What is the vision for your venture? to the international level, combined We want to become the industry with individual recruitment standards standard for identifying and verify- set by the shipping companies. On ing credentials for seafarers. Today, that note, it has been reassuring to seafarers carry around a thick folder see that the companies have much with paper-based certificates issued higher demands, when it comes to by authorities and training institu- data safety, than the general regu- tions, which shipping companies and lations. They buy into our agenda, crew management agencies must which makes it easier. verify, when seafarers are deployed to a vessel. On the digital side, the What have been some of your standard is email exchanges of pdf biggest challenges? copies, which is risky from a data The biggest challenge has been the security aspect. We want to create difference in speed between us and a full digitalization: from the point the more established players. This of issuing seafarer certificates and is probably a general challenge for managing them, to helping shipping startups across industries. Another companies and crew agencies verify challenge has been to get access the incoming manpower embarking to data. Providing access to data to each ship. a startup who may not be around in three months, can be concerning. How did your entrepreneurial Last but not least, the lack of aligned journey begin? requirements for seafarers continues Our co-founder Jesper Holmgren to create work for us. used to be a seafarer, and we knew there were inefficiencies in this space. Do you consider partnering with a C-LOG started off being about a solu- corporate to bring your product to tion for seafarers to manage their cer- market? tificates in a more secure way. Then, Unlike fintech startups who need to as we started speaking to different partner with banks due to financial parties, the shipping companies, the license requirements, we do not have crewing agencies and authorities, we to be tied to a major player in mari- learned that certificates were only a time. We explore partnerships at the small part of authenticating seafar- infrastructure level, but it has to feel ers’ competencies. As we developed completely necessary. At this point our understanding through speaking our platform is built across different to different parties, it became clearer clouds and can integrate with the that this was a much more complex range of systems agencies and ship- problem. There are different regula- ping companies use to manage their tory requirements from the national employee data. More actively, we are