SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Marinexplore, the
world's first big data collaboration platform for searching,
analyzing and collaborating with ocean data, today announced it has
closed its seed funding round led by Intertrust Technologies
Corporation. Other participants of this round include private
investors from Silicon Valley, Singapore, Norway and Estonia, including Fredrik Astrup, offshore entrepreneur
Lars Erik Baustad, Marek Kiisa (Astrec Invest, first investor of
GrabCAD) and Ivar Siimar (WNB, investor in Defendec smart dust
technology and other cleantech companies).
Founded in February 2012, the
Silicon Valley startup has already aggregated and organized over
1.2 billion measurements from more than 24,000 ocean-borne devices
globally organized into an easy-to-use user experience. Data are
organized into computationally efficient storage, making it easy to
explore, access and download ocean data from different devices and
data sources; users can create custom datasets in minutes instead
of days or weeks, eliminating today's expensive data processing
cycle.
"Marinexplore will be the standard for analysis and
collaboration for the world's ocean data, a digital "Hubble
Telescope" into petabytes of marine information" said Talal Shamoon, CEO of Intertrust. "Marinexplore
will assist in natural resource planning and education as the
world's ocean environment encounters the historic challenges caused
by population growth and climate change."
Sea the Difference
Founded by experienced Estonian technologists, the company
addresses the two biggest issues around managing marine-related big
data: how to access the vast amount of data that reside in isolated
silos, segregated and disconnected from each other; and how to make
the time-consuming handling and processing of all this data more
efficient, which makes up more than 80% of the whole decision
making process in ocean data management and communications market,
estimated to be $4 billion.
"The number of ocean-borne probes is growing rapidly, cloud
computing is disrupting the collaboration space, and today's users
expect seamless software usability. Existing tools and processes
used by the ocean community simply do not meet these demands. Our
plan is to dramatically reduce data handling and processing time,
reducing the risk and overhead associated with decision-making and
collaboration. This would not only save millions, but more
importantly, fundamentally change the way we plan and use ocean
resources, thereby protecting the environment and ensuring the
health of our oceans for generations to come" said Rainer Sternfeld, founder and CEO of
Marinexplore.
Currently, Marinexplore uses public data from sources such as:
NOAA stations, the intergovernmental Argo Program Deep Floats and
GTS Buoys, as well as from Liquid Robotics wave gliders of the PacX
experiment and Rutgers University gliders.
The Marinexplore Community
Building a community around data is as important as tools to
handle it. As a service to the open data community, Marinexplore
offers a free service for everyone around the planet working with
public marine data.
"To date, there is no universal tool that organizes ocean data,
and enables users to share public information securely across the
globe. We want to empower these professionals with cutting-edge
tools to focus on their real expertise, since the oceans affect
everyone on Planet Earth", Sternfeld summarized.
Since its launch in July, Marinexplore has gathered more than
1,700 Alpha users, mainly professionals from the oceanographic and
marine technology community, environment, and offshore industry. To
use Marinexplore today, visit www.marinexplore.com to sign up for a
free account.
About the Company
Marinexplore, Inc. is a startup founded in February 2012 by ex-ABB Business Development
Manager Rainer Sternfeld, ex-Skype
Research Lead André Karpištšenko, and Kalle Kägi. The company is
headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA
with a development team in Tallinn,
Estonia.
SOURCE Marinexplore