Technology Partner
Semper Founders is built on the technology of Electratide Marine Inc. — a company redefining what it means to be efficient on the water. Electrified propulsion, connected vessels, and intelligent shoreside systems give the next generation of maritime leaders the tools to modernize one of the oldest industries on earth.
Four integrated layers — propulsion, software, intelligence, and shore infrastructure — designed to work together so founders can ship maritime products faster and run them at a lower total cost of ownership.
Modular electric and hybrid drivetrains engineered for working vessels — from harbor craft to coastal fleets. Lower fuel burn, fewer moving parts, dramatically less downtime.
A unified software layer for power, navigation, telemetry, and maintenance. Every kilowatt and every nautical mile is measured, optimized, and reported.
Real-time route, weather, and condition data shared across the fleet. Captains get predictive guidance; operators get a live picture of the entire waterfront.
Smart charging, shore power, and yard infrastructure designed to plug directly into the next generation of vessels — and the grids that feed them.
Electratide
Operations platform for ports, marinas, and working waterfronts.
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Connected data backbone for vessels, dockside systems, and fleet operators.
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Purpose-built electric and hybrid vessels engineered for commercial duty cycles.
Every company funded through the Coast Guard Growth Fund gets direct access to the Electratide engineering org and commercial network — not as a vendor, but as a partner in the build.
Pilot results
Early pilot programs across harbor craft, working fleets, and shoreside operations. Numbers reflect instrumented results captured in Marine Cloud during initial deployments.
Pilot scope · 2 retrofitted 65 ft tugs
Hybrid drivetrain swap on two harbor tugs cut diesel use over a six-month duty cycle while eliminating the most frequent driveline failure modes.
Pilot scope · 9 vessel fleet
Unified vessel OS replaced four standalone tools. Captains plan voyages in minutes and shoreside ops sees every alarm in real time.
Pilot scope · 14 independent boats
Shared route, weather, and condition data let independent operators run as a connected fleet without surrendering autonomy.
Pilot scope · 120 slip facility
Smart shore power and dock telemetry smoothed grid demand and gave dockmasters live visibility into every berth.
Pilot previews shown for illustration of expected outcomes. Final results vary by vessel class, duty cycle, and operating environment.
Technology FAQ
What the platform actually is, what data moves through it, and how funded founders plug in during the pilot phase.
Four integrated layers: electrified propulsion (drivetrains and power systems for working vessels), a vessel operating system (software for power, navigation, telemetry, and maintenance), connected fleet intelligence (shared route, weather, and condition data), and shore + dock systems (smart charging and yard infrastructure). Founders can adopt one layer or the whole stack.
HarborOS for port and marina operations, Marine Cloud as the connected data backbone, and AquaElectra Craft as the reference electric and hybrid vessel line. Funded founders can build on any of them under preferred pilot terms.
Operational vessel telemetry (power draw, battery state, speed, position), environmental data (weather, sea state, tides), and dockside data (charging sessions, berth utilization). No passenger or crew personal data is required to run the core stack. Founders own the data their vessels and operations generate.
The founder's company does. Electratide processes it to operate the services and surface fleet intelligence, but does not resell founder data. Anonymized, aggregated benchmarks may be shared back across the network so every operator sees how their fleet compares.
Vessel-to-cloud traffic is encrypted in transit, data at rest is encrypted, and access is scoped per operator. Production credentials and customer data are never shared with other portfolio companies.
A scoped 90-to-180 day engagement: kickoff with Electratide engineering, integration of one or two stack layers into the founder's operation, weekly working sessions, and a written readout at the end covering performance, cost, and the path to full deployment.
Preferred pricing on HarborOS, Marine Cloud, and AquaElectra reference platforms, engineering office hours with propulsion, software, and naval architecture teams, co-development pathways for products built on top of the stack, and warm introductions to ports, operators, and customers in the Electratide network.
No. Funding decisions are made on the criteria published on the Funding page. The Electratide partnership is a resource available to every funded company — not a condition of the award.
Maritime moved the world for centuries on combustion, paper, and tradition. Electratide is rewriting the playbook — and Semper Founders is how the next generation of operators gets to build on it.