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Orbital Witness

Legal due diligence platform for property transactions

21-100 employees
  • Property
  • B2B
  • Legal
  • Real Estate
  • SaaS
29 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5RN, UK

Company mission

Orbital Witness' mission is to make property transactions radically more transparent, quick and easy to transact.

Top investors

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30% female employees

44% employee growth in 12 months

Otta's take

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Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

Orbital Witness builds SaaS solutions for real estate lawyers and property professionals, transforming how property professionals work, leveraging cutting-edge Generative AI and LLM technologies.

The company's products aggregate geospatial, property, and legal data from diverse sources to provide an unprecedented view of legal risk attached to properties. This provides real estate lawyers and property professionals with a one-stop-shop for property due diligence, allowing a vastly more transparent and efficient process whilst providing a better quality of service to clients.

There is huge opportunity to transform the way that property, the world's largest asset class, is transacted and bring it into the 21st century.

Benefits

  • Matched pension contributions and equity options
  • Flexible working hours and location; access to 40+ TOG offices in London
  • 25 days paid holiday (plus bank holidays)
  • Professional equipment and a £1,000 p/a personal learning and development budget
  • Training opportunities
  • Free access to the Spill Mental Health Support platform
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
  • All-company off-sites, lunches and team socials
  • Generous parental leave options

Company values

  • Question or Commit - Embrace debate and move forward
  • Power to our People - Stubborn on vision, flexible on approach
  • Bold and ambitious - Aim high, challenge the status quo
  • Eat that frog! - Take on the hardest, most impactful work first

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

May 2023

$9.4m

SERIES A

Jul 2020

$4.2m

SEED

$15.1m

Total funding

This company has top investors

Founders

Edmond Boulle

(Co-founder)

Prior to co-founding Orbital Witness, Ed worked with high growth startups in the UK aerospace industry. He qualified as a barrister with and holds a law degree from Oxford University.

Will Pearce

(Co-founder)

Previously Research Analyst - Space Team at London Economics for 4 months and Business Strategy Analyst at Satellite Applications Catapult for 2 years.

People progressing

Naomi joined as Office Manager with varied experience across ops and events. Quickly promoted to Ops Manager, then Chief of Staff, she ensures we have everything needed to reach our ambitious goals.

Aisha, ex-M&A lawyer at Clifford Chance, transitioned to sales at Tessian. At Orbital Witness since 2019, she was promoted to head of BD & CS, now CRO, driving business growth.

Diversity & Inclusion at Orbital Witness

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Aisha Tummon (Chief Revenue Officer)

  • We are proud to nurture a diverse team and inclusive, caring working environment.
  • We value diversity of thought and particularly encourage applications from those who are underrepresented in tech.

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Opportunities to learn (3)

Intelligent people (3)

Career progression (2)

Challenging work (1)

Tech & tools (1)

Autonomy (1)

Meaningful work (1)

Nice people (1)

My opinions are valued (1)

Great work is recognised (1)

I'm surrounded by super smart people and learn all the time. My career and knowledge progressed to a whole new lever! Plus, everyone's so nice and positive

Other Engineering

Intelligent people

Oct 2022

Orbital Witness transforms real estate - the biggest market in the world! Boring work doesn't exist here, everything are the coolest things happening in the world right now

Other Engineering

Meaningful work

Oct 2022

I learned so much not only about engineering - but about the company processed, business, VCs, etc. Everything is transparent, and you can always dive deeper into an area that interests you. Not only that it's allowed - but it's actually endorsed!

Other Engineering

Career progression

Oct 2022

Everybody at Orbital Witness is lovely. We actively spend time together inside and out of work. At the end of each month we go on company social events which are always a lot of fun and a great way to get to know everyone else in the company.

Software Engineering

Nice people

Oct 2022

Every employee gets £1000/year to spend on personal development (books, conferences, tech etc). None of this has any red tape, ask your manager and you can have it sorted the same day! The work I undertake is a good challenge and allows me to learn new things all the time. The other developers on the team will always help where they can too!

Software Engineering

Opportunities to learn

Oct 2022

At Orbital Witness, employees are given plenty of opportunity to share their opinions. We have monthly Culture Club sessions where employees can express their opinions on company operations to create change within the business.

Software Engineering

My opinions are valued

Oct 2022

We work with some great tools and manage to keep everything as up to date as possible. If you see a tool and think it would be useful, then it can be proposed and discussed within the team. This has lead to us using Cypress for end-to-end testing and Github Action for true CI/CD.

Software Engineering

Tech & tools

Oct 2022

As someone who had never work in the law sector before Orbital Witness I have found the work to be great. There is a definite emphasis on making the product as easy to use as possible as well as challenges around bringing disparate data sets together and presenting them in a meaningful way.

Software Engineering

Challenging work

Oct 2022

The founders have a very clear mission for the company and in the time I have been here, this mission has never changed. Along with the company values, which are at the heart of every decision, the mission gives us something to aim for.

Software Engineering

Inspiring mission

Oct 2022

We're encouraged to think for ourselves, to propose solutions to problems and get on and deliver value. The team is full of smart people who are enthusiastic to hear everyone's opinions and ideas, and who are there to support you if you do make a mistake.

Operations & Strategy

Autonomy

Sep 2022

I've never worked somewhere where the team energy is so consistently enthusiastic about what we're trying to achieve for our customers. Everyone is SO curious and genuinely interested in each others day to day.

Operations & Strategy

Team energy

Sep 2022

We're a small but incredibly cross-functional and dynamic team this means I've been exposed to a huge range of tasks across the company, giving me the opportunity to learn so much. We also get a great annual L&D budget, which we're actively encouraged to use on events/books/courses or subscriptions which we're interested in!

Operations & Strategy

Opportunities to learn

Sep 2022

People are extremely easy to work with and provide you great opportunities to learn. We all never ungenerous when come to knowledge sharing. When working in a team, people are supportive and always resolve each other problems with their field knowledge. I feel grateful to be part of the team and enabling me to learn and grow so quick with all the intelligent people around me!

Design

Intelligent people

Sep 2022

I have a great supportive manager to grow my career path the way I wanted to. He is mentoring a lot in as many perspective as possible and encouraged me to utilise the professional growth budget on obtaining new skills! Best company to grow!

Design

Opportunities to learn

Sep 2022

I told my line manage that I would love to move my career ladder to a senior level. He immediately spend time with me during 1:1 and figure out how the 3-6-12 months plan will look like. Really appreciate the clear approach, regular catch up and feedback loop. Allowing me to be focus and grow as quick as possible.

Design

Career progression

Sep 2022

Great team to work with, with really open insights from leadership and development teams who are really brought into the product. This leads to great self development for myself and also a strong shared vision in what we're building.

Product

Intelligent people

Sep 2022

Orbital Witness is working on trying to fix a broken and archaic industry in commercial real estate. The scope of the product is huge and the challenges we solve are really interesting and relatable. I can see great potential growth for the product, which inspired me to join.

Product

Innovative product

Sep 2022

Orbital Witness has a number of initiatives to ensure employees get recognition, including weekly shout-outs for company values, a kudos Slack channel and a monthly kudos champion (that comes with an Amazon voucher), as well as great constant feedback from your manager.

Product

Great work is recognised

Sep 2022

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