Greencode co-leads Orbital AI pioneer Ubotica's $11 million investment round

Ubotica Technologies, the Irish space technology firm pioneering Orbital AI, has today announced an $11 million funding round to accelerate deployment of its AI-powered intelligence platform, a breakthrough maritime security service powered by real-time decision-making satellites in the Earth’s orbit.

The round was led by Greencode Ventures and Act Venture Capital, with participation from existing investor Atlantic Bridge.

As industries plan for orbital compute, Ubotica has already proven AI at the orbital edge. Its Orbital AI technology has run hundreds of thousands of AI inferences in orbit, deployed more than 30 Earth observation models on board satellites across multiple missions, and achieved a 100% mission success rate. Working with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the European Space Agency, it has delivered a series of world firsts, including the first spacecraft to autonomously identify a target ahead and reorient itself to capture it.

The investment will accelerate the commercial rollout of Ubotica’s Live Maritime Intelligence platform, which enables governments and maritime agencies  around the world to detect emerging threats across vast maritime territories in real time.

The funding comes as nations face growing pressure to protect critical maritime infrastructure, including undersea communications cables, offshore energy assets, pipelines and strategic shipping routes, while responding to increasingly complex activity such as shadow fleets, dark vessels, sanctions evasion and potential sabotage.

Over the past 12 months, Ubotica has seen significant demand for its Live Maritime Intelligence, driven by its ability to enhance maritime surveillance across exclusive economic zones that are often far larger than a nation’s landmass.
Live Maritime Intelligence works by continuously identifying areas of elevated maritime risk, helping operators prioritise surveillance resources.

Rather than relying on fixed satellite collection schedules and post-processing on Earth, the platform combines Orbital AI with autonomous ground-to-orbit tasking to dynamically focus available sensing assets on emerging activity, providing earlier warning and faster operational intelligence back down to Earth.

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Monitoring risk from space

While most Earth observation satellites still capture imagery before transmitting it to Earth for processing, Ubotica has fundamentally changed that model.

Orbital AI significantly reduces response times on Earth while making satellite networks far more efficient, by moving intelligence closer to where data is captured.

Ubotica is among the first companies to have proven Orbital AI in operational space missions, amid growing interest and investment around the space sector, in-orbit computing and AI infrastructure in space.

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Orbital AI pioneers

“Ubotica has spent years pioneering Orbital AI, and we have applied that knowledge to one of the hardest security challenges on Earth: protecting vast maritime zones and critical offshore infrastructure,” said Fintan Buckley, CEO of Ubotica Technologies. “Live Maritime Intelligence predicts where risk is emerging, tasks the right satellites and sensors, and delivers decision-grade intelligence in minutes, giving security teams the speed and efficiency they need to act. This investment allows us to bring LMI to market at scale.”

“Resilience is a key topic for Europe in the coming years. Securing critical infrastructure in harbors and off-shore is crucial. Ubotica’s edge AI technology enables satellite constellations to detect threats and anomalies early, anywhere across vast ocean areas, creating both a strategic security capability and a compelling commercial opportunity,” said Terhi Vapola, Greencode Ventures.

“Ubotica has been running inference in orbit for years and transforms static Earth Observation into live intelligence. Nations can’t afford to wait hours for imagery while a vessel goes dark over critical infrastructure. Live Maritime Intelligence proves what on-board intelligence is worth: it turns Earth Observation from a camera into a real-time sentinel, starting with Europe’s waters,” said Andrew O’Neill, Act Venture Capital

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