The facts
Orbital Industries at a glance.
Read Oct 20, 2026. Valuations and amounts are copied as each source states them; a figure that is only reported (talks, or people familiar with the deal) is labeled as reported.
- Kind of company
- Science, materials and mathAI for physics, chemistry, new materials and mathematics, often with robotic labs.
- Based in
- United Kingdom
- Founded
- 2022Fortune, May 28, 2026
- Last closed-round valuation
- No valuation reported
- What it has shipped
- Has a model or API
Founders
- Jonathan Godwin: cofounder and CEO; former Google DeepMind researcher, five years on AI for science and advanced materials (Fortune, May 28, 2026)
- James Gin-Pollock: cofounder and CTO; repeat AI founder who sold a company to Shutterstock (Fortune, May 28, 2026)
- Daniel Miodovnik: cofounder and COO (Fortune, May 28, 2026)
Raised a $50M Series B led by Plural; rebranded from Orbital Materials; says a PFAS-free data-center coolant is slated to ship with next-generation GPUs in 2027. May 28, 2026
Fortune, May 28, 2026
What it has built
Shipped, or not yet.
“Has a model or API” is what our search found: something the public can use or buy, a model or API, research only, or nothing public.
Orb-v3: atomistic simulation at scale (preprint)
Source1 round
Funding, as reported.
Every round we found, with the amount, valuation and investors as the source states them.
| When | Round | Amount | Valuation | Investors named | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2026 | Series B | $50 million | Not stated | Plural (lead), NVentures, Radical Ventures, Compound, Fly Ventures | Fortune |
Outside checks
What others have found.
- UniFFBench, by researchers at IIT Delhi, Intel Labs and NVIDIA, benchmarked six force-field models including Orb against experimental data; Orb "exhibits failure across all elastic tensor components, with MAPE values consistently exceeding 80%" while doing well on structural metrics (preprint). (arXiv 2508.05762 (IIT Delhi, Intel Labs, NVIDIA authors), Aug 2025)
Our note: Fortune says the company has offices in London and San Francisco and names no single HQ; country set to UK on the London base. It has a multi-year AWS partnership announced Dec 2024 (per Fortune). Customers are unnamed.
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