69 Best Aviation Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Aviation Startups

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There are 124 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $5.0b. The average funding per company in this subset is $72.1m.

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

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$408.0m

Money raised

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

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2

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$12.1m

Money raised

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

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6

Funding Rounds

$46.9m

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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$269.6m

Money raised

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

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

3

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$127.8m

Money raised

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

1

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$1.8m

Money raised

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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5

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$56.0m

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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$276.0k

Money raised

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

7

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$194.6m

Money raised

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

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$190.0m

Money raised

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.

7

Funding Rounds

$760.4m

Money raised

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

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5

Funding Rounds

$376.4m

Money raised

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

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6

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$59.8m

Money raised

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

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4

Funding Rounds

$141.0m

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

7

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$153.1m

Money raised

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

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2

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$10.8m

Money raised

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

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

4

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$58.0m

Money raised

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

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$72.5m

Money raised

A software company offering a pilotless, AI security solution for commercial applications.

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10

Funding Rounds

$8.1m

Money raised

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

4

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$20.5m

Money raised

Edgybees is a company that develops augmented reality technologies.

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4

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$11.6m

Money raised

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.

3

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$92.0m

Money raised

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

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$49.0m

Money raised

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

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$1.5m

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Tayln produces battery electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft systems

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$3.0m

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

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1

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

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

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$8.5m

Money raised

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

3

Funding Rounds

$3.7m

Money raised

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

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6

Funding Rounds

$403.6m

Money raised

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

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2

Funding Rounds

$35.5m

Money raised

Capillary Technologies is a company founded in 2012.

4

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$36.5m

Money raised

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

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11

Funding Rounds

$2.2m

Money raised

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

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2

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$2.4m

Money raised

Target Arm Inc. is a company by Jeff McChesney.

2

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$35.0m

Money raised

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

2

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$15.5m

Money raised

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

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$2.6m

Money raised

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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.

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$37.0m

Money raised

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

2

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$5.8m

Money raised

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

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1

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$17.5m

Money raised

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

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$52.1m

Money raised

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

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2

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$97.1k

Money raised

inVoli, based in Switzerland, is a robotics company.

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3

Funding Rounds

$880.0m

Money raised

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

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$150.0m

Money raised

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

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

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$2.1m

Money raised

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.

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1

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$116.6k

Money raised

Tekuma is a company by Annette McClelland and Michael Griffin.

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$20.0m

Money raised

Ewatt UAV is a California-based aircraft manufacturer.

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

3

Funding Rounds

$72.5m

Money raised

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

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2

Funding Rounds

$3.5m

Money raised

Odys Aviation is a company founded by James Dorris.

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1

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$2.3m

Money raised

AI platform to inspect airplanes.

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4

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$5.6m

Money raised

NanoAvionika, LLC is a company founded by Linas Sargautis.

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

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$6.9m

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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.

10

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$4.4m

Money raised

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

1

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$580.0k

Money raised

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

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$4.4m

Money raised

Beijing MinoSpace is a Chinese satellite technology company.

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$10.0m

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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.

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

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$2.8m

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

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$3.3m

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Software provider for aviation and shipping industry to reduce emissions.

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$60.6k

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

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2

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$23.0k

Money raised

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

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$3.1m

Money raised

De-Ice is developing an electric de-icing solution for aerospace industry.

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$200.0k

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BeeFree Agro is an agro-tech company that is addressing the needs of free-grazing livestock ranchers by controlling the location and movement of livestock in open pastures.

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Juvo Robotics provides an efficient automated baggage handling system designed to enhance the productivity of airport workers.

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