News: Optoelectronics
3 November 2025
NUBURU completes first phase of Orbit acquisition
NUBURU Inc of Centennial, CO, USA — which was founded in 2015 and developed and previously manufactured high-power industrial blue lasers — has completed the first phase of its planned acquisition of Orbit S.r.l., an Italian defense-grade Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company specializing in operational resilience, business continuity, and crisis management for mission-critical organizations.
The subsidiary Nuburu Defense LLC has made an initial capital infusion of $1.5m into Orbit through a subscribed capital increase, securing a 10.7% equity position.
This milestone marks the beginning of Nuburu Defense’s staged path toward a controlling stake in Orbit. A further injection of $3.5m remains planned — targeted for accelerated completion — to strengthen majority ownership and unlock deeper integration across NUBURU’s Defense & Security Hub. At the end of the second phase, Nuburu Defense will fully own Orbit.
Expanding defense-grade software capabilities
The market for operational resilience, crisis-readiness, and secure command-and-control technologies is projected to be $2.9–3.6bn in 2025, growing more than 10% annually, notes NUBURU.
Orbit’s platform unifies real-time impact analytics, crisis communications, and IT ecosystem mapping into a continuous plan–sense–decide–act–learn cycle. Designed for environments requiring automation, responsiveness and uncompromising security, the technology is said to enable high-assurance operational continuity across defense and critical-infrastructure sectors.
The acquisition marks a strategic expansion of NUBURU’s platform beyond hardware, bringing forward recurring-revenue software technologies that enhance operational adoption, value creation, and long-term competitiveness, says the firm.
Synergies: AI-driven drones + real-time situational awareness
Orbit’s technology is also expected to integrate with the recently announced drone joint venture between NUBURU Defense and Maddox Defense Inc.
Unmanned systems provide the sensor layer — gathering live intelligence from the field. Orbit provides the decision layer — enabling proactive threat detection and coordinated response.
This combination supports the company’s targeted ~$100m annual revenue at the joint venture by 2028 and nearly $20m revenue for NUBURU by the end of its Business Plan period.
“Stage-one completion of the Orbit acquisition is a foundational step in NUBURU’s transformation into a diversified defense-resilience technology company,” says NUBURU’s executive chairman & co-CEO Alessandro Zamboni. “By accelerating our path toward control, we gain a strategic foothold in a high-growth software market and unlock the full potential of drone-driven threat detection paired with real-time command capabilities,” he adds.
“Our immediate priority is to expand Orbit’s reach by growing its client base, particularly within the defense and critical infrastructure sectors — enabling advanced mission readiness, crisis command, and operational continuity,” Dario Barisoni, co-CEO of NUBURU & CEO of Nuburu Defense. “Software-driven resilience is a defining requirement of modern defense, and NUBURU is positioning to lead that change.”
Related-party review
Before finalizing the first phase by Nuburu Defense, Orbit was wholly owned by Zamboni. In accordance with corporate governance requirements, the transaction has been reviewed by an external financial advisor, who also provided the pricing analysis of Orbit, and has been approved by NUBURU’s independent non-executive directors.
The total consideration of $12.5m includes a $2.4m net cash advance to Orbit’s owner, to be paid in tranches and which accounts for the partial offset of a $1.35m NUBURU receivable. The remaining balance will be settled through NUBURU equity securities by the end of 2026, subject to stockholder approval.
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