Acquisition
Jun 2026Sixth Street invested more than $1 billion for a minority strategic growth-equity stake; management remained majority owners, Insight Partners remained invested and Five Arrows exited.
SourceCompany research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 5, 2026
Overview
Kpler is a privately held global trade-intelligence company founded in Brussels. It aggregates proprietary and third-party physical-asset, logistics, shipping and market data, then applies analytics and AI to help market participants understand global trade flows and make decisions across commodities, maritime, energy transition, supply chain and defense. The company states it has remained profitable and primarily founder/team owned; current company materials cite 850+ employees and 12,000+ customers/organisations.
Primary product
A subscription-based global physical-trade intelligence platform combining commodity fundamentals, seaborne trade-flow and vessel intelligence, market insights, forecasting, risk/compliance, APIs/data feeds, Kpler AI, and maritime products including Kpler AIS/MarineTraffic.
Founded
2014
Headquarters
Brussels, Belgium
Team size
850+ (company careers/team pages; earlier disclosures cited 500+ in January 2024 and 600+ in September 2024)
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Technology, Information and Media
Sub-industry
Commodity, maritime and physical-trade intelligence; data and analytics SaaS
Offices
Brussels, Belgium
London, United Kingdom
Houston, United States
New York City, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Business model
Enterprise subscription software and data platform
API and programmatic data licensing
Funding
Stage
Growth equity / majority founder- and management-owned private company
Total raised
$1.2B
Latest round
Strategic growth equity / minority investment · Jun 2026
Latest amount
$1B
Strategic growth equity / minority investment
Jun 2026 · Sixth Street
Minority private-equity investment
Apr 2022 · Five Arrows Principal Investments and Insight Partners
People & investors
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder and Executive Chairman
Co-founder and President
Work & culture
Globally minded, entrepreneurial, innovative and agile; the company describes a culture based on flexibility, mutual trust, freedom, respect, customer focus and international diversity. Current materials cite more than 69 nationalities.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public evidence reviewed did not provide a reliable company-wide compensation range. Job postings indicate senior engineering roles and international hiring; sponsorship is not established from the available evidence.
Benefits
Flexible remote, hybrid or office work
Sponsored co-working hubs
Work-from-home equipment/setup budget
Monthly electricity and Wi-Fi allowance
Health insurance coverage
Maternity, parental, medical, festival and compassionate leave
Regular online and onsite social events
Product & market
Pricing
Enterprise, subscription-based pricing; API/data-feed and cloud-delivery pricing appears quote-based. Public list pricing was not found.
Differentiators
- —Combines commodity fundamentals, trade flows and maritime intelligence in one platform
- —Real-time, high-frequency physical-trade visibility
- —Proprietary data fusion from numerous fragmented sources
- —Large maritime/AIS dataset through MarineTraffic and related capabilities
- —Coverage across 50+ commodities and multiple physical markets
- —Deep domain expertise plus analytics, forecasting and AI
- —Integrated APIs, cloud data and workflow tools
- Founder- and management-led ownership with a history of profitable growth
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Approximately €200M+ annual recurring revenue for 2025 (Reuters estimate); the company publicly reported $100M ARR in January 2024. A conventional annual-revenue figure was not disclosed.
Estimated monthly visits
372K
Signals & risks
Acquisition
Dec 2025Acquired Bridgeton Research Group to add systematic commodity-trading-flow and CTA insight.
SourceAcquisition
Apr 2025Latest news
Sixth Street · Jun 2026
Sixth Street announced a minority investment of more than $1 billion; management remained majority owners, Insight Partners remained a shareholder and Five Arrows exited.
Reuters · Apr 2026
Reuters reported a sale process for a large minority stake and valuation of up to approximately $5 billion; the later Sixth Street transaction provides subsequent confirmation of the capital event.
Kpler / PR Newswire · Dec 2025
The acquisition added predictive systematic-trading and CTA insights across global commodities.
Kpler · Apr 2025
Kpler announced closing the Spire Maritime acquisition to strengthen maritime intelligence and satellite AIS capabilities.
Open Positions
62 jobs at Kpler
Senior Crude Oil Analyst
Hybrid
Business Units
Houston
2d ago
Hybrid
Full-time