What Vortexa does

Vortexa is a London-headquartered software company that operates a real-time data and analytics platform for the global energy and freight industries. Founded in 2016, the company tracks more than $3.4 trillion in annual waterborne energy trades across 99% of global maritime activity, processing 700 million+ data points per day and analyzing over 870 billion AIS messages. Its core platform delivers cargo-level visibility on crude, clean petroleum products, dirty petroleum products, LPG, and LNG — covering 500+ crude grades, 250+ CPP classifications, and 25+ DPP grades — with ten years of historical cargo data going back to 2016.

The product is built around proprietary machine-learning and transformer-based models, including a destination prediction system for tanker loading and discharge locations (10% relative accuracy improvement) and a multi-horizon freight price forecasting engine that outperforms FFA curves on directional accuracy and MAPE across 90,000+ port-to-port routes. Customers access the platform through a web analytics portal, RESTful API, Python SDK, Excel Add-in, and integrations with Power BI, Tableau, and Snowflake. Modular product suites — Anywhere Freight Pricing, Anywhere Freight Pricing Forecasts, Crude & Condensates, CPP, DPP, LPG, LNG, Inventories, Net Flows, Voyage Calculator, and Freight Market Outlook — address distinct workflows for energy traders, freight charterers, and financial institutions.

Vortexa monetizes primarily through annual enterprise subscriptions with quote-based pricing, targeting energy traders (trade optimization, margin protection), freight traders/charterers (fleet positioning, vessel earnings), and financial institutions (physical market signals, trading signals). The company employed 101-250 staff as of 2025, reached $19 million in annual recurring revenue, and reported a valuation of $57.1 million. After operating as a bootstrapped, founder-controlled entity for most of its history, Vortexa raised a $34M Series 3 in January 2024 (led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital), a $25M investment from CIBC Innovation Banking in October 2024, and a $50M facility from Oxford Finance in April 2026. Leadership comprises co-founder/CEO Fabio Kuhn, Chairman Jacques Gabillon, and CTO Maksym Schipka.

Name

Vortexa

Legal name

Vortexa Ltd.

Website

https://vortexa.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Vortexa operates a real-time data and analytics platform that tracks 99% of global waterborne energy and freight flows, serving energy traders, freight charterers, and financial institutions with AI-powered cargo tracking, destination prediction, and freight price forecasting across crude, CPP, DPP, LPG, and LNG markets.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Energy and Freight Analytics Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518), Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities (523)

SIC

Finance Services (6199)

akta.pro primary industry

AI/ML Decision Intelligence & Automated Recommendations (TLAEAKAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Scenario Planning, Forecasting Platforms & Planning Intelligence (HDAAAHAL), Routing, Optimization & Dispatch Engines (BPAMANAI)

Keywords

• Energy analytics platform
• Cargo tracking software
• Freight pricing intelligence
• Maritime data analytics
• Oil and gas market intelligence

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Data and Analytics Subscriptions: Subscription-based access to the Vortexa platform providing real-time cargo tracking, freight analytics, and energy market intelligence. Customers include energy firms, freight traders, and financial institutions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Vortexa operates an AI-powered energy and freight analytics platform that delivers real-time tracking of global waterborne crude, clean, dirty, LPG and LNG cargo movements, voyage-level freight pricing, and forward freight forecasts across 90,000+ port-to-port routes. The platform is offered as a subscription data and analytics service, accessed via a web portal, RESTful API, Python SDK, and Excel Add-in, and is consumed by energy traders, charterers, and financial institutions to optimize trades, fleet positioning, and market positioning.

Product overview

Vortexa is an energy analytics and freight intelligence platform providing comprehensive market intelligence through its core Energy Analytics product, which covers 99% of global waterborne energy activity tracking over $3.4 trillion in annual trades. The platform operates on a modular architecture where the Energy Analytics core integrates specialized product suites: Freight Analytics with Anywhere Freight Pricing for instant global freight pricing and forecasting; product-specific analytics for Crude & Condensates, Clean Petroleum Products, LPG, Dirty Petroleum Products, and LNG; and supplementary tools including Inventories, Net Flows, Voyage Calculator, and Freight Market Outlook. All products are accessible via the Data API, Python SDK, and Excel Add-in integrations. The platform processes 700+ million data points daily, analyzes 870+ billion AIS messages, and maintains data coverage from 2016 to present. The flagship AI-powered feature, Anywhere Freight Pricing Forecasts, provides 12-week forward freight predictions using machine learning across 90,000+ routes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Anywhere Freight Pricing: Freight pricing forecasting product providing 12-week forward view across global clean routes
• Vortexa Analytics Platform
• Vortexa Docs

Products and services

• Energy Analytics Core platform delivering real-time tracking of global crude, clean, dirty, LPG and LNG cargo movements down to grade level, covering 99% of waterborne activity with full cargo history from 2016 to today. Built for energy traders and analysts to power trade decisions.
• Freight Analytics Ship-by-ship global supply and demand freight fundamentals with freight pricing insights designed to help charterers, shipowners, and traders maximize shipping profits.
• Anywhere Freight Pricing

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability7 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Kpler: Kpler is the closest direct competitor, providing real-time commodity tracking and analytics for energy, metals, and agricultural flows, including vessel and cargo movement intelligence that directly overlaps Vortexa's core offering.
• Lloyd's List Intelligence: Lloyd's List Intelligence provides maritime data and vessel tracking for shipping markets, directly comparable to Vortexa's AIS-based vessel and cargo movement analytics serving charterers and traders.

Broad incumbents

• S&P Global Commodity Insights (Platts): S&P Global Platts is a broad incumbent in energy and commodity intelligence, offering benchmark pricing, analytics, and news. Its shipping and freight coverage overlaps with Vortexa's freight pricing and analytics products at enterprise scale.
• Argus Media: Argus provides commodity price benchmarks and market intelligence across oil, gas, LPG, LNG, and freight, competing with Vortexa in energy market data and analytics for trading desks and physical operators.
• Wood Mackenzie: Wood Mackenzie offers energy research, data, and consulting across upstream, midstream, and downstream markets, providing overlapping market intelligence to similar energy and trading customers as Vortexa.
• Bloomberg Terminal (Commodities/Energy): Bloomberg's terminal offers broad commodity, energy, and shipping data alongside analytics for trading and finance professionals, competing for the same financial-institution and energy-trader budgets that Vortexa targets.
• LSEG (Refinitiv) Commodities: LSEG's Refinitiv franchise provides commodity data, analytics, and trading infrastructure across energy and freight, addressing overlapping use cases for trading desks and risk teams that also buy Vortexa.

Emerging players

• Rystad Energy: Rystad Energy is an independent energy research and intelligence provider offering analytics on oil, gas, renewables, and shipping markets with comparable buyer personas in energy trading and finance.
• MarineTraffic: MarineTraffic offers global ship tracking and maritime intelligence using AIS data, providing overlapping vessel-positioning and port-activity analytics that complement Vortexa's energy-focused product.

Others

• Baltic Exchange: Baltic Exchange publishes benchmark freight rates for tankers and dry bulk; Vortexa's freight pricing forecasts explicitly benchmark against FFA curves and Baltic indices, making Baltic an adjacent ecosystem reference rather than a direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Vortexa
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@Vortexa
• Facebookfacebook.com/vortexaVTX
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/vortexa
• Instagraminstagram.com/vortexa_vtx

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds8 records

Investors10 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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