Seed · Aerospace & Defense · Glasgow, United Kingdom · Founded 2012 · 16–16 employees
Alba Orbital is the world's leading PocketQube satellite manufacturer and launch broker, founded in 2012 by Tom Walkinshaw. The company has successfully launched 57 PocketQube satellites into orbit, building the world's largest earth observation constellation to image everywhere on Earth every 15 minutes. They raised $3.4 million in seed funding from Y Combinator and other investors in 2021, signing over $85 million in letters of intent from government and commercial customers. The company has developed innovative miniaturized satellite platforms including the Unicorn-1 and Unicorn-2, offering affordable space access at significantly lower costs than traditional CubeSats.