Docka
Primary source verification for seafarer credentials.
The founders
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The company
Docka is a seafarer certificate and document management platform for crewing agencies, manning companies and shipowners. It uses OCR to read crew certificates, medicals and endorsements, tracks expiry dates with alerts, and — critically — verifies certificate authenticity directly against official national maritime registries across multiple flag states.
Crew compliance still runs on spreadsheets and manual registry checks, which is exactly how expired or forged documents slip onto vessels. Docka's pitch is a single, always-current view that keeps crew managers audit-ready by default.
Founded in 2026 and operated out of Tallinn by Docka Development OÜ, the company is tackling a paperwork problem the maritime industry has long tolerated. Details on the founding story are thin, but the focus is squarely on removing manual registry checks from crew management.
Docka is led by founder Janis Kartau, building from Estonia — a country with deep e-government and digital-identity roots that suits a product built on primary-source verification. The team is keeping crew personal data GDPR-compliant from the outset.
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