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Portfolio Company

Orca Advanced Materials

Advanced manufacturing company producing high-quality metal powders for industrial and high-performance applications.

Orca leverages vacuum and inert gas atomization technologies to deliver controlled particle morphology, consistency, and scalability across demanding manufacturing environments.

Orca Advanced Materials Facility

Business Overview

Orca Advanced Materials serves sectors including additive manufacturing, electronics and thermal management, automotive and electric vehicles, coatings and surface engineering, construction materials, and general metallurgy.

The company collaborates closely with customers to develop powders tailored to application-specific requirements, emphasizing customization, process discipline, and repeatability.

Orca is building a scalable materials platform to reduce India’s dependence on imported metal powders while meeting global quality expectations.

Key Focus Areas

Additive Manufacturing
Electronics & Thermal Management
Automotive & Electric Vehicles
Coatings & Surface Engineering
Construction Materials
General Metallurgy

2023 – Company incorporated and pilot facility commissioned.

2024 – Initial customer validations and process stabilization.

2025 – Capacity expansion and advanced alloy development.

Seed round led by strategic angel investors.

Capital deployed toward atomization infrastructure and R&D.

Advisors from advanced manufacturing, metallurgy, and industrial scaling.