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Jan 2025A YC job listing says the company had a difficult restructuring last year before growing again, suggesting prior internal restructuring.
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Overview
Orbio Earth is a climate-tech company that uses satellite and ground data to deliver asset-level methane intelligence for the energy and financial sectors, helping customers detect leaks, quantify emissions, prioritize abatement, and reduce regulatory and portfolio risk.
Primary product
Satellite-based methane intelligence / emissions monitoring platform with browser and API access
Founded
2021
Headquarters
Dover, Delaware, USA; Cologne, Germany (public site lists US and European headquarters; company profiles also reference Berlin)
Team size
10-20
Industry
Environmental Services
Sub-industry
Methane emissions monitoring / climate intelligence
Offices
1111B S Governors Ave, Dover, DE 19904, USA
Geestemuender Str. 41, 50735 Köln, Germany
Business model
enterprise SaaS
data subscription / data licensing
API access
analytics and reporting platform
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$4.7M
Latest round
Seed · Mar 2024
Latest amount
$4M
People & investors
Work & culture
Mission-driven and impact-oriented; the company describes its team as scientists and engineers and its careers page frames hiring around ‘Methane Intelligence pioneers.’ Public hiring copy emphasizes high ownership, self-direction, and direct work with the CEO.
Compensation
A public YC job listing for a Founding Product Engineer showed $50K-$120K salary and said US citizenship/visa was not required; a reposted salary listing for a similar role showed $50K-$130K.
Product & market
Pricing
Enterprise subscription / data licensing with API and direct platform access
Differentiators
- —Asset-level methane monitoring from satellite data
- —Global coverage across oil & gas infrastructure
- —Fast delivery of emissions data (daily/weekly/monthly; company materials also cite within 48 hours)
- —Browser and API access
- —Validated in a Stanford single-blind methane-satellite study
- —Combines public and commercial satellite sources with ground data and geospatial ML
- —Built for financial-risk and compliance workflows
- —Public/open-source workflow components on GitHub
Technology
satellite imagery
Sentinel-2
Landsat 8/9
EMIT
Python 3.10
Jupyter Notebooks
PyTorch
Dask
Apache Arrow
machine learning
geospatial pipelines
API integrations
wind data (ERA5, GEOS-FP)
Bayesian inference
Customers
oil & gas operators
energy companies
financial institutions
private equity firms
insurers
sustainability / risk analysts
Competitors
GHGSat
Kayrros
Maxar
Bridger Photonics
Carbon Mapper
MethaneSAT
QLM
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$850k ARR
Estimated monthly visits
2K
Traffic estimate as of Jan 2025
Signals & risks
Latest news
TechCrunch · Mar 2024
TechCrunch profiled Orbio’s satellite methane monitoring product, described its customers and operating model, and highlighted its $4M seed financing and 10-20 TB/day processing volume.
Orbio Earth · Mar 2024
Official seed announcement: $4M raised with backing from Initialized Capital, Y Combinator, the European Space Agency, Leap Forward Ventures, and angels JJ Fliegelman and Liz Wessel.
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques / Stanford study · Jan 2024
Peer-reviewed study that included Orbio Earth as a participating analysis team; Orbio detected all Sentinel-2 releases except one below 0.010 t/h and showed competitive quantification performance.
Orbio Earth · Jul 2022
Company announcement of a €600k pre-seed round led by Satgana, with Robert Huppertz identified as CEO & Co-Founder.
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