Jonathan Godwin

Founder

Now Founder, Orbital Industries

Latest on AI4S.fyiTimeline · Aug 5BASF's catalyst arm licenses Orbital Industries' CurieOS to look for automotive emissions catalysts

Account links back to orbitalindustries.com · Avatar from their X account, taken 2026-10-01

Affiliations

Current

Founder · Orbital Industriessince 2022techcrunch.com ↗

Also named in the companies' announcements: Google DeepMind

Current roles come from these dated records, not from the bio below. Each links the page it was read from.

About

Jonathan Godwin is co-founder and CEO of Orbital Industries (formerly Orbital Materials), which he co-founded in 2022 to design advanced materials with AI and sell the products itself. He spent five years at Google DeepMind working on AI for science and advanced materials. He has said he left because DeepMind was not going to build a materials and hardware company itself.

Read on 2026-09-29; for current roles see Affiliations above. Read at: fortune.com ↗ · techcrunch.com ↗

Founded

Orbital IndustriesMaterials and chemistry · 2022 · 3 rounds on record · disclosed $66M · Series B $50M
Background: Google DeepMind (five years on AI for science and advanced materials) (as the company's own announcements put it)
Co-founders: James Gin-Pollock, Daniel Miodovnik
Backed byPlural NVentures (NVIDIA)Radical Ventures

On the timeline

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

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