About

bid2board is an online marketplace connecting ship management companies to marine technical service suppliers. The service arrangement process today is characterized by inefficiency and time consuming manual processes lacking transparency and analytics. Our platform offers a tool applicable globally for both service suppliers and shipping companies.

Solution & Product

Our platform offers a new way of service arrangements in which the process is faster, easier and fully documented. We ensure quality by vetting our service network and through an evaluation process on completed services. In addition, introducing a bidding process our tool allows for considerable cost saving for shipping management companies. Finally, by collecting data we offer crucial analytics to assist ship management companies to optimize their operations. On the service supplier side the value of easy and fast service arrangement has the same importance. In addition, by using our platform, service suppliers gain visibility to ship management companies access to which otherwise is difficult or very expensive. Moreover, through our bidding process the service suppliers gains insights on the competition.

Innovation & Scalability

Introducing first a marketplace custom made to fit the daily operations of both ship management companies and service suppliers we aim to gain a big part of the market share. As the shipping industry is global with minimal differences between locations our platform is applicable to the majority of ship management companies and service suppliers. Having as starting point the Greek market is great benefit considering the importance that the Greek hub holds in the Shipping world.

Traction & achievements

Within two months of operations we have managed to attract more than 120 service suppliers and we have initiated trial subscriptions with six (6) ship management companies. Having completed more than ten (10) services we are confident looking forward.

Team & Why Us

Having a work experience of more than 10 years in key positions within renowned ship management companies we have good knowledge of the difficulties faced in the service sector. This experience is applied in the operation of our platform extending the great user experience of the platform with the handling of daily operations by experienced personnel.

Funding Needs

As we are in a stage of rapid expansion we are looking to grow our team focusing on sales, marketing and further software development.