Aerospace & Defense Tech
Warming1.7% of YC companies (+0.36pp)
Companies
103
Survival Rate
91.3%
Hiring Rate
35%
Recent Pivots
10
Aerospace & Defense Tech — Share of YC companies over time
Pivots into Aerospace & Defense Tech
Companies that pivoted into this category
AICE Power
Sp262 people · Active
Smart energy monitoring for buildings.
Submarine drones for defense
Kalam Labs
S2110 people · Active· Pivot 3/3
STEMS Kits for Kids
Near Space Flying Machines
Arcimus
S232 people · Active· Pivot 2/2
Find who needs your product
A stream of engineering candidates who ship.
Stillwind
W254 people · Active
Improving Agents through Reinforcement Learning
Autonomous Electrical Engineering
Buoyant Aero
S212 people · Active
Using drone blimps to move middle mile air freight at half the cost.
Bringing back blimps
Pivots out of Aerospace & Defense Tech
Companies that pivoted away from this category
Normal
S252 people · Active
Modern compliance for drones, robots, IoT, and beyond
Deploying and integrating useful robots
Kalam Labs
S2110 people · Active· Pivot 2/3
Stratospheric Aerial Robotics Lab
STEMS Kits for Kids
Forerunner AI
F242 people · Active
Copilot for aerospace engineers making rockets, munitions, satellites
AI that gets aircraft flying faster
Pivots within Aerospace & Defense Tech
Companies that changed direction but stayed in this category
Kalam Labs
S2110 people · Active· Pivot 1/3
India's Kids Space Organization
Stratospheric Aerial Robotics Lab
Orbital Operations
W252 people · Active
High Thrust, Reusable Vehicles in Space
High Thrust Space Vehicles for Satellite Defense
Companies (103)
Beyond Reach Labs
Space solar arrays that grow to the size of a football field in orbit