The most prominent air transportation companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 15,828 companies tracked on Fsome.
| # | Company | Location | Employees | Total Funding | Last Round | Last Funded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Firefly Aerospace
Firefly Aerospace is a space company that develops and operates launch vehicles,…
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Cedar Park | — | $796.6M | Corporate Round | 2025-05-29 |
| 2 |
JetZero
JetZero is an aerospace startup developing all-wing aircraft to cut fuel use and…
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Long Beach | 251 - 500 | $436.4M | Series B | 2026-01-13 |
| 3 |
Archer
Archer is an aerospace company that developed an electric vertical takeoff and l…
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San Francisco | 501 - 1K | $3.5B | Post Ipo Equity | 2025-11-06 |
| 4 |
Eve Air Mobility
Eve Air Mobility develops air mobility solutions to advance the urban air mobili…
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Fort Lauderdale | 101 - 250 | $941.4M | Post Ipo Debt | 2026-01-20 |
| 5 |
Vertical Aerospace
Vertical Aerospace is an aerospace manufacturer, specializing in electric aviati…
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Bristol | 251 - 500 | $595.2M | Grant | 2026-02-03 |
| 6 |
ZeroAvia
ZeroAvia develops hydrogen-electric powertrains for zero-emission aviation solut…
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Hollister | 251 - 500 | $306.0M | Series Unknown | 2025-12-22 |
| 7 |
Beta Technologies
Beta Technologies builds electric VTOL and CTOL aircraft, charging systems, and …
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South Burlington | 501 - 1K | $2.0B | Post Ipo Secondary | 2026-02-10 |
| 8 |
XTI Aerospace
XTI Aerospace specializes in aircraft technology and development of vertical-lif…
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Englewood | 11 - 50 | $140.0M | Post Ipo Debt | 2026-02-11 |
| 9 |
Joby Aviation
Joby Aviation is an aerospace transportation company developing electric aircraf…
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Santa Cruz | 1K - 5K | $4.2B | Post Ipo Debt | 2026-01-29 |
| 10 |
Riyadh Air
Riyadh Air is the cutting edge of digital aviation.
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Riyadh | 501 - 1K | $1.3B | Debt Financing | 2024-10-31 |
| 11 |
flynas
Flynas is an airline that offers a network of domestic and international flights…
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Ar Riyadh | 1K - 5K | $266.3M | Post Ipo Debt | 2025-08-28 |
| 12 |
Avelo Airlines
Avelo Airlines is an aviation company that offers an affordable, convenient, and…
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Houston | 1K - 5K | $175.2M | Series Unknown | 2025-01-16 |
| 13 |
Pyka
Pyka is a robotics company on a mission to build the most useful autonomous airc…
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Alameda | 101 - 250 | $88.1M | Series B | 2024-09-23 |
| 14 |
Strickland Brothers 10 Minute Oil Change
Strickland Brothers provide a friendly oil change, tire rotations, vehicle inspe…
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Thomasville | 101 - 250 | $360.0M | Debt Financing | 2026-01-22 |
| 15 |
Virgin Atlantic Airways
Virgin Atlantic Airways is a British airline that serves different destinations …
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Crawley | 5K - 10K | $2.4B | Debt Financing | 2025-11-13 |
| 16 |
Fetcherr
Fetcherr uses AI to revolutionize airline revenue management with real-time dyna…
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Netanya | 101 - 250 | $156.5M | Series C | 2025-09-25 |
| 17 |
Akasa Air
Akasa Air is an airline that offers online flight booking and customer care supp…
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Mumbai | 1K - 5K | $160.0M | Series Unknown | 2025-02-06 |
| 18 |
Electra.aero
Electra develops hybrid-electric aircraft for sustainable urban and regional air…
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Falls Church | 51 - 100 | $115.0M | Series B | 2025-04-21 |
| 19 |
Breeze Airways
Breeze Airways is a new airline that builds something brand new and really speci…
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Salt Lake City | 1K - 5K | $334.8M | Debt Financing | 2025-10-14 |
| 20 |
Boom Supersonic
Boom Supersonic is a commercial airplane manufacturer that builds supersonic air…
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Centennial | 101 - 250 | $732.5M | Series B | 2025-12-09 |
| 21 |
Air India
Air India is an airline company that offers domestic and international passenger…
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Mumbai | c 10001 max | $1.4B | Debt Financing | 2025-09-29 |
| 22 |
Skyryse
Skyryse is a manufacturing firm that offers aerospace hardware and software oper…
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El Segundo | 101 - 250 | $533.5M | Series C | 2026-02-03 |
| 23 |
The Exploration Company
The Exploration Company develops, manufactures and operates modular and reusable…
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Munich | 251 - 500 | $209.9M | Series B | 2024-11-17 |
| 24 |
Volato
Volato is an aviation company offering solutions for luxury private jet travel.
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Atlanta | 251 - 500 | $24.2M | Series Unknown | 2023-03-27 |
| 25 |
LanzaJet
LanzaJet is a provider and producer of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) technolog…
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Illinois City | 101 - 250 | $311.5M | Corporate Round | 2026-02-19 |
| 26 |
Assaia
We apply AI to enable time-efficient and affordable air travel over the decades …
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Z├╝rich | 11 - 50 | $26.6M | Series B | 2025-12-09 |
| 27 |
Fortem Technologies
Fortem Technologies is a privately held, venture backed company that delivers ul…
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Pleasant Grove | 101 - 250 | $49.7M | Series Unknown | 2024-11-13 |
| 28 |
Norse Atlantic Airways
Norse Atlantic Airways offers low-cost transatlantic flights to various destinat…
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Arendal | 1K - 5K | $111.7M | Post Ipo Equity | 2025-10-27 |
| 29 |
Beyond Aero
Aviation will be electric. Unlocking full potential with hydrogen.
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Toulouse | 11 - 50 | $20.0M | Series A | 2024-10-25 |
| 30 |
Indigo
IndiGo is India’s largest passenger airline with a market share of 48.9% as of M…
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Haryana | c 10001 max | $3.0B | Post Ipo Debt | 2025-10-27 |
| 31 |
Reliable Robotics Corporation
Expanding access to more places with automated aviation
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Mountain View | 101 - 250 | $133.5M | Series D | 2026-03-02 |
| 32 |
Merlin Labs
Merlin Labs develops hardware and software solutions that deliver the capability…
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Boston | 101 - 250 | $333.5M | Post Ipo Equity | 2026-03-17 |
| 33 |
LAT Aerospace
LAT Aerospace operates as an aerospace startup.
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Delhi | 1 - 10 | $20.0M | Angel | 2025-03-12 |
| 34 |
Mumbai International Airport
Mumbai International Airport is an aviation gateway that manages both domestic a…
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Mumbai | 1K - 5K | $750.0M | Debt Financing | 2025-06-23 |
| 35 |
Lilium
Lilium is an aircraft company that is developing an electrically powered aircraf…
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Gauting | 501 - 1K | $1.4B | Post Ipo Equity | 2024-05-24 |
| 36 |
Agile Space Industries
Agile Space Industries is an aviation and aerospace that specializes in propulsi…
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Durango | 51 - 100 | $39.7M | Series Unknown | 2026-01-02 |
| 37 |
Wingcopter
Wingcopter is a manufacturer of unmanned eVTOL fixed-wing aircrafts for commerci…
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Weiterstadt | 101 - 250 | $119.6M | Secondary Market | 2025-06-26 |
| 38 |
Terra Drone
Terra Drone is a drone and software manufacturer that offers civil engineering, …
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Tokyo | 501 - 1K | $94.2M | Series C | 2023-01-24 |
| 39 |
Qatar Airways
Qatar Airways is Qatar's national airline that offers top comfort, fine cuisine,…
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Doha | c 10001 max | $1.2B | Debt Financing | 2025-06-04 |
| 40 |
Sky Harbour
Sky Harbour is an aviation infrastructure development company building the netwo…
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White Plains | 11 - 50 | $487.6M | Post Ipo Debt | 2026-01-29 |
| 41 |
Sarla Aviation
Sarla Aviation creates electric vertical take-off and landing eVTOL aircraft.
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Bengaluru | 51 - 100 | $10.0M | Series A | 2025-01-14 |
| 42 |
Hermeus
Hermeus is developing Mach 5 aircraft to speed up the global transportation netw…
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Atlanta | 101 - 250 | $216.0M | Debt Financing | 2026-04-07 |
| 43 |
Pacifico Energy
Energy Infrastructure & Prime Generation Developer
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San Juan Capistrano | 11 - 50 | $121.6M | Debt Financing | 2026-01-09 |
| 44 |
Daedalean
Daedalean is building autonomous piloting software systems for civil aircraft of…
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Z├╝rich | 101 - 250 | $72.5M | Grant | 2023-04-28 |
| 45 |
Flexjet
Flexjet is a private jet company that provides fractional jet ownership, leasing…
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Cleveland | 1K - 5K | $800.0M | Private Equity | 2025-07-21 |
| 46 |
Odys Aviation
Odys Aviation is an aircraft startup making hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and…
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Long Beach | 11 - 50 | $41.9M | Series A | 2025-10-09 |
| 47 |
Grid Aero
Grid Aero builds autonomous aircraft for long-range operations, supporting distr…
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Palo Alto | 11 - 50 | $31.6M | Seed | 2025-08-18 |
| 48 |
Ontario International Airport Authority
Ontario International Airport Authority is a full-service airport with nonstop s…
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Ontario | 101 - 250 | $32.7M | Grant | 2025-09-29 |
| 49 |
Surf Air
Surf Air is a membership airline that offers first-class travel on executive air…
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Hawthorne | 501 - 1K | $726.6M | Post Ipo Equity | 2025-08-12 |
| 50 |
Bangalore International Airport
Bangalore International Airport Limited operates in the transportation industry.
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Devanhalli | 1K - 5K | $1.7B | Debt Financing | 2025-08-01 |