Windward offers an analytics platform that continuously monitors and analyzes ship behavior to predict the likelihood of accidents and quantify maritime risk for insurers. Its Windward Insurance product feeds proprietary data and machine-learning models into insurers’ technical pricing models to improve underwriting decisions and profitability. Windward Intelligence supplies intelligence, law enforcement and security agencies with insights that reveal potential maritime threats. The company is led by co-founder and CEO Ami Daniel and maintains offices in Tel Aviv and London. Windward intends to use new funding to strengthen its position in the marine insurance market, expedite development and rollout of its marine insurance product suite, hire talent, and expand its London office. To date the company has raised $38.9M in total financing. Windward builds a big-data maritime visibility platform that ingests commercial satellite and other maritime data to track vessel traffic and detect suspicious behavior. Its flagship product MARINT monitors ships 24/7, alerts law enforcement and intelligence agencies to smuggling, illegal fishing and other anomalous activity, and vets signals with cybersecurity algorithms. Windward is also developing FORESEA, a financial analytics platform currently in beta aimed at commodity traders, hedge fund investors, and analysts. The company emphasizes automated, scalable analytics rather than manual information‑services workflows and highlights use cases across security, global supply chains, trading patterns and oil-market transparency. For example, Windward’s data can reveal actual oil available in floating storage versus reported figures, a metric useful to oil traders and price watchers. The company intends to scale MARINT, bring FORESEA to market, expand its data and analytics platform, and pursue data partnership programs.

Total raised

$27M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Jul 2018