69 Best Space Industry Startups to Watch in 2024

AstroForge is an Huntington Beach, California-based company founded in 2022 by Jose Acain.

Total Raised: $40.00M

Last Funding: $40.00M (Series A)

Provider of ground station services for satellite communications.

Total Raised: $15.00M

Last Funding: $15.00M (Series B)

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)

Provider of end-to-end optical solutions for the small satellite earth observation industry.

Total Raised: $15.00M

Last Funding: $15.00M (Series A)

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

Total Raised: $262.20M

Last Funding: $109.00M (Series F)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Bifrost is a provider of a synthetic data API that generates 3D worlds.

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

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

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.

Techshot, Inc. is a Greenville, Indiana-based company founded in 1988.

GHGSat is a Montreal-based company developing sensors to monitor industrial emissions.

Tesat-Spacecom is a Backnang-based manufacturer of payload equipment for communication satellites, including wave tube amplifiers, multiplexers, waveguide switches, and modulators.

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.

Thales Alenia Space, now Thales Group, is a company that looked to deliver and operate space systems

Xona Space Systems builds navigation solutions to supports safety-critical operations, centimeter positioning, and cybersecurity.

SA Photonics specializes in the design and development of advanced photonic systems for military and commercial customers.

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

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.

Get information on the Asteroid Explorer "HAYABUSA" (MUSES-C). The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) performs various activities related to aerospace as an organization, from basic research in the aerospace field to development and utilization.

ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions for structuring, managing, and automating services for enterprises.

AT&T Inc. is a multinational conglomerate holding company providing media and telecommunications solutions and services.

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

Aistech Space uses a smallsat constellation to provide geospatial thermal imagery-based analytics for a variety of industries.

Amentum is a technical and engineering services partner working with the United States defense, security, intelligence, energy, and environmental programs.

D-Orbit is the first in-space transportation company, providing solutions for moving, precise deployment and removing satellites.

Last Funding: $0.00M (Unknown)

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

LandSpace is a company that is interested in developing and operating rockets

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.

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

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.

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

Myriota is an Adelaide, Australia-based provider of direct-to-orbit satellite connectivity for the Internet of Things, without need for ground stations.

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

Pixxel is a Bengalore and El Segundo, California-based developer of hyperspectral satellite imagery for the capture of geospatial data.

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

Planetary Resources is a company that is known for developing asteroid mining technologies in order to attain outer-Earth natural resources

HawkEye 360 is a Herndon, Virginia-based data analytics company developing radio frequency mapping technologies for use in space.

Fibertek, Inc. provides leading-edge laser & electro-optics R&D & full-service Engineering Services (ES) solutions for DoD, aerospace & NASA customers.