Chartering questionnaires should be working in your favour
When asking for information from ship owners, you want to keep the process as simple and quick as possible.
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Why you should embrace API interoperability
Ankeri has already started co-operating with other solution providers to support the API economy for merchant shipping, both by consuming data and knowledge from external expert systems as well as by providing information to external expert systems.
6 tips to make sharing vessel data with charterers a breeze 🏖
The timely response to charterer questionnaires is important for every ship owner looking to stay competitive. Responding to the questionnaires, even though not a daily task, can however be a source of pain and frustration. Below we present a few solid tips for making light work of responding to que
Visit Ankeri at Nor-Shipping 2019
Ankeri will be in the dedicated start-up lounge at Nor-Shipping 2019. We look forward to present our innovative cloud based software platform for ship owners and charterers where they can share performance data and collaborate for improved performance. You will find us at the startup lounge at stand
Ankeri at Katapult Future Fest 2019
Ankeri was featured among other impact startups at this years Katapult Future Fest in Oslo this may. Katapult Future Fest is an annual festival focusing on how exponential technologies and impact investing can be used to create a better society for all. By gathering entrepreneurs, change-makers, inv
Nanna Einarsdóttir joins Ankeri
We are happy to welcome Nanna Einarsdóttir to the Ankeri team as lead developer!Nanna is joining us from the 1st of February and will bring her expertise in software development to the table. She has a history of working in the medical device industry as well as the maritime software industry. Nanna
Helgi Benediktsson joins Ankeri
Good news at the turn of the year!Helgi Benediktsson has joined the Ankeri crew as VP of Product as well as for general all-hands-on-deck assignments.At Ankeri, Helgi will be bringing his extensive experience in software development and product management into the fold, both from the fintech startup
New Business Venture Fund leads Ankeri seed round
Ankeri has secured seed round funding lead by the Icelandic New Business Venture Fund (Nyskopunarsjodur). The funding gives Ankeri good leverage to scale up development and follow up on good traction since initial launch of the Ankeri platform.Further coverage can be found on Northstack in English a
We celebrate two year anniversary
It is incredible that it is already 2 years since we founded Ankeri. The time has passed quickly. We have managed to do so many things in this short time. It is great to take a moment and look back and see all the progress we have made.In the beginning it was only Leifur and I and a blank piece of p
Ankeri featured by PUBLIC
Ankeri is among the 65 most exciting startups powering frictionless tradePUBLIC just released a report about Frictionless Trade giving insight into how new technology with power international trade. It is an honour for Ankeri to be featured in the report as one of The 65 most exciting startups power
Ankeri visiting SMM in Hamburg
Next week, September 4th to 7th, SMM the leading international maritime trade fair will take place in Hamburg. Even though we are not exhibitors yet, we decided to temporarily relocate our offices during next week to Hamburg. All hands are on deck and we will all be travelling to the beautiful city
Celebrating Ankeri’s Nordic Startup Awards Nomination
For the second year in a row, Ankeri has been nominated as Best Newcomer for Iceland in this year’s Nordic Startup Awards, an honor reserved for the top 5 young Icelandic startups showing impressive growth and innovation during the past year. Until August 16, the public can vote for one of this year
Ankeri featured on Northstack
Northstack is Iceland's premier outlet for news, data, analysis, and discussion about the Icelandic startup and tech sceneThus Ankeri was born—an online platform that weaves real-time data, weather reports and performance metrics into one interface. Designed to increase transparency by utilizing ava
Oskar Sigthorsson joins Ankeri
We are thrilled to welcome Oskar Sigthorsson who has joined the Ankeri team as of March 1st 2018. Oskar will be working on development of the Ankeri platform and data analytics.Oskar brings valuable expertise of ship performance monitoring, data analytics and product management to Ankeri. Oskar join
We are expanding our team
Do you want to join us to change the world merchant shipping industry?We are looking for a person to join Ankeri’s founding team and take active role in building up our buzzing start-up. Our right candidate has experience in programming web applications and likes smart solutions to complex problems.
Ankeri anniversary
Celebrating our first yearAnkeri is today celebrating the first anniversary. For a new, buzzing startup to survive the first year is great. It has been exciting time with many firsts.So far it has been a great journey.In the beginning, the first few weeks, are thrilling. The freedom you have when yo
Interview with Ankeri’s CEO in the Icelandic media
The maritime section of one of the Icelandic newspapers recently covered Ankeri with an interview with our CEO. The interview, which is only available in Icelandic, can also be viewed online .
Best Newcomer 2017
National winner of the Nordic Startup AwardsExactly nine months after the launch of Ankeri Solutions, we got the honour of being selected the National Best Newcomer 2017 by the Nordic Startup Awards. For this we are extremely honoured and humble – especially when taking into account all the other gr
Maritime Executive Magazine Highlights Ankeri
Maritime Software: Profiting from DataHow can the shipping industry benefit from “big data”? What kind of companies are leveraging ship data to bring financial returns to shipowners and charterers? Is the increase in data collection and analysis changing the commercial shipping industry?These are al
Celebrating Ankeri’s Nordic Startup Awards Nomination
Ankeri was recently nominated as Best Newcomer for Iceland in this year’s Nordic Startup Awards, an honor reserved for the top 5 young Icelandic startups showing impressive growth and innovation during the past year. Until August 22, the public can vote for one of this year’s 5 nominees to win the n
Ankeri’s First Intern
An American engineering student joins Ankeri’s team for the summerMost of my engineering student colleagues have chosen to spend their summer break either working for medium-to-large engineering companies, or getting their minds off challenging technical schoolwork by doing some manual labor. I chos
Ankeri receives a grant from the Technology Development Fund
During our visit to Nor-Shipping 2017 we got the excellent news that Ankeri had been listed as one of the companies eligible for receiving a grant from Technology Development Fund, which is run by The Icelandic Centre for Research. The grant is in the category for newly founded start-ups where the m
Ankeri graduating from the Startup School by Y Combinator
When Sam Altman from Y Combinator announced a new online Startup School, Ankeri decided to apply for entrance. Out of roughly 13 thousand companies that applied, Ankeri turned out to be one the close to 3 thousand that was actually on-boarded to the school’s Founder Track – and the only one from Ice
Nor-Shipping 2017 was a success
Ankeri´s participation in Nor-Shipping during last week, where we got the opportunity to demonstrate the latest product development, was a great success. The changes made to the layout of Hall A and the Disruptive Sustainability theme attracted a lot of people including CEO’s from some of the leadin
Shipping in the age of digitisation – Ankeri presenting on "The Engineering Day"
“The Engineering Day” is an annual gathering organised by the Association of Chartered Engineers in Iceland with the objective of introducing engineering as an exciting profession through presentations, demonstrations and discussions of various projects. The conference was opened by President of Ice
Ankeri coverage in the Icelandic Financial News
Ankeri recently got some coverage in the Icelandic media in an interview with the Icelandic Financial News. The interview, which is in Icelandic and titled ‘Objective to increase transparency’, briefly covers the reason behind the foundation of Ankeri and its main objectives. An excerpt form the int
We’re open! Announcing the launch of our website
We are proud to announce the launch of the Ankeri website!Since the official launch of our company Ankeri Solutions ehf. on 1 December 2016 we have been working hard on further specifying our solution and today we are taking the first baby-steps in pitching our idea to the rest of the world through
Ankeri joins Samtök sprotafyrirtækja
Ankeri has joined Samtök sprotafyrirtækja, a sub-group within the Federation of Icelandic Industries which has the main objective of supporting Icelandic startups in creating an environment that supports their growth. By joining Samtök sprotafyrirtækja, Ankeri aims to be an active player in the Icel
Visit from the Federation of Icelandic Industries
We had a visit! We welcomed Davíð Lúðvíksson from The Federation of Icelandic Industries as our first official visitor. During the visit we gave Davíð a presentation of Ankeri’s work and discussed a lot of concurrent issues related to the startup environment and the startup scenario here in Iceland.
Ankeri receives support from Innovation Center Iceland
There are several grants and plans from the Icelandic government and private organizations here in Iceland that have the to objective to support young companies in taking their first steps in working on and developing a new idea.Ankeri is one of the Icelandic startups that has been granted the privi