Ronak Kumar Samantray
Ex-NowFloats co-founder
Orbital Compute
OPERATIONAL
OPERATIONAL
Products — OrbitLab — satellite-as-a-service platform
Products — MOI-1 satellite
Model: Students, researchers and enterprises upload AI models to orbiting satellites and pay only for compute time used
Demonstrated: Uploading large AI models from ground, running third-party code on a satellite, returning encrypted results securely
Cost approach: Uses standard electronic components with life-extension techniques rather than rad-hardened parts
Total raised: ~$5.64–5.67 million across 3 rounds from 22 investors
Latest round: $5M led by Chiratae Ventures, January 2026 (Unicorn India Ventures, Artha Venture Fund, SeaFund)
Grants: IN-SPACe Technology Adoption Fund, June 2026
Constellation: Six spacecraft with optical inter-satellite links
Compute target: ~5 kW in-orbit initially; research toward megawatt-scale compute satellites
Geography: India, US, Australia
Imported from IFSC Archive dataset v5.0, research snapshot 2026-08-16.
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