11 | 30 patents Underwater hyperspectral imaging systems for seabed mapping and marine environment monitoring | — |
| 6 | Tilla Provider of web-based diversified solutions for the maritime industry 35Growth top 28%Talent top 38%News top 40%Funding bottom 46% All 7 signals ▾Growthtop 28% Talenttop 38% Newstop 40% Fundingbottom 46% Techbottom 45% Globalbottom 37% Marketbottom 22% Growth: Web rank 50,000,000 → 10,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 35/100 | $2M | 10 mo ago | Seed | Narayan Venkatesh Co-Founder | 2021 | WebflowPlyrSplide+17 | — | — |
| 7 | Kaiko Systems Developer of web-based data analytics and decision insights for the maritime industry 40Growth top 35%Talent top 38%Tech top 42%Moat top 48% All 9 signals ▾Growthtop 35% Talenttop 38% Techtop 42% Moattop 48% Productbottom 45% Fundingbottom 43% Globalbottom 39% Marketbottom 28% Newsbottom 21% Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 40/100 | $2M | 15 mo ago | Series A | Eddy Valle Pino Co-founder & CTO | 2020 | Framer SitesReactCloudflare+16 | — | 1 partnership |
| 8 | Northbound Provider of software for managing and reducing demurrage and detention costs 29Growth top 35%Talent top 45%Funding bottom 45%Tech bottom 43% All 6 signals ▾Growthtop 35% Talenttop 45% Fundingbottom 45% Techbottom 43% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 16% Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo Talent: 2 named leaders on record rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 29/100 | $1M | 23 mo ago | Seed | Rahul Y Co-Founder | 2023 | WebflowGSAPPodigee+11 | — | — |
| 9 | NautilusLog Provider of cloud-based shipping management app | $1M | 39 mo ago | Series A | Sven Hamer Founder | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Closelink Provider of a marine lubricant procurement platform | $1M | 85 mo ago | Seed | Tobias Schumacher Co-Founder | 2016 | WebflowVercelLeadfeeder+10 | — | — |
| 11 | Helzel Messtechnik Provider of high-frequency radar systems for oceanographic and coastal surveillance | $621K | 42 mo ago | Funding Raised | Thomas Helzel Co-Founder & Owner | 1995 | — | — | — |
| 12 | Lemvos Developer of unmanned systems and control systems for maritime technologies | $408K | 32 mo ago | Funding Raised | Daniel Severinsen Co-Founder | 2022 | WordPress Block EditorElementorBeaver Builder+27 | — | — |
| 13 | Rheinports Developer of a multi-port community system for inland waterways | $376K | 108 mo ago | Funding Raised | Joachim Holstein Managing Director | 2017 | — | — | 1 partnership · 1 expansion |
Top 12 Maritime Tech companies in Germany
#1
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2021 · 8 employees$2.3Mraised▾
Provider of web-based diversified solutions for the maritime industry. The company offers solutions for cargo shipping crews to orchestrate shipping changes. It includes an automated booking system, reporting & analytics solution.
- Jul 2025Seed$2.3M
#2
Series A · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2018 · 19 employees$7.3Mraised▾
Provider of automated container management solutions. It helps carriers to save working time and cost. Automated container release enables information exchange and payment processing.
- Jan 2025Series A$7.3M
- Jul 2023Seed—
#3
Series A · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2020 · 10 employees$2Mraised▾
Developer of web-based data analytics and decision insights for the maritime industry. It provides data related to ship and vessel traffic across the globe. Its features include maritime insights, shore-side management, and vessel health data.
- Mar 2025Series A$6.6M
- Sep 2022Seed$2M
#4
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2023$1.4Mraised▾
Provider of software for managing and reducing demurrage and detention costs. The software offers real-time container tracking and automated invoice verification. It provides tools for optimizing container planning and proactively managing potential fees. The platform aims to give users greater control over their container logistics.
- Jul 2024Seed$1.4M
#5
Deadpooled · Walldorf, Baden Wurttemberg · founded 2012 · 5 employees$37.8Mraised▾
FuelSave is a provider of solutions to improve the efficiency of fuel usage. Solutions are offered for vehicles, marine thermoelectric, and purifier applications to reduce fuel consumption by engines. These solutions include FS vehicle, marine, power, heat, ignition, and engineplus, each with sub solutions and components aimed at improved fuel consumption in the respective applications.
- Jun 2022Series C$33.8M
- Sep 2021Series A$4M
- Nov 2020Grant (prize money)$3.7K
- Nov 2020Grant (prize money)$67K
#6
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2022 · 11 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Developer of a carbon ledger platform for the maritime industry. The platform unifies vessel data, contract terms, and registry activity into an auditable ledger. It provides role-based dashboards for technical, finance, and commercial teams. The platform offers scenario planning, biofuel logic, and alerts on cost and compliance.
- May 2023Seed$2.7M
#7
Series A · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2016 · 15 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Provider of cloud-based shipping management app. Its features include event-based tracking and reporting, a collaboration between ship and onshore members, ship inventory and inspection management, consolidation of logbook data such as weather, cargo, and route information, and management of crew tasks.
- Mar 2023Series A—
- Feb 2021Seed$1.2M
- Apr 2019Seed—
#8
Funding Raised · Bremen, Bremen · founded 2017 · 30 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Provider of intelligent monitoring camera for seafloor area scanning. It offers an intelligent monitoring camera that can be mounted on remotely operated vehicles and automated underwater vehicles for automatically scanning the seafloor areas including lake bottoms and river beds. The camera works in integration with companion software that uses machine learning algorithms for processing the data and presenting it in colour-coded form. The target market includes the underwater inspection industry, research institutes, and universities; but our focus lies with environmental consultancies.
- May 2022Grant (prize money)$2.6M
- Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$58K
#9
Seed · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2019 · 18 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Provider of a web tool to calculate distance and routes for voyage planning. Its web-based app enables users to compute routes by either searching and selecting ports and cities or directly by clicking somewhere on the globe. It provides detailed route information from port to port, sea to port, or door to door along with the forecasted weather data and bunkering costs.
- Nov 2021Seed$1.5M
- Aug 2021Grant (prize money)$1.3M
- Aug 2021Grant (prize money)$1.2M
#10
Funding Raised · Augsburg, Bavaria · founded 2022$408.2Kraised▾
Developer of unmanned systems and control systems for maritime technologies. The company concentrates on rugged outdoor robotics and autonomous platforms designed for demanding environments. Their work combines hardware and software expertise, from unmanned surface vessels to modular control units and docking solutions. These systems are used for inspection, monitoring, and other remote operations.
- Oct 2023Grant (prize money)$408.2K
#11
Funding Raised · Kaltenkirchen, Schleswig Holstein · founded 1995$621Kraised▾
Provider of high-frequency radar systems for oceanographic and coastal surveillance. These systems offer real-time data on ocean currents, wave parameters, and ship detection. Applications include tsunami detection, harbor management, search and rescue, and offshore operations. The technology enables improved forecasting, enhanced safety, and efficient resource management in maritime environments. The systems are designed for various applications, offering flexibility and integration capabilities for system integrators.
- Dec 2022Grant (prize money)$621K
#12
Seed · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2016 · 19 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Provider of a marine lubricant procurement platform. This platform automates data collection, offers analytics tools, and facilitates informed decision-making for procurement teams. It enables proactive planning to optimize lifting volume and prioritize by demand and supply. The platform also includes an integrated ordering process, comprehensive data aggregation, and integrated supplier communication. Real-time reporting on vessel, supplier, port, and product levels enhances operational transparency. Seamless integration with existing systems is supported. The platform aims to improve efficiency and generate cost savings for shipping companies and lubricant suppliers.
- May 2019Seed$1.1M
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