69 Best Aerospace Startups to Watch in 2024

Anduril builds AI platforms to protect troops, fight wildfires, perform search & rescue missions, and provide border surveillance. It was founded in 2017 and is located in Irvine, California.

Total Raised: $2191.00M

Last Funding: $1500.00M (Series E)

Provider of ground station services for satellite communications.

Total Raised: $15.00M

Last Funding: $15.00M (Series B)

Zipline is an automated logistics company that designs, manufactures, and delivers medical products.

Total Raised: $471.50M

Last Funding: $250.00M (Unknown)

5G satellite telecom operator for global IoT connectivity.

Total Raised: $54.11M

Last Funding: $32.50M (Series B)

Shield AI is a company building artificially intelligent systems like drones for use by military service members and first responders.

Total Raised: $428.10M

Last Funding: $90.00M (Series E)

OroraTech is an AI-powered wildfire detection platform founded in 2018 by Thomas Grübler, Martin Langer, Rupert Amann and Florian Mauracher .

Total Raised: $50.51M

Last Funding: $15.52M (Unknown)

Safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations

Total Raised: $262.20M

Last Funding: $109.00M (Series F)

Isar Aerospace is a small and medium-sized satellite launcher service provider founded in 2018.

Total Raised: $278.00M

Last Funding: $170.00M (Series C)

Beyond Aero is a hydrogen-powered electric business aircraft manufacturer founded in 2020 by Eloa Guillotin, Hugo Tarlé and Valentin Chomel.

Total Raised: $44.00M

Last Funding: $44.00M (Series A)

ClearSpace develops in-orbit service missions to enable a vibrant, resilient, and sustainable space industry.

Total Raised: $29.00M

Last Funding: $29.00M (Series A)

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Total Raised: $2.00M

Last Funding: $2.00M (Pre Seed)

ConstellR is a space data and services company leading the way in delivering daily, global land surface temperature maps for the Agritech industry.

Total Raised: $21.20M

Last Funding: $10.00M (Unknown)

Commercial electric airliner company based in Los Angeles, USA.

Total Raised: $3.34M

Last Funding: $3.34M (Grant)

Swoop Aero is a Melbourne-based company.

Total Raised: $16.00M

Last Funding: $16.00M (Series B)

Developer of stratospheric balloon technology for real-time Earth monitoring, telecommunications and infrastructure.

Total Raised: $2.80M

Last Funding: $2.80M (Seed)

ispace is a private Japanese robotics company with a focus on spacecraft, including lunar landers and rovers.

Total Raised: $49.92M

Last Funding: $46.00M (Series C)

Picterra combines deep learning with human expertise to help you extract structured insights from Earth observation imagery.

Total Raised: $9.80M

Last Funding: $6.50M (Series A)

AxelSpace is a company that is developing technology for private microsatellites.

Total Raised: $65.98M

Last Funding: $24.00M (Series C)

Ceres Imaging is a California-based aerial spectral imagery and analytics company that serves farmers and agribusinesses.

Total Raised: $53.00M

Last Funding: $23.00M (Series C)

GITAI is a company that specializes in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, virtualization, and robotic research

Total Raised: $17.10M

Last Funding: $17.10M (Series B)

Vita Inclinata Technologies is a company developing safety systems for helicopters and other aerospace platforms.

Total Raised: $27.33M

Last Funding: $20.00M (Series B)

Origin is a drone-launched precision weapon systems developer founded in 2022 by Agris Kipurs.

Total Raised: $4.35M

Last Funding: $4.35M (Seed)

Aerones is a company building heavy-lift drones founded in 2015 by Janis Putrams.

Total Raised: $12.01M

Last Funding: $9.00M (Seed)

Airdog is a company founded by Agris Kipurs, Edgars Rozentals and Ilja Nevdahs.

Total Raised: $6.30M

Last Funding: $0.30M (Unknown)

Nanotronics Imaging is a company founded in 2010.

Total Raised: $30.00M

Last Funding: $30.00M (Series D)

Sabrewing Aircraft Company is a Camarillo, California-based aerospace and aviation company and a developer of heavy-lift commercial vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Total Raised: $1.80M

Last Funding: $1.80M (Unknown)

AirMap is a California-based drone industry company improving low-altitude-airspace infrastructure to help drone operators fly safely and legally.

Total Raised: $5.90M

Last Funding: $3.30M (Unknown)

Indemnis UAV Recovery Systems is an Anchorage, Alaska-based company developing safety solutions to the commercial UAV community.

Total Raised: $2.00M

Last Funding: $2.00M (Seed)

Stoke Space is a company manufacturing space vehicle components and performing scientific and technological services associated with the space industry.

Life Aircraft is a company developing an electric, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

Qinetiq is a multinational defense and security technology company that was founded in 2001 and situated in Cardigan, the United Kingdom.

Zipline is an automated logistics company that designs, manufactures, and delivers medical products.

BWX Technologies is a company that is a supplier of nuclear components and fuel to the United States government

Ball Aerospace is a design, development and manufacture of innovative aerospace systems company and subsidiary of the Ball Corporation.

ePlane is an eCommerce platform designed to bring together buyers and sellers in the aerospace industry.

Orbital Sidekick is a company founded in 2016.

Transcelestial Technologies is a communications company that is creating a space laser network for communication purposes. It is located in Singapore and was founded in 2016.

Moon Express is a privately-held American company that develops robotic spacecraft and is planning the first commercial voyage to the moon.

Joby Aviation is an aerospace transportation company developing electric aircrafts.

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, better known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.

United states government agency dedicated to civil aviation matters

China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation is a Beijing-based and state-owned company that designs, develops, and manufactures a range of spacecraft, launch vehicles, strategic and tactical missile systems, and related ground equipment.

Microsemi Semiconductor Ltd is the UK subsidiary of a multinational semiconductor company Microsemi Inc. The facility in Monmouthshire designs, develops and manufactures bespoke advanced microelectronic components and technologies.

Deep Space Industries is a company that is looking to further spacecraft technology

synspective is a synthetic aperture radar company offering data integrations from their SAR constellations.

Macquarie Infrastructure Holdings Inc. through its subsidiaries, invests in infrastructure and infrastructure-like businesses that provide services to corporations, government agencies and individual customers primarily in the United States. It operates through three segments: Atlantic Aviation, MIC Hawaii, and Corporate and Other.

DJI is a Shenzen, China-based company developing and manufacturing drone and camera technology.

PAE is a company founded in 1955.

Novelis is an american aluminium manufacturer founded in 2005.

Simtoo is a drone manufacturing company founded in 2015 by Aaron Zhang.

Mynaric is a company that is interested in building laser communications for aerospace communications and satellite constellations

Delta Drone is a robotics manufacturing company.

GomSpace is a Sweden-based supplier and manufacturer of satellite solutions and products.

Vector Launch is a company in Tucson, Arizona.

Astrobotic Technology is a company that looks to offer affordable space robotic technology as well as work towards planetary missions.

DroneDeploy is a cloud-based software that allows drones to take images and 3D models at any altitude.

Citadel builds an automated and modular drone defense system that uses machine learning algorithms to detect and engage drones.

Kespry provides a touchless drone-based aerial intelligence platform for organizations in a variety of industries.

Commercial space company with a focus on satellite development, deployment, and commercial payload integration.

Astrome is a wireless technology development company using wave technology to offer wireless backhaul solutions.

SenSat is a company providing data ingestion and data-based simulations to visualize and track infrastructure projects.

Skyroot Aerospace is a company developing space launch vehicles for cost-effective space access.

Charles River Analytics is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based R&D solutions provider in 1983.

Developer of software-defined high power microwave (HPM) technology designed to counter unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The company's technology addresses threats such as drones and other asymmetric technologies, enabling defense organizations to stun drones with a hard reset or knock swarms out of the sky.

Epirus is an El Segundo, California-based technology company founded by Max Mednik.

Space-based automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) for global air traffic surveillance.

Toyon Research Corporation is a Goleta, California-based company that researches and develops radio frequency and antenna systems that was founded in 1980.

World View is a Tucson, Arizona-based developer and manufacturer of near-space exploration technology for remote sensing for scientific, commercial, economic, and military purposes and stratospheric tourism.