Kpler

Company research

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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

Cloud data delivery/integrations, including Snowflake

Market intelligence and analytics subscriptions

Maritime AIS and vessel-data services

Data-enabled workflow and decision tools

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

$1B

Minority private-equity investment

Apr 2022 · Five Arrows Principal Investments and Insight Partners

$200M

People & investors

Leadership

Mark Cunningham

Chief Executive Officer

François Cazor

Co-founder and Executive Chairman

Jean Maynier

Co-founder and President

Romain Bescou

Chief Revenue Officer

Scott Sherwood

Chief Technology Officer

Anna Favarin

Chief of Staff / COO

Adam Bartos

Leadership team member

Dave Friedman

SVP Markets and Data

Axelle Steurs

VP Legal Affairs

Nicole Jude

Leadership team member

Investors

Five Arrows Principal Investments

Insight Partners

Motion Ventures

Sixth Street

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

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

Technology

Python

Ruby on Rails

Vue.js

TypeScript

Apache Kafka

AWS

Kubernetes

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Redis

Elasticsearch

Databricks

Snowflake

Apache Spark

dbt

Terraform

React Native

Angular

GraphQL/API integrations

MLflow

Customers

Commodity traders

Financial traders and analysts

Energy companies

Charterers and ship owners

Vessel and fleet operators

Shipping and logistics companies

Supply-chain professionals

Banks and financial institutions

Governments, regulators and risk/compliance teams

More than 12,000 organisations (company/press claim)

Competitors

S&P Global Commodity Insights

LSEG/Refinitiv

Bloomberg

Vortexa

MarineTraffic/Spire Maritime (partly historical/adjacent)

Wood Mackenzie

Kpler-adjacent commodity and maritime data providers

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

Jun 2026

Sixth 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.

Source

Acquisition

Dec 2025

Acquired Bridgeton Research Group to add systematic commodity-trading-flow and CTA insight.

Source

Acquisition

Apr 2025

Completed acquisition of Spire Maritime; UK CMA review was noted and the businesses were to operate independently pending review.

Source

Other

Jan 2025

Reuters reported that minority owners Five Arrows and Insight Partners were considering a stake sale, with estimated 2025 ARR above €200 million and possible enterprise value above €3 billion.

Source

Latest news

Kpler announces strategic growth equity investment from Sixth Street

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.

Belgium's Kpler launches minority stake sale valuing firm at up to $5 billion

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 announces acquisition of Bridgeton Research Group

Kpler / PR Newswire · Dec 2025

The acquisition added predictive systematic-trading and CTA insights across global commodities.

Kpler completes acquisition of Spire Maritime

Kpler · Apr 2025

Kpler announced closing the Spire Maritime acquisition to strengthen maritime intelligence and satellite AIS capabilities.

Kpler announces leadership evolution

Kpler · Sep 2024

Mark Cunningham became CEO; founders François Cazor and Jean Maynier moved to Executive Chairman and President, while Romain Bescou became CRO and Scott Sherwood CTO.

Jobs and careers at Kpler

82 jobs at Kpler

Team Lead - New Business Maritime - South EMEA

Hybrid

Commercial

Dubai

Today

Hybrid

Full-time