The New Vanguard of Defense Technology: 150 Companies Building the Future Frontline
The Defense Tech Database
In the past year, the Overton window for investing in defense technology has rapidly closed, with VCs and founders funneling their resources toward building in the national interest. The resurgent interest in defense technology is twofold. First, as the world order continues to fracture, evidenced by conflict in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia, a palpable anxiety pervades the rhetoric of our media and policymakers. Second, defense technologists and their benefactors have been energized by domestic political strife, as the metastasizing anti-American sentiment in our academic, policy, and corporate ecosystems has created an impetus for a new stratum of civil society, one that seeks the restoration of American hegemony on the global stage.
This conviction is buttressed by an influx of capital from governmental and venture sources. The Defense Innovation Unit has been the beneficiary of a $946M appropriation from Congress, reflecting an $842M uptick from the preceding cycle. Venture capital investment in defense technology has charted a steadfast upward trajectory, with specialized funds emerging in recent years, including Andreessen Horowitz’s American Dynamism, Shield Capital, and Harpoon Ventures, among others.
While the barriers to access remain high, the deluge of capital has increased the sector’s viability, with several successful pure-play defense decacorns emerging. Once incentivized by the allure of traditional B2B or consumer products, founders have increasingly gravitated towards defense, precipitating a proliferation of nascent early-stage ventures
The following is a list of ~150 US defense technology companies. Companies in this list adhere to the following criteria:
Founded in the last decade
Domiciled in the US
Venture-backed
US Government or defense contractors as the primary customer
I excluded both cyber security and energy companies from this list. While both are critical to national security, the former is its own complex ecosystem, and the latter is a commodity. Here are the categories:
Aerospace
Hypersonics
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS)
Communication
Munitions
Maritime
Manufacturing
Autonomy
Public Safety
Defense SaaS & AI
Space
Miscellaneous
This compilation was inspired by Christian Keil and Chris Amidon, who made introductory lists for the sector.
If I missed any notable companies, leave a comment or send me a DM.
Defense Tech Database
Aerospace
Astro Mechanica
Total Funding Raised to Date: n/a
Key People: Ian Brooke
Location: San Francisco, CA
Designing and manufacturing a novel jet engine, the ‘turboelectric adaptive engine,’ leveraging an electric compressor to be more efficient at every speed.
Archer Aviation
Total Funding Raised to Date: $2,400,000,000
Key People: Adam Goldstein
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Building an electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft targeting domestic airlines and consumer travel, but with significant collaboration with the Air Force through AFWERX.
Boom Supersonic
Total Funding Raised to Date: $289,130,000
Key People: Nathaniel Scholl
Location: Colorado
Manufacturer of supersonic aircraft to cut travel times and logistics delivery. The XB-1 technology demonstrator was the first flight of a supersonic civilian aircraft since the retirement of the Concorde.
Elroy Air
Total Funding Raised to Date: $106,130,000
Key People: David Merrill
Location: San Francisco, CA
Building an autonomous E-VTOL to serve the middle mile in commercial, shipping, defense, and humanitarian logistics.
Firehawk Aerospace
Total Funding Raised to Date: $20,450,000
Key People: Andrew Edwards
Location: Addison, TX
Designing and manufacturing hybrid rocket engines for use in defense systems. Firehawk uses patent-protected additive manufacturing technology to produce 3D-printed fuel grains customizable to any size and thrust profile for precise mission tailoring.
One Kappa
Total Funding Raised to Date: $150,000
Key People: Henry Kwan
Location: El Segundo, CA
Developing Stratos, a solar-powered, high-altitude, long-endurance autonomous air vehicle for imaging and communication.
Regent
Total Funding Raised to Date: $150,000
Key People: William Thalheimer, Michael Klinker
Location: North Kingstown, RI
Developing and manufacturing the sea glider, an all-electric ground effect vehicle to service coastline transport.
Hypersonics
Hermeus
Total Funding Raised to Date: $119,900,000
Key People: AJ Piplica
Location: Atlanta, GA
Developing and manufacturing hypersonic aircraft using their Chimera hybrid engine.
Velontra
Total Funding Raised to Date: $650,000
Key People: Joel Darin
Location: Cincinatti, OH
Developing a hypersonic ‘space plane’ that can take off anywhere, in any weather, for satellite launch, rapid incident response, and DoD applications.
Venus Aerospace
Total Funding Raised to Date: $48,280,000
Key People: Sarah Duggleby, Andrew Duggleby
Location: Houston, TX
Building a rotating detonation rocket engine to develop the world’s first hypersonic, reusable aircraft.
Castelion
Total Funding Raised to Date: $14,200,000
Key People: Bryon Hargis
Location: El Segundo, CA
Offers high-cadence hypersonic testing for materials and electronics systems, high-performance thermal protection systems, and avionics and strike systems.
Specter Aerospace
Total Funding Raised to Date: $9,630,000
Key People: Felipe Gomez del Campo, Drew Weibel
Location: Boston, MA
Developing plasma-assisted combustion and hypersonic propulsion to build hypersonic vehicles for the Department of Defense.
Ursa Major
Total Funding Raised to Date: $274,130,000
Key People: Joseph Laurienti
Location: Berthoud, CO
Advanced propulsion systems for space and hypersonics that leverage additive manufacturing and bespoke engines.
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
Airrow
Total Funding Raised to Date: $350,000
Key People: David Kaye, Menachem Fehler
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Building One Dronehub, a mobile platform to automate battery, sensor, and payload swaps for small UAS.
Canine Defense Technologies
Total Funding Raised to Date: n/a
Key People: David Han
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Developing and manufacturing tactical sUAS for reconnaissance.
FlightWave
Total Funding Raised to Date: $7,500,000
Key People: Michael Colonno
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Building modular dual-use UAS platforms for long-range, long-endurance missions.
Flyby Robotics
Total Funding Raised to Date: $4,000,000
Key People: Jason Lu, Cat Orman
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Building the F-11, a UAS platform with a fully open compute architecture and compute at the edge.
Neros Technologies
Total Funding Raised to Date: $10,750,000
Key People: Soren Monroe-Anderson, Olaf Hichwa
Location: El Segundo, CA
Vertically integrating high-performance FPV drones for the battlefield.
Skydio
Total Funding Raised to Date: $708,600,000
Key People: Adam Bry, Abraham Bachrach
Location: San Mateo, CA
Autonomous swarm sUAS for reconnaissance at the squad level.
Theseus
Total Funding Raised to Date: $500,000
Key People: Carl Schoeller, Ian Laffey, Sacha Levy
Location: San Francisco, CA
Camera navigation for UAS in GPS-denied environments.
Vantage Robotics
Total Funding Raised to Date: $23,850,000
Key People: Tobin Fisher
Location: San Leandro, CA
Manufacturing rugged tactical sUAS systems.
Zipline
Total Funding Raised to Date: $884,320,000
Key People: Keller Cliffton, Keenan Wyrobek
Location: San Francisco, CA
Dual-use autonomous drone delivery service for logistics in remote and contested environments.
Firestorm
Total Funding Raised to Date: $14,640,000
Key People: Daniel Magy, Ian Muceus
Location: San Diego, California
Developing and deploying Tempest, a fixed-wing loitering munition that leverages edge manufacturing and a vertically integrated chipset.
Performance Drone Works
Total Funding Raised to Date: $8,570,000
Key People: Ryan Gury
Location: Huntsville, AL
Building the C100 sUAS, an autonomous tactical drone for reconnaissance and payload delivery.
Tyr Laboratories
Total Funding Raised to Date: n/a
Key People: n/a
Location: n/a
Stealth drone startup.
Cloud UAS Payloads
Total Funding Raised to Date: n/a
Key People: Cole Wickert, Ethan Zentner, Guillermo Mendoza Contreras
Location: Boston, MA
Optical-communication for UAS.
Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS)
Allen Control Systems
Total Funding Raised to Date: $12,000,000
Key People: Steven Simoni, Mike Wior, Luke Allen
Location: Austin, TX
Developing the bullfrog, a kinetic C-UAS platform using an autonomous M240 gun current to defeat threats.
Dedrone
Total Funding Raised to Date: $133,000,000
Key People: Joerg Lamprecht
Location: Virginia
Manufacturing and deploying EW (Electronic Warfare) C-UAS systems for detection and jamming.
Epirus
Total Funding Raised to Date: $293,590,000
Key People: Andrew Lowery, Dan Kultran, Mick Jaggers
Location: California
Software-defined, solid-state, long-pulse high-power microwave systems C-UAS systems for drone swarms.
Fortem Technologies
Total Funding Raised to Date: $51,370,000
Key People: Jon Gruen
Location: Pleasant Grove, Utah
Drone detection radar and autonomous drone interdiction solutions.
Guardian RF
Total Funding Raised to Date: $500,000
Key People: Lucas Raskin, Eli Kerstein, John Andrzejewski
Location: San Francisco, CA
Scalable RF systems that integrate into existing infrastructure to detect, track, and disrupt UAS threats.
Skysafe
Total Funding Raised to Date: $54,950,000
Key People: Grant Jordan
Location: San Diego, CA
Developer of a geofence to identify and then control UAS threats leveraging RF technology. SkySafe serves the US military, correctional facilities, critical infrastructure, and large public gatherings.
Walaris
Total Funding Raised to Date: $5,290,000
Key People: Kyle Meloney
Location: Peachtree Corners, GA
Building the AirScout platform, an Electro-Optical/Infra-Red UAS detection system that uses AI to run on the edge. AirScout is hardware-agnostic and scales with existing infrastructure.
Whitefox
Total Funding Raised to Date: $29,540,000
Key People: Luke Fox
Location: California
Building a quickly deployable drone geofence that handles detection, identification, and threat mitigation.
Communication
Beartooth
Total Funding Raised to Date: $2,770,000
Key People: Michael Monaghan
Location: Bozeman, MT
Mesh networking radios for public safety and military use cases.
GoTenna
Total Funding Raised to Date: $82,000,000
Key People: Ari Schuler
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Deploying low-cost, low-power, and long-range mesh networking devices for the tactical edge.
AnySignal
Total Funding Raised to Date: $8,000,000
Key People: John Malsbury
Location: El Segundo, CA
Developing end-to-end RF solutions for communication, radar, and navigation and used by advanced aircraft, satellites, and various national security applications.
Telepathic Technologies
Total Funding Raised to Date: n/a
Key People: Noah Shamus, Ellery Buntel
Location: San Francisco, CA
Non-invasive BCI for tactical communication at the speed of thought.
Munitions
Aeon Industries
Total Funding Raised to Date: n/a
Key People: Naweed Tahmas, Joe Cieslik
Location: Austin, TX
A low-cost precision missile system, ODIN, with modular payloads and EW resistance.
Mach Industries
Total Funding Raised to Date: $84,000,000
Key People: Ethan Thornton
Location: Huntington Beach, CA
Developing a range of defense products, including a precision strike munition and high-altitude balloon.
Maritime
Poseidon
Total Funding Raised to Date: n/a
Key People: David Zagaynov, Isaac Baumstark
Location: San Francisco, CA
Developing a ground-effect vehicle for logistics.
Saildrone
Total Funding Raised to Date: $186,200,000
Key People: Richard Jenkins
Location: Alameda, CA
Autonomous surface vehicles for maritime intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. Systems can loiter using wind and solar power.
Saronic
Total Funding Raised to Date: $70,600,000
Key People: Dino Mavrookas, Rob Lehman, Doug Lambert, Vibhav Avaltekar
Location: Austin, TX
Autonomous surface vessels with modular payloads that can swarm, team, and execute on a variety of mission sets.
TerraDepth
Total Funding Raised to Date: $33,040,000
Key People: Joe Wolfel, Kris Rydberg
Location: Austin, TX
Long-endurance autonomous underwater vehicles for oceanography.
VATN Systems
Total Funding Raised to Date: $1,980,000
Key People: Nelson Mills
Location: Portsmouth, RI
Small, autonomous underwater vessels with modular payloads that can navigate in GPS-denied environments.
Manufacturing
Atomic Industries
Total Funding Raised to Date: $19,840,000
Key People: Aaron Slodov, Austin Bishop
Location: Ohio
Combining technology and manufacturing to create a world where the world of atoms can move at the speed of bits.
Dirac
Total Funding Raised to Date: $3,000,000
Key People: Fil Aronshtein
Location: New York, NY
Automated work instructions for manufacturing design.
First Resonance
Total Funding Raised to Date: $19,370,000
Key People: Karan Talati
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Next-gen manufacturing execution system, ION Factory OS.
Hadrian
Total Funding Raised to Date: $219,220,000
Key People: Chris Power
Location: Hawthorne, CA
Highly automated precision component factories for space and defense.
Machina Labs
Total Funding Raised to Date: $47,220,000
Key People: Edward Mehr
Location: Chatsworth, CA
Highly automated metal forming and fabrication for aerospace and defense.
Rangeview
Total Funding Raised to Date: $4,400,000
Key People: Cameron Schiller
Location: El Segundo, CA
Building a cyber foundry. 3D printing casting molds for precision parts.
Velo3D
Total Funding Raised to Date: $335,000,000
Key People: Bradley Kreger
Location: Campbell. CA
Fully integrated additive manufacturing.
Vuecason
Total Funding Raised to Date: $500,000
Key People: Dival Banerjee
Location: Santa Monica, California
Novel metal additive manufacturing method with minimal post-processing.
Freeform
Total Funding Raised to Date: $48,700,000
Key People: Erik Palitsch, Thomas Ronacher
Location: Hawthorne, CA
Software-defined autonomous printing factories to bring the scalability of software to physical production.
Formlogic
Total Funding Raised to Date: $59,400,000
Key People: Paul Sutter
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Scaled and autonomous precision manufacturing.
Autonomy
Merlin Labs
Total Funding Raised to Date: $120,000,000
Key People: Matthew George
Location: Boston, MA
Completely autonomous pilot for small aircraft.
Shield AI
Total Funding Raised to Date: $1,070,000,000
Key People: Brandon Tseng, Karman Karmanhanreng
Location: San Diego, CA
Developing Hivemind, the only deployed and completely autonomous pilot for drones and military jets.
Picogrid
Total Funding Raised to Date: $12,000,000
Key People: Zane Mountcastle
Location: El Segundo, CA
Connect, command, and control autonomous systems to create a unified battlefield picture.
Zeromark
Total Funding Raised to Date: $7,000,000
Key People: Joel Anderson
Location: New York, NY
Building a gun that never misses. Using an adaptive buttstock, they deploy an auto-targeting fire control system for C-UAS and lethality.
F-ADA (Falcon Attack & Defense Autonomy)
Total Funding Raised to Date: n/a
Key People: Mike Sanzari, Josh Siegel, Ben Firner
Location: California
Closing the kill chain with low-cost, GPU-free autonomy. Starting with terminal guidance for FPV drones, they embed autonomy on the edge to maintain lethality in GPS-denied environments.
KEF Robotics
Total Funding Raised to Date: $120,000
Key People: Fraser Kitchell
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Autonomy software for piloting capabilities to fly any platform, in any environment, on any mission.
Anduril
Total Funding Raised to Date: A lot
Key People: Palmer Luckey
Location: Costa Mesa, CA
Not too much to be said.
Gecko Robotics
Total Funding Raised to Date: $222,800,000
Key People: Jake Loosararian
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Inspection robots that use ultrasound transducers and cameras for the manufacturing and defense base.
Roam
Total Funding Raised to Date: $14,000,000
Key People: Tim Swift
Location: San Francisco, CA
Robotic exoskeletons to expand human mobility.
Swarmbiotics
Total Funding Raised to Date: n/a
Key People: Drew Watson, Stephen Houghton
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
Attritable, autonomous, ground swarm robotics for a broad scope of mission sets.
Asylon Robotics
Total Funding Raised to Date: $9,360,000
Key People: Damon Henry, Brent McLaughlin
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Automating security operations with aerial and ground robotics.
EpiSci
Total Funding Raised to Date: $9,500,000
Key People: Bo Ryu
Location: California
Autonomy for air dominance, sensors, and communication to bolster decision-making on the battlefield.
Public Safety
Biofire
Total Funding Raised to Date: $52,900,000
Key People: Kai Kloepfer
Location: Colorado
Developing smart gun technology designed to make firearms safer to use.
Deep Sentinel
Total Funding Raised to Date: $39,000,000
Key People: David Selinger
Location: California
Real-time threat detection in home security cameras.
Flock Safety
Total Funding Raised to Date: $682,580,000
Key People: Garrett Langley
Location: Atlanta, GA
Fully integrated sensors and analytics for city-wide public safety monitoring and detection.
Aerodome
Total Funding Raised to Date: $28,000,000
Key People: Rahul Sidhu
Location: New York, NY
Drones as first responders.
Brinc
Total Funding Raised to Date: $87,200,000
Key People: Blake Resnick
Location: Seattle, WA
Fully integrated tactical drone for first responders.
Defense SaaS & AI
Airspace Intelligence
Total Funding Raised to Date: $56,000,000
Key People: Phillip Buckendorf, Kris Dorosz
Location: San Francisco, CA
Software to accelerate command and control for airspace operations.
Arcturus
Total Funding Raised to Date: $3,350,000
Key People: Benjamin Salander, Michael Cipolla
Location: Austin, TX
Information from human sources, analysis powered by machine learning, and advice from global leaders in their fields.
Cloudburst Technologies
Total Funding Raised to Date: $3,100,000
Key People: Evan Kohlmann
Location: New York, NY
Deep OSINT aggregation, analysis, and prediction for intelligence agencies.
Codemetal AI
Total Funding Raised to Date: $3,150,000
Key People: Peter Morales
Location: Boston, MA
Streamlining the conversion of research algorithms for defense hardware.
Elodin Systems
Total Funding Raised to Date: $500,000
Key People: Daniel Driscoll, Sascha Wise, Tom Gurka
Location: Berkeley, CA
Aerospace simulation platform for UAS, Robotics, and Satellites.
Epsilon3
Total Funding Raised to Date: $38,800,000
Key People: Laura Crabtree, Max Mednik
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Operational software for spacecraft.
Holocron Technologies
Total Funding Raised to Date: $1,500,000
Key People: Tristan Yang
Location: Washington, DC
Global OSINT collection with NLP processing for intelligence and military clients.
Modern Intelligence
Total Funding Raised to Date: $5,000,000
Key People: John Dulin
Location: Austin, TX
Hardware agnostic sensor fusion and analysis platform.
OneBrief
Total Funding Raised to Date: $49,580,000
Key People: Grant Demaree, Rafa Pereira
Location: Austin, TX
Software to 80-20 operational planning for the military.
Percipient AI
Total Funding Raised to Date: $100,300,000
Key People: Balan Ayyar
Location: Reston, VA
Human-machine teaming to parse and understand national security data pipelines.
Primordial Labs
Total Funding Raised to Date: $4,000,000
Key People: Lee Ritholtz
Location: New Haven, CT
Cognitive assistant to reduce the workload of sUAS operators who manually control sensors to execute air intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance objectives.
Ravn
Total Funding Raised to Date: $910,000
Key People: Jacob Bullock
Location: San Francisco, CA
Creating edge data for defense instead of relying on human operators in the field.
Rebellion
Total Funding Raised to Date: $223,800,000
Key People: Ben Fitzgerald
Location: Washington, DC
Fused understanding of adversary capabilities and operations to strengthen critical military assets.
Robust Intelligence
Total Funding Raised to Date: $44,000,000
Key People: Yaron Singer
Location: San Francisco, CA
Safe and secure AI applications that adhere to government compliance standards.
Second Front Systems
Total Funding Raised to Date: $80,100,000
Key People: Tyler Sweatt
Location: Wilmington, DE
Onboard, secure, and run commercial SaaS applications on Department of Defense networks at a fraction of the cost and time.
Shift5
Total Funding Raised to Date: $105,800,000
Key People: Josh Lospinoso
Location: Rosslyn, VA
Data integration platform for defense operations and maintenance.
Slingshot Aerospace
Total Funding Raised to Date: $90,240,000
Key People: Tim Solms
Location: Austin, TX
Data fusion platform for space simulation and analytics.
TurbineOne
Total Funding Raised to Date: $21,200,000
Key People: Matthew Amacker
Location: San Francisco, CA
Hardware-agnostic data processing platform for defense use cases.
Vannevar Labs
Total Funding Raised to Date: $91,100,000
Key People: Brett Granberg, Nini Hamrick
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Computer vision and natural language processing products for intelligence customers.
Dextral AI
Total Funding Raised to Date: n/a
Key People: Kevin Huang
Location: San Francisco, CA
Human-agent teaming for repetitive DoD software problems.
SkyFi
Total Funding Raised to Date: $17,100,000
Key People: Luke Fischer
Location: Austin, TX
Democratized access to satellite and geospatial data.
Mach9
Total Funding Raised to Date: $2,420,000
Key People: Alexander Baikovitz
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Processing geospatial datasets into engineering deliverables.
Reveal
Total Funding Raised to Date: $2,450,000
Key People: Garrett Smith, Andrew Dixon
Location: San Francisco, CA
Software platform designed to give disconnected and distributed teams access to actionable ISR, rapid modeling, and advanced analytics at the tactical edge
Torch AI
Total Funding Raised to Date: $30,000,000
Key People: Brian Weaver
Location: Leawood, KS
Performant data processing platform for a wide range of national security mission sets.
Rhombus Power
Total Funding Raised to Date: $46,000,000
Key People: Garrett Larsson, Omar Khan
Location: Sacramento, CA
Decision-making platform for all-domain operations.
Space
Privateer
Total Funding Raised to Date: $73,150,000
Key People: Alex Fielding, Steve Wozniak
Location: Hawaii
Mitigate the Kessler syndrome by tracking and avoiding space debris
Hawkeye 360
Total Funding Raised to Date: $410,750,000
Key People: John Serafini
Location: Herndon, VA
Space-based radio frequency GEOINT and ELINT analysis.
ABL Space Systems
Total Funding Raised to Date: $501,320,000
Key People: Harrison O'Hanley
Location: El Segundo, CA
Low-cost rockets and ground systems for rapid space launch.
Apex Space
Total Funding Raised to Date: $27,000,000
Key People: Ian Cinnamon, Maximilian Benassi
Location: Los Angeles, CA
End-to-end configurable satellite buses.
Astra
Total Funding Raised to Date: $255,000,000
Key People: Chris Kemp
Location: San Francisco, CA
Electric propulsion systems for satellite constellations.
Astranis
Total Funding Raised to Date: $685,500,000
Key People: John Gedmark
Location: San Francisco, CA
Dedicated broadband internet through geostationary satellites.
Axiom Space
Total Funding Raised to Date: $606,500,000
Key People: Michael Suffredini
Location: Los Angeles, CA
End-to-end missions to the ISS while building its successor.
Blacksky
Total Funding Raised to Date: $319,440,000
Key People: Brian O'Toole
Location: Herndon, VA
Real-time space-based intelligence
Capella Space
Total Funding Raised to Date: $283,990,000
Key People: Frank Backes
Location: San Francisco, CA
Advanced SAR satellites.
Firefly Aerospace
Total Funding Raised to Date: $483,250,000
Key People: William Weber, Dan Fermon
Location: Cedar Park, Texas
End-to-end space transportation to enable our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime.
Hedron Space
Total Funding Raised to Date: $42,580,000
Key People: Baris Erkmen
Location: Cambridge, MA
Data relay satellites that will connect space to Earth in real-time
Impulse Space
Total Funding Raised to Date: $75,000,000
Key People: Thomas Mueller
Location: California
Last-mile payload delivery using orbital maneuvering vehicles capable of multiple payload delivery to many unique orbits.
Inversion
Total Funding Raised to Date: $10,130,000
Key People: Justin Fiaschetti
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Making space a transportation layer.
K2 Space
Total Funding Raised to Date: $50,000,000
Key People: Karandev Kunjur, Neeldev Kunjur
Location: Torrance, CA
Low-cost, large satellite buses for a post-starship future.
Kayhan Space
Total Funding Raised to Date: $11,500,000
Key People: Siamak Hesar, Araz Feyzi
Location: Lafayette, Colorado
Next-generation automation to satellite operations and spaceflight safety.
Leolabs
Total Funding Raised to Date: $127,000,000
Key People: Tony Frazier
Location: Menlo Park, CA
Vertically integrated space operations to transform the way satellite operators, commercial enterprises, and federal agencies launch and track missions in low Earth orbit.
Momentus
Total Funding Raised to Date: $410,450,000
Key People: John Rodd
Location: San Jose, CA
On-orbit servicing and space transportation vehicles.
Orbital Sidekick
Total Funding Raised to Date: $30,970,000
Key People: Daniel Katz
Location: San Francisco, CA
Hyperspectral imaging satellites.
Oursky
Total Funding Raised to Date: $9,540,000
Key People: Daniel Roelker
Location: Leesburg, VA
Astronomy photography technology, leveraging 40 telescopes distributed globally to offer artificial intelligence and automation to astrophotography.
Proteus Space
Total Funding Raised to Date: $4,200,000
Key People: David Kervin
Location: Chicago, IL
Automated satellite design and manufacturing for rapid, payload-tailored deployments.
Radian Aerospace
Total Funding Raised to Date: $39,100,000
Key People: Richard Humphrey
Location: Renton, WA
Single stage to orbit spaceplane.
Relativity Space
Total Funding Raised to Date: $2,380,000,000
Key People: Timothy Ellis
Location: Long Beach, CA
Reusable rockets built using additive manufacturing and autonomous factories.
Scout Space
Total Funding Raised to Date: $4,600,000
Key People: Philip Hover-Smoot
Location: Alexandria, VA
Plug & play hosted optical payload packages with sensing tools, processing algorithms, and responsive autonomy capabilities for in-space applications.
Spinlaunch
Total Funding Raised to Date: $178,720,000
Key People: Jonathan Yaney
Location: Long Beach, CA
A ground-based, electric-powered kinetic launch system.
Think Orbital
Total Funding Raised to Date: $1,840,000
Key People: Lee Rosen
Location: Boulder, CO
Building the ThinkPlatforms, the basic building block for space infrastructure, and building in-space construction toolkits for welding, cutting, additive manufacturing, and inspection.
True Anomaly
Total Funding Raised to Date: $130,000,000
Key People: Even Rogers
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Mosaic OS for full space battle management, and Jackal, an autonomous orbital vehicle for space interdiction.
Varda Space
Total Funding Raised to Date: $176,020,000
Key People: William Bruey, Delian Asparouhov
Location: El Segundo, CA
Orbital re-entry and microgravity enabled material processing in space.
Umbra
Total Funding Raised to Date: $167,730,000
Key People: David Langan
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Vertically integrated remote sensing for industry-leading 25cm resolution SAR imaging.
Turion Space
Total Funding Raised to Date: $17,540,000
Key People: Ryan Westerdahl
Location: Irvine, CA
Building the DROID satellite constellations for on-orbit sensing and operations.
Albedo Space
Total Funding Raised to Date: $124,590,000
Key People: Topher Haddad, AyJay Lasater, Winston Tri
Location: Broomfield, CO
Aerial-quality imagery from space
Morpheus Space
Total Funding Raised to Date: $28,070,000
Key People: Daniel Bock, Christian Schunk
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Mobility in space using electric propulsion systems.
Starfish Space
Total Funding Raised to Date: $22,100,000
Key People: Austin Link, Trevor Bennett
Location: Kent, WA
Cheap, small autonomous satellite servicing vehicle.
Benchmark Space
Total Funding Raised to Date: $54,530,000
Key People: Ryan McDevitt
Location: Burlington, VT
Turn-key chemical, electric, and hybrid propulsion systems for CubeSat through ESPA and OTV class spacecraft in LEO, GEO, and beyond
Miscellaneous
Realm Alliance
Total Funding Raised to Date: n/a
Key People: Eugene Marinelli, Myles Recny
Location: Austin, TX
Command and control layer for military-grade physical security, servicing natural resource site security and the corporate security sector.
Cambium
Total Funding Raised to Date: $30,510,000
Key People: Simon Waddington
Location: El Segundo, CA
Vertically integrated research and production of material science for aerospace and defense.
Armada
Total Funding Raised to Date: $55,000,000
Key People: Dan Wright, Jonathan Runyan
Location: San Francisco, CA
Full stack edge computing infrastructure for defense.
Tunl Company
Total Funding Raised to Date: $2,000,000
Key People: William Pan
Location: El Segundo, CA
Subterranean systems. Currently n stealth.
Chaos Industries
Total Funding Raised to Date: $70,000,000
Key People: Gavin Hood
Location: Los Angeles, CA
“The future of defense and critical industry technology.” Currently in stealth.
Spartan Radar
Total Funding Raised to Date: $42,000,000
Key People: Blake Gasca, Nathan Mintz
Location: Los Alamitos, CA
Radar technology designed to create real-time imagery of sharp resolution that can be deployed to UAS and automotive applications.