London-based industrial AI company Orbital Industries, which builds AI systems for designing and manufacturing physical infrastructure, has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round backed by Plural, NVentures, Radical Ventures, Compound, and Fly Ventures.
- Founded by Jonathan Godwin, James Gin-Pollock, and Daniel Miodovnik, Orbital Industries is building an “AI industrial” platform that unifies materials discovery, engineering, and manufacturing into a single system designed to accelerate the development of physical technologies.
- The company’s initial focus is on data centre infrastructure through its Orbital IT product line, which addresses key 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 significantly reduce the time required to bring new data centre capacity online.
- At the core of its approach, the platform uses AI to simulate physical systems and streamline the entire development cycle from materials discovery through to deployable hardware, aiming to compress timelines from years down to months.
- Orbital Industries currently employs a team of around 50 people across London and San Francisco and is working with leading data centre operators, including a multi-year partnership with AWS, to advance cooling and efficiency technologies for hyperscale deployment.
Details of the deal
- The funding will be used to scale Orbital Industries’ commercial deployment in data centre infrastructure, expand its engineering and AI teams across London and San Francisco, and accelerate the development of its broader platform for industrial applications beyond data centres, including sectors such as energy, semiconductors, aerospace and critical minerals.
