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Top Industrials Startups in 2026

Industrial automation, supply chain, and traditional-industry-meets-tech startups

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2026-07-17

The Industrials category collects 89 tech startups indexed on techstartupslist.com. Industrial automation, supply chain, and traditional-industry-meets-tech startups. Notable companies in this space include 1849 bio, 9 Mothers, AICE, AICE Power, and Airhart Aeronautics — each profile links to the company's own site, lists open roles when their careers page is scrapable, and surfaces team size, founding year, and category tags. Common themes across these Industrials startups: Hard Tech, Aerospace, Hardware, Satellites, Climate. Filtering by any of these tags in the directory narrows the list further. Geographically, the Industrials index leans toward San Francisco, Los Angeles and Unspecified, with the rest spread across remote-first teams and other hubs. Many of these companies came in through the Y Combinator scrape (batches F24, F25, S16, S17); and the index refreshes daily so this page stays current as funding rounds close, jobs open, and new entrants ship. For a broader view, see the full directory or jump to Industrials jobs to apply directly — every outbound link goes to the company's own site, not a paywalled middleman.

Engineering microbes for miners to unlock billions in trapped metal

Hard TechSynthetic BiologyBiotech

Counter Drone Systems. $1.6m sales. We delivered for the DoW.

Hard TechHardwareGovTech

Submarine drones for defense

HardwareSwarm AIRobotics

Submarine drones for defense

HardwareSwarm AIRobotics

Airhart Aeronautics

Airplanes anyone can fly

AirplanesAerospace

We make satellites to image everywhere on Earth, every 15 minutes

Hard TechSatellites

Drone submarines

DronesMaritimeDefense

Full-stack VLEO satellite missions

Hard TechSatellitesClimate

24/7 satellite connectivity in low Earth orbit

ApolloShield is a system that detects unwanted drones and drives them…

ARC Prize Foundation

AI benchmarks that measure general intelligence and inspire new ideas

Ares Industries

Building low-cost cruise missiles

AerospaceIndustrial

Arlo Industries

Track drones and missiles without radars - Accurate, Passive, Scalable

Hard TechHardwareDefense

We're building satellites to create a real-time 3D map of the world.

Advanced satellites for high orbits.

Space ExplorationSatellites

Astro Mechanica

Supersonics for the new Jet Age

AxionOrbital Space

Foundation models for 24/7 Earth Observation

Constellations as a Service

AerospaceEnterprise SoftwareAutomation

First electric business aircraft designed for hydrogen propulsion

Hydrogen EnergyAirplanesEnergy

Beyond Reach Labs

Space solar arrays that grow to the size of a football field in orbit

Economically and environmentally sustainable supersonic travel

TransportationAerospace

The highest-accuracy global weather data from low-cost flat satellites

Hard TechSpace ExplorationSatellites

Commercial alternative to the Deep Space Network

Hard TechHardwareSaaS

AI native radars for self-driving cars

AI to monitor thousands of security cameras.

Control and Monitoring of Industrial Operations

Workflow AutomationMonitoringIndustrial

Cosmic Robotics

Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond

Hard TechRoboticsConstruction

Tankless Dive Gear - Breath Autonomy at Sea, Land & Space

Satellites for Manufacturing in Space

Earendil Robotics

Drone swarm defence at a small-unit level

DronesSwarm RoboticsAR

Unified flight software and hardware for the mission of tomorrow

Hard TechDronesSatellites

AI for air traffic control

Multicolor lasers for ultrafast data transmission

Hard TechHardware

Last-mile delivery for satellites.

Commercial Space LaunchHard TechSpace Exploration

The GD&T Analysis Platform for Engineering Drawings

HardwareB2BIndustrial

We build advanced satcom user terminals

SatellitesTelecommunications

Making all ships robots.

Foundation Industries

We supply hard tech companies with critical components.

ManufacturingIndustrial

Galactic Resource Utilization Space, Inc. (GRU Space)

Moon Hotel -> The Intergalactic Construction Company of Earth

General Astronautics

Robotics for Space R&D

General Aviation

Fix ATC by connecting aircraft to the internet

Hard TechSatellitesTransportation

Greypoint Industries

Manufacturing the future of autonomous swarm warfare.

HardwareRoboticsDrones

Vertical AI for highly-regulated manufacturing

SaaSManufacturingAerospace

H3X Technologies

The lightest electric aircraft motors in the world.

AirplanesClimateElectric Vehicles

Heart Aerospace

Heart makes electric airplanes with an all-electric range of 250 miles

ClimateElectric VehiclesAerospace

We visually monitor space objects for governments and defense

Space ExplorationAerospaceDefense

Hermes Robotics

Autonomous street sweeping as a service by retro-fitting vehicles

Autonomous TruckingHard TechRobotics

US-Made Parts for Robots

Rocket cargo delivery to contested environments

Hard TechDronesRocketry

Bluetooth to Space

Developer ToolsHard TechHardware

Stratospheric birds for defense

HardwareAerospace

Building lunar landers

Hard TechSpace Exploration

Inversion Space

Turning space into a transportation layer for Earth

Hard TechHardwareTransportation

JetPack Aviation

Flying motorcycles

Air TaxisDronesAirplanes

Maquoketa Research

The intelligence layer for drones

Hard TechHardwareDrones

Mineflow predicts the shape and location of mineral deposits

The space infrastructure services company

Commercial Space LaunchSolar PowerSpace Exploration

End-to-end Simulation for Defense Autonomy

RoboticsAerospace

Vertical takeoff and landing aircraft for major airlines

Hard TechAirplanesClimate

Orbital Operations

High Thrust Space Vehicles for Satellite Defense

Origami Robotics

Manipulate Anything Robot

Building Mission Critical Software Defined Radio products.

HardwareIoTTelecommunications

Perseus Defense

America's Golden Dome for Drones

Turns every company into a data vendor

Hard TechReinforcement LearningRobotic Process Automation

Prime Lightworks

Prime Lightworks Inc. manufactures electric propulsion systems for…

B2B Marketplace for Steel Raw Materials

MarketplaceB2BManufacturing

Autonomous electric airplanes

AirplanesClimateAgriculture

Building persistent, high-performance infrastructure in the sky

DronesSatellitesAerospace

Reusable Satellites

Hard TechManufacturingAerospace

All-electric seagliders for fast, affordable regional transportation

ClimateElectric VehiclesAerospace

Relativity Space

Building humanity’s multiplanetary future.

Machine LearningSpace ExplorationRocketry

Seaflight Technologies

We make the world's most efficient aircraft

RoboticsAirplanesLogistics

In-Space Refueling

Hard TechRoboticsSpace Exploration

spotLESS Materials

Repellent coatings without PFAS

Hard TechNanotechnologyAdvanced Materials

Next-Generation Power Electronics

HardwareElectric VehiclesElectronics

Seamless mobility to, through, and from space. It starts with 100%…

Space ExplorationSatellites

Stralis Aircraft

Emission free hydrogen electric aircraft

Hard TechHydrogen EnergyAirplanes

Surtr Defense Systems

The hardware-agnostic operating system for drone defense

Computer Vision

Sygaldry Technologies

quantum-accelerated AI servers

Long range, battery electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.

Air TaxisAirplanesLogistics

Tenet Industries

Low-cost, mass-producible defense systems

HardwareManufacturingDefense

Tesseract builds better thrusters for modern satellites

Space ExplorationSatellitesRocketry

TransAstra Corporation

Orbital logistics: Unleashing space industry, from Earth to asteroids

Space Exploration

Moving Things Around in Space, Imaging Space Objects When We're Not

Space ExplorationSatellites

Hypersonic space plane that can take-off from any location and weather

Commercial Space LaunchHardwareDrones

AI Workforce for Distributors and Manufacturers

Satellites for Missile Defense

Hard TechSatellitesRocketry

Wright Electric

Boeing for electric planes

AirplanesClimate

High-res hyperspectral pictures of Earth from space

Hard TechSatellitesClimate

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Frequently asked questions

What are the top Industrials startups in 2026?

Based on our index, 1849 bio, 9 Mothers and AICE are among the leading Industrials startups tracked on techstartupslist.com. The full list ranks 89 companies in this category.

How many Industrials startups are in the techstartupslist.com directory?

We currently index 89 Industrials startups. New entries are added automatically as they are discovered from Y Combinator, Greenhouse, Ashby, and other sources.

How often is the Industrials category updated?

The Industrials listing is refreshed daily by an automated scraper that pulls from Y Combinator and other public sources. The last index update for this page was 2026-07-17.

Where can I find jobs at Industrials startups?

Open roles at indexed Industrials startups are aggregated on our jobs page at https://www.techstartupslist.com/jobs. Each role links directly to the company's official application page — we don't act as a middleman.

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