We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.
There are 476 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $11.2b. The average funding per company in this subset is $162.1m.
Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.
Firefly Aerospace provides launch vehicles, spacecraft, and in-space services for small payloads.
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$425.0m
Money raised
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$60.0m
Money raised
Charles River Analytics is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based R&D solutions provider in 1983.
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$3.9m
Money raised
Company developing space manufacturing technologies to support exploration, national security, and sustainable space settlement.
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Space-based automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) for global air traffic surveillance.
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$408.0m
Money raised
Radwin is a telecommunications company that develops and manufactures hardware for point-to-point, point-to-multipoint wireless broadband and wireless mobility applications.
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Sky and Space Global is an Australian nanosatellite company focused on IoT networks.
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$12.1m
Money raised
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.
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$48.6m
Money raised
Amprius is a Fremont, California-based nanotechnology company developing silicon nanowires for lithium-ion batteries and founded by Mark Platshon and Yi Cui.
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$98.9m
Money raised
AirMap is a California-based drone industry company improving low-altitude-airspace infrastructure to help drone operators fly safely and legally.
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$46.9m
Money raised
DJI is a Shenzen, China-based company developing and manufacturing drone and camera technology.
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$105.0m
Money raised
Toyon Research Corporation is a Goleta, California-based company that researches and develops radio frequency and antenna systems that was founded in 1980.
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$3.9m
Money raised
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.
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$2.2b
Money raised
Stoke Space is a company manufacturing space vehicle components and performing scientific and technological services associated with the space industry.
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$269.4m
Money raised
Boom Supersonic is a Colorado-based company developing supersonic commercial aircraft.
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$269.6m
Money raised
An aerospace company that designs electric air taxis. It was founded in 2011 and is located in Bruchsal, Germany.
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$543.5m
Money raised
5G satellite telecom operator for global IoT connectivity.
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$55.9m
Money raised
Hylio is a technology company making drones for aerial crop spraying.
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SimScale is a cloud-based CAE software that helps users perform simulations of CAD models.
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$90.0m
Money raised
Reaction Engines Ltd is a company working on hypersonic and space access propulsion.
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$127.8m
Money raised
Astrocast is an end-to-end satellite IoT network provider, manufacturer, and operator.
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$23.8m
Money raised
Echodyne is a company developing compact, solid-state, high-performance radar system founded in 2014 by Eben Frankenberg and Tom Driscoll.
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$228.0m
Money raised
Astrome is a wireless technology development company using wave technology to offer wireless backhaul solutions.
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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).
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$1.8m
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Analytical Space is a satellite communications company making satellites equipped with RD-laser communications technology.
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$4.1m
Money raised
Volansi was a company offering delivery service for time-critical shipments using high-speed long-range drones. Volansi was acquired by Sierra Nevada Corporation in October 2022.
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$75.1m
Money raised
ZeroAvia is an aerospace company developing practical zero emission aviation powertrains using hydrogen power.
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$80.7m
Money raised
Orbit Fab is a space industry startup developing in-space refueling services founded in 2018 by Daniel Faber.
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$6.0m
Money raised
Zipline is an automated logistics company that designs, manufactures, and delivers medical products.
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$704.5m
Money raised
Shield AI is a company building artificially intelligent systems like drones for use by military service members and first responders.
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$588.1m
Money raised
Skyroot Aerospace is a company developing space launch vehicles for cost-effective space access.
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$91.0m
Money raised
Loft Orbital is a space infrastructure-as-a-service platform founded in 2017 by Pierre-Damien Vaujour, Antoine de Chassy and Alex Greenberg.
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$186.2m
Money raised
Hermeus is an Atlanta-based aerospace company focused on developing a hypersonic aircraft founded by AJ Piplica, Skyler Shuford, Michael Smayda and Glenn Case.
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$176.0m
Money raised
NSLComm is an Israel-based satellite manufacturing company designing fabric-like, flexible dish antennas that expand in space to offer high throughput communications for small satellites.
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$9.3m
Money raised
Aerones is a company building heavy-lift drones founded in 2015 by Janis Putrams.
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$19.6m
Money raised
Axiom Space is a company that is primarily interested in providing human spaceflight services
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$166.0m
Money raised
Vita Inclinata Technologies is a company developing safety systems for helicopters and other aerospace platforms.
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$27.3m
Money raised
Ceres Imaging is a California-based aerial spectral imagery and analytics company that serves farmers and agribusinesses.
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$55.5m
Money raised
Airware is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2011 by Jonathan Downey.
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$116.3m
Money raised
Indemnis UAV Recovery Systems is an Anchorage, Alaska-based company developing safety solutions to the commercial UAV community.
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$10.4m
Money raised
Accion Systems is a company that provides in-space propulsion systems for satellites
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$72.5m
Money raised
A company that provides a data platform for buildings and properties.
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$29.6m
Money raised
Varda Space is a space startup focused on manufacturing specialized products in space.
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$96.0m
Money raised
Relativity Space is a company that develops the process of building and flying rockets.
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$1.3b
Money raised
Capella Space is building a commercial radar satellite constellation. Its headquarters are located in San Francisco, California and it was founded in 2011.
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$177.0m
Money raised
Dredrone is an airspace security platform that detects, classifies, and mitigates drone threats.
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$128.9m
Money raised
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.
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$24.9m
Money raised
An artificial intelligence company developing deep reinforcement learning technology products for industrial automation.
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$96.3m
Money raised
Xplore is a spacecraft development company focused on launching space missions to Mars, Venus, the Moon, and asteroids.
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$18.2m
Money raised
A space technology company making customizable 2 stage launch vehicles.
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$17.7m
Money raised
DroneDeploy is a cloud-based software that allows drones to take images and 3D models at any altitude.
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$142.5m
Money raised
Aerojet Rocketdyne is a company that looks to innovate in industries of aerospace and defense markets
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$67.0m
Money raised
A manufacturing company that specializes in producing solutions for microsatellite operations. It was founded in 2015 and is located in Berthoud, Colorado.
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$108.5m
Money raised
PRENAV is a company that is digitizing critical infrastructure in the world using AI.
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$9.1m
Money raised
Iris Automation is a technology company specializing in artificial intelligence-based collision avoidance systems for industrial drones and other autonomous flying machines.
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$23.1m
Money raised
Atomos Nuclear and Space is a space engineering, travel, launching and landing company focused on creating rapid, cost-effective propulsion and landing for last-mile delivery in space.
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$560.0k
Money raised
Elroy Air is an American startup company intending to replace land delivery trucks on inefficient routes with unmanned cargo aircraft.
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$56.0m
Money raised
LeoLabs is a a company that is interested in protecting satellites that are in low-Earth orbit
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$95.0m
Money raised
Formlabs is a 3D printing system company that provides digital fabrications for industries
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$267.4m
Money raised
Planetary Resources is a company that is known for developing asteroid mining technologies in order to attain outer-Earth natural resources
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$80.0m
Money raised
United Launch Alliance is a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing
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$13.9m
Money raised
AxelSpace is a company that is developing technology for private microsatellites.
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$72.7m
Money raised
Maverick Space Systems is an aerospace company that provides satellite deployment software, mission integration, and launch brokering services.
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$276.0k
Money raised
Skydio is a developer of autonomous drone robotics.
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$681.4m
Money raised
Airspace Intelligence is a company developing aerospace software to facilitate the usage of airspace data.
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Rescale is a company developing and providing software platform and hardware infrastructure for companies to perform scientific and engineering simulation.
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$146.0m
Money raised
Fortify is a Boston-based 3D printing company that has the goal to enable fabrication of composites with optimized microstructures
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$32.5m
Money raised
Deep Space Industries is a company that is looking to further spacecraft technology
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Gilmour Space Technologies is a company that develops hybrid launch vehicles and space rockets
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$64.7m
Money raised