Best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech Companies in Pennsylvania, United States
The 79 best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Pennsylvania, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Zeroeyes Security.
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 Pennsylvania
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AeroPest Focuses on AI-powered drone technologies for pest management | — | — | 3 | Daniel Chester-Ziv Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | AeroTargets International Unmanned aerial target drones and services for military training | — | — | — | John Delamater CEO & President | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | AgScan Provider of precision agriculture services using proprietary drones | — | — | — | Joshua Brown Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | AgVue Provides precision agriculture services using proprietary drones and analytics software | — | — | — | Paul Caskey Co-Founder & VP Technology | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | AgVue Technologies Provider of patrolling drones for crop protection | — | — | — | Cheryl Sigg Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Alcifo Air-mobility solutions for smart cities | — | — | — | Satadru Roy Founder & CEO | — | — | — | 1 award |
| 7 | Ametek Sensor Develops sensors for the aerospace industry | — | — | 110 | — | — | — | — | 1 internship |
| 8 | Analytical Graphics Provider of space mission launch services | — | — | 244 | — | Kentico CMSSalesforceZURB Foundation+15 | Top 5M | 35 patents Space situational awareness collision prediction and large-scale point‑cloud 3D reconstruction. | — |
Top 12 Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Pennsylvania
#1
Series B · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · founded 2017 · 40 employees$34Mraised▾
Provider of physical artificial intelligence for intralogistics, warehouse, and plant operations. The company delivers an intelligence layer for existing warehouse systems. It offers computer vision, text recognition, and case counting. The company’s system captures data points, identifies products, and understands condition, placement, movement, and context. The system integrates with existing warehouse management systems.
- Dec 2025Series B$40M
- Mar 2024Series A$17M
- Oct 2022Series A$10M
#2
Series A · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · founded 2019 · 17 employees$32Mraised▾
Manufacturer of high-performance outboard motors and propellers. The company designs and produces advanced marine propulsion systems, focusing on improved fuel efficiency and performance. Their product line includes a range of outboard motors and propellers designed for various horsepower applications. These products are engineered to enhance speed, handling, and fuel economy for boats.
- Feb 2025Series A$11.6M
- Jun 2023Conventional Debt—
- Jun 2023Series A$32M
- Apr 2022Seed—
#3
Public · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · founded 2014 · 50 employees$57Mraised▾
Fully autonomous aerial robotic systems developer. It offers drones providing 3D mapping solutions. It also offers AI-based software that enables drones to fly autonomously even in dark environments filled with obstacles and without GPS signals. Its technology is built upon the fusion of multiple redundant sensors, mapping for obstacle avoidance, and autonomous flight planning.
- Jul 2024Series B$5M
- Dec 2022Series B$35M
- Jul 2019Series A$16M
- Feb 2017Seed—
#4
Series B · Conshohocken, Pennsylvania · founded 2014 · 131 employees$107.1Mraised▾
Developer of AI leveraged weapon detection and threat monitoring solutions. It offers an AI-based system that can be integrated into the existing security cameras and devices in a building. It also offers object recognition, video analytics, defense technology, and deep learning management services.
- Jun 2024Series B$53.3M
- Aug 2023Series B$23M
- Jul 2022Grant (prize money)$120K
- Jun 2022Grant (prize money)$750K
#5
Series B · Norristown, Pennsylvania · founded 2015 · 41 employees$1Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based robotic perimeter security and drone manufacturing services. It provides users with a security robotics company that specializes in providing complete robotic security solutions. It uses drones, robots, software, and AI to automate security operations, allowing for aerial security drones and ground security robots to patrol and respond automatically.
- Jul 2025Series B$26M
- Jan 2024Series A—
- Feb 2023Series A—
- Mar 2021Series A—
#6
Seed · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · founded 2007 · 156 employees$2.6Mraised▾
Developer of landers, rovers, lunar surface power, and space robotics. They offer technology for advancing space exploration. The company provides reusable rocket landers for payload testing and validation. They also design lunar vehicles with standardized sizes for instruments and experiments.
- Jan 2025Grant (prize money)$1M
- Jul 2023Grant (prize money)—
- Aug 2022Grant (prize money)—
- May 2016Seed$2.5M
#7
Series A · Hatboro, Pennsylvania · founded 2017 · 8 employees$11.3Mraised▾
Provider of aviation intelligence solutions enhancing flight efficiency and safety. It offers real-time route optimization, significantly reducing flight time and fuel consumption. Additionally, it provides advanced air surveillance data solutions, improving airspace management and security through enhanced data reliability and GPS disruption countermeasures. These solutions are designed for airlines, air navigation service providers, and other aviation stakeholders.
- Dec 2023Series A$1.2M
- Jun 2023Series A$4.8M
- Jul 2022Series A$2.9M
- Nov 2021Series A$2.4M
#8
Series B · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · founded 2012 · 78 employees$18Mraised▾
Provides flight-proven core technologies to the aerospace industry. Its offerings include a technological solution for multiple applications including sensor suites, 3D mapping and survey, collision detection and avoidance, GPS denied navigation, landing zone assessment, relative navigation, motion planning, and visual pilot aids.
- May 2022Series B$10M
- Oct 2017Series A$8M
- Jan 2014Grant (prize money)$254.8K
#9
Seed · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · founded 2016 · 16 employees$2.9Mraised▾
Designer of light weight integrated motor and propulsion systems
- May 2022Seed$2.3M
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$255.2K
- Nov 2019Seed$625K
- 2017Seed—
#10
Series A · Exton, Pennsylvania · founded 2017 · 17 employees$4Mraised▾
OneSky provides analytics solutions for aerospace systems chiefly for unmanned aerial vehicles. It is essentially a web service that offers users multiple ways to define an operation's location and/or flight route and also support standard altitudes such as Mean Sea Level (MSL), Ellipsoid (WGS84), or even Above Ground Level (AGL). In addition, the company offers an unmanned traffic management system that supports realtime operation monitoring as well as analytical notification or alerting engines for enhanced situational awareness during flight.
- Apr 2020Series A$4M
#11
Acquired · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · founded 2013 · 17 employees$4.1Mraised▾
Drone-based 3D mapping software and analytics for industries. They provide ground-truth quantities, tonnages, and production data captured via drone and delivered directly. They offer services including drone-based data collection, data processing, and report generation. Their software service allows users to upload imagery and generate unlimited reports. They cater to construction, mining, oil/gas, and other industries, providing insights into quantities, production, inventory, topography, and slip detection. They utilize RTK, PPK, and GCPs for accurate data. They offer solutions using camera & photogrammetry and LIDAR sensors, providing outputs like imagery, point clouds, and contours. Their technology supports use cases like hard surfaces, bare earth, and areas with vegetation. They offer both report and software services, providing flexibility for clients. This is a SaaS and software solution.
- Jul 2017Series A$961.1K
- Jun 2016Series A$3.1M
- Jun 2014Seed—
#12
Public · California, Pennsylvania · founded 1946 · 8 employees$13Kraised▾
Developer and manufacturer of radiation and chemical detection instrumentation. It offers its solutions to nuclear power, water, air, medical, research, waste sites, and more.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Launch Vehicles is moving in the United States
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 1,518 United States-affiliated papers.
- Marshall Space Flight Center339
- Langley Research Center111
- Jacobs77
- Purdue University West Lafayette61
- Ames Research Center61
- Detonation1→8
- Trajectory2→6
- Rocket (weapon)16→20
- Combustor1→4
- Propellant13→14
- Detonation10→40
- Propulsion26→34
- Liquid-propellant rocket20→28
- Combustor10→15
- Combustion11→16
- Detonation2→11
- Rocket (weapon)20→21
- Rocket engine12→13
Where launch vehicles is researched across United States
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 the United States
United States launch vehicles patent filing is accelerating — 333 filings from 249 assignees (2016–2025), led by Boeing, BLUE Origin, United Technologies; annual filings 29→46.
- Boeing47
- BLUE Origin44
- United Technologies33
- Venus Aerospace25
- 8 Rivers Capital19
- Aerojet Rocketdyne15
- Aerojet General13
- Firehawk Aerospace13
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