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Vessel Capital emerges from stealth with $55M fund focused on web3 infrastructure and apps

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Vessel Capital , a web3 venture fund, has emerged from stealth with $55 million in assets under management to invest in infrastructure and applications, the firm exclusively told TechCrunch. Vessel wants to work with founders and be on the ground with them while they scale their companies, he added.

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Maritime intelligence platform Greywing raises seed funding from investors like Flexport

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Today Greywing announced the launch of a new solution that will help vessel operators track carbon emissions created by crew changes, along with $2.5 Greywing now enables vessel operators to estimate the potential carbon impact of a crew change before it happens. million in seed funding.

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Fleetzero begins its search for the first giant ship to convert to battery power

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Fleetzero has an ambitious goal: to compete with global shipping companies with its own boats, powered entirely by electricity. The company just secured $15.5 But though it all sounds good in theory, obviously at some point you need to put these theories on the water, and that’s the next step for the company.

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Nigerian digital freight provider MVX lands $1.3M to help shippers move cargoes faster

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In Africa, chartering vessels and processing ocean freight can be challenging. A couple of digital freight companies are tackling this problem, like Nigerian-based MVX. The company today is announcing its $1.3 The company was called MVXchange at first. The sector is largely inefficient and fragmented.

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Korean internet giant Naver backs e-commerce aggregator New Vessel in seed round 

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Despite the large e-commerce market size, both countries have fewer e-commerce aggregators than other countries with smaller markets, South Korean e-commerce aggregator New Vessel said. The company plans to raise its Series A funding in June after completing acquisitions in the first half of this year, Lee noted. . market, Lee said.

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FleetZero looks to capsize the shipping world with electric vessels serving forgotten ports

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FleetZero thinks it can with electric vessels making short hops all the way around the Pacific, while relying on smaller ports and a clever battery-sharing scheme. An increase in costs, unwelcome even to successful shippers, could put smaller and less wealthy regions and companies out of the game entirely.

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Berlin’s Kaiko Systems nets €2M to help maritime technical operations go paperless

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” Kaiko Systems is a Berlin-based startup trying to digitize operations on commercial vessels. For example, when the system finds a newly implemented part that’s the cause of a breakdown in the ship, it can identify all the other vessels that might be subject to the same vulnerability.