VesselMan
Oslo, NO · 11 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
VesselMan provides a cloud-based SaaS platform for the maritime industry that digitizes technical vessel projects such as dry-docking, ship repairs, and turnkey projects. It serves ship-owners with management and collaboration tools to supervise, monitor, and track project progress across their fleet.
Also known as VesselMan AS
Investors · 1
Company profile
researched Aug 2026VesselMan is a Norwegian software-as-a-service provider for the maritime industry, headquartered at Wergelandsveien 1-3 in Oslo. Its cloud platform digitizes technical vessel projects, including dry-dockings, ship repairs, lay-ups, refits and modifications, vessel handovers, turnkey projects and data-driven smart repairs, as well as shore-based management of instrumented assets. The product is aimed at technical directors, fleet managers and superintendents who plan and execute the most time- and cost-intensive vessel work, and is accessed through a web browser plus a mobile application for tracking and reporting projects and inspections.
The platform is organised into module groups: dry-docking and technical project management (standard processes, best-practice specifications, critical-path planning, real-time progress and cost tracking, variation-order control and financial reporting from budget to contract to actual); process management (task manager, meeting manager, process manager with masterplans, specification manager and CRM/document management); a "Data Factory" covering a fleet-wide contextualized asset database, condition manager, integration manager, AI predictor for cross-fleet performance comparison and smart repairs; and surveys and inspections supporting industry standards such as ISM, RightShip and SIRE 2.0, with template libraries, standard reports, data exports and conversion of findings into work orders. VesselMan Condition Manager consolidates recommendations and reports from multiple condition providers — for example oil analysis, vibration monitoring and performance reports — into one web interface and converts them into planned-maintenance-system one-time jobs.
The company describes itself as born in the cloud and developed in partnership with ship-owners, positioning benefits around minimized off-hire, transparent cost control, procurement planning and benchmarking across a fleet, and support for ESG, safety, traceability and compliance objectives linked to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Founding story
Stig Linna is listed as founder and director and as founder and CEO in a startup directory, with Håvard Kvam Jørstad as co-founder and CTO; the company is recorded as founded in 2015.
Business model
B2B software-as-a-service sold to ship-owners and ship managers, delivered as a cloud-hosted, easy-to-implement platform with flexible configuration and modules that can be added around dry-docking, process management, asset/condition data and inspections.
Solution-as-a-service subscription model for a cloud-based platform, marketed as low-risk and easy to implement with configurable modules.
Traction
The company reports platform usage of more than 950 vessels, more than 1,100 projects and more than 1,900 users. Named users referenced on its site include Höegh LNG, PGS, Transpetrol, GC Rieber Shipping and Torvald Klaveness. A startup profile lists the company as seed-stage with 1-10 employees and notes several signed customers.
Latest developments
The website promotes availability of "VesselMan TRY" sign-up access and an inspections offering covering ISM, RightShip and SIRE 2.0, alongside Condition Manager and Smart Repairs modules; the company news archive runs through December 2024.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Positioned as a specialist digital alternative to spreadsheet-based management of dry-docking and technical vessel projects, stating a vision of setting the benchmark for management of technical vessel operations; referenced customers include Höegh LNG, PGS, Transpetrol, GC Rieber Shipping and Torvald Klaveness.
Combines standardized best-practice processes, masterplans and reusable specification templates with real-time cost and progress transparency, remote and external-partner collaboration, and an integration layer that sits on top of any planned maintenance system or condition-monitoring provider rather than requiring a single vendor stack.
Technology
Cloud-native web application hosted on Amazon Web Services, with a mobile app for field tracking, inspections and reporting. An integration framework and Integration Manager configure data import from external systems, including planned maintenance systems (work orders, purchases, components) and any condition-monitoring provider platform; the roadmap also included a standard integration module with an interoperable API able to work with any PMS. Additional components include a contextualized fleet-wide asset database and an AI Predictor for comparing performance across a fleet.
Go-to-market
Direct sales via website demo requests and a self-service "VesselMan TRY" sign-up, supported by agents and offices in multiple locations worldwide, plus partnerships with maritime software vendors and platforms (Kongsberg Digital's Kognifai; Ulysses Systems Hellas) and customer testimonials from named shipping companies.
Ship-owners, ship managers and fleet operators — specifically technical directors, fleet managers, technical superintendents and vessel managers, plus company management teams; external partners such as yards, class societies and service technicians can be given access to collaborate.
Geography
Headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with representation by agents and offices in multiple locations around the world and a collaboration targeting the Greek shipping market.
History
Founded in 2015 in Norway. In June 2020 the company began the Connected Maintenance System project with Greek maritime software vendor Ulysses Systems Hellas, initiated by VesselMan CEO Glenn Edvardsen and Ulysses founder Dimitris Lyras, supported by Innovation Norway through the EEA Grants Greece Business Innovation program and co-financed by the two companies. The company has also signed a partnership with Kongsberg Digital to participate in the Kognifai platform. Its Oslo team includes roles in software development, product (CPO), customer success, finance and technical advisory.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsInnovation Norway provided support for the VesselMan and Ulysses Systems Hellas collaboration under the Greece Business Innovation program, co-financed by the EEA Grants (EEA and Norway Grants 2014-2021) and by the two companies themselves. The grant amount was not disclosed.
VesselMan and Greek maritime software provider Ulysses Systems Hellas started the Connected Maintenance System project on 1 June 2020 to develop an integrated planned maintenance system and project management tool for technical projects, aiming at a standard integration module with an interoperable API able to work with any PMS. Initiated by VesselMan CEO Glenn Edvardsen and Ulysses founder Dimitris Lyras.
VesselMan signed a partnership with Kongsberg Digital to take part in its Kognifai platform.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- VesselManvesselman.com · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does VesselMan do?
- Norwegian SaaS platform for planning and executing vessel dry-dockings, inspections, repairs and technical fleet projects.
- Who are VesselMan's investors?
- VesselMan's investors include Skagerak Capital.
- Where is VesselMan headquartered?
- VesselMan is headquartered in Oslo, NO.