Hardware AI Startup Jobs

K2 Space designs and manufactures large, high-power "mega-class" satellites with enhanced payload capacity and propulsion for government and commercial customers. The company is vertically integrated, building its satellites at a factory in Torrance, CA, with additional teams in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Washington DC.

Formlabs designs and manufactures professional-grade 3D printing systems, including stereolithography (SLA) and selective laser sintering (SLS) printers, materials, and software. Based in Somerville, MA, the company serves engineering, manufacturing, dental, and design customers worldwide.

Scout Motors is a Volkswagen-owned American vehicle brand reviving the Scout nameplate to build electric and range-extended SUVs and pickup trucks. The company is building a $2B+ production facility in Blythewood/Columbia, SC, with additional offices in Charlotte, NC, Fremont, CA, and Novi, MI.

Form Energy develops iron-air battery technology for multi-day, utility-scale energy storage, with R&D and engineering in Somerville, MA and Berkeley, CA and a manufacturing plant (Form Factory 1) in Weirton, WV. The company has raised over $1.2B across multiple rounds including a $405M Series F in October 2024.

Develops autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, and space-based interceptor systems for orbital defense and space superiority capabilities.

ICEYE operates the world's largest synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation, providing all-weather, day-and-night Earth-observation imagery and data intelligence. Its customers include governments, defense agencies, insurers, and maritime/disaster-response organizations. The company was spun out of Aalto University in Finland in 2014.

Whoop makes a wearable fitness and health tracking device paired with a subscription platform that provides physiological insights on recovery, strain, and sleep. Founded in 2012 and based in Boston, it has raised over $900M and reached unicorn status.

Motive (formerly KeepTruckin) provides an AI-powered platform combining IoT hardware and software for fleet management, driver safety, and spend management for businesses in the physical economy. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company reached over $600M ARR and withdrew its S-1 after a large 2026 growth financing.

Muon Space is an end-to-end satellite constellation company that designs, builds, and operates mission-optimized spacecraft delivering Earth intelligence data for climate monitoring, weather, and national security customers including the NRO and Space Force.

Redwood Materials builds a circular supply chain for lithium-ion batteries, recycling end-of-life batteries and production scrap, refining critical elements like lithium, nickel, and cobalt, and manufacturing battery materials domestically. It also deploys large-scale energy storage systems using second-life EV battery packs. Founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, it operates facilities in Nevada and South Carolina.

Divergent Technologies develops the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS), an end-to-end digital manufacturing platform that uses machine learning to design, 3D-print, and automate assembly of complex vehicle structures. Based in Torrance, CA, it serves automotive OEMs (Aston Martin, Bugatti, McLaren) and is expanding into aerospace and defense (Lockheed Martin, General Atomics, Raytheon).

Tenstorrent designs AI accelerator chips and RISC-V processors, building both hardware and software for high-performance machine learning workloads. Founded by CEO Jim Keller, it has offices in Austin, Santa Clara, and Toronto.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems is an MIT spinout developing commercial fusion energy, building the SPARC demonstration tokamak in Devens, MA and the ARC commercial power plant in Virginia. It has raised roughly $4 billion to date, including a $1 billion round in July 2026 from pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and infrastructure investors.

Varda Space Industries builds autonomous spacecraft that manufacture pharmaceuticals and other materials in microgravity before returning them to Earth, and sells orbital reentry and hypersonic-test services to government and commercial customers. Founded in 2021 by Will Bruey and Delian Asparouhov, the El Segundo-based company became a unicorn after its 2026 Series D.

Neros designs and manufactures high-performance attritable FPV drones and ground control systems for the U.S. military and allied forces, building a vertically integrated, China-free supply chain. Founded in 2023 by former professional drone racers, it has scaled rapidly to supply the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, and Ukraine.

TerraPower develops advanced nuclear reactor technology, including its Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor with integrated molten salt energy storage, and an isotope production business for cancer treatment. Founded by Bill Gates and based in Bellevue, WA, it is building its first commercial Natrium unit with U.S. Department of Energy support.

Harbinger designs and manufactures purpose-built electric and hybrid chassis for medium-duty commercial vehicles such as delivery trucks and RVs. The company has secured a FedEx order and investment as part of its Series C round.

Founded by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt, Cowboy Space (formerly Aetherflux) builds vertically-integrated rockets and solar-powered orbital data centers to run AI/GPU compute workloads in low Earth orbit. The company pivoted from space-based solar power to orbital data centers, determining that building its own rockets was necessary to scale the economics.

Oura makes the Oura Ring, a smart ring that continuously tracks sleep, activity, heart rate, and other biometrics for health and wellness monitoring. Founded in Finland in 2013, the company is now headquartered in San Francisco and has scaled to over $900M in annual revenue with millions of paying subscribers.

The Nuclear Company operates as America's deployment platform for nuclear power, constructing a series of nuclear power plants using a design-once, build-many approach with proven and licensed technology to deliver safe and reliable electricity at the lowest cost.

SambaNova Systems designs AI inference chips, systems, and cloud services for enterprise and government customers. The company builds full-stack AI infrastructure including its Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU) chips and SambaNova Cloud inference platform.

Vulcan Elements manufactures sintered neodymium iron boron rare earth magnets at its Research Triangle Park, North Carolina facility, aiming to build a U.S. supply chain independent of China. Founded in 2023, the company serves defense and commercial customers including the U.S. military branches.

Mecka AI is a Toronto- and New York-based startup that collects and analyzes human motion data, captured via smartphones and body sensors, to train humanoid and other robots. It positions itself as a data and deployment layer for physical AI, akin to what Scale AI, Mercor, and Surge provide for LLMs, and also deploys robots commercially for enterprise customers.

Amca (Advanced Manufacturing Company of America) acquires and modernizes domestic factories to produce certified aerospace and defense components, combining engineering, qualification testing, and manufacturing on its RAPID AI platform. Based in El Segundo, California, it supplies parts for the F-35, F-16, M1 Abrams, and commercial aircraft to primes like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Honeywell.

Skild AI, based in Pittsburgh, builds a general-purpose, omni-bodied robotics foundation model (the "Skild Brain") that can control different robots across many tasks. It is deployed in security and facility inspection, delivery, warehouses, manufacturing and construction, and it reports about $30M in revenue in 2025. Investors include SoftBank, Nvidia, Sequoia, Lightspeed, Coatue and Bezos Expeditions.

TAR builds self-contained, off-grid renewable power and battery systems for AI data centers, deploying at gigawatt scale without relying on the electrical grid. Founded in 2026 by Pat Becker and Leonhard Soenke, the company is headquartered in Austin with engineering in San Francisco and manufacturing in West Texas.

Epirus is a defense technology company that builds software-defined high-power microwave and directed-energy systems for counter-UAS, counter-swarm, and electronic-warfare missions. Its flagship Leonidas platform disables drones and electronic threats using solid-state, software-updatable hardware, and the U.S. Army has selected it for its Indirect Fire Protection Capability program.

Standard Bots builds AI-native industrial robot arms and the software stack that runs them, targeting manufacturers who want automation without dedicated robotics engineers. Its RO1 cobot combines a no-code/AI control interface with US-based manufacturing in Glen Cove, NY. The company hit a $1B valuation with a $200M Series C in June 2026.

Building America's next generation of power infrastructure with hybrid inertial-battery systems combining mechanical flywheels with battery duration, providing grid stabilization without combustion or chemicals.

Velaura AI (formerly Auradine) designs ultra-low-power silicon, systems, and IP for AI accelerators, data centers, and physical AI applications like robotics and autonomous systems. Its Titan Core platform targets 2-4x better performance per watt for AI compute infrastructure.

Designs and fabricates superconducting quantum processors at industrial scale using its open VIO architecture, serving 50+ customers across 20 countries.

KoBold Metals is a Berkeley, California-based mineral exploration company that uses AI, machine learning, and geoscience data fusion to discover critical mineral deposits (copper, nickel, cobalt, lithium) needed for the energy transition. Founded in 2018, it is behind the large Mingomba copper discovery in Zambia and is backed by investors including a16z, Breakthrough Energy, T. Rowe Price, and BHP.

Fuse Energy Technologies builds pulsed-power machines (Marx generators like TITAN) for magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF), generating near-term revenue from nuclear-effects radiation testing for the NNSA, national labs, and defense agencies while working toward commercial fusion power. Founded in 2019 by JC Btaiche and headquartered in San Leandro, CA.

Dyna Robotics develops high-performance general-purpose robots powered by proprietary embodied AI foundation models that achieve 99+ percent success rates in commercial environments with self-improving capabilities.

Monumental develops AI-powered autonomous robots for on-site masonry construction work, performing bricklaying with millimeter precision using computer vision to make construction software-defined and autonomous.

Voltai builds foundation models and AI agents for the semiconductor and electronics industry, aiming to let AI reason about and design physical hardware. Its systems run large-scale simulation to assist with chip design, verification, and EDA workflows for semiconductor, consumer electronics, and automotive customers. Founded by former Stanford professors and SAIL researchers alongside ex-CTOs from Synopsys and GlobalFoundries, the company is based in Palo Alto, CA.

Watney builds dual-armed robots that perform physical maintenance work inside hyperscale AI data centers, such as cable swaps and server restarts. Founded in San Francisco in 2023 by Ryan Gannon and Sean Cheong, it has been testing robots with Meta since 2025 and operates the largest fleet of dexterous robots running 24/7/365 across the United States.

Pacific Fusion is building a high-gain pulsed magnetic fusion system designed to achieve net facility gain, delivering more fusion energy output than all stored energy input. The company develops affordable, modular fusion technology using common materials to provide abundant, clean energy for a prosperous planet.

Advanced patient monitoring platform using AI and sensors to provide continuous health tracking and early detection of medical complications in healthcare settings.

Upscale AI provides high-performance networking solutions for AI infrastructure. The company delivers open-standard connectivity for specialized computing, making AI more accessible through ready-to-use networking platforms designed for next-generation AI workloads.

Generalist AI is building embodied foundation models for general-purpose robots, starting with a focus on dexterous manipulation, leveraging research from OpenAI, Boston Dynamics, and Google DeepMind to create end-to-end deep neural networks that map sensor data to real-time robotic actions.

Neurophos is an Austin-based semiconductor startup developing photonic AI inference chips, spun out of metamaterials research at Duke University. Its Optical Processing Unit (OPU) compresses rack-scale AI compute into a single package using CMOS-compatible photonic tensor cores, targeting the compute-bound prefill stage of inference.

Builds fully autonomous, cabless electric freight haulers (Class 8 trucks) that use vision-based AI to move freight across warehouses, ports, and railyards at lower cost.

Oratomic is a Pasadena-based, Caltech-spun-out startup building the world's first fault-tolerant, utility-scale quantum computer using reconfigurable neutral-atom arrays manipulated by optical tweezers. Founded in 2026 by Dolev Bluvstein and Manuel Endres, it aims to skip intermediate NISQ products entirely.

Quartermaster (legally Quartermaster AI Inc.) builds SmartMast™, a weather-hardened COTS sensor package — HD camera, software-defined radio, and onboard AI — that mounts on commercial and civilian vessels and turns them into nodes of a distributed maritime sensing network. The platform fuses video, radar, RF sensing, and AIS into near-real-time maritime domain awareness for coast guards, navies, insurers, energy operators, and researchers, positioning itself as a replacement for the spoofable, opt-in AIS standard. The company reports 600+ sensors deployed across 25+ countries and over 400,000 vessels identified outside of AIS.

RoboForce builds AI-enabled mobile manipulation robots ('Robo-Labor') that perform dangerous, repetitive industrial work in solar installation, mining, data centers, manufacturing, and logistics. Founded in 2023 by veterans of CMU, Amazon Robotics, Waymo, Cruise, and Tesla, it is developing its RF-04 robot and TITAN platform for large-scale deployment.

Wi-Fi landline phone for kids and families that reinvents the home phone experience without screens, apps, or texting. Features parental controls via companion app to approve contacts, set quiet hours, and enable Do Not Disturb. Priced at $75 with free calling between Tin Cans or $10/month for regular phone numbers. Addresses smartphone addiction concerns and went viral, selling out first two production runs.

AI-powered infrastructure intelligence platform for transportation infrastructure management using LiDAR sensors, cameras, and advanced AI algorithms.

Last Energy designs, builds, owns, and operates micro-modular nuclear power plants, most notably the PWR-20, a factory-built 20 MWe pressurized water reactor delivered as pre-fabricated modules. It sells full-service on-site baseload power to data centers, industrial facilities, and utilities, and is building a 5 MW pilot reactor at the Texas A&M-RELLIS campus. Spun out of the Energy Impact Center in 2019 by founder Bret Kugelmass, it is now headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Westmag (Western Magnetics Company) designs and manufactures drone motors and robot actuators at Factory 01 in South San Francisco, aiming to build a vertically-integrated, NDAA-compliant American supplier for the physical AI hardware stack. The company exited stealth in June 2026 after closing an $11M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Founders Fund, Lux Capital, NFDG, and Menlo Ventures.

Fortell (Fortell Research) builds AI-powered hearing aids that use custom AI chips to perform real-time full source separation, isolating speech from background noise rather than just amplifying all sound. Founded in 2021 by Matthew de Jonge, Andrew Casper, Igor Lovchinsky, and Cole Morris, the Manhattan-based company sells its device through its own audiology clinics.

Nudge is developing advanced whole-brain interfaces for everyday life using phased-array ultrasound-based wearable devices capable of both imaging and modulating brain activity, enabling at-home treatments for mood, memory, focus, and chronic conditions like pain, addiction, and anxiety.

Aurelius Systems builds Archimedes, an autonomous directed-energy laser platform that detects, tracks, and neutralizes drones without human operators. The San Francisco-based defense tech startup serves military and critical infrastructure protection use cases, offering a low-cost-per-shot alternative to missile-based counter-UAS systems.

Terraforming robotics company that uses autonomous subsurface injection robots to lift and stabilize flood-prone terrain by injecting wood slurry deep underground, addressing urban flooding and land subsidence caused by sea level rise, extreme weather, and groundwater withdrawal with minimal surface disturbance.

Omen AI builds miniaturized spectroscopic sensors that continuously monitor coolant, oil, and water in AI data centers and industrial machinery, detecting contamination and equipment wear in real time. Its hardware replaces the industry's slow lab-sampling process, helping operators avoid costly cooling-loop failures in liquid-cooled AI infrastructure.

Gravis Robotics is a Zurich-based, ETH Zurich spinout that builds autonomous AI systems for heavy construction machinery. Its Gravis Rack retrofits excavators and other equipment from manufacturers like Caterpillar, John Deere, and Volvo to enable AI-assisted or fully autonomous operation on jobsites.

Sabi is a Palo Alto startup building a non-invasive brain-AI interface embedded in everyday wearables like a baseball cap, using custom EEG sensors and a proprietary Brain Foundation Model trained on over 100,000 hours of neural data to translate imagined speech into text and AI commands. Co-founded by CEO Rahul Chhabra and CTO Atmadeep Banerjee in 2024, the company raised a $50 million seed round led by Khosla Ventures at a reported $600 million valuation, and plans to demo its first devices at CES 2027.

Cents is an AI-native, all-in-one software, hardware, and payments platform for laundromats, dry cleaners, and garment care businesses, serving 4,500+ locations processing over $1B in payments annually. Founded in 2019 and based in New York City, it provides point-of-sale, business management, and payment tools for the laundry industry.

Grid Aero builds autonomous cargo aircraft for long-range, high-payload logistics solutions serving both military and commercial applications with rapid development cycles.

Runwise is a New York-based smart operating system for buildings that combines proprietary wireless sensors and controls with cloud software to run heating, cooling, electric, and water systems more efficiently. Its platform cuts building energy use by roughly 20-25% and is installed in over 10,000 buildings across the U.S., saving customers more than $100M in energy costs to date. Customers include large real estate owners and operators such as Related Companies and Rudin Management.

The Bot Company is a San Francisco robotics startup founded in 2024 by former Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt, ex-Tesla AI lead Paril Jain, and ex-Cruise engineer Luke Holoubek. It is building an affordable, non-humanoid household robot that uses AI to pick up, organize, and put away items so people spend less time on chores. The company has raised over $550M pre-product, most recently at a valuation above $4B.

Pantograph is a San Francisco-based public benefit corporation and applied research lab building generally intelligent, low-cost robots. It trains general models on internet-scale video and video games, then deploys them onto its own fleet of affordable, durable robots for large-scale real-world interaction data collection. The company owns its full stack — hardware, firmware, training infrastructure, and learning algorithms — and released its first video-pretrained model in July 2026.

Teal Health is a San Francisco-based women's health company that created the Teal Wand, the first FDA-authorized self-collection device for at-home cervical cancer screening paired with telehealth support. The company aims to expand access to cervical cancer screening outside traditional clinical settings ahead of expected broad insurance coverage in 2027.

Copper is a Berkeley-based startup that makes battery-equipped induction stoves that plug into regular 120V outlets, enabling easy upgrades from gas to induction without costly electrical work, combining premium cooking performance with grid-supporting battery technology.

Thunder Compute builds GPU virtualization software that pools idle GPU capacity across data centers, letting cloud providers and enterprises schedule workloads far more efficiently. Founded in 2024 by Carl Peterson and Brian Model, the company aims to become the "VMware for GPUs" and has already served over 10,000 users on its own cloud.

Finnish deeptech company building autonomous, hydrogen-powered airships for persistent aerial surveillance and intelligence, serving both defense and civilian customers. Backed by the NATO Innovation Fund, it completed two phases of NATO's DIANA accelerator program.

Wafer builds autonomous AI agents that act as performance engineers, continuously profiling and optimizing AI inference workloads across models, serving engines, kernels, and hardware (including non-Nvidia chips like AMD's). The San Francisco company offers dedicated and serverless inference for open-source models and reached roughly $8M in annualized revenue within months of launch.

Aitan builds edge-AI robotic weapon systems for allied militaries and national-security organizations, offering a "Robotic Sovereignty-as-a-Service" platform to deploy, coordinate, and sustain autonomous robotic combat capabilities. Its systems have been battle-tested with the IDF since October 2023, logging over 500,000 operational hours.

Arena Physica (formerly Arena/Arena.ai) is a New York-based AI hardware engineering company building 'electromagnetic superintelligence.' Its Atlas platform and Heaviside physics-native foundation model predict electromagnetic behavior from design geometry in milliseconds, helping customers like AMD, Anduril, and Sivers Semiconductors design, test, and validate hardware across semiconductors, aerospace, automotive, and defense.

AstroForge is a deep-space mining company focused on extracting valuable metals from asteroids, particularly platinum group metals (PGMs) and critical minerals. The company develops technology to locate, reach, and mine asteroids to provide sustainable resources for Earth and space industries.

Autoridad Panandina (APD) is a Medellín, Colombia-based energy infrastructure company building power generation and data center projects to serve large-scale AI compute workloads. Founded in 2025 by Forrest Heath (also founder of Somos Internet) as a sister company leveraging Colombia's abundant hydroelectric power to undercut hyperscaler compute costs.

Axiom Space is a Houston-based commercial space infrastructure company building the world's first fully commercial space station, Axiom Station, as a successor to the ISS. It also conducts private astronaut missions to the ISS and develops the AxEMU next-generation spacesuit under a NASA contract.

Blue Origin is Jeff Bezos's private aerospace company developing rockets, spacecraft, and lunar landers for commercial, government, and civil space missions. It operates New Shepard suborbital flights and is developing the orbital New Glenn rocket and Blue Moon lunar lander.

Boom Supersonic is a Colorado-based aerospace company building Overture, a Mach 2.2 commercial supersonic airliner. It has also expanded into natural-gas turbines (Superpower) for data-center power, including an order from Crusoe.

comma.ai builds openpilot, an open-source driver-assistance system, and sells aftermarket hardware (comma 3X/comma four) that adds lane centering, adaptive cruise control, and dashcam features to existing vehicles. Founded by George Hotz, the company takes a contrarian, community-driven approach to autonomous driving rather than pursuing a robotaxi fleet or OEM partnerships.

Danu Robotics is an Edinburgh, Scotland-based startup that builds H.E.R.O., an AI-powered robot that sorts recyclable materials using a mechanical pincer claw gripper instead of suction-based systems. Founded by Amy Ma after six years of development, the company targets the roughly $20 billion recycling-sorting market across Europe and North America, competing with suction-based rivals Glacier and RecycleEye.

Daylight Computer Co. is a San Francisco-based hardware startup that designs and manufactures the DC-1, a tablet with a monochrome, paper-like 'LivePaper' display that avoids blue light and screen flicker to reduce eye strain and distraction. Founded in 2018 by Anjan Katta, it is a public benefit corporation focused on healthier, less addictive personal computing.

DermaSensor develops an FDA-cleared, handheld AI-and-spectroscopy device that helps primary care physicians assess suspicious skin lesions for skin cancer risk at the point of care. The company is expanding US distribution through partnerships with Henry Schein and other healthcare and federal health system partners.

Diffraqtion builds quantum-camera hardware and AI for defense, space, and machine-perception applications, capturing optical information beyond conventional imaging limits for faster sensing and classification. The MIT and University of Maryland spinout is based in Somerville, Massachusetts, and has demonstrated its technology through DARPA SBIR and NASA-backed programs.

Discovered Materials (formerly Matforge, YC Spring 2026) builds swarms of AI agents that act as "AI scientists" to design candidate semiconductor materials and their synthesis routes, then validates them against real lab testing. It targets data center chip supply-chain needs including fab, advanced packaging, interconnect, and thermal interface materials. The company aims to compress 10+ year materials R&D cycles into months.

Earth AI is a vertically integrated mineral exploration company that uses an AI-powered Mineral Targeting Platform combined with proprietary low-disturbance drilling technology to discover critical minerals like copper, lithium, and rare earths. Founded in 2017, it validates AI-predicted deposits through its own drilling and sells proven mining projects to major mining companies.

Paris-based defense tech startup founded by former MBDA engineers building AI-powered air defense systems to detect and intercept hostile drones. Its platform, Mystique, combines electrically propelled interceptors with distributed sensors and AI-driven detection for layered, low-cost interception.

Embedder is an AI coding agent for embedded firmware that reads datasheets and schematics, writes production C/C++ and Rust code, flashes target boards, runs hardware-in-the-loop tests, and fixes its own bugs. It supports 500+ microcontrollers (STM32, ESP32, RISC-V) and 3,000+ peripherals across automotive, aerospace, medical, IoT, and consumer electronics customers.

Stanford-spinout based in Fremont, California developing metal-hydrogen batteries with 30,000-cycle life and 30-year design life for grid-scale long-duration energy storage. The company is scaling manufacturing, including operations in China, to serve utility and renewable integration customers.

Go.AI builds on-premises AI infrastructure for regulated industries such as banking, healthcare, insurance, and defense. Its Go1 hardware appliance paired with Go.OS software lets institutions run compliant, audit-ready AI inference without sending data to the cloud.

Hapta Labs is a San Francisco robotics infrastructure startup building one standard for robot data — unified manipulation, egocentric, teleoperation and multi-sensor datasets, plus the custom capture hardware and rigs that produce them. It trains models on that data so robot skills transfer across embodiments. Founded by Sylvia Li (CMU AI, Tsinghua math), with a team drawn from CMU, Stanford, Meta and NVIDIA.

Impulse Space is an in-space transportation and orbital maneuvering company based in Redondo Beach, California, building kick stages and vehicles to move satellites between orbits. Founded by former SpaceX propulsion lead Tom Mueller, it has reached unicorn status with $1.8B in total funding.

Instrumental builds an AI-powered manufacturing optimization platform for complex electronics, combining in-line camera hardware with computer-vision models that detect defects, surface root causes, and enforce quality controls across contract-manufacturing lines. Founded by two ex-Apple engineers, it is used by consumer-electronics and data-center hardware makers to improve yield and speed up failure analysis. In March 2026 it announced an investment from NVIDIA's NVentures tied to accelerating AI server and rack manufacturing.

Isembard builds AI-powered, software-driven factories (via its MasonOS platform) to reshore high-precision manufacturing for aerospace, defence, energy, and robotics industries in Europe. It uses a franchise model to convert or launch machine shops that run on its proprietary automation and AI system.

KONST (Konsttech Ltd.) is a Taiwan-based AI compute operator that builds and operates GPU-optimized AI data centers across Asia, Europe, and the US through its Konstra AI division, and sells GPU cloud computing capacity via its Glows.ai platform. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Taipei, the company pursues a "Token Factory" strategy spanning compute supply, cloud services, and AI-asset governance via its Horizon AI brand.

LeydenJar develops and produces pure silicon anodes for energy-dense batteries, enabling 70% more energy storage while reducing CO2 emissions by 85% with 7-minute charging capability.

Mazama Energy develops superhot rock enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), using advanced drilling, reservoir engineering, and heat-harvesting technology to deliver gigawatt-scale, carbon-free power. The company's pilot site at Newberry, Oregon achieved a record 629°F in an engineered geothermal reservoir and is advancing toward commercial-scale power generation.

Molten Salt Solutions develops isotope-enrichment technology for advanced nuclear and fusion supply chains, using a proprietary chromatography and mass-spectrometry approach to enrich lithium-6 and lithium-7. The company, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, says its platform is roughly 100x more efficient than legacy enrichment methods.

Noetic (now rebranded as Fuchsia) is an AI-powered platform that automates hardware compliance, mapping applicable regulatory standards (FCC, CE, UL, FAA, ISO, IEC, MIL-STD), drafting lab-ready technical documentation, and connecting manufacturers with testing labs. It aims to replace slow, expensive compliance consultants for hardware and robotics companies.

Nova Labs (formerly Helium) builds decentralized wireless network infrastructure, using blockchain-incentivized hotspots to provide LoRaWAN IoT connectivity and, via Helium Mobile, 5G cellular service. The company is based in San Francisco and operates one of the largest crowdsourced wireless networks in the world.

Odin Dynamics is a defense technology company building autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and advanced robotics for undersea warfare, including precision strike, ISR, and mine-warfare missions. Its Dolphin-M and Dolphin-S UUV platforms emphasize high endurance, long range, and modular payloads, with in-house battery/powertrain engineering as a core differentiator. Founded by a former Tesla powertrain engineer and a 23-year Navy EOD officer, the company is headquartered in Los Angeles with a Washington, DC presence.

Parallax is building modular natural-gas turbines of about 10 MW for on-site power at AI data centers. The units use 3D-printed cores made from common alloys and fit in shipping containers. It emerged from stealth in September 2026, with prototypes planned for 2026 and customer deliveries in 2028.

Parasma is a San Francisco biocomputing startup that writes algorithms to train live human brain cells to act as a computing substrate for AI workloads. The founder previously got cultured human neurons to play Doom, and the company's claimed edge is the training methodology rather than proprietary wetware hardware. It is a Y Combinator Summer 2026 company, solo-founded and pre-product as of mid-2026.

Swiss aerospace startup developing spacecraft and orbital transfer vehicles for in-orbit satellite transportation and servicing, including inspection, life extension, and docking. Based in Villeneuve/Lausanne, Switzerland, it aims to extend satellite life and support space sovereignty.

Perseus Defense builds affordable, portable guided micro-missiles to detect, identify, and destroy hostile drones for the U.S. Department of Defense and homeland security customers. Its flagship Harpe Interceptor offers a 2km range at under $10,000 per shot, positioned as "America's Golden Dome for Drones."

Phasic Energy combines applied AI with next-generation hardware to build 3D-printed heat exchangers for demanding thermal environments, including data centers, defense, geothermal, and industrial waste-heat recovery applications. The NYC-based startup is a small team of under 10 people that recently closed a $7.5M Venture round.

Phinity Labs builds AI agents and training infrastructure that autonomously design, verify, and tape out custom chips, using reinforcement learning environments to teach large language models hardware engineering workflows. Founded in 2025 by Sonya Jin and Aadi Nashikkar, the company works with leading foundation model labs on prompt-to-silicon chip design.

Pixxel is a space data company that builds and operates a constellation of hyperspectral Earth-imaging satellites, delivering high-resolution spectral imagery and analytics across 200+ wavelengths. Its Aurora platform serves agriculture, energy, environment, mining, and defense customers, with headquarters in Bengaluru, India and a facility in El Segundo, California.

Plexus (Plexus Aerospace, Inc.) is an AI observability and telemetry platform built for hardware teams, streaming device data to detect anomalies, diagnose failures, and monitor fleets in real time. It integrates with existing time-series stores like InfluxDB, ClickHouse, and Postgres and ships an SDK that drops into firmware.

Pocket (legal entity Open Vision Engineering Inc.) makes a $199 AI voice recorder — a slim aluminum puck with three microphones that snaps to the back of a phone — plus the companion iOS/Android app that turns real-world conversations and phone calls into transcripts, speaker-attributed summaries, and action items. Launched October 2025 out of Y Combinator, it has shipped 200,000+ units and reports a ~$100M annualized run rate as of August 2026. A Pocket Pro subscription (~$16.50–20/month) unlocks unlimited cloud storage and advanced AI features.

Power Dynamics designs, manufactures and deploys integrated modular systems that pair sustainable energy with high-density compute — KW/MW/GW battery energy storage systems (BESS), single-phase immersion cooling for GPUs, and containerized modular data centers. The company also builds industrial heat-recovery systems that reuse waste heat from GPUs for processes like textile dyeing and food sterilization. Co-founded and led by CEO Jen Zhu Scott, with manufacturing and project deployment in Meizhou, Guangdong.

Rhem Labs is a robotics company based across San Francisco, Germany, and Tokyo building AI-powered home companion robots for family health care. Its first product, Rhem, uses onboard sensors to measure vital signs (blood pressure, heart rate, SpO2, ECG, body temperature) and home air quality, running an on-device AI engine to explain readings and take action like scheduling appointments. Founded in 2025 by CEO Jacob Shen and CTO Huey Schink, the company is part of Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch and launched Rhem on Kickstarter in July 2026.

Sava Technologies is a London-based healthtech startup that has developed a wearable, pain-free multi-molecule biosensor for continuous glucose and health monitoring. Founded in 2019 by Imperial College London bioengineers Renato Circi and Rafaël Michali, it raised a $36M Series B led by Ascensia, which also became its European commercialization and distribution partner.

Sierra Space designs and builds commercial spacecraft, space station modules, and orbital infrastructure, including the Dream Chaser reusable spaceplane and components for the Orbital Reef commercial space station. The company is headquartered in Louisville, Colorado, with additional operations in Broomfield and Centennial, Colorado.

Sway is a material innovation company that harnesses seaweed to create home-compostable replacements for single-use plastic packaging. Their patent-pending TPSea resin is 100% biobased and microplastic-free. Named TIME Best Invention of 2025.

Tandem is an AI-native context layer for hardware development teams, connecting design intent, requirements, CAD changes, and validation evidence in one system. Its AI generates ECO drafts, design reviews, drawings, DFM feedback, impact reports, assembly documentation, and traceability reports from real engineering activity. Customers span aerospace, medical devices, robotics, and consumer hardware, including Fluxergy, Vaxon Space, Starlight Cardiovascular, and Endiatx.

Electric vehicle manufacturer building compact city-friendly trucks starting with the MT1 model, combining utility vehicle functionality with sustainable electric power for urban and commercial use.

Terraform Industries builds the Terraformer, a modular system that uses solar power, direct air capture, and electrolysis to synthesize pipeline-grade synthetic natural gas and other fuels from CO2 and water. Founded in 2021 by former JPL engineer Casey Handmer, the Burbank, CA-based company has deployed a solar-powered pilot plant and sold pipeline-grade gas to utilities.

Transfyr builds physical AI infrastructure that captures scientific work through sensors and multimodal models. Its platform converts laboratory execution into machine-readable data for reproducibility, automation, training, and technology transfer. The Cambridge, Massachusetts startup operates an in-house wet lab and is hiring technical staff.

Ultra is a Brooklyn-based robotics startup that leases stationary dual-arm warehouse robots called Operator (OP1) to e-commerce fulfillment operations under a robots-as-a-service model. Founded in 2024 by Jon Miller Schwartz, Max Friefeld, Chetan Parthiban, and Oliver Ortlieb, the company has deployed OP1 units across New York, Georgia, New Jersey, and Texas warehouses, packing over 500,000 orders, and partners with Physical Intelligence to power its robots with the π0.6 foundation model.

Ulysses (legal entity Ulysses Ecosystem Engineering) builds vertically integrated autonomous underwater and surface vehicles for marine ecology restoration, offshore infrastructure inspection, and defense/ISR missions. Its modular Mako AUV, Leviathan surface vessel, and Kraken launch-and-recovery system target offshore energy, subsea telecom, port security, and allied defense customers.

Verda (formerly DataCrunch) is a Helsinki-based full-stack AI cloud provider that owns and operates its own data centers, hardware, and software platform to offer GPU instances, InfiniBand clusters, serverless containers, and managed inference. Founded in 2020, it reached unicorn status in September 2026 after a $189M Series B led by Emergence Capital.

Vight is an early-stage startup designing and flight-testing a two-seat electric VTOL aircraft for personal, point-to-point air travel, initially targeting rural property owners and flight schools. Founded in 2025 by Tsung Xu in Mountain View, CA, the company is actively flight-testing subscale prototypes.

Philadelphia-based startup building battery-electric locomotive retrofits, dynamic in-motion charging infrastructure, and renewable microgrids to electrify North American freight rail without full track electrification. Founded in 2024 by CEO Daphna Langer and Alon Kessel, it has signed a paid pilot with a Class 1 railroad.

Wint (WINT Water Intelligence) provides AI-powered water intelligence for commercial and industrial buildings, giving facilities and risk teams real-time visibility into water use and automatically detecting and stopping leaks at the source. The company raised a $36 million Series D in September 2026 co-led by LIP Ventures and Inven Capital to scale globally.

Xsight Labs is a fabless semiconductor company building programmable switch silicon and DPUs for AI and hyperscale data center networking. Founded in 2017 in Kiryat Gat, Israel, it has raised over $750M, most recently a $300M+ round in July 2026 at a $2.8B valuation led by Fidelity Management & Research.

Zipline designs, manufactures, and operates autonomous drones for last-mile delivery of medical supplies, retail goods, and food, aiming to make instant delivery accessible worldwide. Based in South San Francisco, it partners with health systems, retailers, and restaurant chains across the US, Africa, and beyond.