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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
Internest
Founder Hadrien Busieau, Nicolas Sczaniecki
Category Aviation
Location Paris, France
Product

Internest develops an embedded positioning system for drones and helicopters that use technological redundancy and dissimilitary to ensure the architecture is robust & resilient.

The solution is based on ultrasound and uses patented sensor fusion techniques and guidance algorithms. Both the sensors and calculators are redundant to ensure reliability at all times.

It allows for landing accurately on any kind of platform (even moving), in any environment (both indoor and outdoor), and in any conditions (night, fog, etc.) with centimetric accuracy.

Prime Lightworks
Founder Kyle Flanagan
Category Propellant-less electric propulsion for satellites
Location Culver City, CA
Product

Prime Lightworks is developing a RF resonant cavity thruster for satellite propulsion that could replace satellite propellant mass and conventional satellite propulsion systems. Prime Lightworks fully electric propulsion systems would increase satellite payload mass and orbital velocities, while lowering fuel emissions and launch costs to orbit. Satellites’ lifetime would be increased by making it only limited by their components failure, and not anymore by propellant capacity.

Natilus
Founder Aleksey Matyushev, Anatoly Starikov, LZ Zhang
Category
Location Richmond, CA
Product

Natilus is building and operating an amphibious freight drone capable of transporting goods worldwide at 50% the cost of traditional air-shipping methods. The Natilus amphibious drone has a blended wing body capable of carrying up to 100 tons and operates routes up to 30 hours at just below transonic speeds. Natilus is fully autonomous and doesn’t require a cockpit or heavy and complex life control systems such as pressurization and emergency escape routes. These simplifications reduce estimated manufacturing costs from $250MM for a Boeing 777 down to $50MM for a Natilus.

Deepwave Digital
Founder John Ferguson
Category Enabling technologies
Location Philadelphia, PA
Product

Deepwave has developed the Artificial Intelligence Radio Transceiver (AIR-T), a software defined radio with three signal processors including an embedded NVIDIA GPU, a field programmable gate array (FPGA), and dual embedded CPUs. The incorporation of a GPU in the RF system allows for wideband processing of deep learning in a deployed environment.

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