Seed
Stage at our first check
2022
Year we invested
Denver
Headquarters
56 people
Team today
What they do
Founded by Ana Bright and Felix Toure.
Orbital builds the computer that runs inside a small satellite, plus the software that lets operators deploy new code to it after launch. Processing data in orbit means sending down answers instead of raw imagery.
Downlink capacity is the constraint on almost every earth-observation business. Orbital moves the work to where the data already is.
Why we invested
Hardware is not our natural home, and we said so in the first meeting. We invested because the team had already flown a payload, and because the software problem underneath is the part that compounds.
Hannah Feldman, Partner
Timeline
How it has gone so far.
Seed round, our first investment in space infrastructure.
First units flown on a commercial constellation.
Series B, with hardware on more than forty satellites.
More of the portfolio
Companies we backed at the same stage.
Elsewhere in the portfolio.
Next step
Building something like Orbital?
We write first checks at pre-seed and seed, and we answer within two business days.