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Building the future of energy markets

Over $3 trillion worth of global energy trade takes place on water every year. At Vortexa, we strive to provide unprecedented access to the global waterborne oil & gas operations data to support market efficiency and sustainability.

Our story

The energy industry has been undergoing a seismic shift driven by information.

Technology breakthroughs such as reusable rocket launching, lower-cost satellites, cloud-scale computational power and a step-change in machine learning modelling, has provided us with a vast amount of new information about the state and flow of energy on Earth.

Vortexa Founder, Fabio Kuhn (CEO) with a deep understanding of the energy market and a passion for technology, saw a major inflexion point in the industry, leading to a new era of opportunities and founded Vortexa in 2016.

Our mission

Vortexa’s highly intuitive web-based app and programmatic API/SDK interfaces help traders, analysts and charterers make high-value trading decisions with confidence, when it matters the most. Our web-based platform shares highly detailed oil & gas products flows, produced by hard data, machine learning and state-of-the-art technology with oversight from in-house global industry experts providing real-world context to continually train and improve the models.

Today, some of the smartest and most successful physical and financial energy traders and analysts use Vortexa’s trusted data and analytics to identify and capture opportunities in the market before anyone else.

The world-class team today remains guided by its founding mission to open, connect and optimise energy flows by combining its pioneering technology and industry expertise, and our story has just begun.

Vortexa history
Vortexa is born!
Vortexa founder Fabio Kuhn spots a major opportunity to capitalise on the power of AI, machine learning and human intelligence to provide the most complete view of oil & gas flows globally.
$5M Series A funding round
Notion Capital and Mosaic Ventures invest in the future of Vortexa. The funds were used to continue global expansion and to scale our proprietary AI technology.
LPG Analytics launched
Vortexa launched LPG Analytics, providing data on propane vs. butane ratio of LPG cargoes for more than 1,500 gas carriers with no minimum dwt size restrictions.
$19M Series B funding round
Monashees lead the funding round alongside existing investors, bringing the total amount raised so far to more than $30M! The funds were used to accelerate international growth and advance our technology development even faster.
Partnership with The Baltic Exchange Freight Pricing
The Baltic Exchange made its freight pricing benchmarks available alongside Vortexa’s analytics. Real-time supply and demand dynamics and freight pricing data became easily accessible - all in one view.
Partnership with Bloomberg
Traders and analysts are able to easily access Vortexa’s real-time global energy analytics app via the Bloomberg App Portal, unlocking powerful leading indicators of price movements and trading opportunities.
Game-changing Freight Analytics launched
Freight Analytics launches providing past, present and future views of the supply and demand across all tanker classes globally. Features include Vessel Availability, Congestion, Fleet Distribution and Fleet Utilisation.
Global Onshore Crude Inventories launch
Vortexa launches the highest level of transparency available in the market today for global onshore crude inventories and delivers cushing inventory data available two days before the official EIA figures are released!
Vortexa and Argus Media announce strategic partnership
Argus Media and Vortexa announce a new strategic partnership that combines industry leading energy commodity price assessments and news with best in class cargo tracking analytics to provide commodity markets with transparency around the impact of short-term market fundamentals on commodity prices.
Vortexa and Energy Aspects announce strategic partnership
EnergyAspects (EA) and Vortexa announce a new strategic partnership that combines industry leading energy commodity data and intelligence with best in class cargo tracking analytics to provide energy markets with even greater understanding of short-term market dynamics.
Communitas Capital, founded by three former global CEO's, invests in Vortexa
The partnership with Vortexa is combined with the firepower of Communitas Capital founders; Tom Glocer, Lead Board Director at Morgan Stanley and former CEO at Thomson Reuters alongside other industry heavyweights; Duncan Niederauer, the former CEO of NYSE and Partner at Goldman Sachs and Doug Atkin, the former CEO Instinet.
Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital Leads $34M Series C Investment in Vortexa
Vortexa, the leading real-time global analytics platform for energy and freight markets, is excited to announce the successful completion of its $34 million Series C funding round.
Lloyd’s List Intelligence and Vortexa announce strategic partnership
This collaboration, marked by mutual data licensing agreements, lays the foundation for future product, market analysis, editorial and commercial collaborations between the two leading players in the industry.
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Vortexa is now based in London, Singapore, Houston, New York and Dubai
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Vortexa launched
160+
Employees
6
Global offices
250+
Vortexa clients
Executive leadership
Fabio Kuhn
Founder and CEO
Maksym Schipka
Chief Technology Officer
Christopher Nathan
Chief Revenue Officer
Paul Harris
Chief Financial Officer
Board of directors
Lincoln Isetta
Managing Director
Morgan Stanley Expansion Platform
Emilio Umeoka
Former VP of Enterprise Sales
Apple
Patrick Norris
General Partner
Notion Capital
Toby Coppel
Co-Founder and Partner
Mosaic Ventures
Caio Bolognesi
General Partner
Monashees
David A. Smolen
Tech Investor
Neal Goldman
Chairman
Fabio Kuhn
Founder and CEO
Vortexa
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