Top Palo Alto, CA Aerospace Startups (27)

Lighter Than Air (LTA) Research is an aerospace research and development company building experimental and certified manned and remotely piloted airships. We are developing advanced technologies to dramatically increase the capabilities and lower the cost of 21st century airships. With these next-generation airships, we strive to improve humanitarian aid delivery and reduce carbon emissions, while providing economic opportunity and new jobs...

Cape unlocks the full potential of commercial drones, giving companies all of the benefits with none of the traditional hassle. Every day, Cape users log in to the Cape Aerial Telepresence™ platform, connect to physical drones around the world, and safely conduct remote flights with ultra-low latency to capture live, high-resolution video. As the only cloud-based system for drone telepresence...

Basetwo is an AI Co Pilot for process engineers. Our platform provides engineers with recommendations on the next best action they can take to optimize production yield, cycle time and costs. To date, Basetwo has helped Fortune 500 manufacturers worldwide reduce scale-up time and operational costs by over 20%.

Xona is developing the most accurate and secure real-time PNT service on the planet.

AeroVect deploys autonomous driving systems for GSE, trusted by the world's most innovative airlines and ground handlers

Founded in 2021, Muon Space is an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering mission-critical data. Our revolutionary, integrated technology stack enables customers to optimize every dimension of their missions for faster time-to-orbit and superior constellation remote sensing performance. From climate monitoring to national security, Muon Space is dedicated to delivering Earth intelligence for a...

JetInsight's best-in-class quoting and fleet management software helps aircraft charter operators run and grow safer, more efficient, and more profitable businesses. We work with hundreds of operators across the US and are building the world's largest network of on-demand aircraft

Advanced automation will make aircraft safer, more available, more affordable and fundamentally transformative to the way goods and people move around the planet. Starting with a certification-forward approach, Reliable Robotics first demonstrated gate-to-gate fully automated operation of a Part 23 aircraft and is now working towards commercialization of technologies for Part 23 cargo and Part 25 passenger vehicles.

For over 25 years, Avidyne has been inventing new ways to make flying easier for pilots who fly small planes, business jets, helicopters and advanced air mobility aircraft. With all phases of design and manufacturing done in the USA we are headquartered in Melbourne, FL and have additional facilities in Westerville, OH, and Concord, MA. Experienced entrepreneur and pilot Dan...

We use cutting edge cross-disciplinary approaches to solve pressing problems. Guardian is our AI SaaS platform that addresses Big Data and Sensing Problems in Security, Energy & Health Care.

Creating weather certainty. WindBorne fuses unparalleled data from our constellation of smart, long-duration sensing balloons with state-of-the-art AI forecasts.

On a quest to make access to goods as frictionless and universal as access to information, starting with rapid, autonomous, on-demand medical deliveries that save lives and transform healthcare

Founded in 2024, Scout AI is a venture-backed defense technology company building the AI brain for defense robotics. Fury, Scout's Vision-Language-Action foundation model, is engineered to transform uncrewed platforms into intelligent, mission-adaptive agents. Designed for use across ground, air, sea, and space domains, Fury enables warfighter-level reasoning and one-to-many robotic coordination. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with a center of excellence...

Astro Digital provides customers with complete space-based systems and mission support services for applications such as earth observation, satellite communications, science, and technology demonstrations.

Pyka’s goal is to provide society with a new form of fast, environmentally friendly, and accessible transportation enabled by autonomous electric aviation. To get there, we’re taking a different approach than most. We're applying our technologies to every industry where electric aircraft can be useful, starting with the highest value and most dangerous jobs. In doing so, we're building useful, game-changing...

Momentus Inc. is a U.S. commercial space company offering transportation and other in-space infrastructure services.

Stellar is building the most innovative operations management solution for business aviation. We’re bringing together advanced technologies to reimagine and revolutionize business aviation for operators, corporate flight departments, brokers, and their customers. With a new technology platform, built from the ground up for this purpose, Stellar will drive transformative operational improvements in the business aviation sector, radically improving efficiency, profitability,...

Pixxel is a space technology company working towards creating the world's highest resolution hyperspectral imaging satellite-imaging constellation. The images gathered by Pixxel's satellites will provide up-to-date information relevant to climate monitoring, crop yield prediction, urban planning, and disaster response.

Kittyhawk (HQ in Palo Alto, CA) is building a single-person, remotely-piloted electric aircraft with the goal of making airtaxis affordable, ubiquitous and eco-conscious. Founded by self-driving car pioneer Sebastian Thrun and backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, Kittyhawk has been advancing aviation for more than a decade and has built and flown more than 100 aircraft. If anyone can do this,...

B GARAGE was founded in 2017 by a Ph.D. graduate from Stanford University. After having spent over five years researching robotics, computer vision, aeronautics, and drone autonomy, the founder and team set their minds on building a future where aerial robots would become an integral part of our daily lives without anyone necessarily piloting them. Together, our common goal is...