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YC Aviation and Space Companies

45 Y Combinator aviation and space startups with verified founder contacts, batch info, and company data.

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Company	Batch	Description	Status	Location	Team	Founders	Reveal
AxionOrbital Space	W26	Foundation models for 24/7 Earth Observation	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Atharva Peshkar, Dhenenjay Yadav	Reveal
Beyond Reach Labs	W26	Space solar arrays that grow to the size of a football field in orbit	Active	—	2	Pele Collins, Mitchell Fogelson	Reveal
Galactic Resource Utilization Space, Inc. (GRU Space)	W26	Building the First Hotel on the Moon	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Skyler Chan	Reveal
Enhanced Radar	W25	AI for air traffic control	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Eric Button, Kristian Gaylord	Reveal
Instinct	W25	Building lunar landers	Active	—	4	Alex Pinel Neparidze, Joaquim Dickson, Ashwin Iyer	Reveal
Orbital Operations	W25	High Thrust Space Vehicles for Satellite Defense	Active	—	2	Ben Schleuniger, Ross Doherty	Reveal
Reditus Space	W25	Reusable Satellites for zero-g manufacturing	Active	Atlanta, GA, USA	20	Stef Crum, Will Sherman	Reveal
Astro Mechanica	W24	Supersonics for the new Jet Age	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	52	Ian Brooke	Reveal
Basalt	W24	Constellations as a Service	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	5	Maximillian Bhatti, Alex Choi	Reveal
Elodin	W24	Unified flight software and hardware for the mission of tomorrow	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	5	Daniel Driscoll, Tom Gurka, Akhil Velagapudi, Sascha Wise	Reveal
Navier AI	W24	Agent-Driven Engineering	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	7	Cameron Flannery, Evan Kay	Reveal
Radical	W23	Building persistent, high-performance infrastructure in the sky	Active	Seattle, WA, USA	6	James Thomas, Cyriel Notteboom	Reveal
Stralis Aircraft	W23	Emission free hydrogen electric aircraft	Active	Brisbane QLD, Australia	4	Bob Criner, Stuart Johnstone	Reveal
Hubble Network	W22	Bluetooth to Space	Active	Seattle, WA, USA	50	Alex Haro, Ben Wild	Reveal
Wyvern	W22	High-res hyperspectral pictures of Earth from space	Active	Edmonton, AB, Canada	26	Aaron Epstein, Chris Robson, Kurtis Broda, Kristen Cote, Callie Lissinna	Reveal
Albedo	W21	Full-stack VLEO satellite missions	Active	Denver, CO, USA	55	Topher Haddad, AyJay Lasater	Reveal
Care Weather	W21	The highest-accuracy global weather data from low-cost flat satellites	Active	Orem, UT, USA	2	Patrick Walton, Alex Laraway	Reveal
H3X Technologies	W21	The lightest electric aircraft motors in the world.	Active	Denver, CO, USA	58	Eric Maciolek, Jason Sylvestre	Reveal
REGENT	W21	All-electric seagliders for fast, affordable regional transportation	Active	North Kingstown, RI, USA	40	Billy Thalheimer, Michael Klinker	Reveal
Stoke Space	W21	Seamless mobility to, through, and from space. It starts with 100%…	Active	Seattle, WA, USA	305	Andy Lapsa, Tom Feldman	Reveal
Stoke Space	W21	Seamless mobility to, through, and from space. It starts with 100%…	Active	Seattle, WA, USA	305	Andy Lapsa, Tom Feldman	Reveal
Farcast	W20	We build advanced satcom user terminals	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	12	Siamak Ebadi	Reveal
Talyn Air	W20	Long range, battery electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.	Acquired	Los Angeles, CA, USA	18	Jamie Gull, Evan Mucasey	Reveal
Heart Aerospace	W19	Heart makes electric airplanes with an all-electric range of 250 miles	Active	Los Angeles, CA, USA	50	Anders Forslund	Reveal
JetPack Aviation	W19	Flying motorcycles	Active	Los Angeles, CA, USA	9	Boris Jarry, David Mayman	Reveal
SpaceRyde	W19	The Rocket Network: Sustainable & On-Demand Delivery Anywhere in Space	Inactive	Toronto, ON, Canada	33	Sohrab Haghighat	Reveal
Astranis	W16	Advanced satellites for high orbits.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	500	John Gedmark, Ryan McLinko	Reveal
Ares Industries	S24	Building low-cost cruise missiles	Active	El Segundo, CA, USA	2	Alex Tseng	Reveal
Spaceium Inc	S24	In-Space Refueling	Active	—	—	Ashi Dissanayake, Reza Fetanat	Reveal
Starcloud	S24	Data centers in space	Active	Redmond, WA, USA	12	Philip Johnston, Ezra Feilden, Adi Oltean	Reveal
Airhart Aeronautics	S22	Airplanes anyone can fly	Active	Long Beach, CA, USA	6	Nikita Ermoshkin	Reveal
Array Labs	S22	We're building satellites to create a real-time 3D map of the world.	Active	Palo Alto, CA, USA	30	Andrew Peterson, Jose Isaac Robledo	Reveal
Seaflight Technologies	S22	We make the world's most efficient aircraft	Active	Carson, CA, USA	4	Graham Doig	Reveal
Velontra	S22	Hypersonic space plane that can take-off from any location and weather	Active	Cincinnati, OH, USA	5	Joel Darin	Reveal
HEO Robotics	S21	We visually monitor space objects for governments and defense	Active	Sydney NSW, Australia	3	Will Crowe, Hiranya Jayakody	Reveal
Inversion Space	S21	Turning space into a transportation layer for Earth	Active	Los Angeles, CA, USA	28	Justin Fiaschetti, Austin Briggs	Reveal
Odys Aviation	S21	Vertical takeoff and landing aircraft for major airlines	Active	Los Angeles, CA, USA	11	James Dorris, Axel Radermacher	Reveal
TransAstra Corporation	S21	Orbital logistics: Unleashing space industry, from Earth to asteroids	Active	Los Angeles, CA, USA	8	Joel Sercel	Reveal
Turion Space	S21	Moving Things Around in Space, Imaging Space Objects When We're Not	Active	Irvine, CA, USA	15	Ryan Westerdahl, Tyler James Pierce, Patryk Wiatr	Reveal
EPIC AEROSPACE	S19	Last-mile delivery for satellites.	Active	Buenos Aires, Argentina	14	Ignacio Belieres Montero	Reveal
Pyka	S17	Autonomous electric airplanes	Active	Alameda, CA, USA	75	Michael Norcia, Nathan White, Kyle Moore, Chuma Ogunwole	Reveal
Axial Composites Industries	F25	Carbon Fiber Manufacturing at the Speed of Software	Active	—	1	Giuseppe Rapisarda	Reveal
Wardstone	F25	Satellites for Missile Defense	Active	—	2	Sebastian Fischer, Tobias Fischer	Reveal
Apolink	F24	24/7 satellite connectivity in low Earth orbit	Active	Palo Alto, CA, USA	7	Onkar Singh	Reveal
Forerunner AI	F24	AI that gets aircraft flying faster	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Yash Kadadi, Will Nida	Reveal

Batch Distribution

WW263 WW254 WW244 WW232 WW222 WW216

Status Breakdown

Active43 Acquired1 Inactive1

Top Locations

San Francisco10 Los Angeles6 Seattle4 Denver2 Palo Alto2 Atlanta1

About YC Aviation and Space Companies

Y Combinator has funded 45 aviation and space companies since its founding in 2005. These startups span from early-stage pre-launch to publicly traded companies, making YC one of the most prolific backers of aviation and space innovation globally.

43 of these companies are currently active. 1 have been acquired. VCBacked tracks verified founder contact information, team sizes, and company status for every YC aviation and space startup.

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