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We Fund the Companies
That Build What Comes Next
Orbit AI is a seed fund built by operators who have scaled companies from zero to category leadership. We write $5M checks into exceptional early-stage teams building with AI at their core. We don't just observe the future -- we helped build it, and now we back those who will carry it forward.
Sectors We Back
We focus where AI creates the deepest structural advantages and the highest-velocity markets
AI Infrastructure and Tooling
The picks-and-shovels of the AI revolution. We back teams building developer platforms, model serving infrastructure, training data pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and the technical primitives that every AI application company will depend on. Infrastructure compounds. Early infrastructure investments in prior technology cycles produced some of the most durable businesses in enterprise technology.
See CompaniesVertical AI Applications
Domain-specific AI products that replace or transform entire workflow categories within established industries. Healthcare, legal, financial services, construction, logistics -- every sector is being rebuilt. We look for founders with deep domain expertise who understand the regulatory environment, the buyer psychology, and the implementation challenges that generic horizontal tools cannot navigate.
See CompaniesHuman-Machine Collaboration
The emerging category of tools that augment human capability rather than attempting to replace it. We believe the most valuable AI companies of the next decade will be those that make extraordinary people dramatically more productive -- not those chasing full automation. Copilots for knowledge workers, AI-augmented decision support systems, and human-AI workflow platforms represent a massive opportunity.
See CompaniesCompanies We Have Backed
A selection of seed-stage companies in our active portfolio
Vectra Systems
High-throughput vector database infrastructure for production AI applications at enterprise scale. 40x faster query performance with 60 percent lower memory overhead.
Prism Eval
Comprehensive evaluation and monitoring platform for production AI systems. Adversarial testing, regression detection, and real-time production monitoring from a single platform.
Foundry Labs
Distributed training orchestration platform that reduces the cost of fine-tuning large foundation models. Enterprise AI teams report 50 to 70 percent reductions in fine-tuning costs.
Synaptic.io
Agentic workflow platform enabling enterprise teams to build and deploy multi-step AI agent pipelines without deep machine learning expertise.
Nexus ML
Specialized AI platform for regulated industry verticals, combining domain-specific fine-tuned models with compliance-ready deployment infrastructure for enterprise buyers.
Cohere Systems
Knowledge augmentation platform that gives enterprise teams an AI layer across their entire document and communication stack, enabling superhuman productivity at scale.
From the Orbit AI Blog
Perspectives from operators who have been in the trenches
The Operator Advantage in Venture Capital: How a16z Redefined What Investors Can Do
Andreessen Horowitz proved that operators make better investors for certain categories of companies. Orbit AI examines the evidence and explains why operator experience changes the quality of the partnership.
Read More →The AI Developer Tools Boom: Seed Investing in Cursor, Replit, Codeium, and the Next Wave
The AI developer tools category produced some of the fastest-growing companies in venture history. Orbit AI examines what made the first wave exceptional and where the next generation of opportunities lies.
Read More →The Infrastructure Layer of the AI Economy
The picks-and-shovels thesis for AI is playing out exactly as expected -- but the winning categories are not the ones most investors are funding. A deep look at where durable value is forming.
Read More →Co-Investment Partner
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