SubCtech

SubCtech builds autonomous ocean-monitoring instruments and subsea lithium-ion power systems. Its OceanPack systems measure carbon and environmental parameters, while PowerPack batteries supply AUVs, ROVs and other underwater equipment.

Facts

  • Segment: Robotics Sensors
  • Country: DE
  • Founded: 2010
  • Website: https://subctech.com/

About

About SubCtech

Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Kiel, SubCtech develops and manufactures marine environmental-monitoring and subsea-power equipment. The company operates two main product lines: autonomous underway measurement systems for carbon and other ocean parameters, and pressure-rated lithium-ion battery systems for subsea vehicles and infrastructure. Gabler Maschinenbau, part of the Possehl Group, acquired SubCtech in 2025 while retaining its operating identity.

SubCtech is relevant to maritime robotics on both the payload and energy sides. OceanPack systems can collect data over extended deployments on ships and autonomous platforms, while vehicle batteries support AUVs and ROVs at depths up to 6,000 metres in selected configurations. The company supplies instruments and power subsystems rather than complete autonomous vessels. Published headcount and experience figures cover the full company, and customer-specific vehicle volumes remain undisclosed.

Supply

  • Nauticus Robotics - Outbound - Energy Storage - SubCtech supplies the lithium-ion battery subsystem used in Nauticus Aquanaut - source: sec.gov

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Market context

Comparable profiles and adjacent companies connected by shared workflow, capability, or stack position.

  • Covelya Group - stack adjacency - stack: Subsea Sensor Power Supplier
  • Saildrone - workflow adjacency - workflow: Metocean Data Collection
  • AML Oceanographic - workflow adjacency - workflow: Metocean Data Collection

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Timeline

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Team

  • Stefan Marx - Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director
  • Anke Pohl - Chief Financial Officer
  • Sören Johannsen - Chief Operating Officer and Marketing

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Relations

  • Gabler Maschinenbau GmbH / Possehl Group - Parent Company - SubCtech joined Gabler Maschinenbau and the Possehl-owned Gabler Ocean group in August 2025.
  • Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. - Joint Solution Partner - SubCtech and Ocean Power Technologies agreed to explore combined deployments, deepwater projects and WAM-V optimisation.

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Deployments

  • Commissioned Systems - 2 systems commissioned - 2024-04-16 - Fabrice Amedeo - offshore sailing - SubCtech commissioned and tested two ocean-monitoring systems aboard Fabrice Amedeo’s IMOCA yacht for scientific data collection during races. - source posture: Company Disclosed - source: subctech.com

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Operations

  • Continuous Power - 50 kW continuous - 2026-07-28 - underwater vehicle test - SubCtech demonstrated 50 kW continuous output from an integrated 600 V-class AUV battery-and-charger system built to a customer-defined underwater-platform scope. - source posture: Company Disclosed - source: subctech.com
  • Manufacturing Capacity - Expanded; no numeric capacity disclosed - 2026-05-30 - SubCtech headquarters - Fraunhoferstraße 17, Kiel, Germany - SubCtech opened a consolidated Kiel headquarters intended to increase manufacturing capacity for modular subsea energy-storage systems and… - source: subctech.com

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