Tech Company Financing Transactions

Orbital Insight Funding Round

On 6/27/2016, Orbital Insight received $20 million in Series B funding from GV, Bloomberg Beta and CME Group.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
6/27/2016
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$20,000,000
Round
Series B
Investors

GV (Lead Investor) (Andrew Wheeler)

Bloomberg Beta

CME Group (Rumi Morales)

In-Q-Tel (George Hoyem)

Lux Capital (Bilal Zuberi)

Sequoia Capital (William Coughran)

Proceeds Purpose
With this new round of funding, Orbital Insight plans to continue refining its ability to extract analysis from satellite imagery, improving, for instance, its ability to monitor the global oil supply. The company will also work to expand its range of detectable signals, and will continue hiring top talent in the machine vision and data science fields.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Software
Mailing Address
3000 El Camino Real Building 2 4th Floor
Palo Alto, CA 94306
USA
Email Address
Overview
Orbital Insight is a Geospatial Big Data company leveraging the rapidly growing availability of satellite, UAV, and other geospatial data sources, to understand and characterize socio-economic trends at global, regional, and hyper-local scales.
Profile
Orbital Insight LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Orbital Insight Company Twitter Account
Company News
Orbital Insight News
Facebook
Orbital Insight on Facebook
YouTube
Orbital Insight on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
James Crawford
  James Crawford LinkedIn Profile  James Crawford Twitter Account  James Crawford News  James Crawford on Facebook
Chief Financial Officer
James Cook
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VP - Bus. Development
Kevin O'Brien
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VP - Engineering
Matthew Falk
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VP - Operations
Glenn Sterenborg
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