Vortexa provides a unified analytics platform that aggregates real‑time AIS signals, vessel tracking, cargo manifests, and market pricing into comprehensive datasets covering over 99% of global oil, gas, and LNG waterborne movements. The service offers AI‑enhanced cargo analytics, predictive freight pricing, and API/SDK access, enabling traders, analysts, and shipping professionals to identify opportunities, optimize chartering strategies, and protect margins.
Funding
$24.8M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Energy and freight markets rely on fragmented, delayed data sources that provide incomplete visibility into global oil, gas, and LNG flows, as well as tanker movements and freight rates. This opacity hampers traders, analysts, and shipping professionals from making timely, data‑driven decisions.
Solution
Vortexa delivers a unified analytics platform that aggregates real‑time AIS signals, vessel tracking, cargo manifests, and market pricing into comprehensive energy and freight datasets. The service offers AI‑enhanced cargo analytics, predictive freight pricing, and historical voyage records dating back to 2016, covering over 99% of global waterborne oil and gas movements. Users can access the data via a web dashboard, RESTful API, Python SDK, or Excel add‑in, enabling seamless integration with existing workflows. By providing granular, grade‑level flow information, regional balance views, and forward‑looking supply‑demand insights, Vortexa helps customers identify trading opportunities, optimize chartering strategies, and protect margins.
Target Audience
Primary customers are energy traders, market analysts, and freight/chairing teams at oil and gas companies, shipping firms, and financial institutions that require high‑resolution, real‑time market intelligence.
Features
- Real‑time tracking of 320,000+ voyages per year across 12,800+ tankers, with live and historical AIS data
- Granular cargo analytics down to product grade, vessel class, origin, and destination for crude, refined products, LPG and LNG
- Predictive freight pricing and “Anywhere Freight Pricing” tools to calculate true tanker revenue
- API, Python SDK, and Excel add‑in for flexible data integration into internal systems and custom models
- Regional import/export balance dashboards and net flow visualizations for supply‑demand assessment
- Historical and live voyage trend analysis with three‑year data archives for benchmarking
- In‑house expert validation of data points (700 million processed daily) to ensure accuracy