Starfuels

What Starfuels does

Starfuels is a privately held institutional commodity brokerage firm founded in 2012 that specializes in physical oil products and related financial instruments across niche energy markets. The firm operates as an impartial intermediary, anonymously matching buyers and sellers of fuel oil, crude oil, ethanol, biodiesel, and RINs, earning commissions on executed physical and derivatives transactions. Its core product surface comprises three desks: Fuel Oil (Number 1–6 grades, including marine bunker oils), Crude Oil (petroleum feedstocks), and Biofuels (the Starfuels Renewables desk for ethanol, biodiesel, and RINs), supplemented by a proprietary password-protected Excel-based market-report distribution platform covering USA, European, and Asian fuel oil markets.

The firm's go-to-market is relationship-driven enterprise field sales executed by specialist brokers; customers include major oil brands and refineries, trading and supply organizations, and end-users such as local harbor suppliers, ship-owners, factories, and energy plants. Operations run 24 hours per day across time zones via seven owned offices: White Plains (HQ), Montvale, North Palm Beach, and Dorado in the Americas; Nyon (Geneva) and Rotterdam in Europe; and Singapore in Asia, with the website referencing additional London and Dubai presence. Revenue is transaction-fee based, and pricing is quote-driven with no public pricing.

Growth has historically been executed through acquisition of small independent broker groups in niche markets, a strategy the firm publicly articulates as its advancement mechanism. Corporate structuring across the USA (Starfuels, Inc.; Starcommodities Inc.; Starfuels Energy Ltd), Singapore (Starfuels PTE Ltd), and the UK (Starfuels Commodities Ltd) supports cross-border brokerage. Headcount is reported in the 51–100 range, the company is privately held with no disclosed external funding, and no patents, awards, or AI capabilities are referenced in the source material.

Name

Starfuels

Legal name

Starfuels, Inc.

Website

https://starfuels.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Starfuels is a private commodity brokerage firm founded in 2012 that intermediates physical oil, biofuel, and crude oil transactions globally. Operating 24/7 from seven offices across three continents, the firm serves refineries, trading organizations, and end-users via anonymous broker-mediated matching.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

White Plains

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Brokerage Commissions: Starfuels acts as an impartial intermediary, anonymously matching buyers and sellers of physical and financial oil instruments, earning commissions on executed transactions.
2. Financial Instruments Brokerage: Facilitates futures contracts, swaps contracts and options transactions for ethanol, biodiesel, RINs, and crude oil products, earning transaction fees.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Starfuels is an institutional commodity brokerage firm that anonymously matches buyers and sellers of physical oil products, crude oil, biofuels (ethanol, biodiesel, RINs), and related financial instruments such as futures, swaps, and options. The firm earns commissions on matched transactions and supplements its brokerage with proprietary Fuel Oil market reports distributed to clients. Its growth model is based on acquiring small independent groups in niche markets and consolidating specialized oil trading talent across a 24-hour multi-timezone operation.

Product overview

Starfuels is a brokerage firm in physical oil products and financial instruments operating in niche markets within the Energy sector. The company offers three core products: Fuel Oil (liquid petroleum products for heat/power generation, including bunker oils), Biofuels (brokerage services for ethanol, biodiesel, and RINs markets via the Starfuels Renewables desk), and Crude Oil (petroleum feedstocks). These are complemented by Fuel Oil Market Reports providing downloadable market data. Starfuels acts as a neutral intermediary, anonymously matching buyers and sellers of physical and financial instruments in the oil products, crude oil, and biofuels markets.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fuel Oil Brokerage Brokerage services for fuel oil - any liquid petroleum product burned in a furnace, boiler, or engine for heat or power generation. Residential fuel oils are classified as Number 1, 2, or 3, while industrial ones are classified as Number 4, 5, or 6 according to specific gravity; Number 5 and 6 are utilized mainly for powering ships and are also known as bunker oils. Designed for major oil brands, refineries, trading organizations, and end-users including harbor suppliers, ship-owners, factories, and energy plants.
• Biofuels Brokerage (Renewables Desk) Brokerage services for ethanol, biodiesel, and RINs markets through the Starfuels Renewables desk, offering a centralized liquid marketplace for the purchase and sale of renewable fuel over-the-counter (OTC) products. Provides efficient brokerage services in physical and financial instruments for ethanol, biodiesel, and RINs. Targeted at major energy companies, fuel ethanol producers, marketing companies, agricultural companies, investment and commercial banks, hedge funds, and other trading companies in the renewables sector.
• Crude Oil Brokerage Brokerage services for crude oil petroleum feedstocks as part of Starfuels' focus on niche markets within the energy sector.

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Marex: Marex is a publicly listed global commodity brokerage and trading firm offering intermediation across energy, metals, and agricultural products. It is the closest direct peer to Starfuels in physical and financial commodity brokerage with global office coverage.
• Mercuria Energy Trading: Mercuria is one of the largest independent commodity traders and brokers globally, with significant focus on crude oil, refined products, and biofuels. It competes with Starfuels in physical oil brokerage and has overlapping coverage of ethanol and biodiesel flows.
• Gunvor Group: Gunvor is a major independent commodity trader headquartered in Geneva with deep involvement in physical oil products and renewables trading. It overlaps with Starfuels' Geneva footprint, crude and fuel oil brokerage, and emerging biofuels activity.
• Trafigura: Trafigura is a top-tier global commodities trader with extensive oil and petroleum products trading and an expanding renewables business. Comparable to Starfuels across physical oil brokerage and the renewables/RINs trading franchise.
• World Fuel Services: World Fuel Services is a global fuel logistics and brokerage company specializing in marine bunker fuels, aviation, and land fuels. It is a direct peer to Starfuels' fuel oil and bunker brokerage franchise serving ship-owners and harbor suppliers.
• Eco-Energy: Eco-Energy is a major biofuels distributor and trader in ethanol, biodiesel, and RINs across North America. Directly comparable to Starfuels' Renewables desk in product mix and customer base of energy companies and fuel ethanol producers.
• Hartree Partners: Hartree Partners is a commodity-focused trading and investment firm with deep activity in physical and financial energy markets. Comparable to Starfuels in intermediating physical and financial oil instruments for institutional clients globally.

Broad incumbents

• Vitol: Vitol is the world's largest independent energy trader with broad physical oil, refined products, and increasingly biofuels activity. A broad incumbent rather than niche peer; comparable to Starfuels in fuel oil, crude, and renewables intermediation but at vastly larger scale.
• ED&F Man: ED&F Man is a global commodities merchant and broker with significant presence in sugar, coffee, and increasingly biofuels. Relevant as an incumbent with overlapping biofuels/ethanol trading activity serving similar institutional counterparties.

Emerging players

• Crown Oil: Crown Oil is a UK-based independent fuel oil and lubricants supplier and broker serving end-user customers. Comparable to Starfuels' end-user-facing fuel oil brokerage to factories, harbors, and energy plants in the niche segment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/starfuels
• Facebookfacebook.com/Starfuels-SA-136833240439182
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/starfuels-inc-

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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