{"success":true,"data":{"id":"8b15be83-c282-4bd9-ac7a-a0cf69470a07","name":"Orbital","slug":"orbital","tagline":"Open ontology layer for enterprise data and AI","description":"Orbital is the open ontology layer for enterprise data. It gives organisations one shared model of their business, and a runtime that resolves queries against live systems on demand.\n\nMost enterprises have spent a decade wiring systems together. Every new tool means another set of pipelines, another mapping exercise, another six months. AI has made that worse, because agents need access to everything and the wiring was never built for them.\n\nOrbital takes a different route. Teams describe what their data means using Taxi, the open language at the core of the platform, and Orbital works out how to fetch and join it across APIs, databases, queues and legacy estates. No glue code. No copies of the data. No rip-and-replace.\n\nThe result is that new integrations take hours rather than quarters, and every model you add makes the next one easier.","whyWeInvested":"Palantir proved enterprises will pay millions a year for an ontology with engineers attached. That's a very good business and a very closed one. Orbital does the same job with the ontology held in the open and the runtime doing the delivery, which means customers keep control of their own model and partners can build on top of it.\n\nWe think integration is about to become the binding constraint on enterprise AI. Every agent programme runs into the same wall: the data exists, it just can't be reached quickly or safely enough to be useful. Orbital sits exactly at that wall.\n\nThe team is the other reason. Marty has been building in this space for over a decade and Taxi already has a following outside the company. Jon brings the hyperscaler and SI relationships that turn a strong product into a channel.","mission":"To make enterprise data usable by anyone and anything that asks for it, by giving every organisation an open model of its own business.","founders":"Marty Pitt","logoSvg":"\n Orbital\n \n ","featuredImage":"/media/file/1787348963392-440355140.png","status":"active","dateFounded":"2024","yearInvolved":"2026","websiteUrl":"https://orbitalhq.com/","linkedinUrl":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/orbitalhq","instagramUrl":null,"facebookUrl":null,"twitterUrl":"https://twitter.com/orbitalapi","categories":["AI & Data","Enterprise Platforms"],"exitedDate":"","exitedTo":"","brandColor":"#E7551E","brandColorSecondary":"#cc4514","investmentRole":"Investor","sortOrder":21,"metaTitle":"Orbital: Open Ontology for Enterprise Data & AI | BIG Ideas Group","metaDescription":"Discover Orbital, the open ontology layer simplifying enterprise data integration for AI. Get a shared data model & resolve queries across all systems. Explore smarter data.","ogImage":null,"canonicalUrl":null,"structuredData":null,"blurDataUrl":"data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/2wBDACgcHiMeGSgjISMtKygwPGRBPDc3PHtYXUlkkYCZlo+AjIqgtObDoKrarYqMyP/L2u71////m8H////6/+b9//j/2wBDASstLTw1PHZBQXb4pYyl+Pj4+Pj4+Pj4+Pj4+Pj4+Pj4+Pj4+Pj4+Pj4+Pj4+Pj4+Pj4+Pj4+Pj4+Pj4+Pj4+Pj/wAARCAATACADASIAAhEBAxEB/8QAGAABAQEBAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQACAwT/xAAgEAACAgICAgMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQIRITEDQRJhIlGh/8QAFQEBAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH/xAAVEQEBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAf/aAAwDAQACEQMRAD8A8lXpDKDira9jxzStPT2afP4JpfL0+iLHGzUZ6Usx7V4ZzvLf4NlQl9EQBWUBEB//2Q==","createdAt":"2026-08-21T19:31:03.105Z","updatedAt":"2026-08-21T21:49:32.999Z","media":[]},"message":null}