Best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech Companies in Victoria, Australia
The 43 best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Victoria, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Elenium.
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 Victoria
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elenium Provider of a web-based passenger management solution for the airline industry | $52M | 56 mo ago | Series B | Heinz Corona Co-Founder | 2004 | WordPressMySQLPHP+13 | — |
| 2 | Swoop Aero Provider of airborne ambulatory and logistics services | $26M | 44 mo ago | Series B | — | 2017 | — | — |
| 3 | Amaero Online on demand metal manufacturing and 3d printing solutions | $9M | 68 mo ago | Public | — | 2013 | SentryTypeScriptGraphQL+12 | — |
| 4 | Equatorial Launch Australia Operator of spaceport providing infrastructure and launch services for rockets | $5M | 58 mo ago | Series A | Michael Jones Group Chief Executive Officer | 2015 | Framer SitesReactCloudflare+12 | — |
| 5 | Kite Magnetics Manufacturer of electric propulsion for aircraft | $2M | 15 mo ago | Seed | — | 2021 | — | — |
| 6 | Esper Satellite Imagery Provider of hyperspectral imagery for Earth observation across multiple industries | $1M | 17 mo ago | Seed | Przemyslaw Lorenczak Co-Founder & CTO | 2019 | Framer SitesReactPriority Hints+5 | 1 partnership |
| 7 | Drone Platform offering drone solutions 11Talent bottom 49%Tech bottom 43%Funding bottom 40%Market bottom 25% All 5 signals ▾Talentbottom 49% Techbottom 43% Fundingbottom 40% Marketbottom 25% Globalbottom 25% Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated Tech: 20 technologies across 3/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 11/100 | $720K | 9 mo ago | Seed | Edward Barraclough Founder/CEO | 2023 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+17 | — |
| 8 | Element Robotics Developer of robotic platforms and software for space exploration missions | $160K | 18 mo ago | Funding Raised | Saksham Khurana Co-Founder | 2021 | — | — |
| 9 | RightShip Provider of maritime risk management, safety, sustainability, and social responsibility solutions | — | 11 mo ago | Series A | Steen Lund CEO | 2001 | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+22 | 1 partnership · 1 award |
Top 11 Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech companies in Victoria
#1
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2023$720Kraised▾
Platform offering drone solutions. It offers an autonomous drone solution for real-time property monitoring. It is designed for livestock management and monitoring.
- Nov 2025Seed$720K
#2
Seed · Notting Hill, Victoria · founded 2021 · 11 employees$1.9Mraised▾
Manufacturer of electric propulsion for aircraft. It designs and develops electric aircraft engines for multiple models. Its propulsion systems have low noise levels and emissions.
- May 2025Seed$2.2M
- Oct 2022Seed$1.9M
#3
Seed · Mulgrave, Victoria · founded 2019 · 8 employees$1Mraised▾
Provider of hyperspectral imagery for Earth observation across multiple industries. The company delivers data with infrared coverage, offering insights for mineral exploration, land rehabilitation, and agriculture. Its sensors capture images with hundreds of colors of unseen light. This data is used to decode the surface of the planet, breaking it down to its chemical components.
- Mar 2025Seed$3.1M
- Oct 2024Seed$1M
- 2023Seed$20K
#4
Series B · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2017 · 76 employees$26Mraised▾
Provider of airborne ambulatory and logistics services. The service is meant for patients living in places where ground commuting takes a long time or is not proper. It offers multi-vertical delivery services. The company offers services to places in terrain, waterways, mountain ranges, poor infrastructure places, and places with traffic congestion.
- Dec 2022Series B$10M
- Dec 2022Grant (prize money)$1.5M
- Jun 2022Series B$16M
- Apr 2021Series A—
#5
Series B · Tullamarine, Victoria · founded 2004 · 73 employees$52.1Mraised▾
Provider of a web-based passenger management solution for the airline industry. It offers integrated hardware & software solutions to automate & streamline airport operations. The company offers kiosks & its corresponding software for airlines & airports to manage passenger processing (check-in, automated boarding pass generation, & baggage dropping) & cargo management. Clients include Cathay Pacific, Delta Airlines, Qantas, Virgin Atlantic, Bangalore International Airport, Hong Kong International Airport & more.
#6
Funding Raised · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2021$159.7Kraised▾
Developer of robotic platforms and software for space exploration missions. The company creates adaptable robot platforms designed for various tasks, including exploration, construction, and establishing a sustained presence in new environments. It also develops specialized software to address the unique challenges of space operations. This includes managing system crashes, radiation effects, communication latency, bandwidth limitations, and navigation without GPS.
- Feb 2025Grant (prize money)$159.7K
#7
Public · Notting Hill, Victoria · founded 2013 · 16 employees$9Mraised▾
Online on demand metal manufacturing and 3d printing solutions. It manufactures complex components in metal with laser-based additive manufacturing processes that also include research, design, prototyping, manufacturing, and materials. It provides solutions for contract manufacturing, designing, prototyping, material planning, tooling, engineering consultancy, and more. The offering sectors include aerospace, defense, and tooling.
- Dec 2020Post IPO$9M
- Jan 2016Grant (prize money)—
#8
Series A · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2015 · 20 employees$5Mraised▾
Operator of spaceport providing infrastructure and launch services for rockets. They offer launch complexes, logistics, and support for small to medium lift vehicles. The spaceport provides facilities for teams working onsite, including accommodation. The company aims to provide a seamless launch experience.
- Oct 2021Series A$5M
#9
Series A · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2001 · 130 employees—raised▾
Provider of maritime risk management, safety, sustainability, and social responsibility solutions. The company offers due diligence, environmental assessments, and inspection services. These services help customers manage risk and improve maritime safety standards. The platform combines industry experience, data analytics, and scoring systems. It delivers recommendations and advice through an accessible platform.
- Sep 2025Series A—
- Sep 2006Seed—
#10
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2019—raised▾
Provider of solutions for autonomous underwater vehicles. Its system uses sensors, camera technology. and machine learning for underwater inspection. Its system can be used to explore and better understand the oceans, lakes and waterways and in turn provide a wide array services to map, survey and monitor subsea environments and structures.
- Jun 2021Seed—
#11
Series A · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2015 · 23 employees—raised▾
National Drones is a provider of aerial photography and videography, and surveying, mapping and inspections services, using unmanned aerial vehicles. These services are provided to multiple industries, such as precision agriculture, mining and construction, emergency response, media, etc. National Drones uses third-party drones to offer its services. National Drone's pilots are treated as franchisees, with relatively high amounts of autonomy.
- Nov 2018Series A—
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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