Top California Aerospace Startups (161)

Doodle Labs designs and produces industrial-grade wireless networking solutions. The company focuses on mesh networking for robotic systems, providing high throughput, long-range Mesh Rider solutions for UAVs, UGVs, AMRs and other robotic applications. The company’s Helix Mesh Rider Radio was developed with sponsorship from DIU and is the Blue UAS program’s datalink of choice. Doodle Labs was named one of Fast...

Red 6 is an innovative Augmented Reality (AR) technology startup leading the way in synthetic air combat training. Our primary technology, supporting our ATARS product, enables pilots to simulate the cognitive challenges of flying while accessing realistic, scalable training in dynamic outdoor environments

We empower people to safely operate complex systems. With nearly 70 years of expertise in human-machine interaction, STI's research-backed solutions enhance assessment, training, and human performance across aerospace, defense, and clinical applications.

The future of aviation is all about innovation and digitization. Our mission is to make flight operations feel simple and we do so by removing any manual obstacles on the way and providing a customizable platform that seamlessly integrates all flight operation requirements in one place.

We believe our country’s soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines deserve to be equipped with systems that enhance their competitive advantage against threats and meet rigorous demands of operational environments. Fuse is a leading supplier of innovative communications, networking, and computing solutions for U.S. defense agencies that improve the sharing of information among warfighters distributed throughout airborne, maritime, and ground environments. Warfighter-focused...

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

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...

We are an engineering consulting and design firm specializing in custom electronics and end-to-end electronic systems. We develop cross-disciplined solutions and products to help solve some of the world’s most difficult problems by optimizing solutions beyond the first order. Our team members have industrial experience developing power converters, motor controllers, analog sensor drivers, RF amplifiers, antennas, mixed signal circuits, and embedded...

nnoflight is a Non-traditional Defense Contractor (NDC) founded in 2004. Innoflight offers state-of-the-art software-defined compact/ground radios, cryptographic and cyber secure systems and processing, networking and data storage avionics. Innoflight’s offered products include compact flight computers, payload interface electronics, network switches/routers, solid state data recorders, etc. Our core competency is secure Command, Control, Communications and Computers (C4) design through innovative implementation...

Inversion is developing low-cost, high cadence re-entry vehicles. Returning cargo & resources will be essential for humanity to continue to grow within low-earth orbit and beyond. We believe in a future where returning from space is as common as launching to space. Join us: https://boards.greenhouse.io/inversionspace

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...

Point One Navigation provides Precise Location as a Service. Our offering is tailored for autonomous systems including self driving vehicles, commercial drones and other robotic applications where robust and high integrity localization is required.

We mine asteroids to extract platinum group metals (PGMs) in space at a lower cost and smaller carbon footprint than the current terrestrial mining methods. PGMs are critical to advanced manufacturing, clean energy technologies, and sustainable infrastructure, but are rapidly depleting on Earth. Traditional mining for these resources comes at high environmental and financial costs. Extracting these resources from asteroids...

Impulse enables low-cost and nimble last-mile space payload delivery - access any orbit, reach other worlds.

Interstellar Lab develops modules for sustainable living on Earth and in Space. Using space exploration design and technologies, we have developed environment-controlled pods for crop cultivation on Earth and life support in Space. Susbcribe to our newsletter: https://bit.ly/2Y7dlMJ

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...

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.

Our goal is to deliver composite parts faster than any other supplier in the market. We want to continually impress our customers with our speed, quality, and responsiveness to their needs.

Aalyria is creating, organizing and managing the world’s most advanced networks to enable connectivity everywhere at the speed of discovery. Aalyria brings together two technologies originally developed at Alphabet as part of its wireless connectivity efforts: atmospheric laser communications technology and a software platform for orchestrating networks across land, sea, air, space and beyond. It is backed by leading Silicon...