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Kpler secures US$1Bn investment for new phase of maritime intelligence growth
A maritime data analytics and trade intelligence provider has received over US$1Bn in equity investment from a global investment firm with over US$130Bn in assets under management and committed capital
Kpler has secured a strategic growth equity investment of over US$1Bn from Sixth Street, which has become a minority shareholder in return for the investment.
As part of the transaction, Kpler management will remain majority owners of the business, software investor Insight Partners will remain a shareholder, albeit with a smaller stake, and another investor, Rothschild’s Five Arrows, will exit its position in the company.
Sixth Street’s investment in Kpler, which was founded in 2014, comes as Kpler says it is planning for targeted growth and accelerating new product development.
Kpler analyses physical asset data from a variety of proprietary and third-party sources, including satellite tracking of maritime vessels, and uses artificial intelligence (AI) to provide insights into trades, commodity transportation, and defence.
“For more than a decade, Kpler has been on a mission to bring greater transparency to global trade and enable smarter decisions, with support from Five Arrows and Insight Partners over the past four years,” Kpler founders Francois Cazor and Jean Maynier said in a statement.
“We look forward to working with Sixth Street in the next stage of our journey, to build one of the world’s most distinctive global trade intelligence platforms.”
Kpler claims to operate the largest global network of assets providing automatic identification system (AIS) information for tracking more than 661,000 vessels by processing over 1.3Bn AIS signals daily.
Kpler said it provides insights across more than 40 markets, including energy, dry bulk, power, and maritime transport, particularly through its MarineTraffic platform.
Kpler’s ability to aggregate, augment, and fuse data at scale across a fragmented physical asset ecosystem is highly differentiated, which is why customers increasingly see Kpler as the definitive platform for real-time decision-making,” said Sixth Street growth executives Henry Davies in London and Michael McGinn in New York.
“We are partnering with the Kpler team to support them as they embark on this exciting next phase of growth.”
Evercore acted as sole financial advisor and Goodwin Procter acted as legal advisor to Kpler on the transaction.
Moelis acted as sole financial advisor and Milbank acted as legal advisor to Sixth Street in connection with its investment.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher acted as legal advisor to Insight Partners and Shoosmiths acted as legal advisor to Five Arrows on the transaction.
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