Company and investors
Why Orakta, why now, and what is true today.
An overview for investors, grant reviewers and partners. Every figure links to its source, and anything not yet decided is marked as a draft.
The problem
Large losses are decided one address at a time.
After a disaster, insurers, aid organisations and lawyers each have to answer the same question for a specific place: what changed, and when? The satellite record often holds the answer, but it is scattered across archives, formats and licences, and raw imagery is easy to misread.
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$220 bn
economic losses from natural catastrophes worldwide in 2025
Source: Swiss Re Institute, sigma 1/2026
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49 %
of those losses were insured, the highest share on record; the rest fell on people, firms and governments
Source: Swiss Re Institute, sigma 1/2026
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5–7 %
long-term real annual growth trend of insured catastrophe losses
Source: Swiss Re Media Dialogue 2026
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$40 bn
insured losses from the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, the costliest wildfire event on record
Source: Swiss Re Institute, sigma 1/2026
Why now
The data, the method and a documented need have lined up.
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Free radar is back at full strength
Sentinel-1C (launched 5 December 2024) and Sentinel-1D (4 November 2025) restore a two-satellite constellation with a six-day revisit at the equator. The data is free and open.
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A peer-reviewed open method
The Pixel-Wise T-Test for radar damage mapping was published in 2025. Orakta builds on it, with its own calibration on top.
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Losses come from many local events
Wildfires, storms and floods caused a record 92 % of insured catastrophe losses in 2025. Our reading: many smaller, local events mean many single-address questions, which is the unit Orakta works in.
Source: Swiss Re Institute, sigma 1/2026
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Sharp imagery is increasingly open after disasters
Maxar/Vantor, Capella and Umbra publish open disaster imagery. Orakta finds it for the place and date and shows it with its licence.
Approach
One address, one date, one record anyone can check.
Orakta measures Sentinel-1 radar change at the confirmed pin against that same place a year earlier, adds the sharpest open imagery for the dates, and delivers a PDF report with a JSON evidence bundle: scene IDs, licences and a SHA-256 hash for every figure. It is built to support experts, not to replace them, and every report says so.
How it works in detail · Free satellite sample (in preparation)
Traction, stated honestly
What works today, and what does not exist yet.
Works today
- The screening pipeline runs end to end on public data: address search, pin confirmation, radar change against a local control, imagery, PDF report and evidence bundle.
Not yet
- No customers, revenue, partners or certifications.
- No public free sample yet: one built only on satellite data is in preparation.
- No commercially licensed imagery in reports yet.
- No public API yet.
- Orakta Damage Evidence (insurance and loss claims) and Orakta Damage Assessment (area damage assessment) are in development.
Free satellite sample
A free before-and-after sample built only on satellite data, radar and satellite imagery, is in preparation. It will be published here with every source and licence named.
Market context
Earth observation is moving into insurance and finance.
These are industry forecasts for context. They are not Orakta’s addressable market, which we have not sized yet: that estimate is pending and will come with its method.
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€3.4 bn → ≈€6 bn
global revenue from Earth observation data and value-added services, 2023 to 2033 (forecast)
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≈€340 m → ≈€900 m
of which insurance and finance, 2023 to 2033 (forecast), expected to become the largest segment
Defensibility
What can become hard to copy.
The data and the core method are open by design, and Orakta holds no patents. The advantage has to come from calibration, the record of real cases, and trust in the report.
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Calibration and validation cases
Every report run on a real case adds to the evidence on where the local-control threshold holds and where it does not. That record compounds; the open method alone does not.
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Provenance that holds up in review
Scene IDs, licences and per-figure hashes are built into the report format, so a counterparty, an adjuster or a court expert can check the work.
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Honest by design
Limits and the expert-review notice are part of the product, which matters to buyers who must defend a decision.
Roadmap
In order, without promised dates.
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Now
- Sample reports and first pilots on real cases
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Next
- Commercially licensed sharp imagery for paid reports, behind a cost check the customer approves
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Then
- Orakta Damage Evidence for insurance and loss claims
- Orakta Damage Assessment for shelter and area damage assessment
Stage and team
Early stage, one founder, no pretence.
Orakta is built by a solo founder based in Israel. The founder has built the screening pipeline and the report. We welcome conversations with investors, grant programmes and partners who know insurance, humanitarian response or Earth observation.
Draft, pending owner decision Planned roles below are a draft for the founder to confirm.
- Remote-sensing scientist (radar), for calibration and validation
- Insurance and claims domain lead, for pilots and product fit
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