Orca AI

Orca AI is a maritime-technology company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, that gives cargo ships an AI-powered set of eyes. Its platform fuses live camera and sensor feeds with computer vision to detect other vessels — including small, non-cooperative boats that radar and transponder systems miss — and warn crews of collision risk in real time. It has raised roughly 111 million dollars over five rounds.

The load-bearing AI is real-time computer vision on the water: recognizing and tracking objects in difficult marine conditions is the core product, not a bolt-on to a chart plotter.

The honest framing: Orca AI is a genuine, load-bearing-AI company and the best-funded pure-play in maritime situational awareness. It is the clearest flagship of AI collision-avoidance for crewed vessels.