Hardware startup directory · Rev 26.09
Discover hardware startups before they ship.
Browse 219 robot, rocket, reactor and chip companies by category, funding stage and city, catalogued like parts on a datasheet. How the index works →
- Parts
- 219
- Countries
- 21
- Hubs
- 86
- VC-backed
- 127
Funding stage
Team size
Business model
Company status
Founded
Region
1X Technologies
Soft-bodied humanoid robots designed for household chores
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $137M
Adafruit Industries
Open-source electronics boards, kits and maker tutorials
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- Self-funded
Agility Robotics
Digit humanoids that move totes in warehouses and factories
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $579M
Agnikul Cosmos
Small satellite launch vehicles from India
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $88.5M
AlsoNew
Modular e-bikes and pedal-assist quads spun out of Rivian
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $455M
Analogue
FPGA consoles that recreate classic game hardware at chip level
- Team
- —
- Raised
- —
Anduril Industries
Autonomous defense systems tied together by Lattice software
- Team
- 5,000+
- Raised
- $11.4B
Antora Energy
Carbon-block thermal batteries for industrial heat and power
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $770M
ANYbotics
Legged inspection robots for industry
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $150M
Apex
Mass-produced satellite buses built from a standard catalog
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $718M
Apptronik
Apollo humanoid for manufacturing and logistics work
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $968M
Arc
Electric boats, from wake boats to harbor tugs
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $160M
Archer Aviation
Midnight electric air taxi for city-to-airport hops
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $919M
Arduino
Open-source microcontroller boards and IDE for makers
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $54M
Aspinity
Analog machine-learning chips for always-on sensing
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- $13.2M
Asteria Aerospace
Full-stack drone technology from India
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- —
Astranis
Small geostationary satellites for dedicated broadband
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $1.1B
Astrobotic
Lunar landers and space robotics
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $268M
Ather Energy
Electric scooters and charging network
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $1.3B
Ati Robotics
Autonomous robots and AI for factory material flow
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $37M
Axelera AI
Edge AI accelerators built on digital in-memory computing
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $488M
Axiado
Hardware-anchored security silicon for AI data centers
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $220M
Ayar Labs
Optical I/O chiplets that replace copper links between chips
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $1B
Bambu Lab
Fast, enclosed consumer 3D printers with multi-color feeding
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- —
Base PowerNew
Home batteries that back up houses and support the grid
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $2.5B
Blaize
Programmable AI processors for edge and hybrid inference
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $510M
boAt
Audio wearables and consumer electronics
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $237M
Boom Supersonic
Developing Overture, a supersonic airliner
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $948M
Bright Machines
Software-defined robotic cells for electronics assembly
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $404M
Brilliant Labs
Open-source AI glasses with a display, camera and bone audio
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- $6M
Burro
Collaborative robots for farms
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $36.6M
Butterfly Network
Whole-body ultrasound on a single chip, run from a phone
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $989M
Carbon Robotics
AI-aimed lasers that kill weeds without herbicides
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $257M
Cartken
Autonomous delivery robots for sidewalks and factories
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- $10M
Castelion
Low-cost hypersonic strike missiles built at scale
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $1.2B
Cerebras Systems
AI processors built from an entire silicon wafer
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $9.3B
Cerebras Systems
Wafer-scale processors for AI compute
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $10.2B
CHAOS Industries
Networked radars that detect drones and missiles at long range
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $1B
Chef Robotics
AI robots for food assembly lines
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $71.1M
Climeworks
Direct air capture for carbon removal
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- —
Collaborative Robotics
Mobile manipulator robots that work alongside people
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $140M
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Compact fusion tokamaks using superconducting magnets
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $4B
Corvus Robotics
Autonomous inventory drones for warehouses
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- $23.1M
Cowboy
Connected electric bicycles
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $134M
CynLr
Visual object intelligence for robots
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $15.3M
d-Matrix
In-memory compute chips for AI inference
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $429M
Daylight Computer Co.
Android tablet with a fast, flicker-free, paper-like screen
- Team
- —
- Raised
- —
DEEPX
On-device AI chips for physical AI
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- —
Dexterity
Two-armed mobile robots for truck loading and parcels
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $291M
Dexterity AI
Physical AI robots for warehouse handling
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $291M
Dhruva Space
Satellite platforms and space infrastructure
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $39.6M
Diligent Robotics
Moxi service robot for hospitals
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $90.8M
Divergent Technologies
Computer-designed, 3D-printed structures assembled by robots
- Team
- —
- Raised
- $855M
Dozee
Contactless patient monitoring sensors
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $33.2M
Dusty Robotics
Robots that print building layouts onto job-site floors
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $68.7M
EcoFlow
Portable power stations and home energy
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $136M
Ecozy
Smart heating thermostats
- Team
- 1+
- Raised
- $806K
EdgeCortix
Energy-efficient edge AI processors and software
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $110M
Eight Sleep
Temperature-controlled smart bed covers
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $312M
Einride
Electric and autonomous freight trucking as a service
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $548M
Eko Health
AI-enabled digital stethoscopes for heart disease detection
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $238M
EnCharge AI
Analog in-memory computing AI accelerators
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $163M
Enfabrica
AI data-center networking silicon and SuperNICs
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- $290M
Epirus
High-power microwave weapons that disable drone swarms
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $595M
Etched
Inference chip hard-wired for transformer models
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $925M
Exotec
Goods-to-person warehouse robotics
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $447M
Exyn Technologies
Autonomous aerial robots for GPS-denied sites
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $82.4M
Fairphone
Repairable, ethically sourced smartphones
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- —
Fasal
Farm IoT sensors and irrigation automation
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $18M
Fervo Energy
Enhanced geothermal using oil-and-gas drilling techniques
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $3.2B
Figure AI
General-purpose humanoid robots for homes and factories
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $1.9B
Firefly Aerospace
Alpha rockets and Blue Ghost lunar landers
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $1.6B
Fleet Space Technologies
Satellites and sensing for mineral exploration
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $160M
Flipper Devices
Pocket multi-tool for probing radio protocols and hardware
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- Self-funded
Flyability
Collision-tolerant drones for indoor inspection
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $42M
Form Energy
Iron-air batteries that store power for 100 hours
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $1.6B
Formic
Pay-as-you-go robot automation for mid-size factories
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $59.1M
Formlabs
Desktop resin and powder 3D printers for professionals
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $254M
Fourier Intelligence
Rehabilitation and humanoid robots
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- $235M
Fractile
AI inference chips for large transformer models
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $235M
Framework
Modular, repairable laptops you can upgrade part by part
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $44M
Framework Computer
Repairable, upgradeable laptops and desktops
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $45.3M
FuriosaAI
AI inference accelerator chips for data centers
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $246M
Garuda Aerospace
Commercial and agricultural drones and drone services
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $43.2M
Gecko Robotics
Wall-climbing robots that inspect boilers, tanks and ship hulls
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $345M
Gilmour Space Technologies
Australian orbital launch vehicles and satellite platforms
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $245M
GreyOrange
Warehouse robots and fulfillment automation software
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $437M
H2Pro
Decoupled water electrolyzers for green hydrogen
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $97M
Hadrian
Automated machining factories for aerospace and defense parts
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $452M
Hailo
Edge AI processors for cameras, PCs and vehicles
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $452M
Hayden AI
AI cameras for transit enforcement and city data
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $276M
Helion Energy
Pulsed fusion machines that make electricity directly
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $1.5B
Helm.ai
AI software for driver assistance and autonomous driving
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $185M
Helsing
European defense AI and HX-2 strike drones
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $3.4B
Hesai Technology
Lidar sensors for vehicles and robots
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $707M
HyperAccelNew
LLM-focused AI semiconductors and LPU servers
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $147M
Hyperfine
Portable low-field MRI that rolls to the patient's bedside
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $330M
ideaForge
Enterprise and defense unmanned aerial vehicles
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- —
Impulse Space
Orbital transfer vehicles that move satellites between orbits
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $1.1B
Innatera
Neuromorphic processors for sensor-edge devices
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $29.7M
Isar Aerospace
Launch vehicles for small satellites
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $734M
Joby Aviation
Electric air taxis for short urban trips
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $1.9B
Kernel
Non-invasive neuroimaging headsets
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $53M
Kneron
Edge AI neural processing units and modules
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $212M
Light
Minimal phones designed to be used as little as possible
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- $12.7M
Lightmatter
Photonic interconnects that link AI chips with light
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $822M
Locus Robotics
Autonomous mobile robots for warehouse fulfillment
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $416M
Lumai
Optical computing processors for AI inference
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- $13.7M
Machina Labs
Robot arms that form sheet-metal parts without dies
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $169M
Maeving
Retro-styled British electric motorcycles
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $10.8M
Marvel Fusion
Laser-driven inertial confinement fusion
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $187M
MatX
AI accelerator chips for large language models
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $605M
MemryX
Edge AI accelerator chips
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- $52M
Miko
AI companion robots for children
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $93.9M
Mobilint
Edge AI accelerator chips and modules
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $69.9M
ModalAI
Compute and autopilot modules for drones and robots
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- —
Mudita
Minimalist phones for mindful use
- Team
- —
- Raised
- —
Mythic
Analog matrix processors for edge and data center AI
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $290M
Mytra
Modular robotic storage grid that moves full pallets
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $198M
Naio Technologies
Autonomous robots for farming and weeding
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- $56M
Neko Health
Full-body health scanning clinics and hardware
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- —
NerosNew
Mass-produced FPV attack drones free of Chinese parts
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $370M
Netrasemi
Edge AI system-on-chip silicon
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $12.8M
Neura Robotics
Cognitive and humanoid robots for industry
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $1.7B
Neurable
Brain-computer-interface headphones
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- $57.8M
Neuralink
Wireless brain implant placed by a custom surgical robot
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $1.3B
NeuReality
AI-CPU chips and software for AI inference at scale
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $83.6M
NeuroBlade
Data analytics acceleration hardware
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- $115M
Niramai
AI thermal imaging for breast cancer screening
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $6.7M
NODAR
Stereo camera 3D vision for autonomous vehicles
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- $12M
Nofence
GPS virtual fencing collars for livestock
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $48.4M
Nomono
Wireless spatial-audio podcast recording system
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- $12.4M
Nothing
Android phones and earbuds with see-through, light-up designs
- Team
- 10,000+
- Raised
- $692M
NoTraffic
AI sensors for traffic signal management
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $166M
Oben Electric
Electric motorcycles built in India
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $18M
Oklo
Small sodium-cooled fast reactors sold as a power service
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $374M
OpenBCI
Open-source brain-computer-interface hardware
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- $3.3M
Opentrons
Affordable, open-source liquid-handling robots for labs
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $200M
Oura
Smart ring that tracks sleep, recovery and heart health
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $1.6B
Outsight
3D lidar software and processors for spatial intelligence
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $62.3M
Oxide Computer Company
Rack-scale servers with hardware and software built together
- Team
- —
- Raised
- $834M
Panic
Mac software veteran that built the crank-equipped Playdate
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- Self-funded
Pickle Robot
AI robots that unload trucks
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $102M
Pixxel
Hyperspectral Earth observation satellites
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $195M
PLAUD AI
AI voice recorders and wearable note takers
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $5M
Positron AINew
Inference accelerator silicon and systems
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $1.2B
Pragmatic Semiconductor
Flexible integrated circuits manufacturer
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $388M
Precision Neuroscience
Thin-film brain interface that rests on the cortex surface
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $430M
Prophesee
Event-based neuromorphic vision sensors
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $136M
Proxima FusionNew
Stellarator fusion power plants
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $664M
Prusa Research
Open-source FDM printers designed and built in Prague
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- Self-funded
PsiQuantum
Photonic quantum computers made in commercial chip fabs
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $1.7B
Pudu Robotics
Commercial service robots for restaurants and cleaning
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- —
Q.ANT
Photonic processors and sensors
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $79.9M
Quantum Systems
Electric VTOL drones for surveillance and defense
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $1.6B
Quilt
Design-forward ductless heat pumps for homes
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $64M
Rabbit Inc
Handheld AI assistant device
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- $36M
Radiant Industries
Truck-portable nuclear microreactors to replace diesel
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $575M
Raspberry Pi
Low-cost single-board computers and in-house microcontrollers
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- —
Re:Build Manufacturing
Network of US factories built to modernize domestic production
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $600M
Rebellions
AI inference accelerator chips for data centers
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $850M
RingConn
Smart rings for sleep and health tracking
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- $5.4M
River EV
Electric scooters designed and built in India
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $68M
Rivian
Electric pickups, SUVs and delivery vans
- Team
- 10,000+
- Raised
- $24.2B
Roborock
Robot vacuums and smart home cleaning appliances
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $894M
RoboSense
Digital lidar and perception sensors for robots and vehicles
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- —
Rocket Lab
Small launch, spacecraft and the upcoming Neutron rocket
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $1.1B
Rokid
AR and AI glasses
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $682M
Rondo Energy
Industrial heat batteries for decarbonization
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $162M
Sabi Agri
Electric tractors and agricultural robots
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- $10.2M
Salience Labs
All-optical photonic switches for AI datacenters
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $41.5M
SambaNova Systems
Reconfigurable dataflow AI systems
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $2.5B
Samsara
Connected sensors and cameras for fleets and industrial sites
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $1.7B
Sanctuary AI
General-purpose humanoid robots
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $91.6M
Saronic
Autonomous naval vessels, from small drone boats to 180 ft
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $2.6B
Seeed Studio
Dev boards, sensor modules and small-batch PCB assembly
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- —
Shield AI
AI pilots and the V-BAT vertical-takeoff drone
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $3.4B
SiFive
Commercial RISC-V processor cores for chipmakers to license
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $766M
SiMa.ai
Edge AI system-on-chip for physical AI
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $355M
Simple Energy
Electric scooters and motorcycles from Bengaluru
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $119M
SiPearl
European high-performance processors for supercomputing
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $152M
Skydio
Autonomous drones and docks for defense and public safety
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $850M
Skyroot Aerospace
Small satellite launch vehicles
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $160M
Slate Auto
Low-cost, customizable electric pickup
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $1.4B
Snapmaker
Modular machines that switch between 3D printing, laser and CNC
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $151M
Standard Bots
AI-native industrial robot arms
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $289M
Stoke Space
Building Nova, a rocket designed to be fully reusable
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $1.4B
Sunfire
Industrial electrolyzers for green hydrogen
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $1B
Synchron
Brain-computer interface implanted through blood vessels
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $345M
SynSense
Neuromorphic processors and vision modules
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $53.9M
Syntiant
Ultra-low-power neural decision processors
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $136M
Teenage Engineering
Synthesizers, samplers and pocket music gear with bold design
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $12M
Tensordyne
AI inference compute systems
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $211M
Tenstorrent
RISC-V and AI processors with open-source software stacks
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $3B
The Exploration Company
Reusable space capsules for cargo and crew
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $680M
Twelve
Electrochemical CO2 conversion into fuels and chemicals
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $787M
UBTECH Robotics
Humanoid and service robots
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- —
Ultrahuman
Smart rings and metabolic health wearables
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $115M
Ultraviolette Automotive
High-performance electric motorcycles
- Team
- 500+
- Raised
- $75M
Unistellar
App-connected smart telescopes
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- $2.4M
Unitree Robotics
Low-cost quadrupeds and humanoids built at high volume
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $290M
Vaonis
Smart telescopes and automated observation stations
- Team
- 10+
- Raised
- $4.6M
Varda Space Industries
Capsules that process pharmaceuticals in orbit and return
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $329M
Vast
Commercial space stations, starting with Haven-1
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $300M
Vay
Teledriven electric cars delivered on demand
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $192M
Vayyar Imaging
4D imaging radar sensors
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $296M
Vention
Online platform for designing and ordering factory automation
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $262M
Voltera
Benchtop printers that draw circuits with conductive ink
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- —
Waabi
Generative-AI autonomous trucking
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $1B
Waymo
Driverless robotaxis operating in multiple U.S. cities
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $27.3B
Wayve
Embodied-AI autonomous driving
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $2.5B
Wheel.me
Autonomous wheels for moving heavy objects
- Team
- 50+
- Raised
- $21.9M
WHOOP
Screenless strap that turns heart data into strain and recovery
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $980M
Wingcopter
Electric delivery drones with tilt-rotor design
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $119M
Wingtra
VTOL mapping drones for professional surveying
- Team
- 100+
- Raised
- $67.6M
Withings
Connected scales, hybrid watches and home health monitors
- Team
- 200+
- Raised
- $93.8M
XREAL
Consumer augmented reality glasses
- Team
- —
- Raised
- —
Yulu
Electric two-wheelers on subscription for delivery riders
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $239M
Zipline
Autonomous drones that deliver packages and medical supplies
- Team
- 1,000+
- Raised
- $2.3B