SpaceX

Aerospace / Defence · Hawthorne, United States · #85 globally

0.60%
Spawner rate
65
Funded founders
10,843
Alumni tracked
$4.5B
Capital raised by spawns

Founder DNA

Sectors spawned founders go on to build in

Over-indexed on Aerospace / Defence. Founders spawned from SpaceX pick it 33.5× more often than the global founder population.

Aerospace / Defence
33.5×
Mobility / Transport
6.9×
Energy / Climate Tech
3.5×
Manufacturing / Industrial
3.0×
Hardware / Semiconductors
2.8×
Cybersecurity
1.5×
Enterprise Software
0.7×
AI / Machine Learning
0.3×

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The SpaceX network

Where the founders came from, when spawns were founded, and how much they have raised since

20172018201920202021202220232024SpaceXHadrian$609MLong Wall$509MCastelion$474MAdvanced Manufacturing …$377MXona$331MReliable Robotics Corpo…$294MStarcloud$216MRevel$180MArc Boat Company$158MFounded → ( larger = more raised since )

Spawned companies

CompanyFounders from SpaceXRaised
Hadrian
Thomas Cobbs
$609M
Long Wall
Harry O'Hanley(2017)
$509M
Castelion
Andrew Kreitz(2022)Bryon Hargis(2022)Sean Pitt(2022)
$474M
Advanced Manufacturing Company of America
Eli Giovanetti(2024)
$377M
Xona
Brian Manning(2018)
$331M
Reliable Robotics Corporation
Juerg Frefel(2017)
$294M
Starcloud
Adi Oltean(2024)
$216M
Revel
Scott Morton(2024)
$180M
Arc Boat Company
Ryan Cook(2021)
$158M
Antares
Julia DeWahl(2022)
$134M
Turion Space
Ryan W(2021)
$128M
Freeform
Erik Palitsch(2018)
$126M
Gradial
Deip Kumar(2023)Doug Tallmadge(2023)Douglas Tallmadge(2023)
$118M
Parallel
Benjamin Stabler(2020)John Howard(2020)Matt Soule(2019)
$92M
Endurance Energy
Andrew Redd(2025)
$79M
Arbor Energy
Brad Hartwig(2018)
$69M
Sift
Karthik Gollapudi(2022)
$67M
Mesh Optical Technologies
Cameron Ramos(2024)Serena G(2024)Travis Brashears(2025)
$50M
CX2
Lee T(2024)
$46M
AnySignal
John Malsbury(2022)
$46M
Vital Lyfe
Andrew Harner(2021)Jon C(2024)
$42M
Senra Systems
Benjamin Shanahan(2023)Jordan Black(2023)
$42M
Planted
Richard Erb(2020)
$34M
Electric Era
Quincy Edmund Lee(2020)
$33M
Plantd
Huade Tan(2019)Nathan Silvernail(2021)
$32M