Sofar Ocean

Sofar Ocean, founded in 2016, operates the world's largest privately-owned network of marine weather sensors and provides an ocean intelligence platform delivering real-time ocean data and voyage optimization. The company serves maritime shipping, climate research, governments and port authorities worldwide, with customers including shipping fleets, scientists and public agencies.

Its product line centres on two platforms. Spotter is an affordable, scalable marine weather sensor buoy that collects real-time ocean observations and forms the backbone of the sensor network, which generates more than 1.5 million real-time observations daily. Wayfinder is a voyage optimization platform that uses Spotter ocean data to optimise maritime voyages, reducing fuel consumption and emissions while improving operational efficiency.

The company's stated mission is to make ocean data affordable, scalable and accessible to anyone who needs ocean intelligence, based on the belief that opening access to ocean data unlocks transformative insights. Its long-term vision is to make the ocean as predictable and transparent as land, with an emphasis on data openness and transparency and on measurable environmental impact through emissions and fuel savings. Sofar Ocean operates on a global basis.