Orbital Industries has raised $50m (£37.3m) in Series B funding to scale its build of industrial hardware using AI.
The firm designs, engineers and manufactures physical infrastructure using AI to accelerate how new technologies are discovered and brought to market.
Instead of treating materials discovery, engineering and manufacturing as separate processes, it integrates them into a single AI-driven system, enabling smaller, interdisciplinary teams to move faster and bring new industrial technologies to market more efficiently.
Orbital Industries has developed a modular data centre system designed using AI to solve the engineering challenges of extreme compute density required for next-generation GPUs. The system enables new AI infrastructure to be deployed in as little as six months, compared to traditional timelines of up to three years.
The Series B round was led by Plural, with existing and previous investors NVentures (NVIDIA), Radical Ventures, Compound and Fly Ventures also participating.
The funding will be used to scale Orbital Industries’ data centre products, grow its AI and engineering teams and accelerate the development of its platform for industrial applications beyond data centres.
“When people imagine a better future, they think about physical things: technologies that give them more freedom, more time, more life. AI will get us there faster. That’s what we set out to do at Orbital Industries,” says Jonathan Godwin, co-founder and CEO of Orbital Industries.
“Frontier AI gives us PhD-level expertise across every discipline, meaning small, agile teams can move from materials discovery to commercial hardware in a way that simply wasn’t possible before, so what used to take a decade, we can now do in months.”
