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ShipsFocus Ventures
Venture capital · Singapore, Singapore · Asia Pacific
ShipsFocus Ventures is a venture firm focused on maritime shipping and global trade. It backs early-stage startups building coordination-layer infrastructure and tools aimed at the long tail of maritime micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsmaritimeshippingglobal tradelogisticsinfrastructuremsme
Your fit with ShipsFocus Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsShipsFocus Ventures lists 7 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (43%), AI & Machine Learning (21%) and Space & Defense (7%). 67% of its companies are based in Singapore. It invests most often alongside Earth Venture Capital, SEEDS Capital and Shift4Good.
Counts come from funding rounds that name ShipsFocus Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 67% |
| Series A | 33% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 12th | 7 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 80th | 67% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 100th | 57% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 77th | 43% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 43% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 21% | 18% |
| Space & Defense | 7% | 3% |
| Education | 7% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 7% | 6% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 7% | 15% |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers7100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Earth Venture Capital | 2 |
| SEEDS Capital | 2 |
| Shift4Good | 2 |
| BackingMinds | 1 |
| Cap Vista | 1 |
| Gobi Partners | 1 |
| IFB Innovationsstarter | 1 |
| Impact X | 1 |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Earth Venture Capital
Compare ShipsFocus Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with ShipsFocus Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 8 Jun 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 18 Mar 2026 | Round Led | |
| 1 Feb 2024 | Seed |
Round details for ShipsFocus Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in ShipsFocus Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
7 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company develops and operates autonomous underwater drones for inspections and data collection. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Cetasol provides a maritime monitoring and analytics platform for vessel performance and fuel consumption tracking | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and operates unmanned electric boats for cleaning waterways and surveying underwater terrain. | Industrial & ManufacturingEnterprise Software | Jun 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Closelink provides a procurement platform for shipping companies to manage marine lubricants | Industrial & ManufacturingE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| ELXA provides a maritime coordination platform to digitise workflows, connect participants and bring maritime operations online. | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Ofiniti empowers bunkering professionals to manage fuel delivery, documentation, and settlement without delays | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Mar 2026Round | Page + round | |
| Pyxis designs and manufactures electric passenger vessels | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Feb 2024Seed | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 7 Nov 2026- Site
- shipsfocus.com
- Last read
- 7 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 7 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 Feb 2024
- Companies checked
- 7
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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