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Orbiseed

Techstars '20

Toronto, CA · Founded 2019 · 7 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors

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Orbiseed develops an AI-powered software platform for business-to-business procurement of construction materials, specifically MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) products. The platform helps distributors and sales agents automate product selection and quote preparation.

Also known as Orbiseed

Founders & leadership

JRJim Russell
Jim RussellCEOJim Russell brings over 35 years of business experience, including building a $200M company and leading executive teams at global organizations. He is co-founder and CEO of Orbiseed, which provides AI-powered software to automate MEP product selection and quoting for construction material distributors.
TCTingcheng Cui
Tingcheng CuiCTO
LRLise Russell
Lise RussellCFOLise Russell is CFO of Orbiseed, an AI-powered software platform for business-to-business procurement of construction materials. She brings over 30 years of senior management experience, including roles as co-owner and executive vice-president of a major Canadian educational equipment supplier, with expertise in finance, accounting, team leadership, and strategic planning.
AAAndrew Anzenberger
Andrew AnzenbergerCOOAndrew Anzenberger is COO at Orbiseed, which provides an AI platform that automates quote preparation and product selection for MEP distributors and manufacturers.

Investors · 1

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Company profile

researched Sep 2026

Orbiseed provides a software platform that automates preconstruction quoting and submittal workflows for mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) products. The system ingests emails and project documents — drawings, specifications, O&M manuals, cut sheets, fixture schedules and images — extracts product tags, model numbers, descriptions, attributes and project metadata such as job name, address, engineer and due date, and converts them into structured line items. The company states extraction accuracy of 99.6%, average processing of 20–25 seconds per document, and more than 100,000 documents processed.

The platform is organized as a single continuous workflow spanning email/document intake, AI extraction, catalog matching, cross-referencing, quote generation, submittal production and CRM handoff, with user corrections fed back into the extraction step. Functional modules include document intelligence, quantity takeoff (counting fixtures and equipment from sheets and rolling quantities up by tag, product and CSI division), catalog management (ingesting product data by CSV, Excel or API and managing categories, attributes, pricing and status), cross-reference intelligence (auto-accepting 1:1 SKU matches, flagging multiple matches for human review, and providing a propose-and-approve workflow with an audit trail), configurable product recommendation that assembles full part numbers including prefixes and suffixes, a pricing engine applying base markups, per-manufacturer rules, quantity breaks and per-customer discounts with line-level overrides and traceable provenance, and quote templates.

Orbiseed positions the curated data layer — the customer's product catalog, cross-reference mappings and accumulated team corrections — as the foundation that enables the downstream automation of cross-referencing, product recommendation and SKU configuration.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Average document processing timeJan 202520–25 seconds
Document extraction accuracyJan 202599.6%
Documents processedJan 2025100K+
HeadcountAug 20267

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

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Frequently asked questions

What does Orbiseed do?
Orbiseed makes AI software that turns MEP construction documents into quotes and submittals for distributors and manufacturers.
Who are Orbiseed's investors?
Orbiseed's investors include Techstars.
Where is Orbiseed headquartered?
Orbiseed is headquartered in Toronto, CA.