Orbit provides a unified "mission control" for distributed online communities, aggregating engagement data across tools and platforms such as Discord, Discourse, GitHub, Twitter, and Slack. The platform surfaces recency, frequency, and impact metrics to identify newcomers, champions, potential sales leads, and topics of interest. Orbit is API-first and offers direct integrations including YouTube, Twitch, Stack Overflow, Notion, LinkedIn, as well as Zapier and n8n to enable thousands more app connections; customers can also track product milestones alongside community activity. Target users include community managers, developer relations professionals, and leadership teams who use Orbit's reports and data to inform company decision-making. Customers named in the article include Postman, CircleCI, Elastic, and Apollo. Orbit was founded in 2019, is based in San Francisco, and officially launched publicly after a beta period with new funding. Orbit offers a community experience platform that aggregates contributions across multiple platforms to help Developer Relations, Community teams and open-source maintainers understand and measure community impact. The product pulls data from sources like GitHub, Twitter and Discourse, with support for Slack and other tools planned, and provides dashboards plus an API for third-party integrations. At its core is an open-source community framework developed by co‑founders Patrick Woods (CEO) and Josh Dzielak (CTO) to help organizations build and evaluate "high gravity" communities. Orbit emphasizes measuring community ROI and reframing community work toward value creation rather than extraction. The company works with just under 150 customers, including Postman, CircleCI, Kubernetes and Apollo GraphQL. Orbit plans to use new funding to expand go-to-market efforts and build additional integrations.

Total raised

$19M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

May 2021