69 Best Satellite Startups to Watch in 2024

Provider of ground station services for satellite communications.

Total Raised: $15.00M

Last Funding: $15.00M (Series B)

5G satellite telecom operator for global IoT connectivity.

Total Raised: $54.11M

Last Funding: $32.50M (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)

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

Total Raised: $667.00M

Last Funding: $3.00M (Unknown)

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)

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)

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

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.

LGS Innovations is a communications company, developing technologies for the defense and space industries

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.

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

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

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

Sirius XM Radio, Inc. is a company founded in 1990 by Kirk Coburn.

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

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.

synspective is a synthetic aperture radar company offering data integrations from their SAR constellations.

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

Microsemi Semiconductor Ltd is the UK subsidiary of a multinational semiconductor company Microsemi Inc. The facility in Monmouthshire designs, develops and manufactures bespoke advanced microelectronic components and technologies.

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

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

Last Funding: $0.00M (Unknown)

Astrobotic Technology is a company that looks to offer affordable space robotic technology as well as work towards planetary missions.

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

Vector Launch is a company in Tucson, Arizona.

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

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

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.

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