Investor overview · Pre-seed · 2026

The future of community living.

A shared housing marketplace where property owners earn 2.5x more than single family rentals while residents get affordable, community-driven homes.

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The opportunity

Built on identity, not chance.

Orbit matches residents through networks they already belong to — turning dormant properties and vacant rooms into instant communities.

33%
more revenue than Airbnb
PadSplit via REI INK, 2024
85%+
Co-living occupancy vs. Airbnb's 48%
PadSplit via REI INK, 2024
8.3mo
Avg. resident stay
everythingcoliving.com, 2026

“The category-defining brand in curated living does not exist yet. Orbit is building it.”

Jacob Whitfield  ·  Co-founder & CEO
Community dining
Why Now

Why this moment is different.

Housing, identity, and belonging are converging into a massive new category.

The Shift

  • Housing shortage
  • STR collapse
  • Generational isolation
The Problem

  • Random matching
  • Lifestyle mismatch
  • No trusted networks
The Insight

  • Identity-based living
  • Curated communities
  • Network-driven housing
The solution

Same building.
Different experience.

Orbit transforms how people live and how operators succeed.

Before Orbit
After Orbit
Residents
New city. No network.
Walk into a home that already feels like yours.
Endless scrolling. No real connection.
A network ready to grow with you on day one.
Strangers. No anchor.
People who share your ambition, not just your address.
Operators
Chasing leads that never convert.
Network-sourced tenants who choose to be there.
Managing conflict, not building.
Build culture, not manage conflict.
Good tenants walk.
Faster fill, 2.5× revenue, cohorts that stay.
The product

12 months of validation. Now we build.

Orbit has completed 12 months of market testing across multiple U.S. markets. You, the investor, are helping build the platform.

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Orbit app mockup
Go to market

Meet them on the move. Support them throughout their careers.

High income. Zero patience for roommate roulette. Orbit owns the relationship.

$1,550
median U.S. 1-bedroom rent — for an apartment with no community and no one home
ApartmentAdvisor, May 2026
40%
of U.S. professionals feel lonely at work, despite being surrounded by colleagues all day
Reward Gateway / Edenred, 2025
52%
of remote-capable employees now work hybrid — home is where the workday actually happens
Gallup, 2026

Curated dinners and roommate-matching events are the front door — a way to vet and connect high-quality people before they ever need the platform.

Mo. 1–3
The Relocation
Moves for the job. Skips the six-month apartment hunt and the roommate roulette of a cold Zillow listing.
Orbit Move-In Ready
Mo. 4–12
The Routine
Co-works from the kitchen table. Fast wifi, real desks, people actually building something at 2pm on a Tuesday.
Built-In Network
Year 2
The Network Effect
Housemates become collaborators. Dinners turn into intros, intros turn into deals, deals turn into renewals.
Peak Orbit Years
Year 3+
The Referral
Refers their best engineer, their cousin’s new VP, the friend relocating next quarter. Orbit grows on word of mouth.
Orbit For Life
The market

A billion dollar category.

At the intersection of housing, network, and identity.

4.9M
Unit housing shortage in the U.S.
Zillow, 2025
2.5×
more than SFR rentals — and 33% more than Airbnb
PadSplit via REI INK, 2024
$7.82B
Co-living market in 2024 — projected to reach $16B by 2030
Grand View Research
75%
of Gen Z and Millennials describe themselves as lonely
Redfin / Rent.com, 2024
Initial Wedge
Recent graduates
Cohort communities
Early-career professionals
Expansion
Digital nomads
Corporate relocation
Traveling professionals
Long-term
Alumni houses
Co-ops
Employer housing
Market Timing

The window is opening.

STR operators are scrambling for a new model today. The category-defining brand in curated living does not exist yet.

1.76M
STR listings since 2015 — supply crushed demand (was 200K)
AirROI, 2026
3–5
revenue streams per property — potential to triple rental income
Primior Group, 2025
$4,100
average monthly cost of an Airbnb-style "long-term" stay — no lease, no community, nearly 3x a co-living room
Kansas City Corporate Housing comparison, 2026
5.5%
Airbnb STR demand growth — collapsed from 15.8%
AirROI, 2026
50%+
Of renters spend over 30% of income on housing
U.S. Census / HUD
Orbit
Tested across multiple U.S. markets — strong operator interest confirmed
Competition

Occupancy is being prioritized. Belonging is not.

Every category does one thing well. Orbit is the only platform that brings them together — with the identity and network layer none of them have.

Orbit competitive positioning diagram
Team

Combined human and
operational intelligence.

Operators and builders with a proven track record of scaling people, products, and places.

Jacob Whitfield
Co-Founder & CEO · Denver, CO
  • Serial entrepreneur with 7+ years building consumer software and a 9-figure valuation under his belt.
  • Raised multiple 7-figure rounds from angel investors and Silicon Valley funds across three marketplace startups.
  • Recruited a Google Executive and President of Global Operations.
  • Pitched on stage at CES in Las Vegas — won first place out of 80+ startups, named “Most Likely to Be the Next Unicorn” in 2023.
  • Visionary. Builder. Proven capital raiser and talent recruiter.
Tiffany Grimm Fulton
Co-Founder · Denver, CO
  • 20+ years uniting high-performers across 25+ countries as an executive coach, leadership educator, motivational speaker, and community architect.
  • Former Head of L&D at Exos — drove systems implementation, organizational dynamics, and performance management.
  • Coached 600+ people leaders and 3000+ employees. Curated winning teams across global wellness initiatives.
  • Co-living investor and operator who has dedicated two decades to helping people, spaces, teams, and communities reach the next level.
The ask
$3M
Pre-seed round

Establish Orbit as the category-defining brand in curated living.

Use of funds
01ProductMVP to scalable platform
02OperatorsAcquisition and onboarding
03BrandMarket positioning
04PartnershipsEarly network partnerships
05TeamCore team buildout
Comparable early-stage investor returns
Uber
2,000–3,000x
~$50M–$75M per $25K
Slack
965x
~$24M per $25K
Airbnb
7,000x+
~$175M per $25K
Zillow
400x+
~$10M per $25K
Acquisition scenario

Potential returns conservatively land in the 60–100x range.

IPO scenario

Early investors at a 10–11 figure market cap have historically seen 200–400x.

Returns illustrated above are based on publicly available early-stage investor outcomes in comparable companies. For illustrative purposes only — not a guarantee of future returns. All investments involve risk.

Real estate is on the brink of a revolution.

The future of living is community.

Get in early.

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