cluster
Defense and space startup ideas and companies
Defense tech, drones and counter-drone, ISR, aerospace, maritime, gov-adjacent hardware.
277
companies tracked
79
from the last 2 years
73
startup-relevant federal grants ($41M)
Share of accelerator intake by year
Newest in the cluster
- Streamline SystemsY Combinator F26readiness
Precision navigation for UAVs operating without GPS.
- Inflection Space SystemsY Combinator F26readiness
Hyperscaling space manufacturing
- Vernius Systems, Inc.Y Combinator S26readiness
Mass-deployable radars for air defense
- ExosatY Combinator S26readiness
Building a neutral, sovereign alternative to Starlink
- Mass MagneticsY Combinator S26readiness
USA-made magnetics for robotics and defense.
- Isengard Industries IncY Combinator S26readiness
Mass-produced AI strike systems and Counter-UAS
- GUILDY Combinator S26readiness
AI-Native Defense Contractor
- Greypoint IndustriesY Combinator S26readiness
Building drone swarms that hunt hidden enemies.
- IMPACT DronesY Combinator S26readiness
Air Defense as a Service for Civilian Infrastructure.
- Earendil RoboticsY Combinator S26readiness
Drone swarm defence at a small-unit level
- Hop AeroY Combinator S26readiness
Rocket cargo delivery to contested environments
- Galileo Spacea16z speedrun SR007readiness
We build AI-powered satellites for critical defense intelligence, delivering actionable insights in minutes instead of hours or days.
Most AI-visible
Highest AEO scores - how well AI assistants can read and cite them.
- Orbital Arc58
- Boom57
- Boom Supersonic57
- blueflite55
- Pierce Aerospace55
- Alba Orbital55
- ARCA Dynamics54
- Zelim54
Recent rounds
- Blackswan Spaceunknown$0K
- Terasiseed$0K
- Terasiseed$0K
- Open Cosmosunknown$0K
- Open Cosmosunknown$0K
By program
- Y Combinator87
- Techstars79
- Plug and Play53
- Entrepreneur First12
- Antler9
- 500 Global8
- South Park Commons7
- a16z speedrun7
- Alchemist Accelerator5
- SOSV5
- Berkeley SkyDeck2
- Pear VC1
- AI Grant1
- Seedcamp1
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