Portchain (www.portchain.com) is a Danish startup founded in 2017 by three McKinsey alums with the goal to solve the hardest planning problems in container shipping through software and industrial analytics. We apply cutting-edge machine learning and optimization through an industry leading customer experience to container carriers and terminals to optimize their key planning processes and create a step-change in productivity.

Portchain’s customers include several global top-5 companies, supported by our quickly growing 25 person international team from 9 countries (https://www.portchain.com/careers/). In addition, Portchain has closed a multi-million dollar seed round together with prominent investors, and has received several prestigious grants e.g.,the European Union’s innovation fund Horizon 2020 together with 50 other companies across Europe out of 1,600+ applying companies.