Founded in 2018 by CEO Yarden Gross and CTO Dor Raviv, Orca AI applies AI-powered decision making and autonomous capabilities to ships based on a marine visual dataset of over 80 million nautical miles. By employing AI in navigation, it’s possible to significantly reduce collisions and allow crews to focus attention on other aspects of the voyage.
“The main business still is in the commercial sector. We already have collaborations and POCs,” Gross told TechCrunch. “But we see opportunities in defense coming from navies around the world around autonomy,”| he added, “where they want more cost-effective assets that can operate more efficiently with less human intervention. We’ve already signed the first contract in the defense field, deployed on a navy ship.”
Orca’s growth is also benefiting from the expansion of Starlink, which allows real-time data to be transmitted to Orca AI for mapping routes, traffic monitoring, and sharing critical information.
“Starlink enables us to collect data at scale directly from the ship sensor. We see that as a huge opportunity,” Gross said.
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