For learners
Study plans, progress, transcripts and certificates in one account, in English and French.
01 / 05Investor overview
The digital university of the maritime world.
STCW training, degree programmes and verifiable certificates in one compliance-grade platform — for 2.57 million seafarers at sea, for the professionals who run shipping ashore and for their employers.
A regulated industry that moves the world.
Ships carry the world's trade. They need certified seafarers at sea and skilled professionals ashore — and every officer aboard is revalidated under one international convention.
39,100
STCW-certified officers the fleet is short of in 2026
Three facts shape maritime training.
Certificates are hard to verify
Paper credentials leave room for fraud — a problem the IMO tracks.
Competence expires
Officers must prove it again at least every five years, so demand recurs by law.
The fleet is short of officers
39,100 short today; 113,735 new officers to recruit by 2030.
02 / 05The platform
One system from first enrolment to a verified certificate.
CLMS, our own learning platform, runs the whole academic path — from short STCW courses for seafarers to degree and executive programmes for professionals ashore.
- 01
Enrol
Catalogue, online checkout or a seat paid by the employer.
- 02
Learn
Lessons, adaptive video with subtitles, narrated audio.
- 03
Assess
Seven question types, timed attempts, rubrics.
- 04
Progress
ECTS grading, retakes, electives, full academic record.
- 05
Certify
Numbered certificates with a public QR check.
Our own stack: Go, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch and Next.js on Google Cloud.
Built, tested and working end to end.
For academic staff
Ten staff roles, from authors to examiners, each with only the rights it needs.
For shipping companies
Seat packs, crew invitations, CSV onboarding and consent-based progress reports.
STCW built in
37 STCW certificate types with validity periods; 11 shipboard positions with their required certificates.
Verifiable credentials
Numbered certificates with a public QR check; expiry and revocation tracked automatically.
Content at scale
Versioned courses, question pools and an authoring API ready for AI drafting.
Running end to end in pre-production; the production launch is the next milestone.
03 / 05Why we win
Compliance-grade by design: hard to copy, easy to trust.
Maritime training is audited, certified and revalidated. We built the platform for that reality from day one.
67
domain services in one tested code base
IMU code base, October 2026
556
API operations, documented in OpenAPI
IMU code base, October 2026
3,200+
automated backend tests
IMU code base, October 2026
88
permissions across 10 staff roles
IMU code base, October 2026
Domain depth
STCW rules, ECTS grading and signed grade protocols live in the core model.
Trust and security
Two-factor sign-in for staff, consent-based sharing, audit log, sign-in and sessions checked against OWASP ASVS L2.
Own technology
Go and Next.js on Google Cloud, infrastructure as code, no per-seat licences.
Ready for AI
AI tools draft lessons and questions through a gRPC API; experts publish.
04 / 05Business model
Two revenue engines on one platform.
Seafarers and maritime professionals
- Programmes bought online by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay.
- Prices in US dollars and euros, receipts issued automatically.
- A clear refund rule: 14 days, before the final assessment.
Shipping companies and maritime employers
- Seat packs by card, or on invoice with 30-day terms.
- Whole crews and teams enrolled by CSV import and invitation.
- Seats valid for 12 months, progress in partner reports.
Certificates expire. Our platform knows when.
- Train
- Certify
- Track expiry
- Revalidate
It knows which certificates each shipboard position requires and flags those that are missing, expired or due within 90 days — so the next course is already on the seafarer's list.
Room to grow: eight programme types
- Short course
- STCW course
- Associate degree
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
- MBA
- Executive MBA
- PhD
Short courses and full degree programmes run on the same platform, with degree levels mapped to EQF levels 5–8.
05 / 05Roadmap
The platform is built. Next, we scale it.
- Done
Platform built
Learning, assessment, academic record, certificates, payments and the B2B channel run end to end in pre-production.
- Next
Launch
Production on imuedu.com, current courses moved from Open edX, first cohorts and shipping-company partners.
- Then
Scale
Crew-compliance reporting for shipowners, promotions, analytics dashboards and partner training centres.
- Vision
A decentralised university
Learn-to-Earn tokens, NFT diplomas and SBT skills, DAO governance and exams on VR/AR simulators.
Why invest now
The hard part is built.
- Product risk is retired: the core platform already works end to end.
- Demand is regulated and recurring: revalidation at least every five years.
- One platform serves seafarers, maritime professionals and their employers.
Let's talk
See it working.
Write to us for a live product demo and a detailed briefing.