Tagged: aerospace
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6K
6K is a North Andover, Massachusetts advanced materials company that uses its proprietary UniMelt microwave plasma technology - which reaches roughly 6,000 degrees, hence the name - to produce battery cathode materials and additive-manufacturing metal powders faster, cleaner, and with fewer processing steps than conventional methods. Spun out of research at MIT and the University of Connecticut, the company operates through two divisions, 6K Energy (battery cathode active materials) and 6K Additive (sustainably sourced metal powders), and is building a domestic U.S. supply chain for critical materials backed by federal grants and more than $348 million in venture funding.
ePropelled
ePropelled is a New Hampshire-based engineering company that designs intelligent electric motors, motor controllers, starter generators and power-management systems for uncrewed vehicles across air, land and sea. Built on patented magnetics technology - including its Dynamic Torque Switching (eDTS) architecture that reconfigures motor windings on the fly to boost efficiency - the company supplies drone and UAV manufacturers, defense programs and industrial customers with lightweight, high-efficiency propulsion. Founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneur Nick Grewal, ePropelled raised a $15M Series A in 2021 and has grown to roughly 110 employees with operations in the US, UK and India.
Jon Hawkins
Jon 'Irish' Hawkins is an Australian Defence Force veteran of 25 years, SAS-trained officer, and the founder of Omni Executive - one of Australia's fastest-growing sovereign defence companies. Starting from an idea at his kitchen table in 2012, he built Omni into a 400+ person operation spanning aerospace, consulting, security, maritime and vetting, with around $100 million in annual turnover. A fierce advocate for truly Australian-owned defence capability, he stepped back from the CEO role in February 2026 to serve as Chair of Omni's Board.
Near Space Labs
Near Space Labs is a Brooklyn-based earth-imaging company that flies small autonomous robots called Swift into the stratosphere on helium balloons to capture 7-centimeter-resolution imagery of the ground below. Founded in 2017, it delivers frequent, analysis-ready aerial data to property and casualty insurers, governments, utilities and environmental groups at a fraction of the cost of traditional planes or satellites, positioning balloon-borne imaging as a scalable, low-emission alternative for monitoring cities, infrastructure and disasters.
VORAGO Technologies
VORAGO Technologies is an Austin, Texas fabless semiconductor company that designs radiation-hardened and extreme-temperature microcontrollers and microprocessors for aerospace, defense and industrial systems. Its patented HARDSIL process hardens standard commercial silicon against radiation and heat using conventional high-volume manufacturing, letting spacecraft, satellites and downhole tools run Arm Cortex-based compute in environments that would destroy ordinary chips.
ForwardEdge ASIC
ForwardEdge ASIC is a Saint Paul, Minnesota-based integrated circuit design house and wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin. It designs 100% domestically traceable custom ASICs and FPGAs - plus silicon IP and turnkey products - for defense, aerospace, space, cybersecurity, and commercial customers. Built by a team of veteran engineers who have worked together for more than 30 years, the company pairs startup speed with Fortune 100 stability and holds DMEA Trusted IC vendor status, positioning it as a secure onshore alternative for mission-critical microelectronics.
Array Labs
Array Labs designs, builds, and operates radar satellites that fly in coordinated clusters to image the same place on Earth from many angles at once. By distributing the radar across many small, mass-manufacturable satellites instead of one large bespoke spacecraft, the company aims to produce continuously refreshed, high-resolution 3D maps of the planet - a form of space-based radar it likens to what SpaceX did for launch. Founded in 2021 and based in Redwood City, California, Array Labs raised a $20M Series A in January 2026 to scale radar manufacturing and prepare to launch the world's first formation-flying radar satellite cluster.
Beacon AI
Beacon AI builds an AI copilot for professional pilots, combining an in-cockpit assistant called Murdock with a data platform called Lighthouse to help commercial and military aviators manage checklists, routing, fatigue, and complex missions more safely.
Flow Engineering
Flow Engineering builds an AI-native requirements and systems-engineering platform that lets complex hardware teams design, build, test, and iterate at software speed. At its core is a connected 'systems graph' that keeps requirements, CAD, code, simulations, tests, and certification artifacts in one live system of record - with AI agents running impact analysis and keeping everything aligned. Founded by mechanical engineer Pari Singh, Flow is used by companies like Rivian, Joby Aviation, Astranis, Stoke Space, and Figure, and raised a $23M Series A led by Sequoia in October 2025.
mmTron
mmTron is a Redwood City, California semiconductor company that designs high-performance millimeter-wave integrated circuits (MMICs). Founded in 2020 by Seyed Tabatabaei and Mona Molaasgari, the company builds power amplifiers, low noise amplifiers, front-end modules, mixers, switches and wideband distributed amplifiers using GaAs, GaN, InP, SiGe and RFSOI process technologies. Its chips target the linearity, bandwidth and power-efficiency demands of satellite communications, 5G/6G wireless, aerospace and defense radar, and RF instrumentation up to 180 GHz. In April 2026 mmTron closed a $45M Series A led by Maverick Silicon.
Nick Grewal
Nick Grewal is the founder, chairman and CEO of ePropelled, a Laconia, New Hampshire company building smart-propulsion and energy-management systems for drones, marine craft, and light electric vehicles. He founded ePropelled in 2018 after selling his previous startup Nashoba Networks to Cisco Systems for roughly $100 million in 1996 and spending two decades as an angel investor in more than 40 high-tech companies. He was inducted into the 2025 Boston Smart Business Dealmakers Hall of Fame.
Niosha Kayhani
Niosha Kayhani is Chief of Staff to the CEO at Muon Space, a Mountain View based end-to-end space systems company building LEO satellite constellations for climate, earth observation, and national security missions. A chartered mechanical engineer trained at the University of Portsmouth with an executive MBA from Warwick, he arrived in Silicon Valley after building innovation programs at Cubic in London and San Diego, a detour through Google in Dublin, and a first job tuning fiber-optic lasers at SPI. He holds ten-plus U.S. patents and, on the side, has founded Taurus Space, a company working on standards-aligned command-and-control for coalition defense networks.
Rema Matevosyan
Rema (Hripsime) Matevosyan is the co-founder and CEO of Near Space Labs, a Brooklyn-based company that flies helium-lifted robotic aircraft called Swift into the stratosphere to photograph the Earth at 7-centimeter resolution. Born and educated in Armenia, trained as an applied mathematician in Moscow, she left a PhD program two weeks into an entrepreneurship class to build what she calls her own little space program. In April 2025 the company closed a $20M Series B led by Bold Capital Partners, bringing total funding above $40M, with insurance carriers as anchor customers using the imagery to model wildfire and hurricane damage.
CREAN®
CREAN, Inc. is an Austin, Texas-based aerospace engineering and Smart Factory company that supplies hands-on engineering services and manufacturing-optimization programs to space, defense, and commercial clients. Founded in 2002 by James and Jennifer Crean, the firm fields teams of aerospace subject-matter experts who help customers move systems from concept through full-scale production while modernizing factory operations. CREAN is also developing CelestNet, a proposed lunar communications and navigation network, following its 2023 acquisition of Aquarian Space.
General Galactic
General Galactic is an El Segundo, California deep-tech startup building water-based propulsion and propellant-generation systems for spacecraft. Its Genesis platform splits water via electrolysis into hydrogen and oxygen, powering a multimode engine that pairs high-thrust chemical burns with efficient electric maneuvering. Founded in 2023 by Stanford-trained, ex-SpaceX and ex-Varda engineers, the company frames itself as the future 'energy and logistics company' of the solar system - and is applying the same electrolysis reactor tech on Earth to turn waste CO2 into fossil-free natural gas.
iQ3Connect
iQ3Connect is a Woburn, Massachusetts company that runs a web-based XR platform for enterprise training and 3D collaboration. Its no-code tools let manufacturers turn existing CAD, digital-twin, and point-cloud data into interactive VR, AR, desktop, and mobile experiences that open in a standard browser - no app install required. Founded in 2017 out of MIT research by Ali Merchant, the company serves aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, and oil and gas customers with immersive assembly training, safety procedures, remote design reviews, and multi-user virtual classrooms.
Istari Digital
Istari Digital is a Cambridge, Massachusetts software company building a digital engineering platform that connects fragmented engineering data - models, simulations, requirements and test artifacts - across teams, suppliers and classified environments. Founded in 2022 by former Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper, the company aims to let regulated industries like aerospace and defense validate, secure and certify complex systems in minutes instead of months. Its flagship effort, Flyer One, is working with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works to make a modified X-56A the world's first digitally certified aircraft.
Jaunt Air Mobility
Jaunt Air Mobility is a Dallas-based aerospace company building the all-electric Journey eVTOL, an air taxi that takes off like a helicopter and cruises like an airplane using patented Slowed Rotor Compound (SRC) technology. Founded in 2019 on intellectual property acquired from Carter Aviation, Jaunt is pursuing a certification path as a rotorcraft and is now a brand within publicly traded AIRO Group Holdings. Its aircraft carries a pilot and four passengers roughly 80-120 miles at 175 mph with low noise and an autorotation safety fallback.
Laser Wire Solutions
Laser Wire Solutions is a Welsh precision-engineering company that builds laser systems and robots to strip, cut and process the tiniest, most delicate wires on Earth - the kind found inside catheters, MRI coils, EV harnesses and spacecraft. Founded in 2011 by Oxford-trained physicist Paul Taylor, the Pontypridd firm turned a niche insight (that lasers strip fine wire more cleanly than blades) into award-winning machines and contract-manufacturing services now used by medical OEMs, aerospace and defense primes, data-center builders and even Tesla.
Long Wall
Long Wall is a Long Beach, California defense manufacturer building cost-effective, mass-producible missile defense systems. Founded in 2017 as the rocket startup ABL Space Systems, it rebranded to Long Wall in February 2025 and pivoted from commercial satellite launch to defense, repurposing years of launch-vehicle engineering into interceptors, target rockets, and deployable ground infrastructure. Its lineup includes Cyclops, a surface-launched exoatmospheric interceptor; RSX, a low-cost liquid booster for flight testing and threat replication; and Ironwood, rapidly deployable ground support equipment. The company's thesis is that modern threats - hypersonic weapons, growing nuclear arsenals, and raid sizes in the hundreds - have outrun the price and production volume of legacy interceptors, so defense needs magazine depth measured in thousands, not dozens.
Oligo Space
Oligo Space is a Hawthorne, California startup building an AI-first stack for designing and manufacturing payload-centered spacecraft. Its software engine, Zenith, turns raw mission requirements into flight-ready ESPA-class spacecraft using generative design, constraint solving and physics-based optimization - compressing work that once took teams of specialists months into a process that runs in minutes and manufactures in under eight months. Founded in 2024 by MIT AeroAstro graduate and former NASA JPL engineer Jacob Rodriguez, the company plans to fly its first spacecraft, Chimera-1, aboard SpaceX's Transporter-15 mission in 2026.
P-1 AI
P-1 AI is a deep-tech startup building engineering AGI for the physical world. Its product, an anthropomorphized AI engineer agent named Archie, is trained on proprietary semi-synthetic, physics-based datasets to reason across multiphysics design problems and use the same complex engineering tools human engineers use. Currently operating at the level of a junior mechanical and electrical engineer, Archie is already working with design partners on data center cooling and critical power systems, with expansion planned into automotive, aerospace, and defense. Founded by former Airbus and United Technologies CTO Paul Eremenko alongside Google DeepMind and Airbus veterans, the company raised a $23M seed round in 2025 led by Radical Ventures.
Poseidon Aerospace
Poseidon Aerospace is a San Francisco startup building unmanned cargo aircraft designed to move heavy loads to places without runways. Founded in 2024 by ex-Amazon engineer David Zagaynov and ex-Lockheed Martin engineer Parker Tenney, the company is developing two purpose-built autonomous platforms - Egret, a short takeoff and landing aircraft, and Heron, an amphibious seaplane - each engineered to carry up to two tons roughly 1,500 miles. Backed by an $11M seed round led by Tamarack Global, Poseidon aims to slash the cost-per-ton-mile of air logistics for both commercial feeder routes and contested military supply missions, with first full-scale flight tests targeted for mid-2026.
PRENAV
PRENAV digitizes the world's critical infrastructure with drones, LiDAR, 3D analytics, and deep learning. Its web-based platform, PRENAV.XYZ, combines photogrammetry with AI to turn drone imagery into detailed 3D digital twins, then scans them for cracks, corrosion, and structural damage - resolving surface features smaller than 0.2mm. Founded in 2013 in Redwood City, the company replaces dangerous rope-and-scaffold inspections of cell towers, wind turbines, bridges, dams, and even nuclear reactors with automated, precise, GPS-independent drone flights.
SkyGrid
SkyGrid builds high-assurance, third-party software services that safely fold autonomous aircraft, drones, and eVTOL air taxis into shared airspace. Born as a 2018 Boeing and SparkCognition joint venture and now a subsidiary of Wisk Aero, the Austin-based company delivers a real-time digital twin of the low-altitude sky - weather, obstacles, traffic, and vertiport status - plus automation and decision-support tools that route, synchronize, and deconflict flights at scale.
Starpath
Starpath is a Hawthorne, California space company building robotic factories that mine water ice from the Moon and refine it into rocket propellant. Founded in 2022 by former SpaceX engineers, the company designs fleets of autonomous mining rovers, on-site refineries, and liquid oxygen (LOX) storage systems to produce fuel where rockets actually need it - off Earth. The bet is simple and audacious: if you can make oxidizer on the Moon, you can make deep space travel affordable and turn humanity into a multi-planet species. Starpath raised a $12M seed round in 2024 co-led by 8VC and Fusion Fund.
Jia Xu
Jia Xu is CEO of SkyGrid, the Austin, Texas company building high-assurance airspace integration software for autonomous and unmanned flight. With a PhD from Stanford, dual master's degrees from Imperial College London and the London School of Economics, and career stints at the RAND Corporation, Airbus, General Atomics, and Honeywell Aerospace, Xu brings rare cross-disciplinary depth to one of aviation's hardest problems: teaching machines to share the sky. Under his leadership since August 2023, SkyGrid pivoted from generic airspace software to become a specialized third-party services provider for advanced air mobility - and was acquired by Wisk Aero (a Boeing subsidiary) in June 2025.
Epic Aerospace
Epic Aerospace builds Orbit Transfer Vehicles - small chemical space tugs that pick up satellites from crowded rideshare drop-offs and ferry them to their actual working orbits, from LEO to GEO and beyond. Founded in 2018 by Ignacio Belieres Montero, the company runs its engineering and manufacturing out of Argentina with a U.S. headquarters, and put its first GEO-class vehicle, CHIMERA GEO 1, into space aboard SpaceX in early 2025.
Grid Aero
Grid Aero is a Palo Alto aerospace and defense startup building the Lifter-Lite, an autonomous, long-range, heavy-lift cargo drone designed to move thousands of pounds across thousands of miles for military and commercial customers. Founded in 2024 by Arthur Dubois - a veteran of Joby Aviation and Xwing - the company is targeting contested logistics in the Pacific theater and remote civilian routes, with a deliberately simple airframe and AI-enhanced autonomy.
Matter Intelligence
Matter Intelligence is a remote sensing and AI company building the world's first sub-meter hyperspectral and thermal satellite sensors paired with a foundational 'Large World Model' that lets machines understand the physical world at a molecular level. Founded by former NASA JPL engineers, the El Segundo startup emerged from stealth in October 2024 with $12M in seed funding to deploy sensors across satellites, drones, and aircraft for agriculture, defense, energy, and environmental monitoring.