Orbital Industries

Research on the record

• 2026-06-02Orbital Industries releases OrbMol-v2, an open molecular simulation model it scores ahead of the B3LYP and PBE0 functionals on a public chemistry benchmarkLevel 2 · Computed
• 2025-04-08Orbital Materials' Orb-v3 interatomic potentials cut latency more than tenfold and memory more than eightfold against its earlier models, at near state-of-the-art accuracyLevel 2 · Computed

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Also on the timeline

• 2026-08-05BASF's catalyst arm licenses Orbital Industries' CurieOS to look for automotive emissions catalystsPartnerships

People

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Funding rounds tracked

• 2026-05-28Series B · $50MconfirmedLed by Plural · With NVentures (NVIDIA), Radical Ventures, Compound, Fly VenturesStated use: scaling sales of its two data-centre products and growing its 50-person team
• 2024-10-22Strategic investment · UndisclosedconfirmedLed by NVentures (NVIDIA)Stated use: keep building AI for advanced materials and climate technologies
• 2024-02-21Series A · $16MconfirmedLed by Radical Ventures · With Toyota VenturesStated use: expanding its data science and wet-lab teams

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Also in Materials and chemistry on the funding board

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• 2026-10-19MATARIASeed · tens of millions of yuanBuilds a multiscale materials model, from atoms to finished parts, that proposes candidates, narrows them with automated DFT and finite-element tools, and is tested by instrumented experiments; composites come first, then semiconductor and infrared materials.
• 2026-10-15HolyvoltVenture round · $45MTrains battery-materials models on 18 years of cell-cycling data from the high-throughput lab it acquired, Wildcat Discovery Technologies, and lets the models choose what the lab makes and cycles next. Its first material is DRX, a cathode family with neither nickel nor cobalt.
• 2026-10-14ScimplifyStrategic round · $25MDevelops manufacturing processes for specialty chemicals and critical materials in its own labs in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, then transfers them to a network of more than 500 partner factories. Its platform, Scinode, runs separate agents for research, manufacturing and quality control, choosing production routes and plants and tracking regulatory requirements.
• 2026-10-13AlbertSeries B · $55MSoftware and AI for chemistry and materials R&D at chemical and consumer-goods companies: it captures experiments, structures the data and lets scientists search and reason over it, suggest formulations and design experiments.
• 2026-10-12Matter MachinePre-Series A · £4MA University of Liverpool spin-out pairing AI prediction with experimental and characterisation expertise to find inorganic crystalline materials, aimed at batteries and catalysts.
• 2026-09-24Soge Intelligent ComputingAngel · tens of millions of yuanAtomistic AI models with long-range interactions, fast parallel simulation and battery device modelling, sold to battery and chemicals firms; spun out of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

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