OUR
PORTFOLIO

Starburst invests in the best of the best, companies with transformative technology, a strong team, commercial application, and fast growth. Our companies are reinventing the aerospace industry and impacting the way we live.

Our portfolio is made up of a diverse mix of more than 150 startup companies from 20 accelerator programs. We back technology startups developing new sustainable aircraft, spacecraft, satellites, drones, sensors, autonomy, robotics, climate technology, space health-technology, and much more.

150
Startups
12
Countries
3
Continents
Paladin AI
Founder Adolfo Klassen, Mikhail Klassen
Category Data-driven adaptive pilot training using AI
Location Montreal, Canada
Product

Paladin AI uses artificial intelligence to develop competency-based training systems for aviation. Their cloud-hosted analytics platform, InstructIQTM, allows training providers to access
insights into their trainee’s development and increase the effectiveness of their curricula. Paladin AI integrates with existing training devices (flight simulators) to combine millions of data points and use machine learning algorithms to extract competency metrics, predict future trainee aptitudes, and optimize training delivery.

Cluster
Founder Kim Taylor
Category Aerospace engineering
Location Los Angeles, CA
Product

The Cluster platform allows users to build a personalized employee profile that prioritizes skill verification rather than resumes and cover letters. After employees set their work preferences,
Cluster presents their profile directly to the hiring team that best matches the candidate. Cluster is a marketplace for matching Industry 4.0 skills to jobs and training at aviation, aerospace, defense and automotive companies.

ZeroAvia
Founder Valery Miftakhov
Category Aviation
Location Hollister, CA
Product

ZeroAvia develops a hydrogen-electric aircraft propulsion system that is zero-emission and slashes operational costs common to traditional combustion engines by reducing fuel expenses and costly maintenance. ZeroAvia converts clean hydrogen produced through electrolysis and renewable energy to electricity using best-in-class fuel cells.

Delfox
Founder Maxime Rey, Alice Memang
Category Defense
Location Mérignac, France
Product

Delfox combines symbolic AI and reinforcement learning to obtain non-deterministic systems for mobile and autonomous systems (drones, road vehicles etc.), industrial systems (robotic arms, production chains etc.), and virtual training systems/simulation environments. Delfox is developing AI algorithms for trajectory analysis & prediction and flying object identification and has created a product that can observe space from Earth, detect satellites visually or debris through their light signature and identify their trajectory from Earth with optical sensing.

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