69 Best Aviation Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Aviation Startups

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 128 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $5.5b. The average funding per company in this subset is $79.0m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Aireon logo

Aireon

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

4

Funding Rounds

$408.0m

Money raised

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Radwin

Radwin is a telecommunications company that develops and manufactures hardware for point-to-point, point-to-multipoint wireless broadband and wireless mobility applications.

1

Funding Rounds

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Sky and Space Global

Sky and Space Global is an Australian nanosatellite company focused on IoT networks.

2

Funding Rounds

$12.1m

Money raised

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AirMap

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

6

Funding Rounds

$46.9m

Money raised

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Boom Supersonic

Boom Supersonic is a Colorado-based company developing supersonic commercial aircraft.

8

Funding Rounds

$269.6m

Money raised

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Volocopter

An aerospace company that designs electric air taxis. It was founded in 2011 and is located in Bruchsal, Germany.

7

Funding Rounds

$543.5m

Money raised

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Hylio

Hylio is a technology company making drones for aerial crop spraying.

1

Funding Rounds

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Reaction Engines

Reaction Engines Ltd is a company working on hypersonic and space access propulsion.

3

Funding Rounds

$127.8m

Money raised

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Sabrewing Aircraft Company

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).

1

Funding Rounds

$1.8m

Money raised

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Elroy Air

Elroy Air is an American startup company intending to replace land delivery trucks on inefficient routes with unmanned cargo aircraft.

5

Funding Rounds

$56.0m

Money raised

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Maverick Space Systems

Maverick Space Systems is an aerospace company that provides satellite deployment software, mission integration, and launch brokering services.

1

Funding Rounds

$276.0k

Money raised

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Heart Aerospace

Heart Aerospace is a company manufacturing the electric regional airplane, ES-19.

7

Funding Rounds

$194.6m

Money raised

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SkyNRG

A company making Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) as an alternative to using fossil fuels for air crafts. It was founded in 2008 and is located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

1

Funding Rounds

$190.0m

Money raised

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Ola Electric

Ola Electric is a multimodal electric vehicle project in Nagpur founded in 2017 by Bhavish Aggarwal, Anand Shah and Ankit Jain.

7

Funding Rounds

$760.4m

Money raised

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Lilium (company)

Lilium is a Munich-based startup developing an on-demand, all-electric, vertical take-off and landing air taxi service.

5

Funding Rounds

$376.4m

Money raised

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Flytrex

Flytrex is a Tel Aviv, Israel-based company founded by Yariv Bash in 2013.

6

Funding Rounds

$59.8m

Money raised

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Terrafugia

Terrafugia, Inc. a company leading innovation in aviation and transportation.

6

Funding Rounds

$7.1m

Money raised

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Aviation Capital Group

Aviation Capital Group is a Newport Beach, California-based company that owns, manages, and leases commercial jet aircraft and offers aircraft asset management services.

1

Funding Rounds

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3D Robotics

3D Robotics is an american technology company founded in 2009 by Chris Anderson.

4

Funding Rounds

$141.0m

Money raised

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Airobotics

Pioneer of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) hardware and software platform providing fully-automated aerial data collection and analysis.

7

Funding Rounds

$153.1m

Money raised

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Surf Air

Surf Air is a Los Angeles-based company founded in 2013.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.8m

Money raised

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Beacon AI

Beacon AI is a San Francisco-based company building an AI Copilot to enable flight safety for commercial and private fleets.

2

Funding Rounds

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Xwing

Xwing is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2016 by Marc Piette.

4

Funding Rounds

$58.0m

Money raised

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Piasecki Aircraft

Piasecki Aircraft Corporation is dedicated to continuing the work of our founder by pursuing the advancement of aviation technologies.

10

Funding Rounds

$8.1m

Money raised

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Edgybees

Edgybees is a company that develops augmented reality technologies.

4

Funding Rounds

$20.5m

Money raised

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Carnegie Speech

Carnegie Speech Assessment provides a quick, comprehensive and cost-effective English assessment solution that optimizes hiring decisions, performs quality assurance testing, and measures language training effectiveness.

4

Funding Rounds

$11.6m

Money raised

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Ehang

Ehang is an AI-driven aerospace company founded by Huazhi Hu and Yifang (Derrick) Xiong in 2014.

3

Funding Rounds

$92.0m

Money raised

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H3 Dynamics

H3 Dynamics is a Toulouse-based company focused on the development of hydrogen technology and telerobotics drones.

3

Funding Rounds

$49.0m

Money raised

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Talyn Air

Tayln produces battery electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft systems

1

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

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FlightWave Aerospace

FlightWave Aerospace is a Santa Monica, California-based company founded in 2014 by Michael Colonno.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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Intelligent Energy

Intelligent Energy is a fuel cell engineering company focused on the development of its fuel cell technologies.

1

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

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Re2 robotics

RE2 Robotics is a company that develops intelligent mobile manipulation systems.

5

Funding Rounds

$8.5m

Money raised

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Greensight Agronomics

Greensight Agronomics is a company founded in 2014 by James Peverill.

3

Funding Rounds

$3.7m

Money raised

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Astranis Space Technologies Corp.

Astranis Space Technologies Corp. is a company founded in 2015 by John Gedmark.

6

Funding Rounds

$403.6m

Money raised

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Capillary Technologies

Capillary Technologies is a company founded in 2012.

2

Funding Rounds

$35.5m

Money raised

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vHive

vHive is an autonomous Drone Deployment Technology founded in 2016 by Yariv Geller.

4

Funding Rounds

$36.5m

Money raised

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AERIAL COBOTICUS

Manufacturer of aerial machines to carry out intensive work at height.

11

Funding Rounds

$2.2m

Money raised

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Target Arm Inc.

Target Arm Inc. is a company by Jeff McChesney.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.4m

Money raised

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Ascendance Flight Technologies

Ascendance Flight Technologies Vertical designs take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft utilizing a patented hybrid propulsion system.

2

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

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Zeva Aero

Zero Aero is an aviation and aerospace component manufacturing company based in Tacoma, Washington.

2

Funding Rounds

$15.5m

Money raised

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50skills

Qualify, Hire and Onboard better people faster using 50skills's All-in-one Recruiting software.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.6m

Money raised

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Hoversurf

Hoversurf is an aviation and aerospace component manufacturing company focused on creating drones for personal and commercial use; they are specifically focused on creating flying cars for use as taxis, ambulances, and more.

1

Funding Rounds

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Blue White Robotics

Blue White Robotics is an autonomous Technology for Agriculture founded in 2017 by Ben Alfi.

1

Funding Rounds

$37.0m

Money raised

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Teal Drones

Teal Drones is a company founded in 2014 by George Matus.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.8m

Money raised

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Ramon.Space

Ramon.Space builds space-resilient super-computer systems that bring cloud computing to space.

1

Funding Rounds

$17.5m

Money raised

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Amimon

Amimon is an HD Wireless Video Connectivity Solutions founded in 2004 by Zvi Reznic.

6

Funding Rounds

$52.1m

Money raised

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inVoli

inVoli, based in Switzerland, is a robotics company.

2

Funding Rounds

$97.1k

Money raised

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VistaJet

VistaJet is a private aviation company that offers private jet services.

1

Funding Rounds

$150.0m

Money raised

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Botlink

Botlink is a company that offers a drone control application which enables users to fly in a simple, safe and secured way by processing FAA flight and regulation data.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.1m

Money raised

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Tekuma

Tekuma is a company by Annette McClelland and Michael Griffin.

1

Funding Rounds

$116.6k

Money raised

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Ewatt UAV

Ewatt UAV is a California-based aircraft manufacturer.

1

Funding Rounds

$20.0m

Money raised

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DiSTI

DiSTI is a leading provider of professional solutions for HMI software, embedded UI, and virtual maintenance training.

1

Funding Rounds

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Royole

Royole Corporation is a company developing and manufacturing flexible displays, flexible sensors, and smart devices.

3

Funding Rounds

$880.0m

Money raised

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Kapetair

Kaptair develops and provides a VTOL UAV solution for the worldwide consumer market.

1

Funding Rounds

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Shift5

Shift5 is a Rosslyn, VA-based cybersecurity company which helps defend planes, trains, and tanks from cyberattack.

3

Funding Rounds

$72.5m

Money raised

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Odys Aviation

Odys Aviation is a company founded by James Dorris.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.5m

Money raised

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Aiir Innovations

AI platform to inspect airplanes.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

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NanoAvionika, LLC

NanoAvionika, LLC is a company founded by Linas Sargautis.

4

Funding Rounds

$5.6m

Money raised

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Luftronix, Inc.

Luftronix is a New Jersey-based company offering drone-powered aircraft inspection services.

1

Funding Rounds

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Autonomous Flight

Autonomous Flight is in the business of designing and manufacturing non-polluting electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft which are easy to manufacture and are highly reliable.

1

Funding Rounds

$6.9m

Money raised

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Zuri

Manufacturer of hybrid VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) aircraft.

1

Funding Rounds

$580.0k

Money raised

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Kennon Products, Inc

Kennon is a Wyoming-based company that designs and manufactures products to protect high value assets for military and commercial aircraft

10

Funding Rounds

$4.4m

Money raised

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Beijing MinoSpace Technology Co.,Ltd.

Beijing MinoSpace is a Chinese satellite technology company.

3

Funding Rounds

$4.4m

Money raised

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Jaunt Air Mobility LLC

Jaunt Air Mobility LLC is a transformative aerospace company. We design and build piloted and autonomous eVTOL (electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing) aircraft for urban and regional mobility; addressing multiple markets.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

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Airscort

Airscort is a commercial Drone Docking and Recharging Station founded in 2014 by Yitzhak Tal.

2

Funding Rounds

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OriginGPS

OriginGPS is a miniature GNSS Modules and Cellular IoT Systems founded in 2006 by Haim Goldberger.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.8m

Money raised

Signol logo

Signol

Software provider for aviation and shipping industry to reduce emissions.

4

Funding Rounds

$3.3m

Money raised

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Cleandrone

Cleandrone is a company that develops flying robotic systems that inspect and clean glass surfaces.

1

Funding Rounds

$60.6k

Money raised

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Altavian

Altavian is a Gainesville, Florida-based company founded in 2011 by Thomas Rambo.

2

Funding Rounds

$23.0k

Money raised