Advanced Manufacturing
Advanced-manufacturing and hardware startups, often adjacent to aerospace and defense.
Organizations
Accelerate Brevard: Chamber of Innovation
Brevard County's chamber of innovation supporting the Space Coast business, tech, and startup community.
Actuate Ventures
Deep-tech and space-tech venture firm and venture studio backing early-stage founders.
Charlotte County Economic Development
The economic development office for Charlotte County, promoting business growth around Punta Gorda, Port Charlotte, and the airport.
Economic Development Commission of Florida's Space Coast
The official economic development organization for Brevard County, Florida's Space Coast.
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship
The joint FAMU-FSU College of Engineering program promoting technology entrepreneurship and commercialization of engineering research.
Florida Institute of Technology
A STEM research university on the Space Coast.
Florida Polytechnic University
STEM university
FloridaWest Economic Development Alliance
Greater Pensacola's economic development organization, with a stated focus on cyber, defense, and advanced manufacturing.
FSU Office of Commercialization
Florida State University's technology transfer and commercialization office that licenses FSU research to startups and industry.
Groundswell Startups
Nonprofit high-tech incubator and coworking space for Space Coast founders in Melbourne.
Innovation Park of Tallahassee
A research and development park near FSU, FAMU, and TCC that supports research commercialization and startups in Tallahassee.
Jacksonville Innovation Hub
A coworking and maker space giving Jacksonville founders workspace, fabrication labs, mentorship, and an in-house accelerator.
JAXUSA Partnership
Northeast Florida's regional economic development organization, a nonprofit division of the JAX Chamber.
Kirenaga Partners
Venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies emerging from the Space Coast.
Lee County Economic Development Office
Lee County's economic development office, advised by the public-private Horizon Council, supporting business growth and entrepreneurship.
North Brevard Economic Development Zone
Public economic development agency advancing commerce and space-industry growth in north Brevard County.
Rapid Innovation Accelerator - Miami (RIA-Miami)
DoD-backed Miami accelerator helping small businesses win federal defense contracts and SBIR awards.
Space Coast FabLab
Nonprofit makerspace and Fab Lab network member offering prototyping tools across the Space Coast.
TechFarms
Panama City Beach technology incubator offering workspace, prototyping, and mentoring to early-stage hardware and tech startups.
TechFarms Capital
Panama City Beach venture capital firm making seed and early-stage investments in Southeastern US tech startups.
Startups
AbleNook
Flat-packed, hurricane-rated modular building platform assembled tool-free in hours.
Carbon Limit
Makes CaptureCrete, a pour-in concrete additive that mineralizes and permanently stores CO2 from the air to reduce concrete's carbon footprint.
Fowado Technology Group
Fowado designs and manufactures American-made unmanned aerial systems for defense, public-safety and commercial use, including ISR, payload-delivery and cargo-transport drones.
Redwire Space
Redwire is a space infrastructure company supplying sensors, avionics, payloads, solar arrays, in-space manufacturing and uncrewed systems to government and commercial customers.
SortIQ
AI textile-sorting solution using Meta Ray-Ban glasses for hands-free garment ID and grading.
Terran Orbital
Terran Orbital designs and manufactures small satellites and spacecraft components for national-security, defense and commercial customers.
Tesseract Ventures
Builds advanced robotics, autonomous drones and AI 'smart ecosystems' (NOMAD, PRISM, MOSAIC, ECHO) for defense, agriculture and energy.
Vu Technologies
Virtual-production studio company (10,000 sq ft Tampa Bay studio) for immersive media.
Industry players
Airbus OneWeb Satellites
Airbus OneWeb Satellites operates a Merritt Island factory in Exploration Park billed as the world's first high-volume satellite production facility, capable of building up to two satellites a day and now wholly owned by Airbus.
Correct Craft (Nautique Boats)
Correct Craft is an Orlando-based, family-owned marine holding company whose brands include Nautique (ski/wake boats), Centurion, Supreme, and electric-boat innovator Ingenity, plus marine-engine and components businesses.
Embraer Executive Jets (Melbourne)
Embraer's Melbourne campus is the U.S. headquarters of its Executive Jets unit and the final-assembly site for Phenom and Praetor business jets, opened in 2011.
HEICO Corporation
HEICO is a Hollywood, Florida-headquartered aerospace and electronics company that designs and manufactures FAA-approved replacement parts and mission-critical components for aviation, defense, space, and medical markets.
Helios Technologies, Inc.
Helios Technologies, formerly Sun Hydraulics, is a Sarasota-based global manufacturer of highly engineered motion-control (hydraulics) and electronic-controls technologies.
Jabil Inc.
Jabil is a St. Petersburg-headquartered Fortune 500 manufacturing-services company providing design, production and supply-chain solutions across aerospace, defense, healthcare, automotive and other industries via 100+ sites worldwide.
Magic Leap
Magic Leap is a Plantation, Florida-based spatial-computing company that designs augmented-reality optics, headsets and enterprise AR platforms, with in-house R&D and manufacturing facilities.
Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc.
RYAM is a Jacksonville-based global producer of cellulose specialties and high-purity biomaterials used in filters, pharmaceuticals, food, and increasingly bioenergy and green-chemical products.
Roper Technologies, Inc.
Roper Technologies is a Sarasota-based diversified technology holding company that acquires and operates market-leading vertical-software and engineered-products businesses.
Sonny's Enterprises
Sonny's Enterprises is a Tamarac, Florida-based company billed as the world's largest manufacturer of conveyorized car-wash equipment, controls, aftermarket parts, and chemicals.
Tecnoglass Inc.
Tecnoglass is a leading manufacturer of architectural glass, windows, and aluminum products for commercial and residential construction, with its U.S. headquarters and NYSE listing based in Miami and manufacturing in Barranquilla, Colombia.
The Mosaic Company
Mosaic is a Tampa-headquartered Fortune 500 producer and marketer of concentrated phosphate and potash crop-nutrient fertilizers, serving farmers in more than 40 countries.