Brazil Modal · Apr 2026
Announces Voltic shipping service from Itajai to Norfolk with a 15-day transit time and positions the line as lower-carbon while maintaining operational integrity.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Voltic is a Boston-based early-stage shipbuilding company building electric cargo ships and related shipping services for maritime decarbonization, using solar-and-battery-powered vessels plus retrofit/autonomy offerings for cargo routes.
Primary product
Electric cargo ships / zero-emission maritime shipping services
Founded
2022
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Team size
1-10
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Shipbuilding
Sub-industry
Electric cargo shipping / maritime decarbonization
Offices
0 jobs at Voltic
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Business model
Stage
pre-seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Option/Warrant · Apr 2025
Latest amount
$1.3M
Apr 2025
Sep 2022 · Y Combinator
Leadership
Prosser Cathey
Founder & CEO
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Founders
Benji Grossman
Co-founder
Fiyi Adebekun
Co-founder
Hudson Hooper
Co-founder
Jared Boisvert
Co-founder
Investors
Mission-driven, engineering-heavy, MIT-linked, and very early stage. Public job posts suggest hands-on prototyping in Boston/Port of Boston, with some US-remote roles and a strong emphasis on maritime hardware execution.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public YC job postings show highly variable, experience-dependent compensation with meaningful equity upside. One role listed $100K-$200K base plus 0.01%-3.00% equity; another part-time role listed $1-$75K plus 3.00% equity. Some roles require US citizenship or visa/work authorization.
Pricing
Quote-based freight shipping / route-based service pricing
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
About $1M in estimated annual revenue (2024 estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
2K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Brazil Modal · Apr 2026
Announces Voltic shipping service from Itajai to Norfolk with a 15-day transit time and positions the line as lower-carbon while maintaining operational integrity.
Voltic LinkedIn · Apr 2026
Company post announcing a new premium service from Itajai to Norfolk at Intermodal 2026.
VentureWell · Apr 2026
Lists Voltic Shipping Corp. in the Spring 2026 ocean enterprise accelerator cohort and notes its patented power system for zero-emission cargo-ship retrofits.
Andrea Alms on LinkedIn · Apr 2026
Announces Voltic Shipping's selection for the Spring 2026 Stage 1 cohort and frames the work as part of energy transition and decarbonizing cargo shipping.