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Using autonomous, green, IoT, and digital technologies to shape the future of ocean-based transportation

Shipping Tech

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 is a cloud based route planning and weather routing solution for freight &mdash; Dynamic APIs to better plan, route and refine. We want the most accurate route, available to all &mdash; logistics, financials, mariners. Searoutes is a machine-learning-first company, and addresses routing from a novel angle. We use historical data to compute optimal and accurate routes, with the impact of weather and real time maritime traffic. Therefore reducing fuel costs, emissions (COx, NOx, SOx), and improving the accuracy of schedules, arrival times and risks for 90% for global trade.
 
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Empowering efficiency, visibility and collaboration throughout supply networks

Supply Chain Tech

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 Project44 is a technology company that specializes in supply chain visibility and logistics connectivity solutions. The company&rsquo;s platform &ldquo;Movement&rdquo; connects shippers, carriers, and logistics service providers to provide real-time visibility of the location and status of shipments. It also offers insights and connectivity across borders, helping businesses manage complex, multi-country logistics. This enables businesses to track and manage the movement of goods and shipments from the point of origin to the final destination.
 
 
 
 
 Since its inception, the company has expanded globally by acquiring visibility providers such as GateHouse Logistics, Ocean Insights, ClearMetal, and Convey. It has also built a carrier network with over 238,000 carriers, as of October 2023. In May 2023, the company reported that its platform tracked more than 1 billion unique shipments annually for over 1,300 brands, which included companies from industries such as manufacturing, automotive, retail, life sciences, and chemical and gas.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
 In April 2023, Project44 launched &ldquo;Movement GPT,&rdquo; a generative AI assistant for supply chain. This feature allows users to interact within the Movement platform in natural language to track shipments and identify supply chain risks.
 
 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 
 
 As of October 2023, the company's customers included leading brands such as Nestl&eacute;, Convoy, DHL, Uber Freight, and Bayer.
 
 
 
 
 In May 2023, the company entered into a partnership with asset intelligence company, Nexxiot, to enable the delivery of real-time network insights and IoT-centric conditional and location monitoring. Further, in January 2024, the company partnered with Lenzing Group, a specialty fiber producer, to enhance Lenzing Group's ocean shipment visibility with a focus on carbon emissions monitoring. The collaboration involves the creation of an updated real-time shipment visibility tool that collects carbon emissions data at the shipment and container levels.
 
 
 
 
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 , which included a USD 240 million equity funding round led by TPG, Thoma Bravo, and Goldman Sachs&rsquo; asset-management arm. It also raised USD 180 million through the acquisition of shares by existing investors. This was followed by another USD 80 million round in November 2022 led by Generation Investment Management and A.P. Moller Holding, valuing the company at USD 2.7 billion.
 
 
 
 
 In 2021, Project44 reported an annual recurring revenue of more than USD 100 million.&nbsp;
 
 
 
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Making cold chains faster, smarter, and cooler.

Cold Chain Innovation

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 project44 is on a mission to make supply chains work. As the supply chain connective tissue, project44 operates the world&rsquo;s most trusted end-to-end visibility platform that manages more than 1 billion unique shipments annually for over 1,300 of the world&rsquo;s leading brands, including top companies in manufacturing, automotive, retail, life sciences, food &amp; beverage, CPG, and oil, chemical &amp; gas. Using project44, shippers and carriers across the globe drive greater predictability, resiliency and sustainability. 
 
 The undisputed leader in the market and innovator of Movement GPT, project44 was named the Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, #1 in FreightWaves FreightTech 2023, a ten-time leader in customer satisfaction on G2&rsquo;s Supply Chain Visibility Grid, one of SupplyChainBrain&rsquo;s 100 Great Supply Chain Partners of 2022, and the Customer&rsquo;s Choice in Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer report. project44 is headquartered in Chicago with a diverse team spanning 15 global offices including Amsterdam, Krak&oacute;w, Paris, S&atilde;o Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo. Learn more at project44.com.
 
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Angell is a manufacturer of electric bicycles to come up with a transformation in the urban mobility experience.

Founded in 2010, EIT InnoEnergy is the leading innovation engine in Sustainable Energy. With offices in Europe and US, the firm seeks to make equity minority investments in early-stage companies and through added value services make the business case bigger, sooner and safer (de-risking). Investment scope: climate tech and energy sectors.

TreaTech is a Swiss Cleantech company founded in 2015 by EPFL engineers.  We are developing a ground-breaking treatment technology that will enable an eco-friendly treatment of the ever-increasing quantities of wastewater while recycling its valuable by-products and most notably, clean water. Our catalytic hydrothermal gasification (HTG) system has been developed for the disposal of different types of liquid wastes (such as sewage sludge) that are usually incinerated or landfilled and instead, turns them into by-products such as biogas, clean water, and mineral salts that can further be upgraded into phosphorus products (e.g. fertilizers).

Livmed's is a software platform that provides home medicine delivery services for fellow citizens and healthcare players.  The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Nice, France.

project44 is on a mission to make supply chains work. As the supply chain connective tissue, project44 operates the world’s most trusted end-to-end visibility platform that manages more than 1 billion unique shipments annually for over 1,300 of the world’s leading brands, including top companies in manufacturing, automotive, retail, life sciences, food & beverage, CPG, and oil, chemical & gas. Using project44, shippers and carriers across the globe drive greater predictability, resiliency and sustainability.  The undisputed leader in the market and innovator of Movement GPT, project44 was named the Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, #1 in FreightWaves FreightTech 2023, a ten-time leader in customer satisfaction on G2’s Supply Chain Visibility Grid, one of SupplyChainBrain’s 100 Great Supply Chain Partners of 2022, and the Customer’s Choice in Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer report. project44 is headquartered in Chicago with a diverse team spanning 15 global offices including Amsterdam, Kraków, Paris, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo. Learn more at project44.com.

Air France-KLM is the leading Group in terms of international traffic on departure from Europe. It offers its customers access to a network covering 312 destinations in 116 countries thanks to Air France, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Transavia. With a fleet of 550 aircraft and 101.4 million passengers carried in 2018, Air France-KLM operates up to 2,300 daily flights, mainly from its hubs at Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam-Schiphol.

Telaqua is the creator of an irrigation technology platform aimed at reducing water consumption. Their platform employs new technologies that can be used to improve water management by transmitting data on its operation, analyzing the health of installations, and managing irrigation periods.

Searoutes.com is a cloud based route planning and weather routing solution for freight — Dynamic APIs to better plan, route and refine. We want the most accurate route, available to all — logistics, financials, mariners. Searoutes is a machine-learning-first company, and addresses routing from a novel angle. We use historical data to compute optimal and accurate routes, with the impact of weather and real time maritime traffic. Therefore reducing fuel costs, emissions (COx, NOx, SOx), and improving the accuracy of schedules, arrival times and risks for 90% for global trade.

Ombrea is a climate control tool, suitable for crops sensitive to weather conditions. The system is automated and adapts to each culture using artificial intelligence. They offer a solution to maintain production yields despite global warming, through a smart shade system that covers the fields and modulates with IA weather patterns.

Founded in Singapore and with offices in Europe, India, and Southeast Asia, Incomlend connects small and medium enterprises (SMEs) globally with communities of investors. It enables them to buy and sell individual invoices via a proprietary tech-enabled and secure invoice exchange platform. Incomlend also recently launched the Incomlend Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) Invoice Financing Programme, Asia's first structured finance programme. Incomlend connects socially conscious investors with responsible, sustainable SMEs through this initiative.

Fetchr helps local merchants and global brands build, launch and grow profitable eCommerce businesses with an easy to use proprietary shipping and logistics solution. With our app and a simple tap, we can locate your exact location allowing us to deliver packages to your phone faster and more efficiently. Fetchr solves the problem of no physical addresses in emerging markets.

Wing is disrupting the world of logistics by offering e-shops and brick & mortars the easiest and fastest way to ship anything, anywhere. Operating in Paris & London they pick up, package and send your stuff for the lowest price. Their first mile logistics service will save you time and money so you can focus on what you like to do. No more cardboards and waiting in lines at the post office.   Shipping, reinvented.

Today, shippers lack the visibility & control they need over their complex operations. With container information spread across team members, forwarders & carriers, data is often decentralized and unavailable. Without real-time visibility, it's impossible for shippers to have the control they need over their shipments, partners & performance.

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