Oorbit

Market position

Oorbit is an early-stage, seed-funded company positioned in cloud game streaming and metaverse infrastructure; at seed stage it was covered as one of a set of UK virtual reality and metaverse startups raising capital during a period when UK VR investment reached a record £154m in 2021 [5].

The company differentiates on cost and latency for cloud game streaming — claiming 90% cheaper streaming and sub-15ms latency with a few-clicks deployment of a full stack [0][1] — and on interoperability, offering a single digital identity that carries across streamed virtual worlds without downloads or extra hardware [5][6].

Technology

The platform ingests Unreal Engine builds and streams them from the cloud, with the company stating under 15ms latency and roughly 90% lower streaming cost, and installation of a complete cloud streaming stack in a few clicks [0][1]. Related described technology includes proprietary systems for moving between streamed interactive worlds with a persistent digital identity and without downloads or extra hardware [5][6], and a compute grid (Maingrid) providing on-demand and serverless GPU instances across multiple cloud providers [4]. Public tech-stack listings for the company reference React, Google Cloud and Google Cloud CDN, Envoy, Sentry and Wix [4].

Go-to-market

Game developers, publishers and brands building real-time 3D, gaming and interactive entertainment experiences, plus content partners supplying games, events, interactive media and marketplaces [0][1][3][5].

Geography

Headquartered in London, England, UK [5][6]; third-party business directories additionally list California addresses (Menlo Park and Palo Alto) for the company [4].

History

Founded by Ash Koosha and Pooya Koosha in London, Oorbit announced a $5m seed round in March 2022 to build software connecting virtual worlds, with a launch planned for later that year [3][5][6]. Its public presentation subsequently narrowed from a metaverse aggregation platform to full-stack cloud game streaming infrastructure for Unreal Engine content [0][1].

Risks & controversies

Public records are inconsistent on basic company facts: founding year is given as 2021 in press coverage and 2020 in an investor-data profile [3][5][6], headquarters is listed as London in some sources and Menlo Park or Palo Alto in others [4][6], and the seed round is characterised variously as $5m led by HOF Capital [3] and as EUR 3.8m co-led by Pixelynx and HOF Capital [6].