Aerospace & low-altitude startups: 126 funded companies

By region: North America 69 · Europe 15 · China 12 · Asia 10 · Other regions 9 · Japan 6 · Korea 5

Recent rounds in Aerospace & low-altitude

1. Enhanced Radar

   AI for air traffic control

   Y Combinator Winter 2025North America

2. Ethos Space Resources

   We make silicon on the Moon, to power everything in space.

   Y Combinator Summer 2026North America

3. Exosat

   Building a neutral, sovereign alternative to Starlink

   Y Combinator Summer 2026Asia

4. F4 Industries

   The GD&T Analysis Platform for Engineering Drawings

   Y Combinator Summer 2025North America

5. Farcast

   We build advanced satcom user terminals

   Y Combinator Winter 2020North America

6. DAIVIN!

   Tankless Dive Gear - Breath Autonomy at Sea, Land & Space

   Y Combinator Winter 2026North America

7. Dispatch

   Satellites for Manufacturing in Space

   Y Combinator Spring 2026North America

8. Cascade Space

   Commercial alternative to the Deep Space Network

   Y Combinator Spring 2025North America

9. Beyond Reach Labs

   Space solar arrays that grow to the size of a football field in orbit

   Y Combinator Winter 2026North America

10. Care Weather

    The highest-accuracy global weather data from low-cost flat satellites

    Y Combinator Winter 2021North America

11. AxionOrbital Space

    Foundation models for 24/7 Earth Observation

    Y Combinator Winter 2026North America

12. Basalt

    Constellations as a Service

    Y Combinator Winter 2024North America

13. Ares Industries

    Building low-cost cruise missiles

    Y Combinator Summer 2024North America

14. Array Labs

    We're building satellites to create a real-time 3D map of the world.

    Y Combinator Summer 2022North America

15. Astranis

    Advanced satellites for high orbits.

    Y Combinator Winter 2016North America

16. Astro Mechanica

    Supersonics for the new Jet Age

    Y Combinator Winter 2024North America

17. Airhart Aeronautics

    Airplanes anyone can fly

    Y Combinator Summer 2022North America

18. Alba Orbital

    We make satellites to image everywhere on Earth, every 15 minutes

    Y Combinator Winter 2021Europe

19. Albedo

    Full-stack VLEO satellite missions

    Y Combinator Winter 2021North America

20. Apolink

    24/7 satellite connectivity in low Earth orbit

    Y Combinator Fall 2024North America

21. Beyond Aero

    First electric business aircraft designed for hydrogen propulsion

    Y Combinator Winter 2022Europe

22. DemocracyOS

    Online space for deliberation, policy making and democratic…

    Y Combinator Winter 2015Other regions

23. JetPack Aviation

    Flying motorcycles

    Y Combinator Winter 2019North America

24. Wright Electric

    Boeing for electric planes

    Y Combinator Winter 2017North America

25. Inflection Space Systems

    Hyperscaling space manufacturing

    Y Combinator Fall 2026North America

26. RATLOG

    Reusable heavy-lift rockets

    Y Combinator Fall 2026Europe