Orion Labs is a company.
Orion Labs has raised $62.5M across 5 funding rounds.
Key people at Orion Labs.
Orion Labs was founded by Jesse Robbins (Founder).
Orion Labs has raised $62.5M in total across 5 funding rounds.
Key people at Orion Labs.
Orion Labs was founded by Jesse Robbins (Founder).
Orion Labs has raised $62.5M in total across 5 funding rounds.
Orion Labs's investors include Avalon Ventures, Canaan Partners, Celesta, Cota Capital, Crosslink Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, First Rays Venture Partners, GingerBread Capital, Shasta Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, Kenneth Goldman, Mark Cuban.
Orion Labs is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2013 that builds a voice-first intelligent collaboration platform for deskless workers, delivering secure, real-time voice communication across connected devices, applications, and services.[1][3] It serves frontline industries like senior living, optimizing operations through communication, dispatch, safety workflows, and automation to boost productivity and worker output.[3] The platform solves coordination challenges for deskless teams by enabling real-time context, process automation, and centralized visibility, with $71.1M in total funding including a $29M round, and reported revenue of $10.8M.[1][3] Note: A separate entity named Orion Labs in rural Colorado focuses on robotics for agriculture via machine learning sensors, but the primary San Francisco company matches the engineering software profile with substantial VC backing.[2]
Orion Labs was founded in 2013 by cloud infrastructure pioneers Jesse Robbins and Greg Albrecht, inspired by their experiences with inefficient communication tools in high-stakes environments.[1][4] Headquartered at 208 Utah St in San Francisco, the company emerged to reinvent collaboration for deskless workers, starting with a focus on voice user interfaces and real-time comms.[3][4] Early traction included scaling operations, winning the IoT Breakthrough Award in 2017, and attracting investors like Avalon Ventures, Allen & Company, Dell Technologies Capital, Celesta Capital, and In-Q-Tel.[3][4] Leadership evolved with Greg Taylor as CEO, recognized as a visionary for global growth, alongside a team including CTO, VP of Engineering, and advisors from the founders.[1][3][5] (The Colorado robotics Orion Labs, led by Sara Jennings, originated from a passion for ag-tech robots needing affordable environmental sensing, leveraging rural testing grounds.[2])
Orion Labs rides the deskless workforce tech wave, targeting the 2.7 billion global frontline workers underserved by desk-centric tools amid IoT, AI, and 5G growth.[3][4] Timing aligns with post-pandemic hybrid shifts emphasizing secure, real-time collaboration for operations-heavy sectors like healthcare and logistics, where voice interfaces reduce errors over text.[1][3] Market forces like labor shortages and rising automation demands favor its platform, influencing the ecosystem by setting standards for voice-driven workflows and attracting defense/tech investors like In-Q-Tel.[3] It bridges cloud pioneers' expertise to practical frontline apps, accelerating adoption in high-impact areas.[4]
Orion Labs is poised to dominate deskless comms with AI-enhanced voice and workflow tools, potentially expanding into emerging sectors like manufacturing and field services amid IoT proliferation.[3][4] Trends like edge computing and multimodal AI will sharpen its edge, while acquisition risks (e.g., Vontas interest) could fuel scale.[1] Its influence may evolve from innovator to ecosystem enabler, powering safer, connected workforces—echoing its founding mission to transform inefficient comms into seamless collaboration.[1][3]
Orion Labs has raised $62.5M across 5 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $29.0M Series B in March 2020.
