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OUR MISSION
Powered by the sun and driven by the wind. Our C-Stars are mass-deployable, navigable ocean sensors essential to understanding climate dynamics, protecting critical infrastructure, and operating safely at sea.

Oshen builds the C-Star: a one-metre robot that sails itself across oceans, holds station for months, and reports back in real time. We design them to be deployed by the thousand. Watching an ocean takes a fleet, not a flagship.
We're the only company that's made an ocean robot that's persistent, navigable, and scalable at once. Large autonomous surface vessels work but cost a million pounds each. Drifting buoys are cheap but go wherever the current takes them. Battery-powered drones can navigate but die in days. C-Stars do all three, at low cost, at scale.
C-Stars have sailed through a Category 5 hurricanes and streamed data the whole way. A swarm can watch a wind farm, a shipping lane, or a chokepoint, turning blank spots on the map into a real-time view of weather, sea state, and what moves beneath the surface.
MEET THE TEAM

ANAHITA LAVERACK
Chief Executive Officer

CIARAN DOWDS
Chief Technology Officer

EMMA NELDER
Operations Lead

GORDON JONES
Defence Lead

GUY LUDFORD
PhD Researcher / Robotics & Simulation Engineer

ILIA NAYAKSHIN
Robotics Engineer

JACK KNIGHT
Senior Technician

JASMINE EGGLETON
Commercial Lead

MARCUS THORPE
Robotics Engineer — Electrical Lead

SAM LORD
Software Engineer

EMMA NELDER
Operations Lead

JAKE LEWIS
Test and Development Engineer
OUR STORY SO FAR
2021
Two founders. One mission. The first C-Star prototypes took shape.

The company was incorporated, and our C-Star hit the water - proof before polish.
2022

C-Stars went unsupervised at sea - autonomous, capable, trusted.
Winning the DEFRA project award proved the world was watching.
2023

A new home in Plymouth. A foothold in the USA. £2 million from ARIA. The mission was scaling fast.
2024

30 C-Stars. A Category 5. NOAA onboard. The storm only ended up proving the fleet's capabilities.
2025
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> 60 C-Star deployments in six countries, R&D into onboard acoustic detection.
2026

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