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
FLITE Material Sciences
Founder Dan Cohen
Category Enabling technologies
Location Montreal, Canada
Product

FLITE’s technology offers a chemical free, waste free, and long-lasting solution for water and oil proofing surfaces. FLITE coatings improve performance and reduce manufacturing and maintenance costs. FLITE commercializes a patented surface treatment process – a portfolio of 10+ patents for treating glass, plastic, and metal surfaces with high power short burst lasers to render them superhydrophobic, hydrophilic, oleophobic or oleophilic, as well as to change the color. FLITE’s technology is valuable across a multitude of industries including aerospace, oil & gas, water, marine, food & beverage, semiconductors, and medical device manufacturers

C4 Systems
Founder Tomer Orbach
Category Defense
Location Tel Aviv, Israel
Product

C4 Systems has developed a stand-alone augmented reality system for pilots that displays real-time mission information (waypoints, targets, joint forces, hazards, streets…) on a see-through display to aid decision making, optimize fleet coordination, and increase mission efficiency. The system is composed of AR displays, ground control station, and mission computers that connect ground, aerial, and maritime forces in real time.

SeRo Systems
Founder Markus Fuchs, Matthias Schäfer
Category Aviation
Location Kaiserslautern, Germany
Product

SeRo Systems has developed an integrity monitoring system for improving both safety and security of ADS-B, aiming at providing military-grade security to civil air traffic surveillance. This is becoming particularly important as ADS-B usage is becoming mandatory throughout the world. The GRX1090 sensor developed by SeRo Systems combines the flexibility and capabilities of software-defined radios with a high-end Mode S/ADS-B sensor. It has a 600km coverage range, Hertz-precision frequency and nanosecond-precision time of arrival measurements.

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.

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