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YC Aviation and Space Companies

80 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
Dispatch	X26	Satellites for Manufacturing in Space	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Payton Case, Andrew Mello	Reveal
General Aviation	X26	Fix ATC by connecting aircraft to the internet	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	—	Ben Frank	Reveal
Cascade Space	X25	Commercial alternative to the Deep Space Network	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	7	Jacob Portukalian, Arlen Abraham	Reveal
GroundControl	X25	Vertical AI for highly-regulated manufacturing	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	8	Mehul Shah, Matthew Noseworthy, Nick Warren	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
Beyond Reach Labs	W26	Space solar arrays that grow to the size of a football field in orbit	Active	New York City, NY, USA	8	Mitchell Fogelson, Pele Collins	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
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	Los Angeles, CA, USA	10	Ben Schleuniger, Ross Doherty	Reveal
Orbital Operations	W25	High Thrust Space Vehicles for Satellite Defense	Active	—	2	Ben Schleuniger, Ross Doherty	Reveal
Reditus Space	W25	Reusable Satellites	Active	Atlanta, GA, USA	12	Stef Crum, Will Sherman	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	6	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
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
Beyond Aero	W22	First electric business aircraft designed for hydrogen propulsion	Active	Toulouse, Occitanie, France	80	Hugo Tarlé, Eloa Guillotin	Reveal
Hubble Network	W22	Bluetooth to Space	Active	Las Vegas, NV, 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
Wyvern	W22	High-res hyperspectral pictures of Earth from space	Active	Edmonton, AB, Canada	26	Chris Robson, Kurtis Broda, Kristen Cote, Callie Lissinna	Reveal
Alba Orbital	W21	We make satellites to image everywhere on Earth, every 15 minutes	Active	Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom	10	Tom Walkinshaw	Reveal
Albedo	W21	Full-stack VLEO satellite missions	Active	Denver, CO, USA	55	Topher Haddad, AyJay Lasater, AJ 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
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
Ethos Space Resources	S26	We make Silicon on the Moon.	Active	Los Angeles, CA, USA	2	Ross Centers, Brogan BamBrogan	Reveal
Ares Industries	S24	Building low-cost cruise missiles	Active	Los Angeles, CA, USA	2	Alex Tseng	Reveal
Spaceium Inc	S24	In-Space Refueling	Active	Ottawa, ON, Canada	—	Ashi Dissanayake, Reza Fetanat	Reveal
Starcloud	S24	Data centers in space	Active	Seattle, WA, USA	12	Philip Johnston, Ezra Feilden, Adi Oltean	Reveal
Starcloud	S24	Data centers in space	Active	Redmond, WA, USA	12	Philip Johnston, Ezra Feilden, Adi Oltean	Reveal
Singularity	S23	Building and Protecting an Exciting Future	Active	Los Angeles, CA, USA	1	Jack Oswald	Reveal
Airhart Aeronautics	S22	Airplanes anyone can fly	Active	Long Beach, CA, USA	6	Nikita Ermoshkin	Reveal
Airhart Aeronautics	S22	Airplanes anyone can fly	Active	Los Angeles, CA, USA	9	Nikita Ermoshkin, Brendan Quinn	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
Array Labs	S22	We're building satellites to create a real-time 3D map of the world.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA	30	Andrew Peterson, Jose Isaac Robledo	Reveal
Seaflight Technologies	S22	We make the world's most efficient aircraft	Active	Sydney, NSW, Australia; Torrance, CA, USA	4	Graham Doig	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	Dayton, OH, USA	5	Joel Darin	Reveal
Velontra	S22	Hypersonic space plane that can take-off from any location and weather	Active	Cincinnati, OH, USA	5	Joel Darin	Reveal
Axial Composites Industries	F25	Carbon Fiber Manufacturing at the Speed of Software	Active	—	1	Giuseppe Rapisarda	Reveal
Wardstone	F25	The Modular Interceptor Platform	Active	Los Angeles, CA, USA	8	Sebastian Fischer, Tobias Fischer	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	San Francisco, CA, USA	7	Onkar Batra	Reveal
Forerunner AI	F24	AI that gets aircraft flying faster	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Yash Kadadi, Will Nida	Reveal

Batch Distribution

XX262 XX252 WW264 WW257 WW244 WW233

Status Breakdown

Active76 Inactive2 Acquired2

Top Locations

San Francisco20 Los Angeles20 Seattle6 Atlanta2 Edmonton2 Sydney2

About YC Aviation and Space Companies

Y Combinator has funded 80 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.

76 of these companies are currently active. 2 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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