Best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech Companies in Queensland, Australia
The 44 best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Queensland, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Gilmour Space.
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 Queensland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gilmour Space Developer of launch vehicles for small payloads | $99M | 7 mo ago | Series E | Adam Gilmour Co-Founder & CEO | 2012 | Cart FunctionalityWixSentry+18 | 1 job opening |
| 2 | Emesent Provider of aerial-based earth imaging and mapping solutions | $23M | 54 mo ago | Series A | — | 2018 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+33 | 1 award |
| 3 | Skyborne Technologies Developing tri-rotor hybrid drones for providing aerial imagery services | $2M | 87 mo ago | Series A | Adrian Dudok Co-Founder & Director | 2015 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+18 | — |
| 4 | Incodocs Online platform for creation of shipping documents | $915K | 88 mo ago | Seed | — | 2016 | SentryReactStripe+28 | — |
| 5 | GeoNadir Provider of a cloud-based crowd-sourced drone data analytic platform | $342K | 54 mo ago | Funding Raised | Paul Mead Co-Founder and Operations Lead | 2020 | WordPressMySQLPHP+39 | — |
| 6 | Aerotrack Systems Platform offering ERP software for aviation industry | — | — | Unfunded | Rodney Siebenhausen CEO | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | — |
| 7 | AGRISTRY Provider of farm analysis and mapping solutions using drone imagery and spatial technology | — | — | Unfunded | Darren Andrews Founder | 2021 | — | — |
| 8 | AirBorn Insight Provides various services using drones | — | — | Unfunded | Nat Parker Co-Founder & Director | 2015 | — | — |
Top 5 Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Queensland
#1
Series E · Gold Coast, Queensland · founded 2012 · 168 employees$99.4Mraised▾
Developer of launch vehicles for small payloads. It provides users with launching systems for small payloads, such as nano- and cube-satellites and satellite platforms. It also provides users with orbital launch vehicles, in-space propulsion, and sounding rockets.
- Jan 2026Series E$145.4M
- Feb 2024Series D$35.9M
- Jun 2021Series C$46M
- Sep 2018Series B$13.7M
#2
Series A · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2018 · 139 employees$23Mraised▾
Provider of aerial-based earth imaging and mapping solutions. Its product portfolio includes Lidar devices, autonomous mapping drones, action cameras, and accessories. It also offers GIS software for aerial data analytics. It caters to mining, construction, agriculture, and forestry industries.
- Feb 2022Series A$23M
- Sep 2020Seed—
#3
Series A · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2015 · 18 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Skyborne is a Brisbane based tech start up that is innovating the capabilities of hybrid autonomous air vehicles. Developed Cerberus (an autonomous, three-rotor hybrid aircraft) and Chimera (hybrid UAV with high speed, high endurance, and wide range) to incorporate avant-garde athleticism providing quality photo and video capabilities. These crafts are deftly tailored to customers' requirements ranging from Real Estate photography and filming, to geospatial monitoring systems, to anti-poaching air support.
- May 2019Grant (prize money)—
- Apr 2019Series A$2.5M
#4
Seed · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2016 · 3 employees$915Kraised▾
Incodocs provides an online platform to create shipping documents. Customers can create documents such as commercial invoices, shipper's letter of instruction, packing list, VGM declaration, packing declaration and certificate of origin. Pricing is dependent on the type of plan starting at 9 dollars per month.
- Apr 2019Seed$855K
- Sep 2016Seed$60K
#5
Funding Raised · Cairns, Queensland · founded 2020 · 4 employees$342.2Kraised▾
Provider of a cloud-based crowd-sourced drone data analytic platform. It enables users to build maps using drones for multiple applications. It is an online marketplace to collect and analyze multiple drone data for mapping. Its users include drone pilots, geology researchers, land country managers, and sea country managers. It uses cloud and AI technologies.
- Feb 2022Grant (prize money)$342.2K
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 Australia
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 54 Australia-affiliated papers.
- Australia Telescope National Facility10
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation10
- Macquarie University10
- University of Queensland6
- University of Adelaide6
- Pulsar10
- Geodetic datum10
- Neutron star10
- Very-long-baseline interferometry10
- Orbit (dynamics)10
- Nozzle1→5
- Combustion3
- Liquid-propellant rocket3
- Propellant2
- Combustion chamber2
- Instability1
Where launch vehicles is researched across Australia
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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