Meet Ocean Risk Intelligence, bringing risk intelligence to the infrastructure beneath the ocean
Risk intelligence for the critical infrastructure beneath the ocean, starting with subsea cables for the offshore wind energy industry.
Cecilia Sevillano (Founder and CEO).
The problem
Offshore infrastructure is becoming one of the world's largest investment frontiers. By 2050, $3‑4 trillion of offshore infrastructure investment is expected. Yet insurance is still priced with onshore models and asset decisions are made with fragmented engineering studies.
Currents and storms, shifting seabeds and ships dragging anchors are assessed separately, as a snapshot in time, while the ocean keeps changing over the decades an asset is in the water.
What Ocean Risk Intelligence does
Its risk engine models how environmental, engineering and human factors interact over an asset's lifetime, and translates them into financial risk insights that developers, operators and insurers can price and act on.
It starts with subsea power cables for offshore wind and plans to scale across the infrastructure powering energy, connectivity, and the blue economy.
Why now
A huge gap and commercial opportunity was developing before our eyes with the increasing importance of offshore critical infrastructure for national security and economic growth.
Cecilia Sevillano, Founder and CEO of Ocean Risk Intelligence
How it started
Having spent over a decade developing and commercialising risk intelligence solutions at Swiss Re, I knew first hand that there was a high degree of sophistication for land-based industries but close to none for the offshore assets.
Cecilia Sevillano, Founder and CEO of Ocean Risk Intelligence
Why this team
Founder and CEO Cecilia Sevillano spent 15 years shaping risk intelligence strategy at Aon and Swiss Re, where she built and led 3 business pillars globally.
Head of Science João Bettencourt is an environmental risk scientist with more than 15 years of experience across oceanography, physics and scientific computing, specialising in marine systems, environmental monitoring and modelling.
Why Sting
DeepTech ventures like Ocean Risk Intelligence require a strong ecosystem where science, business and government-led support for innovation come together.
Sting brings the experience and network that can carry the team's deep industry and scientific knowledge further and stronger.
Ocean Risk Intelligence is one of 21 startups in Sting Core Fall 2026. Meet the rest of the cohort in Meet the 21 startups joining Sting this autumn.
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