YC Aviation and Space startups
67 Y Combinator companies in Aviation and Space, 12 of them from the last four batches. Its share of recent batches is 1.5%, up from 1.1% in the four batches before. About 15% are AI companies by YC’s tags.
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- Active
- Since 2025
- 19 vs 12 in 2023–24
- Acquired or public
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- Listed as inactive
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Share of each batch
Aviation and Space companies as a share of each YC batch since 2015.
Newest entrants
Too few Aviation and Space companies are five or more years old to show outcomes.
- Inflection Space Systems F26 · Hyperscaling space manufacturing
- Orca Aerospace F26 · AI spacecraft operators that lives onboard the vehicle
- RATLOG F26 · Reusable heavy-lift rockets
Building in Aviation and Space?
Open problems and funding on Questd for world of atoms.
- Y Combinator · Requests for Startups
- Andreessen Horowitz · Big Ideas 2026
- Conviction · Plausible AI Schemes
- Bessemer Venture Partners · Roadmap Investment Thesis
Aviation and Space companies, newest first
67 companies
- Inflection Space Systems
Hyperscaling space manufacturing
Fall 2026Aviation and SpaceLos Angeles, CA, USA - Orca AerospaceAI
AI spacecraft operators that lives onboard the vehicle
Fall 2026Aviation and Space5San Francisco, CA, USA - RATLOG
Reusable heavy-lift rockets
Fall 2026Aviation and Space4Dresden, SN, Germany - Ethos Space Resources
We make silicon on the Moon, to power everything in space.
Summer 2026Aviation and Space2Los Angeles, CA, USA - ExosatAI
Building a neutral, sovereign alternative to Starlink
Summer 2026Aviation and Space3San Francisco, CA, USA - SkymerseAI
Autopilot for Flight Operations
Summer 2026Aviation and SpaceSan Francisco, CA, USA - Dispatch
Satellites for Manufacturing in Space
Spring 2026Aviation and Space4San Francisco, CA, USA - General Aviation
Fixing air traffic control with remote towers
Spring 2026Aviation and SpaceNew York City, NY, USA - AxionOrbital Space
Foundation models for 24/7 Earth Observation
Winter 2026Aviation and Space2San Francisco, CA, USA - Beyond Reach Labs
Space solar arrays that grow to the size of a football field in orbit
Winter 2026Aviation and Space15New York City, NY, USA - Galactic Resource Utilization Space, Inc. (GRU Space)
Moon Hotel -> The Intergalactic Construction Company of Earth
Winter 2026Aviation and Space5Los Angeles, CA, USA - General Astronautics
Superintelligent space Robots
Winter 2026Aviation and Space4San Francisco, CA, USA - Wardstone
The Modular Interceptor Platform
Fall 2025Aviation and Space8Los Angeles, CA, USA - F4 Industries
The GD&T Analysis Platform for Engineering Drawings
Summer 2025Aviation and Space5San Francisco, CA, USA - Cascade Space
Commercial alternative to the Deep Space Network
Spring 2025Aviation and Space7San Francisco, CA, USA - GroundControl
Vertical AI for highly-regulated manufacturing
Spring 2025Aviation and Space8San Francisco, CA, USA - Instinct Space
Building lunar landers
Winter 2025Aviation and Space5London, England, United Kingdom - Orbital Operations
High Thrust Space Vehicles for Satellite Defense
Winter 2025Aviation and Space10Los Angeles, CA, USA - Reditus Space
Reusable Satellites
Winter 2025Aviation and Space12Atlanta, GA, USA - Apolink
24/7 satellite connectivity in low Earth orbit
Fall 2024Aviation and Space7San Francisco, CA, USA - ConsusAI
The fastest and cheapest way to use AI with ITAR or CUI data.
Fall 2024Aviation and Space1San Francisco, CA, USA - Ares Industries
Building low-cost cruise missiles
Summer 2024Aviation and Space2Los Angeles, CA, USA - Spaceium Inc
In-Space Refueling
Summer 2024Aviation and SpaceOttawa, ON, Canada - StarcloudAI
Data centers in space
Summer 2024Aviation and Space12Seattle, WA, USA
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