Irish space technology firm Ubotica Technologies has announced a US$11 million funding round to accelerate the deployment of its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered intelligence platform, a maritime security service utilising real-time decision-making satellites.
The financing round was led by Act Venture Capital and Greencode Ventures, with participation from existing investor Atlantic Bridge.
Ubotica says that its technology has already run hundreds of thousands of AI inferences in orbit, deployed more than 30 Earth observation models on board satellites across multiple missions, and achieved a 100 per cent mission success rate. The firm has previously worked with organisations including NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the European Space Agency.
The investment will accelerate the commercial rollout of the company’s Live Maritime Intelligence (LMI) platform, used to detect emerging threats across maritime territories in real time.
Rather than relying on fixed satellite collection schedules and post-processing on Earth, the platform combines orbital AI with autonomous ground-to-orbit tasking to dynamically focus available sensing assets on emerging activity, providing earlier warning and faster operational intelligence.
“Ubotica has spent years pioneering Orbital AI, and we have applied that knowledge to one of the hardest security challenges on Earth: protecting vast maritime zones and critical offshore infrastructure,” said Fintan Buckley, Chief Executive Officer of Ubotica Technologies.
“Live Maritime Intelligence predicts where risk is emerging, tasks the right satellites and sensors, and delivers decision-grade intelligence in minutes, giving security teams the speed and efficiency they need to act. This investment allows us to bring LMI to market at scale.”
