Artificial intelligence-powered risk intelligence platform startup Orion today revealed that it has raised $3.5 million in new funding to scale up its platform, which allows enterprises to detect, quantify and act on real-world threats before they escalate.

Founded in 2024, Orion is building intelligence infrastructure that gives teams foresight into what’s coming in terms of real-world threats and, in doing so, transforms how companies anticipate protests, natural disasters and supply-chain disruptions before they unfold. The company’s platform equips physical risk and command-and-control teams with a single source of truth for faster and smarter responses.

“Risk teams no longer need more data; they need better signals,” said Chief Executive Rahul Thayil. “Our team of engineers trained at NYU, MIT, Oxford and Cambridge is building a system that translates global volatility into clarity.”

According to Orion, organizations have for decades relied on outdated software and siloed teams to manually track protests, natural disasters and supply chain disruptions, with organizations estimated to lose more than $420 billion in avoidable losses every year.

Orion’s platform is designed to change the existing paradigm with methodology that calculates a real-time risk score for any asset in motion within a half-mile radius and surfaces only what’s relevant to each organization.

The platform predicts and quantifies threats, from political unrest to environmental disruption, days in advance to give teams time to move people, adjust operations or reinforce defenses. Orion’s platform maps and monitors entire supply chains in real time using AI, studies how each team responds to disruption and provides evolving bespoke models for every asset, client and crisis.

Orion counts among its customer base Fortune 500 logistics and cloud-infrastructure operators who use the company’s platform to safeguard assets worth tens of millions of dollars each. One client is said by Orion to use its software to monitor both people and venues worldwide and has achieved 20 times cost savings compared to traditional intelligence platforms.

The company’s compute-based architecture enables per-asset pricing of $1,000 per year, compared to legacy systems that charge $100,000 or more per site.

The seed round was led by Dynamo Ventures, with Bravo Victor Venture Capital, Techstars Central and Service Provider Capital also participating. Orion also received a government grant from Puerto Rico alongside the funding.

“The modern supply chain is a living, breathing network and it’s increasingly exposed to geopolitical, environmental, and informational shocks,” said Santosh Sankar, managing partner at Dynamo Ventures. “Orion gives operators real-time visibility into how risks ripple across assets and geographies. It’s the intelligence layer every supply chain needs to stay resilient in an unpredictable world.”

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