What they do:
Economically and environmentally sustainable supersonic travel
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HQ: Denver, CO, United States
Top Aerospace Startups
This list has 47 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 18 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (16), Los Angeles (12), and Denver (4). Largest teams: Boom, Beyond Aero, and Quindar. Latest round: HyLight raised €13M (Oct 12, 2026).
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HyLight
Hiring
What they do:
Unmanned airships for inspecting our critical assets
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Funding:
€13M · Oct 2026
What they do:
First electric business aircraft designed for hydrogen propulsion
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HQ: Toulouse, France
Quindar
Hiring
What they do:
Datadog for Space
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HQ: Denver, CO, United States
Albedo
Hiring
What they do:
Full-stack VLEO satellite missions
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HQ: Denver, CO, United States
Icarus
Hiring
What they do:
Stratospheric birds for defense
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
What they do:
Heart makes electric airplanes with an all-electric range of 250 miles
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
What they do:
All-electric seagliders for fast, affordable regional transportation
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HQ: North Kingstown, RI, United States
What they do:
Turning space into a transportation layer for Earth
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
What they do:
We build robots for dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs.
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HQ: Charlotte, NC, United States
Reditus Space
Hiring
What they do:
Reusable Satellites
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HQ: Atlanta, GA, United States
Kalam Labs
Hiring
What they do:
Autonomous Stratospheric UAVs
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HQ: India
Vendra
Hiring
What they do:
Custom Parts, Manufactured in America 🇺🇸
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Godela
Hiring
What they do:
AI Physics Engine to replace simulations and prototypes
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Airhart Aeronautics
Hiring
What they do:
Airplanes anyone can fly
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
GroundControl
Hiring
What they do:
Vertical AI for highly-regulated manufacturing
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Wardstone
Hiring
What they do:
The Modular Interceptor Platform
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
Navier AI
Hiring
What they do:
Agent-Driven Engineering
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Cascade Space
Hiring
What they do:
Commercial alternative to the Deep Space Network
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Constellations as a Service
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
General Astronautics
Hiring
What they do:
Superintelligent space Robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Nine Fives
Hiring
What they do:
RF test equipment for next-gen spacecraft, drones, and cellphones
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Vernius Systems, Inc.
Hiring
What they do:
Mass-deployable radars for air defense
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Building persistent, high-performance infrastructure in the sky
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HQ: Seattle, WA, United States
Consus
Hiring
What they do:
The fastest and cheapest way to use AI with ITAR or CUI data.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Hypersonic space plane that can take-off from any location and weather
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HQ: Dayton, OH, United States
What they do:
Unified flight software and hardware for the mission of tomorrow
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Spaceium Inc
Hiring
What they do:
In-Space Refueling
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What they do:
Building a nervous system for the atmosphere
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
We're building robot birds for surveillance.
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
What they do:
Unmanned cargo airplanes
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
What they do:
We visually monitor space objects for governments and defense
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What they do:
Building a neutral, sovereign alternative to Starlink
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Kill the drone, keep the jet. Reusable unmanned interceptors.
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HQ: Denver, CO, United States
What they do:
Building low-cost cruise missiles
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
Questions and answers
How many startups are on this list?
There are 47 startups on this list, last updated on Oct 15, 2026.
Which of them are hiring?
18 of them are hiring right now, including HyLight, Quindar, and Albedo.
Which of them have the largest teams?
By team size: Boom (227 employees), Beyond Aero (80 employees), and Quindar (57 employees).
Which of them raised money recently?
Latest rounds: HyLight — €13M (Oct 2026).
Where are they based?
The biggest hubs are San Francisco (16), Los Angeles (12), and Denver (4).