The initial focus is on data-centre infrastructure, delivering cooling and deployment systems suited for high-density AI compute environments amid growing workloads.

Orbital’s core AI model, Orb, can simulate quantum mechanical behavior of atoms at scale, handling up to 100,000 atoms on a single GPU and showing faster performance than competing models.

Orbital emphasizes an AI-led engineering loop for module design and uses its open-source Orb model to accelerate materials simulations, enabling large-scale enzyme simulations with better speed and accuracy.

Orbital Industries raised $50 million in a Series B led by Plural, with participation from NVentures, Radical Ventures, Compound and Fly Ventures, to scale data centre products and broaden its platform for industrial applications.

A London-based hardware startup is building an AI-driven industrial model that tightly integrates materials discovery, engineering, and manufacturing to shorten development timelines and empower smaller teams.

The company designs, engineers, and manufactures physical infrastructure using AI to speed up discovery and bring new industrial technologies to market more quickly, all through a single, integrated AI system.

Founding leadership includes CEO with a DeepMind background, CTO, and COO; the company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in London with a San Francisco presence.

Orbital has an existing AWS partnership to pilot data-centre decarbonisation, cooling, and water-utilisation tech, with its products showcased to AWS customers via SageMaker JumpStart and AWS Marketplace, anchoring near-term revenue for the cooling-fluid line.

Funding will scale commercial deployment of a PFAS-free dielectric cooling fluid for high-density GPUs and modular off-site-manufactured data-centre compute infrastructure, with expansion plans in London and San Francisco.

The round positions Orbital Industries as a London-based AI-driven hardware company aiming to expand its AI and engineering teams and extend its materials-discovery platform beyond data centres.

Known as Orbital Industries, the startup emphasizes AI-led engineering and materials discovery from its base in London, with a Series B that signals strong investor support from a consortium including NVentures and Radical Ventures.

Orbital Markets its data-centre infrastructure under the Orbital IT brand, targeting a market projected to exceed $2 trillion by 2032 and addressing bottlenecks in power, cooling, and deployment driven by rising AI compute demand.