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Startup · United States

Seatrec

HQ San DiegoFounded 20121-10 employeesUpdated

Builds thermally powered long-endurance subsea profiling drones, including the Persistent Subsea Autonomous Profiler.

StartupUncrewed systems
Website
Total raised
$1.3M
6 rounds
Last round
Undisclosed
Stage undisclosed · May 1, 2022
Systems
2
Capabilities
1

Federal Obligations by Year (All USAspending, as Reported at the Time)

Seatrec federal obligations by fiscal year
Fiscal yearDirect: contracts
FY2026 (partial)$0
FY2024$1.0M
FY2022$1.6M
FY2021$99K
FY2020$340K
FY2019$328K
FY2018$472K
FY2015$80K

Direct is the company's own reviewed UEIs. Reported by USAspending is subsidiaries as reported by USAspending: recipients that name this company as their parent, not yet reviewed ownership.

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Funding6 rounds · $1.3M

Equity raised
$1.3M
Debt, secondaries & grants
$200K
Latest
UndisclosedStage undisclosed · May 1, 2022
Cumulative raised$1.3M
Oct 11, 2016Jan 23, 2020
  • Undisclosed
    Undisclosed
    May 1, 2022
  • Seed
    Undisclosed
    Oct 1, 2020
  • Seed
    $970K
    Jan 23, 2020
  • Convertible
    Undisclosed
    Jul 1, 2019
  • Seed
    $350K
    Oct 11, 2016
  • Debt
    $200K
    Aug 12, 2014

Raised counts equity rounds; debt, secondary sales and grants are totaled separately. Amounts in other currencies are converted at the announcement month's average rate. A ~ marks an estimated or converted amount.

Systems2

  • infiniTE™ floatAn autonomous subsurface ocean-profiling float with renewable energy harvesting.
    —
  • PSAPSubsea autonomous profiling platform based on the infiniTE float, designed for undersea sensing.
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Newest unveiled first. Systems that belong to a government program link to the program page, where variants, costs and contracts are.

Capabilities1

  • Uncrewed systems
    Developer
    classify_sectors run 37, haiku, taxonomy 2026-10-18b: Thermally powered long-endurance subsea profiling drones; oceanographic use, no defense use stated.
    —Reported

Maturity and TRL describe this organization's work; the field-wide maturity is on each technology's page.

People1

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People
PersonRole
Yi ChaoCEO and Founder

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Sources5

Profile1

  1. 1
    CompanySeatrec Awarded $30.8 Million in Department of War APFIT Funding to Accelerate Persistent Undersea Monitoring Capabilities

    Seatrec · Jul 21, 2026 · Supports Organization

    “Seatrec, a leader in thermal-powered, long-endurance subsea drones”

Systems2

  1. 2
    CompanyProducts - Seatrec

    Seatrec · Supports System

    “Seatrec’s  infiniTE™ float is the first subsurface ocean profiling platform powered by clean, renewable energy to address the power constraints of traditional floats. By combining an autonomous profiling float with our proprietary energy harvesting system, we generate electricity from the ocean’s temperature differences to power sensors that are not feasible on existing profiling floats.”
  2. 3
    CompanySeatrec Awarded $30.8 Million in Department of War APFIT Funding to Accelerate Persistent Undersea Monitoring Capabilities - Seatrec

    Seatrec · Supports System

    “The award will fast-track the production and scaling of Seatrec’s Persistent Subsea Autonomous Profiler (PSAP), an attritable subsea platform delivering persistent undersea domain awareness capability to U.S. forces.”

Funding1

  1. 4
    DatabaseSeatrec company profile

    Octen Business Search · Supports Funding round, Organization · employee range, Organization · founded year, Organization · linkedin url

    “funding round: Seed Round, 2020-10-01, lead: Norge Larson”

People1

  1. 5
    Companyenergy harvesting Archives - Page 2 of 4 - Seatrec

    Seatrec · Supports Role

    ““Eighty percent of the seafloor has not been mapped at high-resolution - an area roughly twice the size of Mars - and covering an area that large using ships and today’s state-of-the-art autonomous platforms will cost billions of dollars,” explains Yi Chao, CEO and Founder of Seatrec.”

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