The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Ulysses: 1 model, 1 deployment across 1 region, $46.0M raised. 2 sources back the record.
CategoryMaritime
Overview
Ulysses ("The Ocean Company") builds networked fleets of low-cost autonomous surface and underwater vehicles for persistent operation in harsh maritime environments. The San Francisco-based company, founded in 2023, combines cost-efficient hardware with advanced onboard computers for next-generation autonomy across defense (mine countermeasures, ISR), commercial (offshore survey, cable laying, wind-farm inspection), and environmental (seagrass restoration) missions.
Ulysses has field-tested five generations of underwater vehicle prototypes and generated over USD 5 million in customer revenue across government, commercial, and scientific partners including the US Navy, the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, and the Nature Conservancy
Reality check
Revenue (company-claimed, Apr 2026)
Over $5M in customer revenue with 20 staff.
Customers (company-claimed)
US Navy, Australian government, Great Barrier Reef Foundation and Nature Conservancy.
Products (company-claimed)
Mako AUV, Leviathan USV mothership and Kraken launch and recovery.
Leviathan (company-claimed)
6+ months at sea, 1,200 nm range, 20 knots; carries up to 4 Makos.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 1 deployment on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Founders (reported, unconfirmed)
Funding (reported, Apr 2026)
Mako cost (reported, unconfirmed)
Data & sources
Web sources
2
2 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Ulysses has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Booz Allen Ventures1× joint
Most recent
- with Booz Allen Venturesoperating
Ulysses on the deployment map
View the global map1 verified deployment across 1 region, newest verified Dec 2025. Explore where Ulysses's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Ulysses deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (4)
- Akhil Voorakkara Co-Founder & CEO, Co-Foundersecondary-verified
- Will O'Brien Co-Founder & Presidentsecondary-verified
- Jamie Wedderburn Co-Foundersecondary-verified
- Colm O'Brien Co-Foundersecondary-verified
Founders (4)
- Jamie Wedderburncofounderno longer at company
- Colm O'Briencofounderno longer at company
- Will O'Briencofounderno longer at company
- Akhil Voorakkaracofounderno longer at company
Safety record
No incidents on record for Ulysses.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Ulysses1 deployment
Recent coverage
Ulysses in third-party press
Peers
8 peers across 1 segment. Every Ulysses competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
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2 companies in this segment · highly_concentrated (HHI 5766.949001814165) · leader Kraken Technology Group at 6958%
- Kraken Technology Groupdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Vatn Systemsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- ACUA Oceandirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Babcock Internationaldirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Havocdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Rekise Marinedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (4)
Registry pages whose text names Ulysses.
People (4)
Jamie Wedderburn, Will O'Brien, Colm O'Brien, Akhil Voorakkara
Financial state
- Total funding
- $46.0M
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating
Every company Ulysses has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- with Booz Allen Venturesoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Booz Allen Ventures1× joint
All 1 partnerships
open in the atlas →- Ulysses x Booz Allen Hamilton maritime autonomy investmentwithBooz Allen Venturesinvestment2026-04-16operating
Funding rounds (2)
Ulysses’s 2 disclosed rounds, $46M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series A2026-04-16
$38M(reported)
Investors: Booz Allen Ventures (strategic), Harpoon Ventures (follow), Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) (lead)
- Seed2025-01-01
$8M(reported)
Investors: Pebblebed (lead), Lowercarbon Capital (follow), Superorganism (follow), ReGen Ventures (follow), Genius Ventures (follow)
Timeline
Every recorded move in Ulysses’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2026-04-16Series A raising $38000000
PartnershipUlysses x Booz Allen Hamilton maritime autonomy investment
2026-04-16Booz Allen Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Booz Allen Hamilton, invested in Ulysses as part of its Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The investment expands Booz Allen's capabilities across autonomous undersea missions including mine countermeasures, multi-vehicle swarming, and seabed survey for defense and commercial applications.
Funding roundSeed funding round
2025-01-01Seed raising $8000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJul 31, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedDec 1, 2025
Ulysses Autonomous Maritime Fleet at Offshore California, USA
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-12
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-12
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Ulysses.Peer companies
- Cellula Robotics3 models
- HavocAI2 models
- Huntington Ingalls Industries2 models
- Kraken Technology Group2 models
- Ukrainian Armed Forces2 models
- ABB Marine & Ports1 model
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Ulysses from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Ulysses Joins Seabed 2030 To Scale Autonomous Mapping Fleet
Ulysses partners with the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project to support autonomous ocean-floor mapping at scale, contributing bathymetric data to the freely available…
Irish-founded Ulysses raises 38m in Series A funding
Ulysses raises USD 46M total (USD 38M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz plus USD 8M seed led by Pebblebed) for autonomous ocean vehicles; confirms 5 generations of prototypes…
Booz Allen Invests in Maritime Autonomy
Booz Allen Ventures invests in Ulysses as part of its Series A round, expanding capabilities in mine countermeasures, seabed survey, and multi-vehicle swarming for defense…
Robotics company has its eye on US offshore industry
Ulysses targets the US offshore industry with its AUV fleet for subsea surveys and IRM; the autonomous mothership Leviathan can stay at sea over 6 months and deploy up to 4 Mako…
Ulysses is using robots to restore seagrass populations
Ulysses builds autonomous seagrass-planting underwater robots that speed up restoration 100x compared to manual planting at a fraction of the cost of other robots.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/ulysses.md
- RSS feed: /companies/ulysses/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/42859d17-c1f6-48b2-9fb6-6c5a46d2a7b1
- Revision history: /companies/ulysses/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Cellula Robotics3 models
- HavocAI2 models
- Huntington Ingalls Industries2 models
- Kraken Technology Group2 models
- Ukrainian Armed Forces2 models
- ABB Marine & Ports1 model
Video
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Heat Index
Category contender71/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Ulysses draws attention at the 64th percentile but verifies reality at the 35th percentile among maritime robots. Hype Gap +28.5, 5th widest among maritime robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 1 verified deployment. Funded with institutional backing on record. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
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Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 29, 2026