69 Best Defense Space Startups to Watch in 2024

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Defense & Space Startups

We track 22,000+ 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 5 start-ups . with an aggregate funding of $948M. The average funding per company in this subset is $189M. The list encompasses 4 founders. It includes data on 4 professionals within these filtered companies.

Last update to the database: Nov 19, 2024. See changelog.

SpaceX

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

Internet of things (IoT)Sustainable transportAerospace

Location:

🇺🇸 Hawthorne, California

United States

Founded:

2002-05-06

Seedtable Rank:

# 555

Total Raised: $667.00M

Last Funding: $3.00M (Unknown)

Key People:

Elon Musk - CEO

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HawkEye 360 Inc.

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

Big dataAnalyticsTelecommunications

Location:

🇺🇸 Herndon, Virginia

United States

Founded:

2015-01-01

Seedtable Rank:

# 1714

Total Raised: $281.00M

Last Funding: $145.00M (Series D)

Key People:

John Serafini - CEO

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Ball Aerospace & Technologies

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

ManufacturingAerospaceDefense industry

Location:

Employees:

5001 - 9999

Seedtable Rank:

# 13623

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Techshot, Inc.

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

Defense industrySpace industryDefense & Space

Location:

Founded:

1988-01-01

Employees:

11 - 49

Seedtable Rank:

# 13623

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SA Photonics, Inc.

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

PhotonicsSensorDefense industry

Location:

🇺🇸 Los Gatos, California

United States

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California

United States

Founded:

2002-01-01

Seedtable Rank:

# 14831

Key People:

Jim Coward - CEO

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ServiceNow

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

CybersecurityEnterprise softwareTechnology

Location:

Founded:

2004-01-01

Seedtable Rank:

# 14831

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Ares Industries

Ares Industries wants to create "cruise missiles that are smaller and less expensive.

ManufacturingDefense & Space

Location:

🇺🇸 El Segundo, California

United States

Seedtable Rank:

# 17212

Key People:

Alex Tseng - CEO

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Fibertek

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

PhotonicsDefense industrySpace industry

Location:

Founded:

1983-01-01

Employees:

51 - 199

Seedtable Rank:

# 22559