69 Best Aerospace Manufacturing Startups to Watch in 2026

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Aerospace Manufacturing Startups

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There are 4,162 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $22.8b. The average funding per company in this subset is $331.1m.

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7

Funding Rounds

$60.6m

Money raised

READY Robotics is a company developing an industrial brand-agnostic operating system (Forge/OS) for industrial robots and automation.

15

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$140.4m

Money raised

Synthace is a software company based out of London, UK, building automation software that gives biologists the ability to control and analyze the performance of lab hardware.

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$250.0m

Money raised

Firefly Aerospace is an end-to-end space transportation company developing technology for launching, landing, and operating space missions.

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$60.0m

Money raised

4

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$230.0m

Money raised

Humane develops and commercializes consumer hardware, software, and services.

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$50.0k

Money raised

Pembient uses advances in biotechnology to fabricate horn and other wildlife products to combat the threat to endangered species.

11

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$1.9b

Money raised

Impossible Foods is a plant-based meat company making meat and dairy products that are made to look and feel like animal products by manufacturing heme, the oxygen binding molecule found in blood, using engineered yeast grown in bioreactors.

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$3.9m

Money raised

Charles River Analytics is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based R&D solutions provider in 1983.

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Company developing space manufacturing technologies to support exploration, national security, and sustainable space settlement.

4

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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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$12.1m

Money raised

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

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7

Funding Rounds

$875.5m

Money raised

C3 AI is an enterprise artificial intelligence software company providing a family of integrated products for accelerating digital transformation.

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3

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$48.6m

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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7

Funding Rounds

$711.5m

Money raised

Perfect Day Foods (formerly Muufri) engineered yeast capable of producing the proteins found in cows milk. They use these proteins to make their own line of animal-free dairy products.

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8

Funding Rounds

$741.4m

Money raised

Desktop Metal is a Burlington, Massachusetts-based metal 3D printing company founded in 2015 by Ric Fulop, Jonah Myerberg, and Ely Sachs.

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7

Funding Rounds

$294.0m

Money raised

Augury is a B2B company developing hardware and software solutions to help monitor and diagnose a machine's health through wireless sensors and artificial intelligence capabilities.

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Zayo Group offers bandwidth infrastructure services across various markets, delivering lit services and dark fiber products. It supports wireline and wireless customers, data centers, and government agencies with a robust network infrastructure. The company also provides carrier-neutral colocation facilities to enhance connectivity options.

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6

Funding Rounds

$98.9m

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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5

Funding Rounds

$140.5m

Money raised

Pasqal is a company building programmable quantum simulators and quantum computers made of 2D and 3D arrays of neutral atoms.

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$12.5m

Money raised

A bio-based chemical manufacturer focusing on human and animal nutrition, health, and materials markets.

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Funding Rounds

$59.5m

Money raised

ISC provides cybersecurity solutions as well as hardware and software products for enterprise threat management.

6

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$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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$105.0m

Money raised

DJI is a Shenzen, China-based company developing and manufacturing drone and camera technology.

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9

Funding Rounds

$3.9m

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.

8

Funding Rounds

$4.7b

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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5

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$60.2m

Money raised

U.S-based 3D media technology company providing worldwide end-to-end virtual media solutions.

7

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$35.4m

Money raised

Atheer is a company specializing in Augmented interactive Reality computing.

7

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$119.2m

Money raised

Seeq is a company that offers an application that processes data analytics.

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4

Funding Rounds

$295.0m

Money raised

Califia Farms makes plant-based dairy products (primarily almond based) such as plant-based milks, plant-based creamers, juices, and dairy-free probiotic yoghurts. The company was founded in 2010 by Greg Steltenpohl and is located in San Joaquin Valley, California.

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$21.0m

Money raised

Planet A Foods is a cocoa-free chocolate maker founded in 2021 by Sara Marquart.

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Funding Rounds

$1.6b

Money raised

Stoke Space is a company manufacturing space vehicle components and performing scientific and technological services associated with the space industry.

6

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$53.9m

Money raised

Sight Machine's manufacturing software platform uses an artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help improve quality and efficiency across a manufacturing enterprise.

4

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$84.9m

Money raised

Physna is a Cincinnati-based 3D modelling software company offering 3D models understandable by software applications for manufacturing, engineering, product design, 3D printing, augmented reality and virtual reality applications.

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5

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$43.9m

Money raised

Via Separations is a Watertown, Massachusetts-based company founded in 2016 by Shreya Dave.

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9

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$669.6m

Money raised

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

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1

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$100.0k

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Lazarus 3D provides medical training and surgery rehearsal services through their soft-tissue 3D printed models built using MRI or CT images of patient anatomy.

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$45.5m

Money raised

HireEZ, formerly Hiretual, is a Mountain View, California-based developer of an artificial intelligence-powered recruitment platform to help companies find employees.

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6

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$37.7m

Money raised

MachineMetrics is a developer of industrial IoT analytics and a machine monitoring platform.

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11

Funding Rounds

$256.5m

Money raised

Meatable is a cellular agriculture company making 100 percent clean meat products.

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2

Funding Rounds

$133.4k

Money raised

Scintilla Iceland is an interior textile design company based in Reykjavik, Iceland.

1

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$13.0m

Money raised

Blue Origin is an American, privately-funded, aerospace developer and manufacturer that is interested in lowering the cost of spaceflight in order to explore the solar system

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6

Funding Rounds

$468.1m

Money raised

HistoSonics is a venture-backed medical device start-up company developing a non-invasive sonic beam therapy platform and procedure using the science of histotripsy. Histotripsy utilizes the pressure created by focused sound energy to liquify and destroy targeted tissue, including diseased tissue and tumors, at sub-cellular levels.

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$13.3m

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Galgus is a Camas, Seville-based wireless and Wi-Fi technology company developing systems used by OEMs and system integrators for Wi-Fi networks.

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$55.9m

Money raised

5G satellite telecom operator for global IoT connectivity.

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7

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$156.2m

Money raised

Mosa Meat is a producer of cultivated meat founded in 2016 by Mark Post.

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

1

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$125.0m

Money raised

OPSWAT is a cybersecurity company founded in 2002. Based in San Francisco, CA, they focus on cyberthreat prevention including a focus on malware, sensitive information, and application vulnerabilities.

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6

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$330.5m

Money raised

Casper is a memory-foam mattress retailer.

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9

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$90.0m

Money raised

SimScale is a cloud-based CAE software that helps users perform simulations of CAD models.

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3

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$127.8m

Money raised

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

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$246.8m

Money raised

The EVERY Company (formally Clara Foods) is a biotechnology company founded by two New Harvest community members David Anchel and Arturo Elizondo in 2014. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and manufactures animal- free proteins using using yeast bio-fermentation techniques fore use in food products.

11

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$48.5m

Money raised

Membrion is a Seattle-based clean technology company and developer of flexible ceramic ion exchange membranes capable of being used in wastewater cleaning and in energy storage solutions.

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14

Funding Rounds

$312.5m

Money raised

Beekeeper is a provider of digital tools for frontline teams founded in 2012 by Flavio Pfaffhauser, Cris Grossmann and Cristian Grossmann.

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8

Funding Rounds

$354.4m

Money raised

Starship Technologies is an Estonian company developing small self-driving robotic delivery vehicles. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with engineering operations in Tallinn, Estonia, and a satellite team in Helsinki, Finland. Starship also has offices in London, UK, Germany, Washington, DC and Mountain View, California.

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4

Funding Rounds

$23.8m

Money raised

Astrocast is an end-to-end satellite IoT network provider, manufacturer, and operator.

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7

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$189.3m

Money raised

AMSilk is a producer of biomaterials made from silk-based proteins founded in 2008.

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5

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$228.0m

Money raised

Echodyne is a company developing compact, solid-state, high-performance radar system founded in 2014 by Eben Frankenberg and Tom Driscoll.

4

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$7.0m

Money raised

An artificial intelligence company developing a platform that helps analysts process and understand information.

8

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$2.0b

Money raised

Allbirds is a startup company manufacturing wool footwear.

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$1.1b

Money raised

Spiber, Inc is a private biomaterials company using industrial biotechnology to develop silk.

4

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$13.0m

Money raised

Help Scout is a company developing a software platform for customer service.

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Astrome is a wireless technology development company using wave technology to offer wireless backhaul solutions.

4

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$230.7m

Money raised

ZeroAvia is an aerospace company developing practical zero emission aviation powertrains using hydrogen power.

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$1.8m

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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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11

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$1.3b

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Zipline is an automated logistics company that designs, manufactures, and delivers medical products.

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$4.1m

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Analytical Space is a satellite communications company making satellites equipped with RD-laser communications technology.

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$1.7m

Money raised

Construction Robotics is a company that develops robotics and automation equipment.

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$1.0b

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Climeworks is a direct Air Capture (DAC) technology developer founded in 2009 by Christoph Gebald.

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$75.1m

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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