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Autonomous shipping startup Orca AI tops up with $23M led by OCV Partners and MizMaa Ventures


If you thought autonomous driving was just for cars, think again. The so-called ‘autonomous navigation’ market -- where ships steer themselves guided by Orca AI is a London-based startup that claims to have powered the world’s first autonomous commercial ship voyage in congested waters. It’s now added $23 million in fresh funding, led by OCV Partners and MizMaa Ventures. The funding, which we're told is between a Series A and B, takes its total raised to nearly $40M.

In 2008, Marty Kagan, who’d previously worked at Cisco and Akamai, co-founded Cedexis, a (now-Cisco-owned) firm developing observability tech for content delivery networks. If you’ve been looking forward to seeing Boeing’s Starliner capsule carry two astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time, you’ll have to wait a bit longer. These days every company is trying to figure out if their large language models are compliant with whichever rules they deem important, and with legal or regulatory requirements.

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