Advanced Manufacturing Startups

Stoke Space develops fully reusable rockets for space transportation and mobility services. The company focuses on rapid iteration from prototype to launch, with a mission to enable seamless mobility to, through, and from space.

46 investors

Boom Supersonic develops supersonic aircraft and engines, including the Overture commercial airliner and the Symphony turbofan engine, targeting commercial aviation and advanced infrastructure applications.

43 investors

Astranis manufactures small, high-powered geosynchronous satellites equipped with advanced digital processing technology for global telecommunications and connectivity services.

40 investors

Relativity Space develops Terran R, a reusable medium-to-heavy-lift rocket designed for efficiency and scalability, serving government entities, telecommunications companies, and commercial customers for space access missions. The company focuses on making space exploration more accessible, reliable, and sustainable.

36 investors

Apptronik builds humanoid robots designed to perform repetitive, physically taxing, and dangerous tasks in warehousing and manufacturing environments, aiming to free workers for higher-value activities.

35 investors

Starcloud is a deep-tech company building large-scale data center infrastructure designed to operate in space. Its team comes from aerospace and cloud-hardware backgrounds including SpaceX, Amazon's Leo satellite constellation, Microsoft Azure, and fusion energy programs.

31 investors

Gecko Robotics builds robots equipped with sensors and cameras to inspect industrial structures like boilers for structural defects, replacing dangerous manual inspections at height. The company serves industrial facilities that need to inspect large equipment and infrastructure.

27 investors

Turion Space builds space infrastructure spanning maneuverable spacecraft, mission planning software, and orbital logistics such as refueling and servicing, with capabilities for space domain awareness and rendezvous proximity operations. The company also develops technology aimed at extracting resources by mining near-Earth asteroids.

26 investors

Twelve transforms CO2 into chemicals, fuels, and materials through carbon transformation technology. The company targets industrial applications in the chemical and energy sectors.

26 investors

Solugen develops a biomanufacturing platform using fermentation and bioprocessing technology to produce specialty chemicals at scale. The company serves customers in energy, chemicals, and related industries with cost-effective alternatives to traditional petrochemical-based manufacturing.

24 investors

Cruise develops autonomous electric vehicle technology for urban transportation. The company aims to provide mobility solutions for people in densely populated cities.

23 investors

Earth AI uses AI to locate critical mineral deposits by analyzing geological data, supporting the supply chain for hardware and emerging technologies.

23 investors

Sygaldry develops quantum-accelerated AI servers that combine multiple qubit modalities to speed up training and inference for AI models. The company targets AI companies and researchers seeking more efficient, cost-effective compute infrastructure.

23 investors

Array Labs develops radar technology for aerospace and other leading industries. The company focuses on systems engineering, software development, and radar systems innovation.

22 investors

AstroForge is a space mining company that extracts platinum group metals and other valuable materials from asteroids to integrate into Earth's supply chains. The company aims to reduce reliance on terrestrial mining by developing commercial deep-space resource extraction missions.

22 investors

Beyond Meat creates plant-based protein products, including burgers and other foods designed to provide nutritional value while supporting environmental sustainability and soil regeneration.

22 investors

Rigetti develops quantum computing hardware and systems, leveraging superconducting quantum processing units cooled by dilution refrigerators to enable advanced quantum computation capabilities.

22 investors

Formic develops automation and robotics solutions for factories to increase production capacity and reliability while reducing costs, downtime, and safety risks. The company enables manufacturers to deploy automation without lengthy timelines or significant capital expenditure.

21 investors

Hadrian operates AI-powered precision manufacturing factories for the aerospace and defense industrial base, producing precision components and offering manufacturing capacity as a service. Its Opus platform interprets legacy designs and automates production and inspection while training factory technicians, serving U.S. defense and industrial customers.

21 investors

REGENT designs and manufactures Seaglider wing-in-ground-effect aircraft for regional coastal transportation and defense logistics, offering high-speed zero-emission travel between coastal cities and military applications.

21 investors

Albedo develops a flight-proven platform for Very Low Earth Orbit operations, providing satellite-based insights and connectivity services for national security and critical infrastructure systems. The company focuses on making space infrastructure operationally viable and resilient.

20 investors

Machina Labs builds and operates software-defined factories using AI-guided robotics to manufacture complex metal structures and components from digital designs. The company serves automotive, aerospace, defense, and industrial customers seeking rapid fabrication of custom metal parts without traditional tooling constraints.

20 investors

Lemurian Labs develops Tachyon, a software stack that runs AI workloads on any hardware and cloud while matching or exceeding the performance of hand-tuned kernels. It targets AI researchers, startups, and enterprises seeking hardware and cloud portability without rewriting code.

18 investors

Apex manufactures productized satellite bus platforms at scale for constellation deployment and critical missions. The company provides standardized, configurable spacecraft designed to reduce production timelines and cost while serving U.S. and allied space operators across multiple orbital regimes.

17 investors