Companies · Space / Aerospace

Alba Orbital Inc.Winter 2021Active

Wilmington · Scotland, United Kingdom · Space / Aerospace · refined from filed group “Other Technology · founded 2021 · https://www.albaorbital.com

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Alba Orbital Inc. — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$3.4M
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
Latest step-up
Top 32%
Sector rank · raised
Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Fri Mar 12 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Alba Orbital Inc. looks fair against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.

Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page. Valuation uses the space/aerospace sector profile.

Analyst read est. — computed against this company's niche peers in the same era. Inputs shown; not a quoted figure.

Fair
  • Modeled value is 1.28× the median modeled value of Seed Space / Aerospace companies in 2019–2021 (6 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
  • Within the normal band (128% of peer median) for its niche.
Dormant
  • Last raise 5.3 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 12 months.
  • Only one round on record and long silent — often defunct, acquired, or gone quiet.
Leadership

No named principal in this company's public records yet — see all operators below.

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Where it sits in Space / Aerospace

Alba Orbital Inc. is one of 133 Space / Aerospace companies tracked from Wilmington, Scotland, United Kingdom, on record since 2021. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 69% of sector peers), and in the upper tier by modeled valuation est..

Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.

AI analyst read est. — model-extracted from this company's public description, not a verified fact. 30%

operates a technology-led product inferred from public copy

Grounded in: “You are a venture analyst

We make satellites to image everywhere on Earth, every 15 minutes

Alba Orbital is building the world's largest earth observation constellation, imaging everywhere on earth, every 15 minutes. We can see events within minutes such as wildfires in real time and have signed >$85m of LOIs, with both government and commercial customers paying pre-orders for imagery. To date we have launched 62 satellites into orbit (more than any all other yc companies combined), with more launching in 2026 onwards. We have launched a number of technology demonstration imaging satellites called Unicorns, which are the world's most advanced satellite under 1kg ever flown in orbit.

space/aerospace
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As reported in public records reported — not modeled.

GB
Jurisdiction
Rule 506(b)
Reg D exemption
40
Investors (latest)
2021
Year incorporated
2021-03-12
First sale
Amount raised vs valuation, by round

Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.

Amount raised · realModeled valuation · estCumulative funded · real
$0$25M$50M$75M$100MSeed · 2021-03-12 Raised $3.4M (real) Modeled valuation $69M (est)$3.4M$69MSeed2021

The line shows cumulative reported funding over the period; + labels show new capital added between points when there is room. Toggle on-bar figures, plus the niche-peer and market averages, to read this company against its cohort. Benchmarks are modeled medians.

Financing ladder & sequence gaps
Seed$3.4M · 2021

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 50%.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$68.8M
Base estimate est.
$2.6M
Conservative case
$447.7M
Upside case
$17.0M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Seeda $1.0M–$4.0M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the space/aerospace sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.

Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
20%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
34%
Survival probability
15% low · 53% high
1.59×/yr
Annual markup
2.09×/yr upside case
5.3 yr
Elapsed time used
5.3 yr actual, capped for stale marks
space/aerospace
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
5.3 yr
On record since
2021
First round
1
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 133 companies in Space / Aerospace. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.

Total raised — vs sector median (real $, all stages) 0.7× of median
This company$3.4M
Sector median$4.7M
Latest round — vs other Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 2.3× above median
This company$3.4M
Sector median$1.5M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 1.8× above median
This company$68.8M
Sector median$38.2M

Raised more than 69% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 82% of peers (estimate).

Niche peers — same stage & era

A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Seed) that last raised in the same ~3-year era, ranked by modeled value est. (not money raised). This is the exact set the analyst read compares against, so a like-for-like cohort is what makes "over/under-valued" meaningful. This company ranks #2 of 6.

This companyCohort peer
$10.0M$100.0M$100K$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)Jetpack Aviation Corp · Seed Raised $2.6M · modeled $73.6M (est)Aero Design Labs LLC · Seed Raised $5.0M · modeled $55.6M (est)Satellite Innovations, Inc. · Seed Raised $1.8M · modeled $51.7M (est)Pierce Aerospace Inc · Seed Raised $1.1M · modeled $19.6M (est)Blue Tail Hawk Aviation Corp · Seed Raised $1.1M · modeled $17.1M (est)Alba Orbital Inc. (this company) Raised $3.4M · modeled $68.8M (est)Alba Orbital Inc.
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Jetpack Aviation CorpSeed$2.6M$73.6M1.37×
Alba Orbital Inc. this companySeed$3.4M$68.8M1.28×
Aero Design Labs LLCSeed$5.0M$55.6M1.04×
Satellite Innovations, Inc.Seed$1.8M$51.7M0.96×
Pierce Aerospace IncSeed$1.1M$19.6M0.37×
Blue Tail Hawk Aviation CorpSeed$1.1M$17.1M0.32×
Full financing history

Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.

StageAmount · realAnnouncedPost-money · estValue · estConf.
Seed$3.4M2021-03-12$17.0M$68.8M90%
What happened at each round

Step-up, pace versus the sector's normal cadence, and revenue/exemption moves — read straight from the reported round facts reported.

  1. Seed$3.4M2021-03-12
    • First recorded raise — entered as Seed.
    • 40 investors on this round.
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
$5.4M
Modeled next size est.range $3.5M$8.7M
Last step-up
Capital velocity

Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.

Key people & operators

Officers, directors and promoters named in this company's public recordsreported — the people who run it (not its investors). "Also runs" counts come from name-matching across all records, so verify before acting.

PersonRoleAlso runsTied since
Thomas Robert Lamb Walkinshaw2021-03
Registry & provenance

Alba Orbital Inc. is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.

United States
Country of record
GB
Jurisdiction
1861578
SEC CIK
2021
Incorporated
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Frequently asked
How much funding has Alba Orbital Inc. raised?
Alba Orbital Inc. has raised approximately $3.4M in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is Alba Orbital Inc.'s estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Alba Orbital Inc. is approximately $68.8M (modeled range $2.6M–$447.7M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Alba Orbital Inc. at?
Alba Orbital Inc.'s latest modeled financing stage is Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Fri Mar 12.
What does Alba Orbital Inc. do and where is it based?
Alba Orbital Inc. operates in the Space / Aerospace sector, based in Wilmington, Scotland, United Kingdom. We make satellites to image everywhere on Earth, every 15 minutes
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