Top 14 Space startups in Los Angeles

Jun 10, 2026
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Apex Space
Funding: $722M
Apex develops small satellite platforms for commercial and government customers. Its productized bus platform improves reliability, reduces costs and accelerates manufacturing at constellation scale, while built-in customization allows you to easily adapt an existing platform to your mission's specific requirements. The company also provides comprehensive space mission management services, from spacecraft analysis to payload integration and on-orbit commissioning.
2
Inversion Space
Funding: $54.1M
Inversion builds space capsules to return cargo back to Earth for the commercial, civil, and defense industries.
3
Morpheus Space
Funding: $44.6M
Morpheus Space is an aerospace company that produces a modular and electric propulsion system for the small satellite industry.
4
Outpost
Funding: $32.5M
Outpost is a space company that provides earth return satellites and orbital payload missions.
5
Outpost Space
Funding: $32.5M
Outpost is a space company that provides earth return satellites and orbital payload missions.
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