Amelie Binder is Co-Founder and Managing Director at CargoKite, a maritime hard tech company developing wind-powered autonomous micro cargo ships for emission-free ocean transportation. She holds a degree in Information Systems from Technical University of Munich.

Before co-founding CargoKite in 2022, Amelie worked as a managerial assistant at binder consulting from 2017 to 2021 and holds a fellowship position at Sigma Squared Society.

Amelie presented CargoKite at Slush 2023 and has been featured in discussions on sustainable business practices by Bayerische EliteAkademie. She serves as co-managing director alongside Tim Linnenweber.

CargoKite completed a successful pre-seed funding round in 2022 with investors including SOSV, HAX, Lowercarbon Capital, Third Derivative, and FTTF. The company developed a proof of concept with a nine meter catamaran in 2023 and is now designing its full-size vessel.

CargoKite's innovative ship design uses high-altitude kite propulsion to achieve 100% emission-free shipping while reducing operating costs by 60% and enabling faster, customizable maritime logistics. The company's technology could save roughly 140 million tons of CO2 annually in the EU if widely adopted.