The London-and-San-Francisco startup, formerly Orbital Materials, has closed $50M led by Plural for PFAS-free cooling fluid and modular high-density compute infrastructure.
Orbital Industries, the London-and-San-Francisco AI-materials startup formerly known as Orbital Materials, has raised $50m in a Series B led by Plural with participation from Nvidia’s NVentures, Radical Ventures, Compound and Fly Ventures.
The funding will scale commercial deployment of the company’s data-centre cooling fluid and modular compute-infrastructure products, and expand its team across London and San Francisco.
The company has rebranded along with the round. Orbital Materials, founded in 2022 by chief executive Jonathan Godwin (formerly of DeepMind), chief technology officer James Gin-Pollock and chief operating officer Daniel Miodovnik, originally positioned itself around AI-discovered carbon-capture and sustainable-aviation-fuel chemistry.
The company has since pivoted, or rather expanded, toward data-centre infrastructure where the immediate commercial pull has been strongest.
