Private company

Orbital Insight

Logo: orbitalinsight.com3

Geospatial analysis company based in Palo Alto

Orbital Insight is a Palo Alto, California-based geospatial analytics company. The company analyzes satellite, drone, balloon and other unmanned aerial vehicle images, including cell phone geolocation data, to study a range of human activity, and provides business and other strategic insights from the data.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Orbital Insight is a Palo Alto, California-based geospatial analytics company. The company analyzes satellite, drone, balloon and other unmanned aerial vehicle images, including cell phone geolocation data, to study a range of human activity, and provides business and other strategic insights from the data.2

Products and brands

  • geospatial analysis

Listed on Wikidata.1

Funding

Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.

Money received by year$4.4M 2020–2021
Money received by yearMoney received by year, 2020–2021: $4.4M in all. PPP loans $4.4M.$0$1M$2M$3M2020 · PPP loans: $2.7M20202021 · PPP loans: $1.7M2021
Figures by year
YearPPP loansTotal
2021$1.7M$1.7M
2020$2.7M$2.7M

PPP loans

Paycheck Protection Program loans of $150,000 and up, approved April 2020 to July 2021, from the SBA4. Matched to this company by name and state.

  1. Apr 13, 2020$2.7M PPP loan (first draw) from Silicon Valley Bridge Bank NA4To ORBITAL INSIGHT, INC, Palo Alto CA; $2.7M forgiven Jun 15, 2021
  2. Jan 28, 2021$1.7M PPP loan (second draw) from Silicon Valley Bridge Bank NA4To ORBITAL INSIGHT INC., Palo Alto CA; no forgiveness recorded

Sources

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