What Bearing AI does

Bearing AI (legal entity Bearing, Inc.) is a Palo Alto-based B2B SaaS company founded in 2019 that builds a maritime intelligence platform combining large language models with proprietary maritime datasets. The platform serves three primary customer segments: shipping companies (vessel operators managing fleet performance, fuel, and regulatory compliance), commodity traders (requiring forward-looking freight and vessel availability intelligence), and financial institutions (using maritime market intelligence for risk and investment decisions). Named customers include K Line, IINO Lines, Mitsui & Co., ClassNK, StormGeo, LAB021, and ABB, with Mitsui also acting as a strategic investor.

The product surface comprises interconnected modules including Vessel Availability, Fuel Consumption Prediction, Fleet Response to Demand Change, Port Congestion, Freight Rate Prediction, Fouling Rate Prediction, a CII Optimization Tool (developed 2022 to address IMO Carbon Intensity Indicator regulation), a Cargo Prediction Solution (launched December 2024), and an AI-Powered Planner extended to the tramp shipping segment (July 2024). Users access these capabilities through a natural-language conversational interface that produces explainable, AI-reasoned answers over proprietary vessel, port, and trading-pattern datasets. The architecture combines third-party frontier LLMs with domain-specialized data and reasoning, and is not documented to use proprietary foundation models.

Bearing AI operates an enterprise direct-sales motion with "Request a demo" engagement and quote-based pricing, generating revenue through subscription-based access to its platform. The company has disclosed approximately $10 million in funding across rounds in February 2021 ($3M, AI Fund and Mitsui), August 2022 ($7M, Mitsui and AI Fund), and June 2024 ($83K, Gaingels). It appointed Niels Snog as Chief Commercial Officer in August 2024 to lead commercial expansion, and entered a strategic partnership with StormGeo in June 2025 to embed its intelligence into StormGeo's Voyage Intelligence portfolio.

Name

Bearing AI

Legal name

Bearing, Inc.

Website

https://bearing.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Bearing AI is a Palo Alto-based B2B SaaS company that combines large language models with proprietary maritime datasets to deliver predictive intelligence and decision-support tools for shipping companies, commodity traders, and financial institutions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Palo Alto

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Maritime Intelligence Platform: B2B SaaS platform providing AI-powered maritime insights, predictions, and decision-support tools to shipping companies, commodity traders, and financial institutions. Revenue likely derived from subscription-based access to proprietary data and AI models.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Bearing AI provides an LLM-powered maritime intelligence platform that combines frontier AI models with proprietary maritime datasets spanning vessels, ports, and trading patterns. The platform delivers predictive analytics for vessel availability, fuel consumption, freight rates, port congestion, fouling rates, fleet response to demand changes, CII optimization, and cargo prediction. It serves shipping companies, commodity traders, and financial institutions through an enterprise SaaS model.

Product overview

Bearing AI offers a unified maritime intelligence platform powered by large language models that combines proprietary maritime data with AI reasoning capabilities. The platform comprises multiple interconnected modules including Vessel Availability, Fuel Consumption Prediction, Fleet Response to Demand Change, Port Congestion, Freight Rate Prediction, and Fouling Rate Prediction. The platform also includes a Cargo Prediction Solution (launched December 2024) and a CII Optimization Tool (developed 2022). Users access these capabilities through an LLM-powered conversational interface for querying maritime data and receiving explainable, AI-reasoned answers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Bearing AI Platform Maritime intelligence platform built on large language models that combines industry-leading models with proprietary data to deliver insights, simulations and decisions for vessel operators, commodity traders, and financial institutions.
• CII Optimization Tool Carbon Intensity Indicator optimization tool designed to assist vessel operators in planning and improving their CII scores in compliance with 2023 regulations.
• Cargo Prediction Solution AI-powered solution for predicting cargo movements and volumes, enabling more accurate voyage planning and optimization.
• AI-Powered Planner for Tramp Shipping AI-powered planner with expanded capabilities for tramp shipping operations.

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• StormGeocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 June 2025StormGeo partnered with Bearing AI to advance AI-driven voyage optimization. StormGeo processes 15-20 terabytes of data daily and integrates Bearing AI's capabilities for vessel performance predictions and AI-driven port analytics. StormGeo also appears as a customer and marketing partner on Bearing AI's website.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Veson Nautical: Veson Nautical's IMOS platform provides voyage management, freight rate management, and commercial shipping analytics — directly overlapping Bearing AI's freight rate, vessel availability, and voyage optimization capabilities for shipping companies and charterers.
• StormGeo: StormGeo provides weather routing and voyage optimization for shipping, and is also a Bearing AI partner/customer — overlapping on AI-driven voyage optimization and serving the same maritime operations buyers.
• Kpler: Kpler offers commodity and maritime market intelligence including vessel tracking, freight flows, and trade analytics — competing with Bearing AI's vessel availability and freight rate prediction features for commodity traders and shipping firms.
• MarineTraffic: MarineTraffic (now part of Kpler) provides AIS-based vessel tracking and maritime data feeds, overlapping with Bearing AI's vessel availability and port congestion capabilities and serving similar shipping and trading audiences.
• Awake.AI: Awake.AI applies AI to port call optimization and logistics coordination, co-listed with Bearing AI in StormGeo's partnership announcement and competing for the same AI-in-maritime-logistics mindshare.
• Clarksons Research: Clarksons Research delivers shipping market intelligence including freight rate data, trade flow analysis, and market reports — directly comparable to Bearing AI's freight rate prediction and market intelligence capabilities for shipping and finance buyers.

Emerging players

• BunkerEx: BunkerEx provides bunker fuel procurement and pricing intelligence, intersecting with Bearing AI's fuel consumption prediction features for vessel operators and bunker buyers in shipping.
• RightShip: RightShip provides maritime ESG and safety ratings plus vetting intelligence — overlapping with Bearing AI's regulatory/ESG-adjacent use cases (CII, fouling, emissions) for shipowners and charterers.

Broad incumbents

• Wärtsilä Voyage: Wärtsilä Voyage is a large established marine technology division offering fleet operations, navigation, and optimization software — competing in the broader maritime digital optimization space that Bearing AI targets.
• ABB Marine & Ports: ABB Marine & Ports offers automation and digital solutions for vessel operations and ports, and is a Bearing AI customer; competes at the broader vessel optimization level while also serving as a reference customer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bearing-ai

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors3 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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