Built for the gap between commercial judgment and available time.
The team behind Chartera brings maritime and commodity trading exposure together with AI engineering, logistics technology, infrastructure, security, and customer deployment experience.
Backed by
Iterative VC
(W25)
Part of
INSEAD AI Venture Lab
(Batch Finalist)
Google for Startups
Pier71 Landing Pad
The idea came from watching both sides of trade fight the same fragmented record.
Shipping and commodity trading teams sit on the same chain of events: cargo, vessels, contracts, operations, claims, and cash. The desk knows what good work requires, but attention is finite and the relevant information rarely arrives together.
Chartera was founded to extend that attention: consider more opportunities, run more checks, and keep obligations visible without taking judgment away from the people accountable for the decision.
Before the fixture
cargoes, open tonnage, rates, recaps
During the voyage
port events, SOFs, noon reports, exceptions
Through closeout
laytime, off-hire, claims, time bars
Maritime context meets engineering depth.
Our experience spans maritime trade, AI products, logistics technology, infrastructure, security, and bringing new systems into real customer operations.
Maritime and commodity trading exposure
AI product and engineering depth
Cross-border logistics, infrastructure, security, and customer deployment experience
Every material opportunity, obligation, and risk should get attention.
We believe the next generation of maritime software will not merely store the record. It will help teams interpret it, check it, and move work forward while keeping commercial decisions with the desk.
Broader attention
More cargo and tonnage combinations considered before the desk commits time and capital.
Continuous checking
Operational updates, calculations, off-hire exposure, claims, and time bars checked as the record changes.
Compounding context
Company preferences, prior decisions, and reviewed outcomes improve the next piece of work.
Earn trust on real work, then expand.
Maritime software earns its place through useful results, not a long transformation program. We start with a specific workflow and the people who understand it best.
01
Start with the live work
We map the messages, documents, handoffs, decisions, and exceptions the team handles today.
02
Prove one result
We agree what useful looks like, then test a calculation, check, alert, report, or repeated workflow.
03
Expand after trust
Once the team relies on the first workflow, Chartera can take on adjacent work and additional context.
Shipping knowledge stays in the room.
Chartera should increase the reach of experienced teams, not flatten their judgment into a generic model. The product is shaped around domain knowledge, visible reasoning, and clear human control.
See SolutionsRespect the domain
Terms, exceptions, time pressure, and incomplete context are part of maritime work, not edge cases.
Show the basis
Teams should be able to inspect the messages, clauses, reports, and assumptions behind important work.
Build with the desk
The best workflows come from the people making and reviewing the commercial decisions.