Space Tech Startups

SpaceComputer is a distributed satellite network providing censorship-resistant computation and verifiable settlement across Earth and orbit, using satellite-hosted trusted execution environments (TEEs), confidential smart contracts, and quantum-hardened cryptography. It offers space-based confidential compute infrastructure with developer-friendly APIs for integrating security services into enterprise solutions.

4 investors

Spaceflux operates a global optical sensor network for space situational awareness, providing orbital tracking data (LEO to GEO), AI-driven analytics, and hardware nodes for civil and defence customers. It serves governments and defence organisations, including the UK's first sovereign optical SSA system.

4 investors

SpaceKnow offers Guardian, a platform that integrates data from multiple satellite providers and applies AI algorithms to extract insights from raw imagery. It provides automated change detection, continuous surveillance, and alerts to support monitoring and data-driven decisions.

4 investors

Stralis develops hydrogen-electric aircraft for long-range passenger and cargo delivery applications. The company is designing aircraft that combine hydrogen fuel cells with electric propulsion for aviation.

4 investors

TakeMe2Space builds satellite infrastructure for orbital compute, enabling data processing closer to the source in space. The company serves organizations seeking accessible satellite-based infrastructure and on-orbit computing capabilities.

4 investors

ThinkOrbital develops scalable, pressurizable space infrastructure platforms for cislunar space applications including satellite servicing, in-space manufacturing, storage, and refueling. The company serves the commercial space economy by delivering cost-effective, modular structures that assemble autonomously in orbit.

4 investors

TRL11 operates a visual intelligence platform for space, providing broadcast-quality video and real-time visual awareness for satellites, spacecraft, and mission control. Its founding team previously built wireless video infrastructure used in film production and security operations, and supplied video technology to NASA and SpaceX.

4 investors

Unseenlabs operates a satellite constellation that detects and geolocates radio frequency (RF) signals emitted by ships, enabling the tracking of uncooperative "dark vessels" that evade traditional surveillance. It provides RF geolocation data, timestamps, and intelligence reports for maritime monitoring, serving governments and private companies managing territorial waters and assets at sea.

4 investors

Velontra develops jet propulsion systems across the Mach spectrum, focusing on low-cost, high-volume manufacturing through vertically integrated design and rapid development cycles.

4 investors

Verde Technologies develops ultra-thin, flexible perovskite solar cells using roll-to-roll manufacturing, offering high power-to-mass and radiation tolerance for space and defense power applications, with future terrestrial uses. The company is a U.S.-based manufacturer targeting lightweight solar power markets.

4 investors

Viridian is developing electric propulsion technology for satellites, including a patent-pending ASET system that converts air in the upper atmosphere into propellant to enable air-breathing, refuelable satellites. The company operates out of a lab in El Segundo, Los Angeles, serving the space exploration and satellite market.

4 investors

Voyager Technologies is a defense and space technology company developing capabilities in advanced electronics, mission management, orbital data centers, space exploration, spectrum dominance, and strategic systems across air, land, space, and cyber domains. It also operates the Starlab commercial space station program.

4 investors

Wright Electric develops commercial electric aircraft, including the Wright 1, a 186-passenger electric plane intended for short-haul routes such as LA-SF and London-Paris. The company works with airlines like easyJet and VivaAerobus and focuses on lower-cost, zero-emission air travel.

4 investors

Yuri develops in-house space labs and ground simulators that use microgravity for life sciences research, supporting drug development and cell-based therapies. It serves biotech and pharmaceutical customers, offering experiment platforms flown on the ISS and other space environments.

4 investors

CONTEC operates the Eum ground station network worldwide and provides an all-in-one service to receive, process, and analyze satellite data for space missions. The company serves the space industry as a ground station and satellite data solutions provider.

4 investors

Innovative Space Carrier (将来宇宙輸送システム株式会社) is a Japanese company developing future space transportation systems. It operates in the space launch and transportation sector.

4 investors

NewSpace Intelligence (NSI) provides remote sensing and satellite technology services, using geospatial data analytics, GIS, and machine learning for applications such as crop monitoring, damage assessment, and disaster management. It serves customers across agriculture, finance, and other sectors that use earth observation and geospatial data.

4 investors

IWAYA INC. develops high-altitude manned balloons, pressurized cabins, life support systems, and related equipment to carry people to the stratosphere for space viewing. The company also conducts research on unmanned, zero-pressure, super-pressure, and hydrogen balloons, and completed a manned flight above 20 km altitude in Japan in 2024.

4 investors

Airhart Aeronautics designs and builds advanced personal airplanes with a focus on safety, reliability, and intuitive operation. The company serves individuals and operators seeking easier-to-fly, safer aircraft with modern avionics and human-centered design.

3 investors

Albedo builds satellites, buses, and turnkey missions designed to operate in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) below 300 km, offering high-resolution EO/IR and RF observation plus active sensing capabilities. It serves defense and government customers such as the U.S. Space Force, AFRL, and NASA JPL for intelligence, surveillance, and space domain awareness missions.

3 investors

Aldoria develops space surveillance technology for Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and Space Traffic Management (STM), serving governments, space agencies, institutions, and commercial satellite operators. The company uses ITAR-free technologies to provide orbital risk management, asset protection, and traffic coordination, with a focus on European space autonomy.

3 investors

ANT61 develops satellite communication beacons that provide backup communication, real-time telemetry collection, and inter-satellite links for satellite missions and constellations. The beacons enable recovery capabilities, firmware updates, and continuous connectivity even during satellite anomalies.

3 investors

Archangel builds laser (optical) communication systems that connect satellite networks in space with terrestrial networks, offering an alternative to radio frequency and subsea cable infrastructure. Its deployable optical ground stations, such as the TERRA-M, target cloud providers, network operators and governments needing secure, high-volume connectivity in regions lacking or with vulnerable infrastructure.

3 investors

Ares Industries designs and manufactures precision missiles (Maverick and Goose) for military defense, built at volume with five-figure unit costs for use by the U.S. and allied forces.

3 investors