Best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech Companies in Poland
The 77 best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Poland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: SatRev.
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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 Poland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SatRev Manufacturer of cube and nano satellites | $35M | 45 mo ago | Series B | Radoslaw Lapczynski Co-Founder | 2016 | WebflowMemberStackUploadcare+14 | — | — |
| 2 | FlyFocus Manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles for civilian and law enforcement markets | $5M | 3 mo ago | Series A | Albert Świerczyński Co-Founder | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+8 | 4 patents Modular power connectors for UAVs | — |
| 3 | REAKTO Developer of drone-based security systems | $1M | 38 mo ago | Seed | Wojciech Stawiarski CEO | 2020 | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | — | — |
| 4 | DroneRadar Develops flight planning applications for drone operators | $1M | 84 mo ago | Funding Raised | Pawel Korzec Co-founder | 2015 | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+12 | — | — |
| 5 | Thorium Space Developer of advanced telecommunication systems and satellite communication payloads | $1M | 9 mo ago | Seed | Pawel Rymaszewski Founder & CTO | 2018 | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — | 1 partnership |
| 6 | Dronehub Technologies Provider of Drone systems for security and inspection | $520K | 63 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+33 | — | — |
| 7 | Creotech Manufacturer of diversified satellite components | $509K | 59 mo ago | Funding Raised | Grzegorz Brona CEO | 2008 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+14 | — | 1 job opening · 2 partnerships |
| 8 | JETPAD Electric recreational watercraft | $362K | 117 mo ago | Deadpooled | Magdalena Bajska CEO | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Aerobits Developer of subsystems for unmanned aircraft systems integration into airspace | $171K | 96 mo ago | Funding Raised | Tomasz Lasecki CEO | 2017 | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+21 | 11 patents Real-time analog signal processing and UAV warning-light control avionics systems | 1 internship · 2 launchs · 1 partnership |
| 10 | KP Labs Provider of satellite | $81K | 25 mo ago | Seed | Krzysztof Pacan CEO | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Spectator Database for satellite based imaging solutions | $59K | — | Funding Raised | Waldemar Franczak Founder | 2016 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+16 | — | 1 launch |
| 12 | Liftero Developer of propulsion systems for small satellites using green propellants | — | 37 mo ago | Seed | Tomasz Palacz CEO & CTO | 2019 | WordPressMySQLPHP+15 | — | 1 job opening |
| 13 | Hertz Systems Provides GPS and security system to defense industry | — | 54 mo ago | Funding Raised | Zygmunt Rafał Trzaskowski CEO | 1989 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | 9 patents Patents concentrated in its core technology | — |
Top 12 Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Poland
#1
Series A · Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship · founded 2017$5.3Mraised▾
Manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles for civilian and law enforcement markets. The company designs and produces UAV systems. It also provides product development and custom engineering services. The team consists of experienced engineers with knowledge of UAV systems.
- Feb 2026Series A$5.3M
#2
Seed · Wroclaw, Lower Silesian Voivodeship · founded 2018 · 40 employees$1Mraised▾
Developer of advanced telecommunication systems and satellite communication payloads. The company focuses on creating systems for use in transmit-receive bands. It offers satellite terminals and SATCOM chipsets for satellite communication systems. The company designs and builds communication payloads for satellites, including digital payloads and systems for Ku/Ka bands.
- Sep 2025Seed—
- Jul 2023Seed$1M
#3
Series B · Wroclaw, Lower Silesian Voivodeship · founded 2016 · 50 employees$35Mraised▾
Manufacturer of the cube and nano satellites. It provides users with nanosatellites that collect observational data on earth and helps to understand the changes happening on the surface and weather. Its features include environment monitoring,natural disasters and documentation.
- Sep 2022Angel$5M
- Dec 2021Series B$30M
#4
Seed · Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship · founded 2020 · 13 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Developer of drone-based security systems. It offers docking stations, rapid response drones, flight management systems, and operation centres. It also provides a service platform for security agencies.
- Apr 2023Seed$1.2M
#5
Seed · Gliwice, Silesian Voivodeship · founded 2016 · 57 employees$80.8Kraised▾
KP Labs is a NewSpace company based in Poland. In 2016, a group of engineers and scientists associated with the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice decided to turn their passion into reality and start a company that would combine science with business. We deliver AI computers and software to bring autonomy to demanding space missions. Our vision is to become a European Leader in delivering Autonomous Systems for space applications.
#6
Funding Raised · Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship · founded 2015$1Mraised▾
DroneRadar is a flight planning application specifically for drone operators. Some of the features include displaying flight regulation, providing airspace visualization, providing anti-collision markers, providing current weather and sunset or sunrise timing, among others. Additionally, it displays three specific colors namely green- allows flying with attention to the amount declared in the same, yellow- allows checking restrictions at the bottom of the screen, and red- no flights. The application is compatible with Android and iOS devices.
- Jun 2019Grant (prize money)$526.3K
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$502.9K
#7
Funding Raised · Piaseczno, Masovian Voivodeship · founded 2008 · 180 employees$509.3Kraised▾
Manufacturer of diversified satellite components. It designs and develops satellite platforms, subsystems, solar panels, power systems, onboard computers, propulsion systems, and electrical ground support equipment. It also offers custom manufacturing, integration, and assembly services.
- Jul 2021Grant (prize money)$87.2K
- Jun 2021Grant (prize money)$422K
#8
Seed · Poland · founded 2015 · 11 employees$520.1Kraised▾
Provider of an AI-powered software to monitor real-time aerial data. Also offers an ecosystem of autonomous drones, and ground infrastructure to transform visual data into actionable business insights and enables to collect aerial data, process it, & automate operations. Provides solutions to automate missions, conduct on-demand tasks, and fly intelligently to collect aerial data, improve security and visual data using autonomous drones in complex industrial environments.
- Feb 2021Grant (prize money)$1.9M
- Nov 2020Seed$520.1K
#9
Deadpooled · Szczecin, West Pomeranian Voivodeship · founded 2011$361.6Kraised▾
JETPAD is an electric recreational watercraft developed by Poland-based EVConcept. The vehicle is a single-seater watercraft which uses Li-ion batteries and has a range of 24 km and max speed of 37 km/h. The vehicle is equipped with collision avoidance system, LCD panel, energy management system, radiocommunication system etc.
- Sep 2016Seed$361.6K
#10
Funding Raised · Szczecin, West Pomeranian Voivodeship · founded 2017 · 6 employees$170.6Kraised▾
Developer of subsystems for unmanned aircraft systems integration into airspace. It provides OEM modules, plug-and-play equipment, and ground infrastructure solutions. These offerings support detect and avoid functionality, remote identification, and UTM/U-Space design. It specializes in air traffic control systems for manned and unmanned aviation.
- May 2018Grant (prize money)$58K
- Dec 2017Grant (prize money)$59.5K
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$53.1K
#11
Funding Raised · Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship · founded 2016$59.2Kraised▾
Spectator provides a database for satellite-based imaging solutions. It collaborates the images taken from multiple satellites and provides access and management to the spatial data. A user can choose the satellites and areas of interest for observation in real-time. The images can also be viewed through a smartphone application.
- Grant (prize money)$59.2K
#12
Seed · Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship · founded 2019 · 11 employees—raised▾
Developer of propulsion systems for small satellites using green propellants. The company provides propulsion for orbit changes, collision avoidance, and deorbiting. Their systems are built for satellites of varying sizes. The propulsion systems are qualified on major launchers. They offer configurable thrust levels, control, total impulse, and interfaces.
- May 2023Seed—
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 Poland
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 44 Poland-affiliated papers.
- Łukasiewicz Research Network10
- Instytut Lotnictwa8
- Military University of Technology in Warsaw8
- Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute of Aviation7
- AGH University of Krakow7
- Rocket engine5
- Aerospace engineering2
- Combustion chamber2
- Combustion2
- Rocket (weapon)2
- Aerospace engineering4→11
- Rocket (weapon)4→10
- Propellant2→5
- Thrust2→4
- Electromagnetic shielding2
- Space Shuttle2
- Space exploration2
- Phase (matter)2
- Argument (complex analysis)2
Where launch vehicles is researched across Poland
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.
Common questions
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