Orbital Industries Raises $50M Series B for AI Materials Platform

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Orbital Industries, a startup using AI to design advanced materials, has raised a $50 million Series B round led by the venture firm Plural. NVentures, the venture arm of Nvidia and a prior investor, joined the round, along with other existing backers Radical Ventures, Compound, and Fly Ventures.

The company, which has offices in London and San Francisco, recently rebranded from Orbital Materials. Founded by Jonathan Godwin, James Gin-Pollock, and Daniel Miodovnik, Orbital Industries is building an AI industrial platform that unites materials discovery, engineering, and manufacturing into a single system meant to speed up the development of physical technologies.

The company’s initial focus is data center infrastructure through its Orbital IT product line, which addresses bottlenecks in power, cooling, and deployment driven by rising AI compute demand. It is developing AI-designed dielectric cooling fluids and modular infrastructure systems to support next-generation high-density GPUs and cut the time needed to bring new data center capacity online.

The new capital will scale commercial deployment of its first two products, both aimed at the data center industry, and grow its 50-person team. The funding will also expand its engineering and AI teams across London and San Francisco and accelerate development of its broader platform for industrial applications beyond data centers, including energy, semiconductors, aerospace, and critical minerals.