Tech meets shipping: driving the digital transformation of the maritime industry

The founding partner

for maritime startups

The global maritime industry is at the cusp of a digital transformation that will fundamentally reshape the sector in the coming decade.  At Flagship Founders we strongly believe that innovation lies at the confluence of deep sector insights, entrepreneurial thinking and information technology. We partner with ambitious founding teams to build agile and scalable solutions for the global maritime market. With an experienced team of seasoned entrepreneurs, investors and shipping experts, we provide our ventures with the support that makes all the difference.

Our Flagships drive innovation 
changing the maritime industry

We support our ambitious founding teams with deep venture building expertise and a broad network of industry experts as they pursue validated opportunities for digitalizing the maritime sector.

Shipping is a global industry 
ripe for fundamental change

Despite being the trillion-dollar backbone of the global economy and expected to triple in size by 2050, shipping is one of the final frontiers of digitalization. This implies countless extraordinary opportunities for optimizing and even rethinking outdated structures and processes.

The Flagship Founders team
inspire, enable and support

We love innovative ideas and are passionate about building successful businesses. With decades of experience in shipping, venture capital, successful start-ups and top-tier management consulting, we have the domain expertise, industry and startup networks, and a solid track record in company building to help founders and ventures succeed from day one.

We are looking for ambitious and entrepreneurial minds

to build the future of maritime technology