DeepSea's Roberto Coustas: Raising $3 million dollars, the importance of story and scaling in times of covid.

Greece owns 20% of global fleets, owning more vessels than whole of China.  A fascinating story of a Greek startup to disrupt marine industry with their AI powered products from the heartland of shipping industry. 

In this episode we talked about Roberto's  fascinating story of perseverance in building DeepSea, raising 3 million dollars , and the role of luck. 

Roberto Coustas was born in Athens. At the age of 17, he relocated in London and studied Mechanical Engineering at UCL. Following his interest in computing, he continued his studies at the University of Oxford, where he received his MSc in Computer Science with Distinction, specialising in Machine Learning. Working briefly as a performance engineer and technical coordinator at Danaos, he realised the potential of applying Artificial Intelligence to the shipping domain. He then co-founded DeepSea Technologies with Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos, a Cambridge University PhD candidate, which has revolutionised the marine industry with their AI powered products.