Bedrock Ocean develops and builds autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and accompanying software to map the ocean floor using sonar and magnetic sensors. Its AUVs run up to 12 hours on lithium-ion batteries, sail five to 10 meters above the seafloor, and store and partially process data on board before surfacing to transmit via Wi‑Fi. Two AUVs can cover the same ground as one traditional mapping ship, and a 40-foot ship could carry 10–12 AUVs; Bedrock says its vehicles cost less than $1 million apiece. The company’s approach uses lower-power, higher-frequency sonar deployed closer to the seafloor, which it says reduces harm to marine mammals. Bedrock can place items on the seafloor with roughly one- to two-meter accuracy, and notes that not all surveys require sub-meter precision. Over the last two quarters the startup has performed paid survey work for offshore wind, oil and gas, and environmental assessments, and its rapid-assessment capability has drawn interest from the U.S. Navy. Bedrock provides high-resolution seafloor maps collected by its purpose-built autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and delivered via Mosaic, a cloud-native web service that handles analysis and hosting. The company designed its AUV to operate within 50–75 meters of the seabed using high-frequency sonar to produce more detailed imagery while minimizing harm to marine life. Mosaic is format-agnostic and launches with a promotion of 50 GB of free storage to drive adoption and aggregate previously hard-to-use survey data. Bedrock positions its offering as faster, cheaper, safer, and operationally more flexible than traditional crewed survey ships, enabling launch from a pier or beach without a boat. The product targets near-shore markets tied to the growing offshore wind and coastal monitoring demand where cloud handoff is feasible. Leadership says the long-term ambition is to enable near-regular mapping of the ocean, aiming ultimately to survey the whole ocean on a yearly basis.

Total raised

$33M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Jun 2025