ZEBOX and Katapult Ocean are aligned in supporting ambitious founders who want to build solutions with real impact and real customers — not just pilots, but sustainable, scalable businesses.

This partnership reflects a shared belief that innovation is essential to future‑proof marine transportation and the broader supply chain. 

ZEBOX brings a focused platform for co‑innovation within logistics and marine transport, while Katapult Ocean has built a global ecosystem of investors and ocean stakeholders, and a pipeline of broad ocean‑focused startups ready to tackle decarbonization, resilience, and efficiency. 

Together, we plan to share relevant opportunities and refine our respective investment theses with combined insights.

Beyond sourcing startups, this partnership mirrors a shared vision: transforming the maritime and ocean economy requires cross-ecosystem collaboration, combining impact, industrial expertise, and scale.

Initiated in 2018 by Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman & CEO of the CMA CGM Group, ZEBOX is an international innovation accelerator expert in the fields of maritime industry, logistics & media. Its mission is to connect the world’s best innovations with the CMA CGM Group and its partners across three key areas: environmental impact, technological competitiveness, employee well-being, and safety at work. 

Operating in 6 regions, ZEBOX is now supported by 15+ international companies such as such as CEVA Logistics, Jifmar Group, Transdev and Vinci.  

ZEBOX convenes startups and established companies in sectors that are central to the ocean economy, including maritime transport and associated infrastructure. This creates an additional platform through which Katapult Ocean’s portfolio can explore pilots, partnerships, and routes to market.

“Katapult Ocean backs founders who tackle the ocean’s most pressing challenges and helps them build companies that can operate at scale. If you want to change maritime transport, you need more than good technology — you need the right partner at the table. ZEBOX is that partner for us: a strong knowledge partner and potential co‑investment ally, close to the action in global shipping, helping ocean innovation reach the parts of industry where it actually changes how things are done.”

– Jonas Skattum Svegaarden, CEO Katapult Ocean

“Through this collaboration with Katapult Ocean, ZEBOX continues to build and strengthen connections with leading global innovation ecosystems to support the transformation of the maritime and logistics industries. Alongside Katapult Ocean, we will be able to offer our startups privileged access to their investment fund and further support their development within the Blue Economy. Like Katapult Ocean, we believe in a world where ocean preservation goes hand in hand with economic development. Our startups are at the heart of these challenges; let’s support them.”

– Fréderic Guilleux, CEO de ZEBOX