Anna Shaposhnik is the Founder & CEO of ORBES (Techstars ’25), a space robotics company. Her flagship product, ORB, is an autonomous free-flying drone that captures live media from space stations — enabling real-time mission storytelling and bringing the wonder of space to audiences on Earth in ways never before possible.

Beyond the camera, ORB tackles a critical infrastructure problem: astronaut labor is dangerous, expensive, and impossible to scale. By automating $300M a year in manual work, ORB frees human crews to focus on what matters most — while keeping the cameras rolling for the rest of us.

A Zed Factro Fellow and winner of the Iovine and Young Development Prize, Anna brings a rare creative-technical lens to deep tech. A USC-trained creative technologist with a background spanning 3D visualization, filmmaking, VR/AR, and astronautical engineering, she previously led marketing at Orbit Fab — supporting the world’s first commercial on-orbit fuel sale — and served as Multimedia Design Lead at the USC Rocket Propulsion Laboratory. She believes the full breadth of our humanity belongs in space.