Orbital Witness is a company.
Orbital Witness has raised $8.0M across 1 funding round.
Key people at Orbital Witness.
Orbital Witness has raised $8.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Orbital Witness has raised $8.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Orbital Witness's investors include Hambro Perks, High Alpha, Kickstart Fund, Frederic Kerrest.
Orbital Witness (now rebranded as Orbital) is a London-based legal tech and proptech company that builds an AI-powered property diligence automation platform. It serves law firms, in-house legal teams, residential conveyancers, insurers, surveyors, lenders, and other real estate professionals by streamlining the due diligence process—locating, analyzing, visualizing, and reporting on property and title data to identify risks and generate reports.[1][2][4][6] The platform solves the inefficiency of manual property checks, reducing time by up to 70% through tools like Orbital Witness (for data visualization), Orbital Copilot (AI agent mimicking real estate lawyers), and Orbital Residential (automated title checking), while providing legal risk ratings and secure data handling.[3][4][5]
Founded in 2017-2018, the company has raised over $10M, grown to 51-200 employees, and expanded from UK to US markets, serving thousands of users with a suite backed by Azure OpenAI for advanced AI workflows.[3][4][5][6]
Orbital Witness was incorporated on April 20, 2017, in London, with operations launching around 2018 by co-founders Will Pearce (CEO, background in space industry and economics, focused on long-term strategy), Edmond (Ed) Boulle (legal background, advised UK space startups), and Francesco Liucci (international relations and business economics).[6][7][8] Inspired by space industry mapping and visualization techniques, the founders aimed to revolutionize real estate due diligence by overlaying property data onto satellite imagery—addressing the unique complexities of real estate as an asset class.[3][6]
Early traction came from pivoting to AI, including LLMs via Azure OpenAI for Orbital Copilot, which automates workflows traditionally done by lawyers. This evolution from a single visualization tool to a full product suite marked pivotal growth, leading to the 2024 rebrand to Orbital to reflect broader automation ambitions.[3][5]
Orbital rides the legal tech and proptech convergence, fueled by AI advancements like LLMs and geospatial tech, amid rising real estate transaction volumes and regulatory demands for faster due diligence.[1][2][5] Timing aligns with post-pandemic market shifts toward digital property tools, where manual processes hinder scalability—Orbital's automation taps into this by reducing administrative burdens in a $200T+ global real estate market.[3][4]
Market forces favoring it include AI adoption in legal (e.g., e-discovery parallels with competitors like Relativity) and proptech growth, plus backing from world-class investors and partnerships like Microsoft Azure.[5][6] It influences the ecosystem by setting standards for AI in property risk assessment, enabling professionals to handle more volume, lower costs, and compete globally—pushing incumbents toward tech integration.[1][3]
Orbital is poised for accelerated US expansion and product innovation, building on its suite to fully automate end-to-end diligence with emerging AI like advanced agents and frontier geospatial tech.[3][6] Trends like multimodal AI, regulatory tech mandates, and climate-resilient property analytics will shape its path, potentially capturing larger shares in commercial real estate and insurance.[2][5] Its influence may evolve from UK pioneer to global leader, as rebranding signals scalability—watch for deeper enterprise integrations and IPO potential, transforming how professionals "understand property in an instant."[6] This positions Orbital as a core enabler in AI-revolutionized real estate transactions.
Key people at Orbital Witness.
Orbital Witness has raised $8.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $8.0M Series A in May 2023.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2023 | $8.0M Series A | Hambro Perks, High Alpha, Kickstart Fund, Frederic Kerrest |
