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OroraTech

OroraTech
Startup Name: OroraTech
Country: Germany
Date Founded: /12/2018
Financial Stage: Round A
Area: CleanTech

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OroraTech empowers better decisions for climate resilience through continuous thermal data from space.
Climate change causes fires, wildfires and megafires around the globe. Those fires destroy assets like forests, powerlines or houses. OroraTech's fire intelligence saas-platform provides fire detection and monitoring to emergency services, asset owners, insurances and energy utility operators to take decisions on allocation of emergency resources, shutting down operations, rerouting electricity or determining the damages after the fire.
Currently fire detection and monitoring is done by pilots flying over large areas looking for fires or cameras/drones/watch towers. Those solutions are expensive ($1.5m per season for one observation airplane), dangerous for pilots when flying over fire front, drones/cameras/watch towers cannot see through smoke, clouds and have limited area of observation. Space based analytics are available globally, very cost effective and don't need manual operations.
We provide access to a SaaS-platform. Customer pays a monthly recurring fee for the area they want to monitor.
Customers are private asset owners like Arauco, Chile; TTG, Brasil; Governmental Agencies like Forestry Corporation New South Wales, Australia, Ministry of Interior of Bavaria, Germany; as well as supra-national organizations like European Commission. OroraTech expands with local offices in North and South America and works with regional and international partners like Rosenbauer, UP42, Allan Institute for AI.
Today we generate $2M in recurring revenues with 30 customers all over the globe. By end of 2024 we target $14M in contracted revenues, will be the main tool for fire detection and monitoring and demonstrate break-even readiness.

Financing Stage:

Seed:
Raised money:  1500000 USD
Valuated at:  4000000 USD
Investor:  ConActivity, Germany
Closing Date:  12/2019
Post seed:
Raised money:  6'000'000 USD
Valuated at:  13'000'000 USD
Investor:  Findus Venture, Austria
Closing Date:  05/2021
Round A:
Raised money:  10'000'000 USD
Valuated at:  30'000'000 USD
Investor:  Edaphon private impact fund, Belgium
Closing Date:  03/2023
Current Revenue:
Current Year:  4000000 USD
1 year ago:  1000000 USD
2 years ago:  500000 USD
3 years ago:  0 USD
Next year expected revenue:
6000000 USD
Development Stage:
Post-revenue
Аre you in currently in an open Investment round?
No
Team member 1: Thomas Gruebler
Position: Co-Founder & CEO
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Bio: since 2018: Co-Founder & CEO OroraTech
2012-2017: Study Master of Science at Technical University of Munich
2014-2016: Manage & More Consulting
2015-2017 Working Student at fos4x
2013 Trainee at Magazino
2006-2013 Working Student at Infineon
Publications:
Advances in the Development of theAttitude Determination and ControlSystem of the CubeSat MOVE-II
Demonstration of a Rocket-BorneFiber-Optic Measurement System:The FOVS Experiment on REXUS15
Investigating a Mass-ReproducibleAttitude Determination and ControlSystem on the nanosatellite MOVE-II
Team member 2: Martin Dr. Langer
Position: CTO
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Bio: since 2019: Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of OroraTech, Munich, Germany. Managing the company’s technical development, acquiring third party funding, defining the future technology roadmap and vision.
2018-2019: Postdoctoral Researcher at TUM, group lead of the Small Satellite research group (5 PhD students). Research on robust hard- and software for nanosatellites.
2018: Doctoral Dissertation (Dr.-Ing.) on “Reliability Assessment and Reliability Prediction of CubeSats through System Level Testing and Reliability Growth Modelling”, Final Grade: Summa Cum Laude
2013-2018: PhD candidate and project engineer at the Chair of Astronautics, TUM.
- Project lead of MOVE-II: acquisition of funding, supervision of about 250 students through all project phases, test campaign, launch organization, and mission operations. MOVE-II launched into space in December 2018 (SCN: 2018-099Y), MOVE-IIb launched into space in July 2019 (SCN: 2019-038N).
- Systems engineer for First-MOVE, launched into space in November 2013: launch preparation, mission operations, lessons learned and project closure of TUM’s first CubeSat (SCN: 2013-066Z).
2014-2017: Deputy Head of Branch Munich, DGLR (German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics) (volunteer service).
2012-2013: R&D Engineer in Aerospace Engineering, Assystem. Based in Munich, Germany, and Toulouse, France.
2011:Diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) on “Impact of Space Radiation on the COTS Components of a Space Computer”.
2006-2011:Study of Aerospace Engineering, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany. Overall grade: 1.6
Publications:
[1] A. Czechowicz, F. Razaei, A. Bach, F. Schummer, Z. Zhu and M. Langer, "NewSpace NewManufacturing - Injection Molding of Satellite Structures," 2021 IEEE Aerospace Conference (50100), 2021, pp. 1-11, doi: 10.1109/AERO50100.2021.9438309.
[2] D. Rashkovetsky, F. Mauracher, M. Langer and M. Schmitt, "Wildfire Detection From Multisensor Satellite Imagery Using Deep Semantic Segmentation," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 14, pp. 7001-7016, 2021, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3093625.
[3] L. Geismayr, F. Schummer, M. Langer, M. Binder, G. Schlick, “Thermo-Mechanical Design and Analysis of a Multispectral Imaging Payload using Phase Change Material”, 71st International Astronautical Congress (IAC) – The CyberSpace Edition, 12-14 October 2020.
[4] U. Walter, A. Knopp, M. Langer, M. Killian, „Gutachten zu Einsatzmöglichkeiten von Satelliten in Bayern“, Gutachten für das Bayerische Digitalministerium (StMD), August 2020.
[5] R. Carvalho, J. Estela, M. Langer, “Nanosatellites: Space and Ground Technologies, Operations and Economics”, Wiley, 2020, ISBN: 978-1-119-04203-7.
[6] M.E. Seyedabadi, M. Falanga, M. Azam, N. Baresi, R. Fléron, V. Jantarachote, V. Juarez Ortiz, Y. Julca, M. Langer, S. Manuthasna, N. Martinod, M. R. Mughal, M. Noman, J. Park, A. Pimnoo, J. Praks, L. Reyneri, A Sanna, T. C. Sisman, J. Some, T. Ulambayar, X. Yu, X. Dong, L. Baldis, “Science Missions Using CubeSats”, Chin. J. Space Sci., 2020, 40(4): 443-461. DOI:10.11728/cjss2020.04.443.
[7] J. Kiesbye, D. Messmann, M. Preisinger, G. Reina, D. Nagy, F. Schummer, M. Mostad, T. Kale, M. Langer, “Hardware-In-The-Loop and Software-In-The-Loop Testing of the MOVE-II CubeSat”, Aerospace 2019, 6, 130.
[8] S. Rückerl, D. Meßmann, N. Appel, J. Kiesbye, F. Schummer, M. Fähling, L. Krempel, T. Kale, A. Lill, G. Reina, P. Schnierle, S. Würl, M. Langer, „First Flight Results of the MOVE-II Satellite”, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, Logan, UT, August 2019.
[9] F. Schummer, T. Kale, J. Bachler, R. Amann, M. Langer, R. Roj, S. Langbein, P. Dültgen, A. Czechowicz, „IRESA – Intelligent Redundant Space Actuator “, proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, Mar 2 - 9, 2019, Big Sky, Montana, USA. 10.1109/AERO.2019.8741968
[10] M. Langer, A. Lill, F. Schummer, M. Weisgeber, S. Rückerl, A. Hoehn, U. Walter, “Reliability Assessment of CubeSats through System Level Testing and Reliability Growth Modelling, Proceedings of the International Conference on CubeSat Technology, 24-27 October 2018, Arequipa, Peru.
[11] M. Langer, “Reliability Assessment and Reliability Prediction of CubeSats through System Level Testing and Reliability Growth Modelling”, Doctoral Dissertation, Technical University of Munich, 2018.
Team member 3: Axel Dr. Roenneke
Position: Chief Commercial Officer
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Bio: since 2023: Chief Commercial Officer at OroraTech
2015-2013: Vice President Key Account & Sales: Beyond Gravity
2008-2015: Senior Vice President Business Development: MT Aerospace
2005-2008: Managing Director: NGL Prime
2002-2004: Head Reusable Systems Program: Airbus Defense & Space