London- and SF-based Orbital Industries, which uses its Orb model to design advanced materials and then sell them directly, raised a $50M Series B led by Plural (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

<a href="https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/exclusive-orbital-industries-raises-50-million-series-b-funding-round-ai-to-discover-exotic-new-materials/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260528/i21.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260528/p21#a260528p21" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Jeremy Kahn / <a href="http://www.fortune.com/">Fortune</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/exclusive-orbital-industries-raises-50-million-series-b-funding-round-ai-to-discover-exotic-new-materials/">London- and SF-based Orbital Industries, which uses its Orb model to design advanced materials and then sell them directly, raised a $50M Series B led by Plural</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Orbital Industries, a startup using AI to design advanced materials, has raised a $50 million Series B funding round led by the venture capital firm Plural.</p>