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.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
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
Boston, MA, United States
New York City, NY, United States
San Francisco, CA, United States
Business model
Cargo shipping services
Electric vessel technology
Ship retrofits
Funding
Stage
pre-seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Option/Warrant · Apr 2025
Latest amount
$1.3M
Apr 2025
Sep 2022 · Y Combinator
People & investors
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
Work & culture
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.
Product & market
Pricing
Quote-based freight shipping / route-based service pricing
Differentiators
- —Smaller vessels with direct service
- —Faster transit times
- —Reduced disruption risk
- —Zero-emission electric cargo ships
- —Solar-and-battery power stack
- —Diesel backup for reliability
- —US-built ships
- —Retrofit and autonomy offerings
Technology
Solar power
Battery systems
Electric propulsion
Computational fluid dynamics
CAD
FEA
Autonomous capabilities
Diesel backup system
Customers
Freight forwarders
Cargo owners
F500 cargo owners
Large shipping customers
Competitors
Fleetzero
Zephyr & Boree
Orca AI
Empresa Naviera Elcano
Eltronic
Corvus Energy
NayamWings
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
About $1M in estimated annual revenue (2024 estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
2K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Latest news
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.
Jobs and careers at Voltic
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