Wright Electric
Hiring
What they do:
Boeing for electric planes
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HQ: Albany, NY, United States
Top Aviation and Space Startups
This list has 68 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 28 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (23), Los Angeles (17), and Seattle (3). Largest teams: Relativity Space, Astranis, and Stoke Space. Latest round: Beyond Reach Labs raised $10M (Oct 6, 2026).
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What they do:
Flying motorcycles
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
General Astronautics
Hiring
What they do:
Superintelligent space Robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Dispatch
Hiring
What they do:
Satellites for Manufacturing in Space
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Enhanced Radar
Hiring
What they do:
AI for air traffic control
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Tesseract builds better thrusters for modern satellites
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HQ: Livermore, 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 lunar landers
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
What they do:
The GD&T Analysis Platform for Engineering Drawings
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
We make the world's most efficient aircraft
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What they do:
Emission free hydrogen electric aircraft
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What they do:
Reusable heavy-lift rockets
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HQ: Dresden, Germany
What they do:
We visually monitor space objects for governments and defense
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Building a neutral, sovereign alternative to Starlink
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
The highest-accuracy global weather data from low-cost flat satellites
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HQ: Orem, UT, United States
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Building low-cost cruise missiles
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
What they do:
Foundation models for 24/7 Earth Observation
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
We make silicon on the Moon, to power everything in space.
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
What they do:
Prime Lightworks Inc. manufactures electric propulsion systems for…
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HQ: Culver City, CA, United States
What they do:
Building and Protecting an Exciting Future
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
What they do:
Fixing air traffic control with remote towers
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
YC X26Early stage
What they do:
Autopilot for Flight Operations
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S26Early stage
What they do:
Hyperscaling space manufacturing
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
YC F26Early stage
Talyn Air
Acquired
What they do:
Long range, battery electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
SpaceRyde
Shut down
What they do:
The Rocket Network: Sustainable & On-Demand Delivery Anywhere in Space
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Exosonic, Inc.
Shut down
What they do:
Developing supersonic UAVs as a pathway to quiet supersonic flight
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
Bagaveev Corporation
Shut down
What they do:
Launch small satellites
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Passerine Aircraft
Shut down
What they do:
Passerine Aircraft is building the next generation of dronesWe are…
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HQ: Johannesburg, South Africa