Aerospace & drones startups in San Diego
Aerospace, unmanned systems and the outdoor and action-sports hardware that shares San Diego's coastal, dual-use engineering base.
5 companies building in Aerospace & drones here.
Bruce McFarland
Solana Beach (San Diego metro) surf-technology company and creator of the patented PerfectSwell wave system for surf pools/parks, plus SurfStream. Powers commercial surf parks worldwide, with multiple grand ...
Brandon Leibel, Steven Ford & Bruno Aschidamini
San Diego D2C brand selling Turkish-cotton beach towels and beach-lifestyle goods, launched off a Shark Tank appearance, with a marine-conservation mission (donates a share of profits to ocean causes). ~100+...
Tom Rinks
Founded 2010; beach-lifestyle sun-care brand (sunscreen, hair care) with an Encinitas HQ a block from the sand and an authentic surf-culture identity. Backed by VMG Partners; reached ~$70M annual sales befor...
Chris Crawford
Carlsbad maker of portable, pressurized shower systems used by surfers, campers, fishermen, mountain bikers and adventurers — an action-sports/outdoor consumer-hardware brand born from San Diego's surf/outdo...
San Diego action-sports platform built to provide an end-to-end live-streaming, athlete-profile and event-management solution for surf competitions — 11,000+ athlete profiles and 325+ events produced worldwi...
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