Ubotica Technologies founders (from left) Chief Technology Officer Aubrey Dunne, CEO Fintan Buckley and Chief Financial Officer John Bourke with a model of the Open Cosmos CogniSat-6. Ubotica worked with Open Cosmos and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Dynamic Targeting, a 2025 demonstration of satellite autonomy. Credit: Ubotica/Fergal Phillips
SAN FRANCISCO – Ubotica Technologies, an Irish company focused on artificial intelligence for spacecraft, has raised $11 million to expand commercial sales of its maritime-intelligence platform.
The platform, Live Maritime Intelligence (LMI), unveiled in April is designed to help satellites analyze data and take action in orbit.
For many space operations, tasking is handled by people on the ground, Aubrey Dunne, Ubotica co-founder and chief technology officer, said in May at the SmallSat Europe conference in Amsterdam. “If we can automate this by processing directly on board, we can remove the human-in-the-loop bottleneck, we can remove the ground-in-the-loop bottleneck and build autonomous systems that are capable of generating higher value information and more information.”
Act Venture Capital, Greencode Ventures and Atlantic Bridge provided funding for Ubotica’s latest investment round.
