Agile Space Industries Funding, Investors & Competitors

Relativity Space is a Long Beach-headquartered aerospace manufacturer pioneering 3D-printed rockets. Founded in 2015, it builds Terran 1 and Terran R vehicles using additive manufacturing, AI, and robotics for a supply chain with 100 times fewer parts. The company assembles rockets in under 60 days at its Florida launch site for satellite constellation missions.

SWISSto12 is a Lausanne-headquartered manufacturer of 3D-printed millimeter-wave components like waveguides and antennas. Spun off from EPFL in 2017, it produces lightweight aluminum structures for satellite communications, 5G base stations, and radar systems. SWISSto12 supplies Thales and Airbus with additive-manufactured parts reducing weight by 40 percent compared to traditional machining.

SpaceX is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation company founded in 2002 by Elon Musk and incorporated in Texas, alongside launch and manufacturing sites in Hawthorne, California, Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Vandenberg Space Force Base. The company designs, builds, and operates the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets, the Dragon crew and cargo spacecraft, and the fully reusable Starship vehicle, and has accounted for the large majority of global mass launched to orbit in recent years on the strength of reusable-rocket economics and a high launch cadence. Its Starlink division operates a low-Earth-orbit satellite constellation delivering broadband internet to more than ten million subscribers across roughly 160 countries, while the Starshield program supplies satellite and connectivity services to government and defense customers. In February 2026 SpaceX combined with Musk's artificial intelligence firm xAI, the developer of the Grok chatbot, which had itself absorbed the social platform X, consolidating space, connectivity, and AI operations under common ownership. The company completed an initial public offering on June 12, 2026, one of the largest in market history, and is led by Musk as CEO.

Honeywell traces its roots to 1885 with Albert Butz’s firm, Butz Thermo-Electric Regulator, which produced a predecessor to the modern thermostat. Other inventions by Honeywell include biodegradable detergent and autopilot. Today, Honeywell is a global multi-industry behemoth with one of the largest installed bases of equipment. It operates through four business segments: aerospace technologies, industrial automation, energy and sustainability solutions, and building automation. Recently, Honeywell has made several portfolio changes to focus on fewer end markets and align with a set of secular growth trends. The firm is working diligently to expand its installed base, deriving around one third of its revenue from recurring aftermarket services.

Founded in 1982, Autodesk is a multinational software company best known for pioneering computer-aided design, or CAD, with its AutoCAD product. Nowadays, Autodesk provides design software for a variety of verticals, including architecture & construction, manufacturing, and media & entertainment. Autodesk products have been used in some of the world's most iconic landmarks, like Burj Khalifa, and well-known movie titles like Avatar.

Thales is a French aerospace and defense industrial and one of Europe’s largest defense contractors. The company has three segments: defense and security provides sensors, mission systems, communications, and control systems to European and export defense customers; aerospace sells avionics and satellites to the civil, defense, and governmental markets; and digital identity and security provides biometric, data, and identity security solutions, payments services, and the manufacturing of SIM cards.

In addition to its legacy software-defined radio franchise, L3Harris Technologies has through a series of acquisitions established franchises producing uncrewed aerial vehicles, sensors, avionics, space-based systems, missiles, and solid rocket motors. It also adapts civilian aircraft for military use and provides military and commercial training services, and maintains the US Federal Aviation Administration's communications infrastructure.

Saab supplies products and services for military, defense, and civil security. The company operates in four segments: aeronautics, dynamics, surveillance, and Kockums. Aeronautics involves the manufacturing and support of defense and commercial aerial systems. Dynamics produces combat weapons and defense training and management systems. Surveillance supplies security services, and creates traffic management technology and aviation parts. Kockums offers solutions for naval missions. Over three fourths of Saab’s sales are from the defense sector. The company sells to multiple geographic regions, but over half of its sales come from Europe.

Kongsberg Gruppen is an international technology company that supplies products and services to the defense, maritime, oil, gas, and aerospace industries. The company is divided into two business segments: the maritime segment and defense and aerospace systems. Maritime, which earns most of the firm's revenue, creates navigation, automation, monitoring, and positioning products for commercial ships and offshore industry. The defense and aerospace segment provides defense and space-related products and systems. Outside of the two main segments, the firm operates Kongsberg Digital, which produces digital solutions for oil, gas, wind, and merchant marine markets. Products are delivered globally, with North America accounting for about one third of total revenue.

Teledyne Technologies Inc provides enabling technologies to sense, analyze and distribute information for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. The firm operates in four segments: Digital Imaging, Instrumentation, Aerospace and Defense Electronics, and Engineered Systems. The Digital Imaging segment, that derives maximum revenue, includes high-performance sensors, cameras and systems, within the visible, infrared and X-ray spectra for use in industrial, government and medical applications, as well as MEMS and high-performance, high-reliability semiconductors including analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters. Geographically, the company operates in United States, Europe, Asia, and All other.

Hadrian, also known as Hadrian Automation, is a Torrance, California-based advanced manufacturing company that builds highly automated factories producing precision components and assemblies for aerospace, defense and other critical industries. Its factories combine CNC machining, robotics, skilled technicians and in-house production software to make high-tolerance metal parts for rocket, satellite, aircraft and missile programmes much faster than traditional machine shops. The company sells production capacity to defense primes, space companies and their suppliers under a factories-as-a-service model, and has added dedicated lines for naval shipbuilding through Hadrian Maritime, missile systems and unmanned aircraft. It opened its first factory in Hawthorne, California, followed by a larger site in Torrance and a 270,000-square-foot factory in Mesa, Arizona. In August 2026 Hadrian raised $1.37 billion in a Series D at a $7.87 billion valuation, anchored by JPMorganChase and co-led by WCM Investment Management, Washington Harbour Partners, Valor Equity Partners, 137 Ventures and Baillie Gifford, after earlier rounds led by Founders Fund, Lux Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and T. Rowe Price. The company was founded in 2020 by Australian entrepreneur Chris Power, who is chief executive.

Hanwha Systems Co Ltd is a South Korean-based company engaged in the areas of avionics and space, security and safety, and information systems services. The company operates through three segments: Defense, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), and Other. The Defense segment focuses on the manufacturing and sales of military equipment. The ICT segment provides services such as IT outsourcing. The Other segment includes manufacturing activities, new business engineering, data processing, and applied software services. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Defense segment.

Xometry Inc is engaged in providing AI-enabled manufacturing equipment. Its buyers include engineers, product designers, procurement and supply chain personnel, inventors, and business owners. The manufacturing processes offered by the company include CNC Machining, Injection Molding, Urethane Casting, 3D Printing, and Die Casting. The company is organized into two segments referred to as the U.S. and the International. The majority of its revenue is derived from the U.S. segment.

Nanchang Sanrui Intelligence Technology Co Ltd is engaged in the research, development, production and sales of electric power systems for unmanned aerial vehicles and power systems for robots. The company develops and manufactures electric propulsion systems for applications such as drones and robotics. Its portfolio includes several brands, including LIGPOWER, T-Hobby, CubeMars, SUPER-E, and MEPSKING.

Avic Aviation High-Technology Co Ltd is mainly engaged in the research and development of new aviation materials and the development and manufacture of high-end intelligent equipment in China.

Mach Industries is a defense manufacturer founded in 2023 and headquartered in Huntington Beach, California. The company develops advanced unmanned systems, weapons, propulsion technology and the manufacturing infrastructure needed to produce them at scale. Its programs include aircraft and other autonomous platforms designed for military missions in contested environments. Mach vertically integrates guidance, control, airframes, propulsion and energetics to shorten development cycles and reduce dependence on constrained suppliers. Its customers are the United States military, allied defense organizations and other national-security buyers. The company earns revenue through the development, manufacture and delivery of defense systems, components and related production capabilities. Mach acquired Exquadrum in May 2026 and integrated its solid-rocket-motor, munitions, testing and technical-services operations as Mach Energetics.

QinetiQ Group PLC is a company operating in the aerospace, defense, and security sectors. Its operating segments are EMEA Services, and Global Solutions. It generates majority of revenue from EMES Services. EMEA Services provides technical assurance, test and evaluation and training services, underpinned by long-term contracts. EMEA Services comprises business units which are not considered reportable segments as defined UK Defence, UK Intelligence and the Australia sector. Global Solutions combines all other business units not aggregated within EMEA Services. It has presence in United Kingdom (UK), United States of America, Australia, Home countries, Europe, and Rest of world of which majority of revenue comes from Home countries.

OSI Systems Inc is a designer and manufacturer of electronic systems and components for businesses in the homeland security, healthcare, defense, and aerospace markets. The firm is organized in three business segments: Security, which derives maximum revenue, provides security and inspection systems; Healthcare, which provides patient monitoring, diagnostic, cardiology, ventilation systems, and defibrillators; and Optoelectronics and Manufacturing, which provides specialized electronic components and manufacturing services for the Security and Healthcare segments and external original equipment manufacturers. The majority of the firm's revenue is generated in the United States, and the rest from Mexico, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and the Asia Pacific regions.