Sea Machines Robotics
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Robotic Software & Control Systems
Underwater & Marine Robotics
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$40.5M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$14.1M
Venture round · Dec 2023 · 2 yr ago
Team
21
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2024
Hiring now
1
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
Techstars, Emerald Technology Ventures
The money's age
Long since its last round
33 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
28/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Dec 29, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $14.1M · SEC Form D
Jul 13, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $14.9M · SEC Form D
Dec 7, 2018
Raised a round Venture round $10.1M · SEC Form D
Apr 19, 2017
Raised a round Venture round $1.5M · SEC Form D
2015
Founded
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Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 2 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Dec 2023 | $14.1M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Jul 2020 | $14.9M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Dec 2018 | $10.1M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Apr 2017 | $1.5M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Sea Machines Robotics, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Michael JohnsonExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Jim DalyExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
James DalyExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Techstars 
Emerald Technology Ventures 
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Overview
Sea Machines Robotics builds autonomous control and remote command systems for commercial vessels, retrofitting workboats, tugs and survey craft for unmanned operation. It also develops perception systems for collision avoidance and has offices in Hamburg and Gdansk. The company is headquartered in Boston, United States.
News
Sea Machines secures IDIQ Contract with US Special Operations Forces (SOF) for Universal Autonomy Systems
(BOSTON, USA; June 30th, 2026): Sea Machines Robotics announced today that it has secured a 5 year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to supply its commercial, non-developmental, TRL-9, rapidly deployable autonomy kits to US Special O
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Sea Machines Announces an Emerging Record Year of Bookings and Global Growth Fueled by USV Adoption
Growth across defense markets in the U.S. and Asia signals accelerating demand for mature maritime autonomy solutions. BOSTON, USA; June 10, 2026 - Sea Machines Robotics today announced a record year to date of sales bookings and business growth, driven b
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Sea Machines' STORMRUNNER class AUSV selected by DRS for new Maritime Counter-UAS Capability
(BOSTON, USA; April 21, 2026): Sea Machines Robotics announced today that Leonardo DRS has selected their new 8-meter offshore class of autonomous unmanned surface vessel (AUSV) developed for the defense-market to demonstrate their maritime mission equipm
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Sea Machines and Shintoa Corporation form trading agreement to serve the Japanese market, Expanding APAC Presence
(BOSTON, USA; April 8, 2026) Sea Machines Robotics has entered into a partnership with Shintoa Corporation, appointing the Tokyo based aerospace, marine, and defense trading house as its authorized value-added reseller in Japan. Under the agreement, Shint
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SELKIE USV Validated in the West Philippine Sea During Tropical Winter 100
Earlier this year, Sea Machines conducted Tropical Winter 100, an autonomy sea trial involving the SELKIE unmanned surface vessel (USV) operating off Subic Bay in the West Philippine Sea. The mission evaluated autonomous vessel / unmanned vessel operation
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Sea Machines Selected to Execute Live Autonomy Vignette at Creative Disruptors in the Desert 2026
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STEAMRACER-Class Autonomous Ship Advances in Major U.S. Navy MASC Program
Sea Machines is strongly positioned in the Navy's final competitive evaluation phase for a major autonomous new-build vessel program. Carved from the shipbuilding space in 2015, Sea Machines Robotics has spent the past decade developing and deploying the
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Sea Machines Launches Marine Autonomy APIs for Third-Party C2 Systems
(BOSTON, USA; September 15, 2025) As part of the recent major refresh of its flagship SM300 marine autonomy system, Sea Machines has unveiled new Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that enable approved third-party command and control (C2) system in
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Sea Machines Expands Product Line for Defense Customers
(BOSTON, USA; September 3rd 2025): Sea Machines Robotics is launching six new products to better serve customers calling for highly-adaptive marine autonomy, answering the demand from defense organizations for commercially-driven asymmetric fleet capabili
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Sea Machines Powers VENOM USV with SM300 Autonomy System
Scientific Systems' VENOM USV is the latest example of Sea Machines' autonomy software serving as the operational backbone for advanced uncrewed vessels. Designed for rapid deployment and complex collaborative missions, VENOM relies on our field-operation
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Sea Machines Robotics over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
11
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
75/100
Languages
C++
Java
Python
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Datadog
SonarQube
Windows
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Jenkins
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CI/CD
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People
Michael Johnson
Executive Officer, Director
Jim Daly
Executive Officer
James Daly
Executive Officer
Woody Benson
Director
Todd Bush
Director
Todd Busch
Director
Ryan Moore
Director
Steven Benson
Director
Dhiraj Singh
Director
Michael Girdley
Director
Mehran Zaker
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
71/100
Growing
Open positions
1
1 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
81 days
faster than 15% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
10/25/2026
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Finance
100% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added QuickBooks to stack
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
1
Countries
3
Busiest office
Boston
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Boston
United States
HQ
USA - Headquarters
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Finance
266 Summer Street,, Boston, MA 02210, USA
Hamburg
Germany
Regional office
Germany
Ludwig-Erhard-Straße 6,, 20537 Hamburg, Germany
Financials
Total raised
$40.5M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
4