Best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech Companies in Beijing, China
The 67 best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Beijing, China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Beijing Zhonghangzhi Technology.
Our analysis of 50 Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies
$31.9b in tracked funding; 90% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Beijing
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Employees | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beijing Zhonghangzhi Technology Industrial company that develops drones, helicopters, and other products | $459M | 36 mo ago | Series D | Tian Gangyin Founder | — | — | — |
| 2 | Beijing Space Pioneer Technology Developer of launch vehicles for large payloads | $415M | 8 mo ago | Series D | Kang Yonglai Founder & CEO | 120 | — | — |
| 3 | Galactic Energy Manufacturer of commercial launch vehicles for small payloads | $405M | 8 mo ago | Series D | — | 100 | — | — |
| 4 | Casicloud Cybersecurity suite solutions provider | $405M | 63 mo ago | Series D | — | 1,600 | — | — |
| 5 | Landspace Develops launch vehicle systems | $335M | 69 mo ago | Series C | Changwu Zhang Founder & CEO | 400 | — | — |
| 6 | iSpace Developer and provider of commercial launch vehicles and launch solutions | $273M | 4 mo ago | Series D | — | 200 | — | — |
| 7 | Orienspace Developer of launch vehicles and related engines for space access | $144M | 29 mo ago | Series B | Yao Song Co-Founder & Co-CEO | 70 | — | — |
| 8 | OneSpaceChina Satellite launch vehicle | $116M | 69 mo ago | Series C | — | 140 | — | — |
| 9 | Beijing Lingkong Tianxing Technology Developer of specialized software and total solutions for flight systems | $61M | 46 mo ago | Series A | Wang Yudong Founder | — | — | — |
| 10 | Shareco In-flight entertainment and communication solutions provider | $32M | 132 mo ago | Series B | Pan Yunbin CEO | — | — | — |
| 11 | Zero UAV Designs & manufactures UAVs for high quality aerial photography and autopilot systems | $31M | 117 mo ago | Series B | Jianjun Yang Founder & CEO | — | 4 patents Redundant UAV flight control systems and gyroscope‑based stabilization hardware | — |
| 12 | Zerotech Develops drones for consumer and commercial purposes | $22M | 93 mo ago | Deadpooled | Yang Jianjun Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 13 | Xiangji Technology Big data platform to analyze and process data | $18M | 26 mo ago | Series C | Lin Zhong Co-Founder | 20 | 5 patents Flexible 3D forming equipment for shaping workpieces and ping‑pong training devices | — |
| 14 | Xihua Technology Provider of in-space manufacturing services for space systems | $16M | 50 mo ago | Series A | — | — | 41 patents Optical transport network bandwidth management and routing control for lossless ODUflex services | — |
| 15 | Boya Gongdao Provider of underwater robots | $15M | 72 mo ago | Series C | — | 40 | 18 patents Compact personal underwater propulsion systems and small unmanned submersibles. | — |
| 16 | Maifei Technology Provider of disease and pest monitoring solutions | $15M | 86 mo ago | Series A | Gong Huaze Co-Founder | 300 | — | — |
| 17 | Beijing Ruixinfeng Technology Provides development and production of wireless communication systems | $15M | 83 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 200 | — | — |
| 18 | Edrive Space Developer of aerospace propulsion systems for space satellite applications | $14M | 37 mo ago | Series B | Yan Shen Founder | — | — | — |
| 19 | Benewake Developer of commercial LiDAR for Robots | $14M | 31 mo ago | Series C | — | 200 | — | — |
| 20 | Beehive Technology Develops drones for agricultural spraying, and offers spraying services | $9M | 104 mo ago | Deadpooled | Wu Guoning CEO | — | — | — |
| 21 | PIESAT Developer of remote sensing software and satellite constellation systems for observation | $7M | 115 mo ago | Series A | Tongkui Liao CEO | 3,342 | — | — |
| 22 | Generalization Intelligence Custom machine learning solutions for multiple industrial applications | $4M | 96 mo ago | Deadpooled | MasterPa Founder | 4 | — | — |
| 23 | Aheadx Designs & manufactures drones for consumer application | $2M | 8 mo ago | Seed | Li Xiaoyu CEO | — | — | — |
| 24 | Flying-Cam Develops drones for multiple commercial applications | $166K | 43 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | — | — | — |
| 25 | StarDetect Provider of diversified AI powered satellite components | — | 8 mo ago | Series A | Cang Jirong Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 26 | Galaxy Aerospace 🦄 Manufacturer of satellites for communication | — | 9 mo ago | Series D | Xu Ming Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
Top 12 Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Beijing
#1
Series D · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2016 · 200 employees$273Mraised▾
iSpace develops and provides commercial launch vehicles and launch solutions. The product portfolio includes Hyperbola-1 (a small solid rocket that uses four-stage tandem configuration, operates in a low-earth orbit, and carries a capacity of 300kg), Hyperbola-3 (LEO based two-stage reusable liquid carrier rocket/launch vehicle with a diameter of 2.5m and a total length of 38m), and sub-orbital travel concept spaceship. The company claims its launch vehicles to have multiple features including low cost, fast response, and flexibility. Additionally, the company also provides launch services to its customers. Clientele includes SpaceX, NASA, ESA, Blue Origin, etc.
- Feb 2026Series D$729.3M
- Sep 2024Series C$99M
- Aug 2020Series B$174M
- Jul 2019Series A—
#2
Series D · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2018 · 100 employees$405.1Mraised▾
Manufacturer of commercial launch vehicles for small payloads. It has developed solid and liquid propellant launch vehicles, which are carrier rockets for the narrow-band IoT-based network construction and constellation supplement launches. Its in-house engines portfolio includes liquid-propellant engines that are reusable open cycle kerosene engines with variable thrusts, and solid propellant engines with variable thrusts. It also offers launching services with multiple launch plan options.
- Sep 2025Series D$337M
- Dec 2023Series C$154.5M
- Dec 2021Series B$199.9M
- Sep 2020Series A$29.3M
#3
Series D · Fengtai, Beijing · founded 2015 · 120 employees$414.7Mraised▾
Developer of launch vehicles for large payloads. It provides users with building launching systems for large payloads, such as satellites, spacecraft and supplies. Its features include a liquid rocket engine, launch schedules, and transportation solutions.
- Oct 2025Series D$351M
- Jun 2024Series C$207M
- Oct 2023Series C—
- Jul 2023Series C—
#4
Seed · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2014$2Mraised▾
Aheadx is a Chinese startup company that designs & manufactures consumer drones. Their first product is Transdrone A4, which is named after its ability to fold up into something the size of an A4 piece of paper. This drone features 4000mAh capacity smart battery, auto follow module and comes with a clamshell remote control. The company also sells parts and components to make drones. The company received a seed funding of $2M by Avenue Capital in Aug, 2015
- Oct 2025Seed—
- Aug 2015Seed$2M
#5
Series D · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2012$458.6Mraised▾
Industrial company that develops drones, helicopters, and other products. It also offers rotor blades, controllers, and other custom parts for UAVs.
- Jun 2023Series D$167.8M
- Mar 2023Series D$290.8M
#6
Series B · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2020 · 70 employees$143.7Mraised▾
Developer of launch vehicles and related engines for space access. The company offers a range of launch services, including single launches and rideshares. It designs and manufactures rockets for deployment from both land and sea. The company also develops liquid-propellant rocket engines.
- Jan 2024Series B$83.7M
- May 2022Series A$60M
#7
Series C · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2016 · 400 employees$334.8Mraised▾
LandSpace develops launch vehicle systems to provide launch mission services. It has its proprietary commercial launch vehicles ZQ-1 and ZQ-2. It also has its proprietary propulsion systems Tianque(TQ) 80t Thrust -Level LRE (liquid-fuel rocket engine) and Phoenix 10t Thrust- Level LRE.
- Sep 2020Series C$175M
- Dec 2019Series C$71M
- 2019Series B$14M
- Nov 2018Series B$43M
#8
Series D · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2015 · 1600 employees$404.5Mraised▾
Cybersecurity suite solutions provider. It provides an autonomous and controllable cloud service solution that realizes the full integration of computing, network, storage, data, and security, and builds a full life cycle cloud management system integrating cloud planning, cloud construction, cloud operation, and cloud operation and maintenance. It provides solutions to industries such as procurement and manufacturing, business, logistics, etc.
- Mar 2021Series D$404.5M
#9
Series C · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2014 · 20 employees$17.8Mraised▾
Xiangji offers a big data platform to analyze and process data. The platform allows users to collect data, process, analyze and visualize data to capture actionable insights from the real-time data. It enables businesses to store data, build reports and extract data from the cloud with the help of queries. It also provides solutions to import and export data, clean and transfer data.
- Apr 2024Series C—
- Jan 2018Series B$17.8M
#10
Series A · Tongzhou, Beijing · founded 2018$60.6Mraised▾
Developer of specialized software and total solutions for flight systems. The company provides design, production, testing, and final assembly capabilities. It offers professional design software and develops critical subsystems. The company also provides complete system solutions for the aerospace industry.
- Aug 2022Series A—
- Aug 2021Series A$46.3M
- Dec 2019Seed$14.3M
#11
Series C · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2015 · 200 employees$13.8Mraised▾
Benewake develops commercial-scale LiDAR hardware which can be incorporated across Drones, Robotics, and Driverless Automobiles to meet the requirements of auto-avoidance, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), terrain following, and RGBD object recognition. The company hold close to 10 patents in this domain. Benewake R&D core team members come from famous universities: Humboldt University (Germany), Ecole Centrale Marseille (France), University of Orleans (France) and Tsinghua University (China).
- Nov 2023Series C$13.8M
- Dec 2022Series C—
- 2018Series B—
- Feb 2018Series B—
#12
Series C · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2015 · 140 employees$116.2Mraised▾
OneSpaceChina is a space launch vehicle. It focuses on the development of low-cost small carrier, design and assembly to provide business satellite launch services.The launch vehicle is supposedly to be having a carrying capacity of 500 kg and carrying capacity of 350 kg and takeoff thrust of 120 ton. It aims to take the first flight in the year 2018. It claims to be SpaceX of China.
- Sep 2020Series C—
- Aug 2018Series B$44M
- Jan 2018Series A$31M
- 2017Grant (prize money)—
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How research on Launch Vehicles in Beijing is moving
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- Beijing Institute of Technology44
- Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center24
- Beijing Municipal Engineering Design and Research Institute8
- Beijing Jiaotong University5
- Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute4
- Aeronautics1→4
- Aerospace engineering1→4
- Aeronautics1→8
- Aerospace engineering6→12
- Rocket (weapon)2→8
- Nozzle1→5
- Rocket engine3→6
- Aeronautics3
- Control system2
- Systems engineering2
- Space launch2
- Key (lock)1
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