Who is Catchwise?

Catchwise's goal is to revolutionize the fishing industry with data. We aim to use modern web solutions, data sharing, and AI to assist all fishermen in spending less time and fuel to meet their fishing quotas. Fishermen can catch more fish for less cost and effort, while the ocean and the planet experience reduced carbon emissions.

Group picture of the whole Catchwise team

Catchwise is the future of fishing

Catchwise emerged from the FishAI competition after winning over researchers and developers from around the world. As the world's first deep data platform for fisheries in the cloud, Catchwise makes available data about the ocean, international AIS and open catch data that fishermen can use together with their own data to increase revenues and reduce costs and climate footprint.
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Screenshot of the Catchwise app
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Sustainable fishing

Norway and world governments want to lower the carbon footprint in all industries, but for fisheries the solutions are few. Until we get a new functioning energy resource at sea, we are forced to either fish less, or more energy efficiently. Catchwise's mission is to help fishermen fill their quotas faster and use less fuel. This means reduced costs and a lower climate footprint. Fish already has significantly lower emissions than other protein sources, but we believe we can help reduce emissions further for better use of our shared resource, the ocean.

Working with fishermen for fishermen

Catchwise knows that all fishing works differently, and that each captain has their own needs. That's why we talk to our customers every day with one goal - to create the perfect support for the captain and the shipping company. We have been out fishing with our customers, visited shipping companies along much of the coast from Tromsø in the north to Austevoll in the south. Today we have fishermen of all boat types on the platform, except crab fishermen (if you know any, send them our way!). Let's build the future of fishing together.
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The Team

The founders are from Vestland, Møre og Romsdal, Nordland and Oslo/Akershus, and have backgrounds in some of the best tech companies the country has, including Schibsted, Norges Bank, McKinsey and Oda. The headquarters is in Oslo, the team frequently travels to the coast and works with customers.
Jonas Dammen

Jonas Dammen

CTO & Co-founder

Ludvig Løddestøl

Ludvig Løddestøl

CFO & Co-founder

Tomas Roaldsnes

Tomas Roaldsnes

CEO & Co-founder

Kristian Hole

Kristian Hole

Co-founder & founding engineer

Åsmund Brekke

Åsmund Brekke

Co-founder & founding engineer