Orca AI is a Maritime & Undersea Systems company founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It has raised $111.1M in total funding, most recently a Series B in 2025.
| Date | Stage | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2025 | Series B | $72.5M | — | Brighton Park Capital |
| May 23, 2024 | Growth | $23M | — | OCV Partners, MizMaa Ventures |
| Apr 1, 2021 | Series A | $13M | — | OCV Partners |
| Jan 31, 2019 | Seed | $2.6M | — | — |
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AI-powered autonomous navigation assistant that uses computer vision and deep learning to detect, track, and classify vessels, obstacles, and maritime hazards in real time. Deployed on 1,200+ commercial vessels, SeaPod provides a persistent watchkeeper that far exceeds human lookout capability—reducing close-encounter incidents by 54% in logged deployments. Partners with Samsung Heavy Industries as standard equipment on new builds, and supports Israeli Navy autonomous vessel programs.
Full-stack software stack enabling continuous, uncrewed navigation for commercial and defense vessels by fusing camera, radar, AIS, and lidar feeds through Orca's proprietary AI models. Demonstrated on the world's first autonomous commercial ship voyage with NYK in 2022. The platform is progressing toward Level 4 autonomy for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) in contested maritime environments, with applications in naval surveillance and mine-countermeasure missions.
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