Dockwa
“Can a marina booking app become the financial operating system of the marine economy?”
Founded2014
HQNewport, RI, USA
Latest roundStrategic growth investment from PSG (June 2026)
IndustryVertical SaaS / Marina Management
The story
Dockwa began as a marina reservation marketplace connecting boaters with marinas (booking + payments). Over time it has layered in marina-side SaaS — Captains & Contracts, POS, Fuel Management, Dry Stack, Revenue Management. The 2026 PSG investment marks an explicit pivot from 'marina software' to 'operating system and intelligence layer' for the $57B marina economy, with stated ambition to serve insurers, OEMs, and institutional investors — moving Dockwa into embedded finance (payments, trip protection insurance) as core monetization beyond SaaS subscriptions.
Product timeline
2014
Dockwa founded under parent The Wanderlust Group as marina reservation platform· founding
2020
Series B funding round of $14.2M from private investors· funding
2021
Launched electronic contracts and digital payment flow for storage and long-term marina reservations· product
2024
Updated Terms of Service (October 2024) reflecting expanded SaaS scope· product
2026
Launched Trip Protection (travel insurance for boaters) at checkout· insurance
2026
Strategic growth investment from PSG to build full-stack marina OS and intelligence layer· funding
The stack
3 layers disclosed in Dockwa’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
Unified APIs
in the full report
Accounting
in the full report
Accounting gap: minor
3 more providers across 2 layers, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.