Applied Computing / $20M Series A for Orbital O&G foundation model

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What the source says

London-based Applied Computing raised a $20M Series A led by KBR, with Databricks Ventures participating. Its Orbital foundation model combines time-series, physics and language modeling to predict plant state, find anomalies and simulate fixes.

Company

Applied Computing

Department

Refining, LNG & process operations

Record type

pending_review

Disclosed stage

As described in supplied reference; review pending

Source date

2026-07

Source-date precision

month

Source provenance

D · Secondary / unverified

Review disposition

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Reported result

$20M Series A; 'double-digit millions' ARR within ~18 months; facilities use <8% of sensor data

What this does not establish

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Strategic investors (an engineering firm and a data platform) give distribution, and a hybrid physics-time-series-language model is attracting funding.

Original sources

• $20M Series A for Orbital O&G foundation model · 2026-07

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