Sofar Ocean Technologies builds accessible ocean sensing and exploration tools for ocean enthusiasts, industry, and conservation.
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $39M
Founded date: 2016
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Foundry Gr... | foundrygro... |
| - | Craft Vent... | craftventu... |
| - | Foundry | foundry.vc |
| 03.11.2021 | UNION SQUA... | usv.com/ |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 01.11.2021 | Series B | $39M | - |
Mentions in press and media 11
| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.08.2024 | Berge Bulk adopts Sofar's Wayfinder across fleet to bolster decarbonisation strategy | Berge Bulk uses Sofar Ocean's Wayfinder dynamic voyage optimisation platform to increase fleet efficiency and accelerate its "Maritime Marshall Plan" for decarbonisation. SINGAPORE, Aug. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Berge Bulk, one of... |
| 06.10.2023 | Norway’s ECOsubsea bag €11.38M to expand its sustainable ship hull cleaning solution | Read this article in: Norway-based ECOsubsea, a hull cleaning specialist, announced that it has secured $12M (€11.38M) in a Series B round of funding led by the Blue Ocean fund managed by French sustainable investor SWEN Capital Partners. T... |
| 04.11.2021 | Sofar Ocean Plans $39 Million Expansion Of Its Worldwide Network Of Sensors | A Sofar Spotter buoy in front of a Maersk vessel Sofar Ocean |
| 03.11.2021 | Sofar nets a $39M round B to grow its ocean-monitoring autonomous buoy network | The ocean is vast and mysterious … but rather less so when you have thousands of little autonomous buoys reporting back interesting info to you every day. That’s just what Sofar Ocean has, and it just raised $39 million to scale up its visi... |
| 02.11.2021 | Sofar Ocean Announces $39M Series B Round | SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Sofar Ocean, the world's largest ocean intelligence platform, has secured a $39 million Series B syndicate round. >> Click here for more funding data on Sofar Ocean >> To export Sofar Ocean funding data to... |
| 02.11.2021 | Sofar Ocean’s Series B | Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden There are over 4,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth today. Enabled by advances in IoT and distributed sensing in the last few decades, these satellites help us do everything from GPS navigation to weather... |
| 01.11.2021 | Ocean data collection firm Sofar raises $39 million | Sign up for our daily briefingMake your busy days simpler with Axios AM/PM. Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes. Enter your email address Please enter a valid email. Please enter a valid email. Subscription failedSub... |
| 01.11.2021 | Sofar Ocean Secures $39M in Series B Funding | Sofar Ocean, a San Francisco, CA-based ocean intelligence platform, secured $39m in Series B funding. Backers included Union Square Ventures and the Foundry Group. The company intends to use the funds to further scale its technology platfor... |
| 27.03.2019 | Ocean drone startup merger spawns Sofar, the DJI of the sea | What lies beneath the murky depths? SolarCity co-founder Peter Rive wants to help you and the scientific community find out. He’s just led a $7 million Series A for Sofar Ocean Technologies, a new startup formed from a merger he orchestrate... |
| - | Sofar Unlocks the Power of Ocean Data for All | Sofar is a new company formed by the merger of prior True investment OpenROV, maker of underwater robots, and ocean data startup Spoondrift. The merger joins two leaders in ocean exploration technologies in the pursuit of a joint mission to... |
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