Top 13 Space startups in Los Angeles

Oct 04, 2025
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1
Apex Space
Funding: $522M
Apex manufactures smallsat buses for commercial and government customers.
2
Inversion Space
Funding: $54.1M
Inversion builds space capsules to return cargo back to Earth for the commercial, civil, and defense industries.
3
Outpost
Funding: $32.5M
Outpost is a space company that provides earth return satellites and orbital payload missions.
4
Outpost Space
Funding: $32.5M
Outpost is a space company that provides earth return satellites and orbital payload missions.
5
Morpheus Space
Funding: $29.6M
Morpheus Space is an aerospace company that produces a modular and electric propulsion system for the small satellite industry.
6
Starpath
Funding: $12M
Starpath Robotics builds spacecraft propellant that reduces the deep space transport cost.
7
Proteus Space
Funding: $10.8M
Proteus Space develops technology for rapid satellite design and manufacturing.
8
Auriga Space
Funding: $9.6M
Next-generation electromagnetic propulsion for hypersonics, space and defense
9
TransAstra
Funding: $7M
TransAstra is a space logistics startup, that solves space debris problem and develops a technology to find, prospect, harvest and use space resources.
10
Array Labs
Funding: $5.6M
Array Labs is a technology company that creates high-quality 3D imagery that is used to better understand the world.
Editor: Boris Maslennikov
Boris Maslennikov is a senior editor for Space-Startups. He has spent more than a decade covering the global space industry as a business journalist. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science from the California Institute of Technology. In his free time, Boris enjoys studying history and mathematics, with a particular interest in the history of mathematics. You can contact Boris at borismaslenikov(at)space-startups(dot)com