Best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech Companies in Hamburg, Germany
The 49 best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Hamburg, Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Beagle Systems.
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 Hamburg
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beagle Systems Provider of drones for cargo transportation | $10M | 16 mo ago | Seed | Mitja Wittersheim Co-Founder | 2019 | WixSentryBootstrap+15 | — | — |
| 2 | Flowfox Provider of automated container management solutions 14Funding bottom 49%Talent bottom 49%Global bottom 39%Market bottom 28% All 4 signals ▾Fundingbottom 49% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 39% Marketbottom 28% Funding: Raised $7.3M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 3 yrs (0.3/yr) Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 14/100 | $7M | 18 mo ago | Series A | Martin Orthen Co-Founder | 2018 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Lufthansa Technik Provider of cloud-driven predictive maintenance and analytics solutions for the aviation industry | $3M | 61 mo ago | Acquired | Johannes Bussmann CEO | 1994 | ScrivitoJavaLeaflet+14 | 1,556 patents Patents concentrated in mechanical & energy engineering | 1 launch · 3 partnerships · 2 expansions |
| 4 | SeaRoutes Provider of a web tool to calculate distance and routes for voyage planning | $3M | 56 mo ago | Seed | Pierre Garreau Co-Founder & CEO | 2019 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+15 | — | — |
| 5 | NautilusLog Provider of cloud-based shipping management app | $1M | 40 mo ago | Series A | Sven Hamer Founder | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Closelink Provider of a marine lubricant procurement platform | $1M | 86 mo ago | Seed | Tobias Schumacher Co-Founder | 2016 | WebflowVercelLeadfeeder+10 | — | — |
| 7 | Evitado Technologies Parking collision avoidance system for the aviation industry | $885K | 45 mo ago | Seed | Andrew Moakes Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer | 2019 | — | — | 1 job opening · 1 internship |
| 8 | O.A.Sys Developer of space components for various industries | $529K | 61 mo ago | Funding Raised | Reiner Schnur Managing Director | 2010 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Echo Aero Provider of software services and solutions for aviation interior products | — | 101 mo ago | Deadpooled | Amin Laaroussi Founder | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Hanseaticsoft Cloud-based management tools for shipping companies | — | 112 mo ago | Series A | Alexander Buchmann Founder & CEO | 2009 | Tailwind CSSPlyrReact+11 | — | 2 launchs |
| 11 | Dakosy Provides shipping software for maritime | — | 146 mo ago | Funding Raised | Ulrich Wrage CEO | 1982 | TYPO3 CMSPHPTwitch Player+6 | — | 1 internship · 1 partnership |
Top 11 Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Hamburg
#1
Seed · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2019 · 18 employees$9.9Mraised▾
Provider of drones for cargo transportation. Its product portfolio includes payload drones, drone recharging stations, and payload sensors. It is features include IR monitoring and image capturing solutions. It caters to agriculture, power, gas, and logistic industries.
- Apr 2025Seed$5.4M
- Feb 2023Seed$2.1M
- 2021Grant (prize money)$2.4M
#2
Series A · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2018 · 19 employees$7.3Mraised▾
Provider of automated container management solutions. It helps carriers to save working time and cost. Automated container release enables information exchange and payment processing.
- Jan 2025Series A$7.3M
- Jul 2023Seed—
#3
Series A · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2016 · 15 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Provider of cloud-based shipping management app. Its features include event-based tracking and reporting, a collaboration between ship and onshore members, ship inventory and inspection management, consolidation of logbook data such as weather, cargo, and route information, and management of crew tasks.
- Mar 2023Series A—
- Feb 2021Seed$1.2M
- Apr 2019Seed—
#4
Seed · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2019 · 18 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Provider of a web tool to calculate distance and routes for voyage planning. Its web-based app enables users to compute routes by either searching and selecting ports and cities or directly by clicking somewhere on the globe. It provides detailed route information from port to port, sea to port, or door to door along with the forecasted weather data and bunkering costs.
- Nov 2021Seed$1.5M
- Aug 2021Grant (prize money)$1.3M
- Aug 2021Grant (prize money)$1.2M
#5
Acquired · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 1994 · 66 employees$2.9Mraised▾
Provider of cloud-driven predictive maintenance and analytics solutions for the aviation industry. It provides analytics for aircraft maintenance, repair, overhaul, cabin designs and modification, material pooling, and others. It also provides technical support for flying operations such as AOG (aircraft-on-ground) services, financial services, logistics support, and consulting & training courses.
- Jun 2021Grant (prize money)$176.6K
- Oct 2020Grant (prize money)—
- Apr 2020Grant (prize money)$2.5M
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$241.2K
#6
Seed · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2019 · 16 employees$885Kraised▾
Parking collision-avoidance system for the aviation industry. It provides a parking aid that can be installed temporarily on the aircraft & will monitor the area around the aircraft while it is moving & give the ground support team a warning if a high collision risk appears. It helps to reduce the risk of hangar rash.
- Oct 2022Seed$780K
- Sep 2021Seed$105K
#7
Funding Raised · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2010$528.7Kraised▾
Developer of space components for various industries. It provides users with a company specializing in the development of application-specific computers using commodity-off-the-shelf components. Their research focuses on the creation of new computing systems and architectures,.
- Jul 2021Grant (prize money)$528.7K
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)—
- Sep 2017Grant (prize money)—
- Jul 2017Grant (prize money)—
#8
Seed · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2016 · 19 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Provider of a marine lubricant procurement platform. This platform automates data collection, offers analytics tools, and facilitates informed decision-making for procurement teams. It enables proactive planning to optimize lifting volume and prioritize by demand and supply. The platform also includes an integrated ordering process, comprehensive data aggregation, and integrated supplier communication. Real-time reporting on vessel, supplier, port, and product levels enhances operational transparency. Seamless integration with existing systems is supported. The platform aims to improve efficiency and generate cost savings for shipping companies and lubricant suppliers.
- May 2019Seed$1.1M
#9
Deadpooled · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2017—raised▾
Manufacturer of aviation interior products intended to provide aircraft interior services and products. The company's services provide layout configuration, equipment integration, advanced simulation, and optimization and also provide interior innovation consultation, enabling clients to avail customized and proper quality aircraft products to provide customers with optimum comfort while flying.
- Feb 2018Seed—
#10
Series A · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2009 · 49 employees—raised▾
Hanseaticsoft provides cloud-based management solutions for shipping companies. Its flagship product Cloud Fleet Manager offers organization portal, operation, inspection reports, disturbance reports, fleet tracking, crewing and purchase modules for shipping companies.
- Apr 2017Series A—
#11
Funding Raised · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 1982 · 168 employees—raised▾
DAKOSY provides shipping software for maritime. It provides port community system, air cargo community system, customs software, and shipping software. It also provides EDI, SaaS, IT and data centre services. The software can be used by industrial enterprises, freight forwarders, shipping companies, liner agents, and carriers.
- May 2014Grant (prize money)—
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How research on Launch Vehicles is moving in Germany
A read on the academic research around Launch Vehicles — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 273 Germany-affiliated papers.
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V.124
- Technical University of Munich33
- RWTH Aachen University29
- Aerospace Institute25
- University of Stuttgart12
- Aerospace engineering12
- Rocket engine11
- Rocket (weapon)10
- Pulsar10
- Geodetic datum10
- Propulsion1→9
- Mechanics2→8
- Liquid-propellant rocket9→12
- Thrust5→8
- Rocket (weapon)4→5
Where launch vehicles is researched across Germany
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing launch vehicles patents in Germany
Germany launch vehicles patent filing is accelerating — 108 filings from 33 assignees (2016–2025), led by Arianegroup, Airbus DS, Astrium; annual filings 5→14.
- Arianegroup56
- Airbus DS21
- Astrium18
- Deutsch Zentr LUFT & Raumfahrt18
- EADS Space Transp14
- Larch Sascha9
- Bayern Chemie Flugchemie6
- Bayern Chemie GES FÜR Flugchemis5
Common questions
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