Top California Aerospace Startups (142)
Turion Space is building the infrastructure to secure and sustain the future of space. Founded to address the growing need for space domain awareness, in-space servicing, and debris mitigation, Turion designs, builds, and operates spacecraft with real-world operational capability. Our vehicles are built for national security and commercial missions that require speed, autonomy, and resilience. We believe the next chapter of...
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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...
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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
Rhoic makes on-demand, on-site chemicals with a new class of programmable reactors using electric fields. These reactors produce critical industrial chemicals from abundant feedstocks like air and water without fossil fuel inputs or hazardous transport. Rhoic's near-term beachhead is the oxidizer supply chain for bipropellant spacecraft, specifically NTO, MON-3, and MON-25, which today flow from a single domestic source that...
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...
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...
AeroVect deploys autonomous driving systems for GSE, trusted by the world's most innovative airlines and ground handlers
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.
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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...
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...
Building the frontline service to safeguard all off-earth operations.
Salient Motion’s answer to the national security imperative and present market deficiency is to develop an electric motion operating system. We’re refining our core algorithms as we develop standalone inverters, web-based configuration and analytics platforms, and performant motors made with domestic resources that are accessible to businesses large and small.
Odys Aviation designs, develops and manufactures sustainable, technologically advanced VTOL aircraft that solve global challenges for commercial airlines and private operators.
At Auterion we care about providing enterprise with an ecosystem of software-defined drones, payloads, and third party applications within a single easy to use platform based on open-source standards. We’re leaders in an open-source movement bigger than ourselves and we’ve been on the same mission for over a decade, since our co-founder Lorenz Meier created Pixhawk, MAVLink, QGC, and PX4 (the...
Founded in 1970 and located in Santa Margarita, CA, Palomar Products is a global leader in highly reliable secure intercommunications systems for airborne and naval military applications. This includes switching and crew-position units for airborne, shipboard, unmanned, and ground applications for multi-mission platforms. Our systems operate in over 250 unique aircraft and 9 classes of naval warships around the globe....
Rebel Space Technologies is a space and cybersecurity company developing autonomous threat recognition and response software for wireless communication networks. Our mission is to protect and optimize networks with intelligent systems, securing humanity's hyper-connected infrastructure from Earth to deep space.
Portside is a modern platform connecting the global business aviation Industry. Management companies. Aircraft owners. Corporate flight departments. Fractional and jet card operators. Charter operators. Business aviation customers. Portside is the only purpose-built cloud software platform designed to seamlessly connect all participants in the global business aviation industry, enabling instant exchange of data, reporting and analytics.
Trusted by leading brands globally, DroneDeploy is transforming the way businesses leverage drones and aerial data across industries, including agriculture, construction, mining, inspection and surveying. Simple by design, DroneDeploy enables professional-grade imagery and analysis, 3D modeling and more from any drone on any device.
Snowline Engineering has developed innovative production solutions for precision commercial and industrial products since 1966. From design to machining and fabrication to turnkey assembly, our services are optimized for efficient and sustainable manufacturability. Our complete engineering support capabilities are backed by decades of applied expertise in some of the world’s most quality-focused industries – from the automotive and transportation sectors...
