Watch the latest installment of “Listening to the Wind,” the International Windship Association (IWSA) interview series featuring its pioneering members in the world of wind propulsion.  This week, Ted Shergalis, COO and Co-founder of Magnuss, sits down with Gavin Allwright, IWSA Sec Gen, and shares his take on market developments, the drivers of adoption and the rollout of wind propulsion technologies going forward.  In a discussion spanning tech, finance and carbon offsets, learn how Magnuss uniquely meets the needs of global shipping at this critical time. Click below to view. And find out why there is no better time to invest in Magnuss.  Only 16 days to invest. Join us now!

As the closing date approaches, investors are supporting Magnuss and its vision:   

Comment author Mahmoud Kouchaji: “I invested in Magnuss because I think it's a great idea, seems simple and elegant enough for anyone to understand and buy into.” 

Comment author Iain Alexander: “… you have an excellent product that solves a clear problem and could make a real difference in cutting pollution from marine transport and also generate economic value irrespective of those unpriced externalities. I've invested and look forward to seeing this technology get widely adopted. I see you are also supported by Unreasonable Group, who have a good eye for transformative companies.”

Comment author Dhruv Mehta: “The idea looks great on paper and I would love to see this translate into a tangible product that solves real life problems.”

Join these and other investors. Deal closes at the end of July. Minimum investment is $240.  Invest in clean tech. Invest in a cleaner future. Invest in Magnuss today!  

Get in while you still can and make a positive change in the world.  Three reasons to invest in Magnuss: 

1) Global Impact – large, scalable, retrofit ready, and with 55,000 ships transporting 90% of the world’s goods, any improvement represents a global investment opportunity. 

2) Competitive Edge – innovative tech, patented internationally, retractable design, class-approved, fits industry infrastructure, meets customer demand, complies with regulations. 

3) Environmental and Economic Benefits – delivers double bottom line benefit, creating financial value by reducing fuel consumption and harmful greenhouse gas emissions.

Invest in Magnuss while there is still time!  If you have not yet finished your investment, make sure to do so today. And if you have invested, thanks for your support.

Comment author Michael Helm writes – “For any potential investors reading comments and/or looking for additional leads for due diligence, I feel it's important to re-emphasize the fact that international legislation will soon place requirements for ocean freight shippers (some taking effect as soon as January 2023). For example, under international laws, all big vessels will be rated from A to E by how much carbon dioxide flows from their stacks for every mile traveled and ton carried. Even today, at the time of this writing, some ship owners are trying to find exemptions or ways around the legislation without success.

To make this clear: the policy trend is set. With increasing demand for transparent supply chains, these ratings will likely impact contract decisions and awards for shipping companies. And obviously, the Magnuss VOSS can help dry bulk carriers improve efficiency and obtain a competitive advantage. In other words, the Magnuss VOSS is a perfect example of a "triple bottom line" product and offers a solution for a win-win-win.

Finally, during the pandemic, shipping companies have seen record profits. They're flush with cash and will be looking to expand fleets or modernize/refit current assets. This presents another opportunity for Magnuss to strike while the iron is hot.

With this mentioned, I share in the vision. I like the product and patents. I think the timing is right. It's why I'm an investor in Magnuss.” – Michael Helm

Our business model is direct sales to customers and employs several distribution channels. Revenues are generated from selling / financing VOSS units and driven by ship deployments. To advance decarbonization of the global shipping fleet while aligning the interests of the ship owner, charterer and ship financier, Magnuss has created a proprietary, novel means of financing the deployments of the Magnuss VOSS, called Save As You Sail finance model.  Savings translate to propulsion payments (fee), which are made by the fuel payer (e.g. the charterer) as a function of the amount of thrust the VOSS produces and delivers to the ship. This approach allows ship owners to increase the value of their ships without any upfront investment, guarantees that charterers will pay no more (often less) than they’re currently paying for traditional carbon intensive bunkers and financiers can make a return on investment while supporting vessel and fleet decarbonization. Join a hundred other Magnuss investors, who support greening our world’s supply chain. Invest today. 

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Airing from its headquarters in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, "Hoisting the Sail" is brought to you by Wind Support NYC, established in 2020 to promote the innovators, companies and technologies on a quest to decarbonize maritime shipping.  Hear from today’s tech entrepreneurs and industry leaders.  In this episode, "Hoisting the Sail" features Magnuss CEO and Co-founder, James Rhodes.  Learn how Magnuss is tackling the pressing issues facing global shipping and gain insight into the innovative mechanisms Magnuss designed to help ship owners finance its groundbreaking wind-based propulsion system, the Magnuss VOSS.  Click here to listen in: https://windsupport.nyc/magnuss/

After extensive investment in design, certification, patents and customer validation, and drawing on shipping operational and technical expertise and support, Magnuss is ready to expand. Patented across 16 countries, the Magnuss VOSS is approved by Lloyd’s Register, the UK classification society, meaning the design meets the highest standard for quality in global shipping. We have a full- scale ship deployment plan in place, through our joint industry work with ship owners, charterers and shipyards. And our savings and performance analytics have been verified by Lloyd’s Register in its newly released 2021 Report. Today, Magnuss welcomes your participation as it continues in collaboration with industry partners to develop one of the largest ever, wind-based propulsion projects and unlock customer demand for more fuel-efficient dry bulk shipping.  If you have not yet finished your investment, make sure to do so.   Join us today.

The international shipping industry is the life blood of the global economy. Without shipping, intercontinental trade, the bulk transport of raw materials, and the import/export of affordable food and manufactured goods would simply not be possible.  There are roughly 55,000 merchant ships trading internationally, transporting every kind of cargo. The world fleet is registered in over 150 nations and manned by over a million seafarers of virtually every nationality. More than three-quarters of these ships are cargo ships, tankers, and dry bulk carriers - the total addressable market for Magnuss. Our initial target market is the dry bulk carrier sector comprising 12,258 ships, which are ideally suited for the Magnuss VOSS design. Of these ships, we are focused first on the largest, gearless bulk carriers which typically carry grain and iron ore. From this sector alone, the financial value and environmental benefit created annually by reducing fuel consumption and harmful emissions is substantial.  Join Magnuss on its journey to tackle important climate issues.  Invest today while there is still time.

The competitive landscape is lean. Several firms exploring soft sails, rigid sails and kites are inferior to the Flettner rotor-based systems, such as the Magnuss VOSS (Vertically-variable Ocean Sail System), because they exhibit a lower lift coefficient and a higher cost per pound of thrust. A few competitive sail systems have emerged while falling short of delivering a robust high-quality product applicable for modern shipping. The Magnuss VOSS stands above conventional vertically-fixed, Flettner-based systems in its innovative, patented design features. The key innovation and chief competitive advantage of the Magnuss VOSS is retractability. It can be fully retracted and stowed below deck, out of the way (different from all other current and past fixed Flettner rotor designs). This signature feature is important, especially for dry bulk carriers, when loading/unloading in port and for reducing drag in unsuitable conditions at sea.  

At scale, the Magnuss VOSS design will be a 100-foot tall spinning, hollow, metal cylinder that propels a ship using the principle of physics called the Magnus effect, which was discovered in 1853 by Heinrich Magnus, a German physicist, who found that when a current of wind struck a rotating cylinder it exerted a force approximately at right angles to the direction of the wind. While intriguing, the Magnus effect is quite common. It’s the reason a spinning ball curves in mid-air. Artillery officers measured the amount of effect and made allowances for it when firing cross wind. Tennis players employ its power with topspin. Even baseball pitchers use the Magnus effect; their curve balls depend entirely on it.  And today, the Magnus effect is the motive force behind the innovative Magnuss VOSS and a means to decarbonize maritime shipping.

Magnuss was established to address the major problems facing the global shipping industry, with a focus on fossil fuel consumption and environmental impact. Our solution is to augment ship propulsion with sails - - it’s a patented and class approved design of proven tech applied in a better way to meet the needs of global shipping today.  The result promises to reduce a ship’s fuel consumption and carbon footprint.  Our aim at Magnuss is to transform the world’s cargo fleet into a more efficient, cleaner, greener means of ocean transport. Learn from the founders, their vision and where it all began in this exclusive from Future 360. 

Inspired by past ingenuity, Magnuss re-imagined sail technology, called the Flettner rotor (pictured here), first sea-trialed in the 1920’s by aviation engineer Anton Flettner. Rotors are proven and Magnuss has a unique, innovative design that is engineered for today’s modern ships. At Magnuss, we improved the Flettner rotor by making it transformable. Introducing the Magnuss VOSS or Vertically-variable Ocean Sail System, the cutting-edge sail with the potential to slash fuel consumption and emissions. The Magnuss VOSS augments a ship’s installed engine power with a propulsion system that converts wind into forward thrust. The VOSS does not create electricity (it is not a wind turbine). It creates thrust. Its game-changing innovation is retractability—allowing the sail to be stowed below deck and free up port operations.

Last month, in light of the annual reporting season, we updated our SEC filing to include our most recent financial statements and to extend our campaign. Given this material change, the SEC requires all outstanding investors (i.e. investors who have not been vested) to reconfirm their investment. For those of you who re-confirmed, thank you. We appreciate your continued support. For any investor who missed the reconfirmation deadline and had their investment subsequently canceled, you can still submit a new investment by visiting our campaign page.

Shipping is costly and takes a major toll on the environment.  Today, cargo ships emit more CO2 into the atmosphere each year than all the airlines in the world.  The recognized threat that these emissions have for the planet will thus increase an already significant fuel cost.  At Magnuss, by harnessing the wind to power ships, we have a solution that increases fuel economy and reduces CO2 emissions.  The idea is to augment ship propulsion with sails and supplement a ship’s installed engine power with wind-based, renewable energy.  Magnuss aims to dramatically reduce a ship’s fuel consumption and carbon footprint, predicated on a proven technology, re-engineered to fit today’s global shipping infrastructure.  Join us and invest today!

Measures that make shipping economically efficient and environmentally friendly are attracting a lot of attention. Leading industrials and global shipping firms need not be convinced that managing fuel requirements directly results in improved financial performance and reduced regulatory risk. The past two years have marked a turning point, where an increasing emphasis on combating climate change led to an elevated focus on sustainable solutions among the players in commercial maritime shipping. This is good news for emissions reduction technologies such as the Magnuss VOSS. 

At a macro level, the industry and the regulators committed to more sustainable practices. Meanwhile, at a micro level, individual organizations answered the bell to curb harmful greenhouse gas emissions. Specifically, ship owners and charterers moved aggressively to prepare for future regulations, support sustainable operations, and manage the environmental impact of their fleets. The main driver continues to be evolving regulation.

The Global Maritime Forum unveiled in 2020 a set of working principles on behalf of charterers that reflect a bias to ships actively reducing their carbon footprint. Coupled with the Poseidon Principles, a self-governing climate alignment agreement amongst financial institutions, the Sea Cargo Charter demonstrates charterers’ commitment, alongside the banks' commitment, to reducing the shipping industry's carbon footprint.  In June 2021, the International Maritime Organization adopted technical and operational measures to reduce the carbon intensity of international shipping, taking effect January 2023. With new regulations and customer driven carbon requirements on the horizon, the sector is set to become increasingly more sustainable.

Join us. Invest in Magnuss. Support the rollout of the Magnuss VOSS (Vertically-variable Ocean Sail System), an example of a modern technology that offers remarkable fuel savings at a time when minimizing costs, reducing fossil fuel use, and complying with current and future legislation are crucial.  Invest in Magnuss today!

Are you ready to invest in the company that aims to slash harmful emissions with its game-changing tech? The Magnuss VOSS is the proprietary hi tech sail that cuts ships’ fuel costs and greenhouse gas emissions by up to 50%. Click to invest in the company that’s geared to transform global shipping as we know it.   Crowdfunding is an easy, affordable way to participate. Invest in Magnuss today. 

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See Magnuss on stage at the World Forum – sponsored by The Unreasonable Group and Barclays – in London at the Royal Institute of Great Britain. Magnuss was among a select group of global entrepreneurs presenting, to an audience of over 400 strategic guests, groundbreaking and rapidly scaling solutions to some of the most pressing challenges of our time. Daniel Epstein, CEO of Unreasonable Group, explained, “Since launching Unreasonable Impact, we have supported some of the world’s most exciting and impactful ventures to grow faster and create nearly 7,000 new jobs.” Alisdair Gayne, Head of UK Investment Banking, said, “By supporting these entrepreneurs targeting the world’s greatest challenges with our resources, we can help to facilitate job creation in sectors that will lead future global economies and will benefit society as a whole.”  Become a part of this global community and invest in Magnuss today.  

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Bound by history and a singular vision, our senior team has worked together for decades, drawing on deep, hands-on expertise in maritime shipping, clean tech, renewable energy project development, finance, software development, and data analytics. Pioneers in wind-assist technology, the Magnuss team was first to announce its patented and class approved sail innovation.  CEO, co-founder and veteran executive, James Rhodes, holds an MBA from Columbia University, a BS in Electrical Engineering from Brown University and brings 30+ years of experience in maritime shipping, renewable energy development, project finance, investment banking and management consulting. COO, co-founder and tech entrepreneur, Ted Shergalis, holds a BA from Harvard University and leverages twenty years of experience in maritime shipping and early-stage, high-growth business development, software, analytics and operations.

 Magnuss is supported by a broad network - - experts from academia and industry. The board of directors and commercial advisors bring extensive experience to drive growth.  Today, Magnuss is collaborating with industry participants such as ship owners, charterers, shipbuilders and financial institutions.  And Magnuss will continue to forge ties with the strongest, most influential shipping organizations to ensure commercial success at scale.  Join us and invest today!  Support the Magnuss team as they lead global shipping to a more sustainable future.

Ship owner/operators are laser-focused on eco efficiency ahead of tighter regulations. Magnuss is set to deliver a reliable, best-in-class technology and an investment opportunity with global impact. Our scalable business model is ready to meet immediate customer demand, delivering customers significant and quantifiable fuel savings affording a short payback period. Bottom line savings are meaningful, especially on a line item that represents a large fraction of a ship’s annual operating expense. In an industry facing increasing regulatory pressure, an important benefit of the Magnuss VOSS is the degree to which it creates not only economic value, but also large-scale carbon emission reductions.  This is vital because today, maritime shipping is among the highest CO₂ emitters worldwide, ranking sixth on a list of nations, between Germany and Japan.

Magnuss is providing the means for renewable energy-based ocean transportation and charting a course to make global maritime shipping economically efficient and environmentally sustainable. Join us on this journey. Make sure to invest while there is still time!  And if you have invested, thanks for your support.

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Magnuss is creating a newer, greener future for international shipping that transports 90% of the world’s goods. The Magnuss VOSS is the cutting-edge mechanical sail that augments engine power to cut fuel consumption and emissions up to 50%.  Invest in the company that’s geared to transform global shipping as we know it.  Invest in Magnuss today!

To the new members of the Magnuss family, 

Thank you for your support. We did it! It is because of our newest members that we hit our first milestone, exceeding $100K in only 2 weeks. Please share with your friends. And if you have not yet finished your investment, make sure to do so. Welcome aboard!