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Beyond Aero

Beyond Aero is building the first electric business aircraft powered by hydrogen propulsion, enabling six passengers to fly up to 800 NM (1,500 km), a range unattainable with battery-electric aircraft. Founded in December 2020, the company is redesigning the architecture of an aircraft around hydrogen-electric propulsion, focusing on fuel cell technology, gaseous hydrogen tank integration, and advanced cooling systems. With offices in Toulouse, Paris, and Los Angeles, the company boasts a team o

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

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Beyond Aero is building the first electric business aircraft powered by hydrogen propulsion, enabling six passengers to fly up to 800 NM (1,500 km), a range unattainable with battery-electric aircraft. Founded in December 2020, the company is redesigning the architecture of an aircraft around hydrogen-electric propulsion, focusing on fuel cell technology, gaseous hydrogen tank integration, and advanced cooling systems. With offices in Toulouse, Paris, and Los Angeles, the company boasts a team o

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High Signal interpretation

Beyond Aero is classified as AI infrastructure from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Product facets
fuel cell technologygaseous hydrogen tank integrationadvanced cooling systemshydrogen propulsionhydrogen-electric propulsionbattery-electric aircraft
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Beyond Aero

AI infrastructure · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Stralis Aircraft

match 83

Our planes fly 10 times further than battery electric alternatives, with a lower operating cost than fossil fuel powered aircraft. Our first product is a 15 seat aircraft with a range of 800 km that enters service in 2026 with launch customer Skytrans. Our team has over 85 years of aerospace experience and have developed, flight tested and certified aircraft at Google X, magniX, Heart Aerospace, Ampaire, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier and Gulfstream. We have $145M in aircraft LOIs from 7 airlines in

shared extracted concept terms: electric; shared product terms: electric, aircraft, fly, 800; shared product theme: climate and energy; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Green Aero Propulsion

match 62

Developing green hydrogen based propulsion systems to decarbonize aviation and shipping.

shared extracted concept terms: hydrogen, system, propulsion; shared product terms: aero, hydrogen, propulsion, system

Petra Power

match 54

Petra Power is a manufacturing company that focuses on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) for APU systems.

shared extracted concept terms: fuel, cell, system; shared product terms: fuel, cell, system

SeeO2 Energy

match 49

Focused on efficiently converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into marketable and clean value-added fuels and chemicals using reversible fuel-cell technology.

shared extracted concept terms: fuel, cell; shared product terms: focus, fuel, cell; shared product theme: climate and energy

Arcticar

match 41

An intelligent energy platform for the cold chain -- replacing diesel with automated electric cooling and batteries.

shared extracted concept terms: electric, cool; shared product terms: electric, cool; shared product theme: climate and energy

Skyfront

match 29

Skyfront builds hybrid-electric multirotor drones that fly for 4 hours, 10X longer than existing battery powered drones

shared product terms: electric, fly, battery; shared product theme: climate and energy