Ubotica
About
About Ubotica
Ubotica develops edge-AI computing systems for satellites, industrial equipment and critical infrastructure. CogniSAT and SPACE:AI process Earth-observation imagery onboard a spacecraft, identifying useful scenes or events before downlink and reducing latency, bandwidth and unnecessary data transmission.
The common architecture combines power-efficient inference, continuous model improvement and software for deploying workloads at the data source. CogniSAT has completed more than 300,000 onboard inferences, establishing flight heritage for the space stack. Ubotica also applies related anomaly-detection technology to terrestrial industrial systems and supplies hardware, software and integration support.
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- NOVI Space
Outbound - Autonomy Software - Ubotica supplies SPACE:AI inference software integrated with NOVI GENIE smart-satellite infrastructure
Source
Funding
- 2026-06-23 - Funding round - $11M - Ubotica raises $11M to scale orbital AI and maritime intelligence
Ubotica raised an $11 million round to expand its orbital-AI platform and real-time maritime-intelligence service. - source: ubotica.com
Investors
- Act Venture Capital - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-23
- Atlantic Bridge - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-23
- Greencode Ventures - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-23
Team
- Fintan Buckley - Co-founder and CEO - Co-founded Ubotica and leads its orbital-AI and maritime-intelligence business.
- Aubrey Dunne - Co-founder and CTO - Co-founded Ubotica and leads its space-edge AI platform and embedded-vision engineering.
- John Bourke - Co-founder and Chief Financial Officer - Co-founded Ubotica and leads finance, funding and scaling.
- Sean Mitchell - Chairman and Chief Commercial Officer - Leads Ubotica commercial strategy and serves as chairman.
- David Moloney - Chief Scientist - Leads scientific direction for Ubotica's onboard AI and processor work.
- Brian Quinn - Chief Strategy Officer - Leads company and product strategy for Ubotica.
- John Doody - Vice President, Products - Leads Ubotica product development and platform delivery.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-06-23 - Funding - Ubotica raises $11M to scale orbital AI and maritime intelligence
Act Venture Capital and Greencode Ventures led the round. Existing investor Atlantic Bridge also participated. Ubotica said the capital would accelerate deployment of its AI-powered maritime-intelligence platform.
Source - 2026-05-18 - Partnership - Ubotica and NOVI Space partner on real-time AI inference at the space edge
Ubotica announced a partnership agreement with NOVI Space to support real-time AI inference in orbit. The collaboration combines Ubotica's SPACE:AI platform with NOVI's GENIE smart-satellite constellation and onboard compute infrastructure. This is a space-edge autonomy infrastructure event relevant to orbital sensing and decision-grade intelligence, not terrestrial robot hardware.
Source - 2026-04-14 - Partnership - Ubotica and Open Cosmos collaborate with NASA JPL on autonomous satellite network demonstration
Ubotica and Open Cosmos agreed to collaborate with NASA JPL on the FAME autonomous satellite-network demonstration. FAME names Ubotica SPACE:AI and two Open Cosmos spacecraft as AI satellite assets. The programme will test autonomous sensing and dynamic targeting across a network of space-edge systems.
Source - 2025-07-24 - Demonstration - Ubotica and NASA JPL demonstrate Dynamic Targeting on CogniSAT-6
SPACE:AI processed look-ahead imagery and the planning software selected a cloud-free target without ground-station involvement. CogniSAT-6 reoriented and captured the selected follow-up image within a 60-to-90-second workflow. The test used a physical Open Cosmos-built CubeSat already operating in orbit rather than a simulation.
Source - 2025-07-08 - Partnership - Ubotica, Fugro and DTACT develop space-to-seabed intelligence platform
Ubotica contributes near-real-time satellite vessel tracking from its AI-driven acquisition system. Fugro contributes Geo-data from uncrewed surface vessels, underwater vehicles, aerial drones and remote operations. DTACT fuses the inputs into a common intelligence picture, initially for the North Sea and Baltic regions.
Source - 2024-11-15 - Partnership - Ubotica and Kongsberg NanoAvionics partner to integrate SPACE:AI on small satellites
Ubotica announced a strategic partnership with Kongsberg NanoAvionics to deploy SPACE:AI processing solutions across NanoAvionics satellite platforms. The collaboration includes CogniSAT-CRC cloud-removal and compression technology for Earth-observation missions. The event adds flight-platform distribution context for onboard AI inference and autonomous satellite operations.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Open Cosmos
Autonomous Satellite Partner - Ubotica and Open Cosmos collaborate on CogniSAT-6 operations and the FAME autonomous satellite-network demonstration.
- Fugro
Maritime Intelligence Partner - Ubotica and Fugro are developing a maritime intelligence platform with DTACT, combining planned satellite vessel data and Geo-data.
- DTACT
Data Fusion Partner - Ubotica supplies satellite intelligence to a maritime data-fusion platform developed with DTACT and Fugro.
- Kongsberg NanoAvionics
Small Satellite Platform Partner - Ubotica and Kongsberg NanoAvionics integrate SPACE:AI processing with NanoAvionics small-satellite platforms.
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Space Autonomy Research Partner - Ubotica collaborates with NASA JPL on Dynamic Targeting and the FAME autonomous-measurement programme.
Context
Comparable profiles
- NOVI Space
stack adjacency - Edge AI Infrastructure
- Lantronix
stack adjacency - Edge AI Infrastructure · Robotics Edge AI
- SPHERE AX
stack adjacency - Robotics Edge AI
- Wind River
stack adjacency - Edge AI Infrastructure
- MICROIP
stack adjacency - Robotics Edge AI
- Hailo
stack adjacency - Robotics Edge AI
- Cron AI
stack adjacency - Robotics Edge AI
Shared workflows
- General Instinct
workflow adjacency - Edge AI Inference
- Ultralytics
workflow adjacency - Edge AI Inference
- Mobilint
workflow adjacency - Edge AI Inference
- Axelera AI
workflow adjacency - Edge AI Inference
- Limelight Vision
workflow adjacency - Edge AI Inference
- Axera Semiconductor
workflow adjacency - Edge AI Inference
- TraceWeave
workflow adjacency - Edge AI Inference
Context tags
- Space infrastructure operations - Customer Environment
- Edge AI inference - Workflow
- Edge AI infrastructure layer - Stack Layer - Ubotica provides the software layer for onboard satellite AI infrastructure.
- Robotics Edge AI - Stack Layer - Onboard AI inference is adjacent to autonomous sensing and decision workflows.