Best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech Companies in Turkey
The 51 best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Turkey in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: PROMATECH.
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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 Turkey
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PROMATECH Provider of software solutions for maritime and shipbuilding solutions | $3M | 110 mo ago | Funding Raised | Ahmet Bilici Founder And Ceo | 2010 | — | — |
| 2 | Zyrone Dynamics Provider of eVTOL and rotary-wing UAVs | $1M | 59 mo ago | Seed | Murat Kanber Co-Founder | 2018 | Apache HTTP Servercore-jsLightbox+7 | — |
| 3 | Vanemar Developer of boat monitoring systems | $650K | 46 mo ago | Seed | Mehmet Yetismis Co-Founder | 2017 | — | — |
| 4 | Turksat Communication satellite operator and ICT services provider | $519K | 115 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2004 | DrupalPHPGoogle Maps+13 | — |
| 5 | Hummingdrone Technology company that provides aerial delivery solutions | $288K | 25 mo ago | Seed | Ipek Gorgec Co-Founder | 2019 | PythonUbuntuDjango+10 | — |
| 6 | ArgosAI Provider of AI-based safety & compliance management solution | $59K | 98 mo ago | Seed | Merih Karadeniz Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+13 | — |
| 7 | IWRobotx Limited information available | — | 85 mo ago | Funding Raised | Nishantha Ruwan Co-Founder | 2018 | — | — |
| 8 | Aeris Urban Air Mobility Manufacturer of electric e-VTOL aircraft | — | — | Unfunded | Yasin Gorgun Co-Founder | 2022 | — | — |
Top 7 Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Turkey
#1
Seed · Istanbul, Istanbul · founded 2019$288.3Kraised▾
Technology company that provides aerial delivery solutions. It offers inspection solutions using AI technology.
- Jun 2024Seed—
- Nov 2023Seed—
- Jun 2020Grant (prize money)$288.3K
#2
Seed · Middletown, Konya · founded 2017 · 14 employees$650Kraised▾
Provider of a wireless sensor designed to monitor and protect the boat. The company's devices are wireless network systems that have inbuilt sensors capable of monitoring environmental conditions and building systems' performance which include detecting high water alerts, low battery alerts, smoke detection, and geo-fence, enabling boat owners to stay informed about their water level in bilges, unauthorized entry, battery voltage of boats even while staying away from boats.
#3
Seed · Ankara, Ankara · founded 2018 · 7 employees$1Mraised▾
Provider of eVTOL and rotary-wing UAVs. It designs and manufactures eVTOL and rotary-wing UAVs for applications including aerial photography, surveillance, industrial inspection, logistics, and search-and-rescue missions.
- Aug 2021Seed$1M
#4
Funding Raised · Istanbul, Istanbul · founded 2010$2.8Mraised▾
Provider of software solutions for maritime and shipbuilding solutions. It provides usesr with a platform that offer research and development services and technology solutions for the maritime sector. It also provides users with cloud based vessel allocation DSS for vessel chartering.
- May 2017Grant (prize money)$1.4M
- Jun 2015Grant (prize money)$1.4M
#5
Funding Raised · Ankara, Ankara · founded 2004 · 1059 employees$518.8Kraised▾
Turksat satellite communication is a satellite operator company in Turkey which manages and operates four satellites (Turksat 2A, Turksat 3A, Turksat 4A, Turksat 4B) and delivers all types of satellite communications through Turksat and other collaborating satellites. Tuksat also establishes, operates and manages e-Government services in Turkey. The company offers voice, data, Internet, television, and radio broadcasting services. It also provides satellite, cable, and information and communication technology services.
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$180K
- Sep 2015Grant (prize money)$338.8K
#6
Seed · Cankaya, Ankara · founded 2015 · 28 employees$59.1Kraised▾
Provider of AI-based safety & compliance management solution for the airline industry. It offers automatic FOD (Foreign Object Debris) detection to track the smallest objects in any weather condition in an airport, analytic tools for complete management of the runways & more. It also offers pattern recognition, image segmentation, robot vision & more.
- May 2018Seed—
- Aug 2017Grant (prize money)$59.1K
#7
Funding Raised · Gebze, Kocaeli · founded 2018 · 12 employees—raised▾
Limited information available
- Jul 2019Grant (prize money)—
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech coverage by sub-theme.
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Funding & growth over time
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How research on Launch Vehicles is moving in Turkey
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 25 Turkey-affiliated papers.
- Istanbul Technical University6
- Koç University6
- Boğaziçi University3
- Aselsan3
- Middle East Technical University2
- Rocket engine1
- Aerospace engineering1
- Rocket (weapon)1
- Sounding rocket1
- Genetic algorithm1
- Rocket (weapon)1→6
- Aerospace engineering3→4
- Rocket (weapon)2
- Propellant1
- Aerospace engineering1
- Lift (data mining)1
- MATLAB1
Where launch vehicles is researched across Turkey
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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