69 Best Hardware Manufacturing Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Hardware Manufacturing Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 3,786 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $25.7b. The average funding per company in this subset is $372.1m.

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READY Robotics logo

READY Robotics

READY Robotics is a company developing an industrial brand-agnostic operating system (Forge/OS) for industrial robots and automation.

7

Funding Rounds

$60.6m

Money raised

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Humane

Humane develops and commercializes consumer hardware, software, and services.

4

Funding Rounds

$230.0m

Money raised

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Pembient

Pembient uses advances in biotechnology to fabricate horn and other wildlife products to combat the threat to endangered species.

1

Funding Rounds

$50.0k

Money raised

Impossible Foods logo

Impossible Foods

Impossible Foods is a plant-based meat company making meat and dairy products that are made to look and feel like animal products by manufacturing heme, the oxygen binding molecule found in blood, using engineered yeast grown in bioreactors.

11

Funding Rounds

$1.9b

Money raised

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Pitney Bowes

Pitney Bowes is a Stamford, Connecticut-based company founded in 1920 by Walter Bowes.

3

Funding Rounds

$900.0k

Money raised

Cerebras logo

Cerebras

Cerebras is an AI company building computer systems designed to accelerate AI workflows.

6

Funding Rounds

$722.0m

Money raised

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Made In Space

Company developing space manufacturing technologies to support exploration, national security, and sustainable space settlement.

3

Funding Rounds

Bitmain logo

Bitmain

Bitmain is a Beijing-based multinational semiconductor company, founded in 2013, that manufactures products for blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

3

Funding Rounds

$764.7m

Money raised

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C3 AI

C3 AI is an enterprise artificial intelligence software company providing a family of integrated products for accelerating digital transformation.

7

Funding Rounds

$875.5m

Money raised

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Rigetti Computing

Rigetti Computing is a quantum computing company based in Berkeley, California.

10

Funding Rounds

$269.5m

Money raised

Helion Energy logo

Helion Energy

Helion Energy is a fusion power company aiming to build the world's first fusion power plant.

6

Funding Rounds

$577.8m

Money raised

Perfect Day Foods logo

Perfect Day Foods

Perfect Day Foods (formerly Muufri) engineered yeast capable of producing the proteins found in cows milk. They use these proteins to make their own line of animal-free dairy products.

7

Funding Rounds

$711.5m

Money raised

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Density (company)

Density is a San Francisco-based company building a people-counting system to measure the number of people in or passing through a physical space such as a hallway, lobby, or conference hall.

9

Funding Rounds

$217.2m

Money raised

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Desktop Metal

Desktop Metal is a Burlington, Massachusetts-based metal 3D printing company founded in 2015 by Ric Fulop, Jonah Myerberg, and Ely Sachs.

8

Funding Rounds

$741.4m

Money raised

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Augury (company)

Augury is a B2B company developing hardware and software solutions to help monitor and diagnose a machine's health through wireless sensors and artificial intelligence capabilities.

7

Funding Rounds

$294.0m

Money raised

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Zayo Group

Zayo Group offers bandwidth infrastructure services across various markets, delivering lit services and dark fiber products. It supports wireline and wireless customers, data centers, and government agencies with a robust network infrastructure. The company also provides carrier-neutral colocation facilities to enhance connectivity options.

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Pasqal

Pasqal is a company building programmable quantum simulators and quantum computers made of 2D and 3D arrays of neutral atoms.

5

Funding Rounds

$140.5m

Money raised

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IS-Wireless

Provider of 4G and 5G mobile network solutions.

4

Funding Rounds

$6.7m

Money raised

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DSM

A bio-based chemical manufacturer focusing on human and animal nutrition, health, and materials markets.

1

Funding Rounds

$12.5m

Money raised

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HYPRES

HYPRES is a developer of superconducting microelectronics for defense, wireless, and optical network industries.

1

Funding Rounds

$50.0k

Money raised

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Irvine Sensors Corporation (ISC)

ISC provides cybersecurity solutions as well as hardware and software products for enterprise threat management.

153

Funding Rounds

$59.5m

Money raised

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Labster

Developer of fully interactive advanced lab simulations designed to create scalable science training software. The company's simulations offer a virtual laboratory based on mathematical algorithms that support open-ended investigations along with molecular three-dimension animations, quiz questions, and background theory.

6

Funding Rounds

$168.0m

Money raised

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Gowin Semiconductor Corp.

Gowin Semiconductor Corp. is a manfucaturer of programmable logic devices based in Shanghai.

1

Funding Rounds

$132.0m

Money raised

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Matterport

U.S-based 3D media technology company providing worldwide end-to-end virtual media solutions.

5

Funding Rounds

$60.2m

Money raised

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Chai Biotechnologies

Chai Biotechnologies (also known as Chai and Chai Bio) is a biotechnology company building real-time PCR, qPCR and devices that detect pathogens, speciate meat and genotype DNA.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.4m

Money raised

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Front (company)

A software company making a workplace email communication platform for remote and office work.

6

Funding Rounds

$200.0m

Money raised

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Rain AI

Rain AI is a company developing a new AI compute platform by co-designing every layer of the AI stack.

6

Funding Rounds

$30.0m

Money raised

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Tenstorrent

Tenstorrent is a Canadian artificial intelligence and machine learning technology company specializing in AI architectures focused on scalable deep learning and adaptability.

5

Funding Rounds

$234.6m

Money raised

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Seeq

Seeq is a company that offers an application that processes data analytics.

7

Funding Rounds

$119.2m

Money raised

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Califia Farms

Califia Farms makes plant-based dairy products (primarily almond based) such as plant-based milks, plant-based creamers, juices, and dairy-free probiotic yoghurts. The company was founded in 2010 by Greg Steltenpohl and is located in San Joaquin Valley, California.

4

Funding Rounds

$295.0m

Money raised

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Planet A Foods

Planet A Foods is a cocoa-free chocolate maker founded in 2021 by Sara Marquart.

2

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

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Sight Machine

Sight Machine's manufacturing software platform uses an artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help improve quality and efficiency across a manufacturing enterprise.

6

Funding Rounds

$53.9m

Money raised

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Physna

Physna is a Cincinnati-based 3D modelling software company offering 3D models understandable by software applications for manufacturing, engineering, product design, 3D printing, augmented reality and virtual reality applications.

4

Funding Rounds

$84.9m

Money raised

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Via Separations

Via Separations is a Watertown, Massachusetts-based company founded in 2016 by Shreya Dave.

5

Funding Rounds

$43.9m

Money raised

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Waymo

Waymo is a technology company developing autonomous car technology and is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

3

Funding Rounds

$5.5b

Money raised

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Lazarus 3D

Lazarus 3D provides medical training and surgery rehearsal services through their soft-tissue 3D printed models built using MRI or CT images of patient anatomy.

1

Funding Rounds

$100.0k

Money raised

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D-Wave Systems

D-Wave Systems is a Canadian company that designs and manufactures quantum computing and superconducting electronics, and AI software.

11

Funding Rounds

$185.7m

Money raised

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Singularity University

Singularity University is a startup accelerator focusing on commercializing technologies developed in research facilities.

5

Funding Rounds

$32.0m

Money raised

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Boston Dynamics

An engineering and robotics design company founded in 1992 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company is engaged in the creation of robots and the development of software to simulate human behavior. Among the clients are SpaceX and the US Army.

1

Funding Rounds

$37.0m

Money raised

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Stoke Space

Stoke Space is a company manufacturing space vehicle components and performing scientific and technological services associated with the space industry.

4

Funding Rounds

$269.4m

Money raised

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Boom Supersonic

Boom Supersonic is a Colorado-based company developing supersonic commercial aircraft.

8

Funding Rounds

$269.6m

Money raised

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HireEZ

HireEZ, formerly Hiretual, is a Mountain View, California-based developer of an artificial intelligence-powered recruitment platform to help companies find employees.

4

Funding Rounds

$45.5m

Money raised

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OneWeb

OneWeb is a telecommunications company.

4

Funding Rounds

$4.1b

Money raised

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MachineMetrics

MachineMetrics is a developer of industrial IoT analytics and a machine monitoring platform.

6

Funding Rounds

$37.7m

Money raised

Meatable logo

Meatable

Meatable is a cellular agriculture company making 100 percent clean meat products.

11

Funding Rounds

$256.5m

Money raised

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Scintilla Iceland

Scintilla Iceland is an interior textile design company based in Reykjavik, Iceland.

2

Funding Rounds

$133.4k

Money raised

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Pensando Systems

Pensando Systems is a company developing edge computing and cloud computing services for enterprises and cloud providers.

6

Funding Rounds

$613.0m

Money raised

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Cypherock Wallet

Cypherock is building a hardware wallet that does not require a seed phrase.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

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Hologram (company)

Hologram is a company with a platform for building Internet of Things type products

6

Funding Rounds

$80.5m

Money raised

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Galgus

Galgus is a Camas, Seville-based wireless and Wi-Fi technology company developing systems used by OEMs and system integrators for Wi-Fi networks.

4

Funding Rounds

$13.3m

Money raised

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Histosonics, Inc.

HistoSonics is a venture-backed medical device start-up company developing a non-invasive sonic beam therapy platform and procedure using the science of histotripsy. Histotripsy utilizes the pressure created by focused sound energy to liquify and destroy targeted tissue, including diseased tissue and tumors, at sub-cellular levels.

5

Funding Rounds

$218.1m

Money raised

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OQ Technology

5G satellite telecom operator for global IoT connectivity.

6

Funding Rounds

$55.9m

Money raised

Hylio logo

Hylio

Hylio is a technology company making drones for aerial crop spraying.

1

Funding Rounds

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OPSWAT

OPSWAT is a cybersecurity company founded in 2002. Based in San Francisco, CA, they focus on cyberthreat prevention including a focus on malware, sensitive information, and application vulnerabilities.

1

Funding Rounds

$125.0m

Money raised

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Quandela

Quandela is a Paris-based company developing optical quantum technology integrated into photonic chips.

3

Funding Rounds

$88.0m

Money raised

Mosa Meat logo

Mosa Meat

Mosa Meat is a Dutch start-up company that makes and commercializes clean meat, meat made by growing animal cells directly rather than slaughtering animals.

6

Funding Rounds

$138.2m

Money raised

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Casper (company)

Casper is a memory-foam mattress retailer.

6

Funding Rounds

$330.5m

Money raised

SimScale logo

SimScale

SimScale is a cloud-based CAE software that helps users perform simulations of CAD models.

9

Funding Rounds

$90.0m

Money raised

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The EVERY Company

The EVERY Company (formally Clara Foods) is a biotechnology company founded by two New Harvest community members David Anchel and Arturo Elizondo in 2014. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and manufactures animal- free proteins using using yeast bio-fermentation techniques fore use in food products.

5

Funding Rounds

$191.8m

Money raised

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Membrion, Inc.

Membrion is a Seattle-based clean technology company and developer of flexible ceramic ion exchange membranes capable of being used in wastewater cleaning and in energy storage solutions.

10

Funding Rounds

$28.5m

Money raised

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Starship Technologies

Starship Technologies is an Estonian company developing small self-driving robotic delivery vehicles. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with engineering operations in Tallinn, Estonia, and a satellite team in Helsinki, Finland. Starship also has offices in London, UK, Germany, Washington, DC and Mountain View, California.

8

Funding Rounds

$354.4m

Money raised

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Astrocast

Astrocast is an end-to-end satellite IoT network provider, manufacturer, and operator.

4

Funding Rounds

$23.8m

Money raised

Agolo logo

Agolo

An artificial intelligence company developing a platform that helps analysts process and understand information.

4

Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

Allbirds logo

Allbirds

Allbirds is a startup company manufacturing wool footwear.

8

Funding Rounds

$2.0b

Money raised

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Beekeeper (company)

An information technology company offering an operational communications platform.

13

Funding Rounds

$277.5m

Money raised

Spiber, Inc. logo

Spiber, Inc.

Spiber, Inc is a private biomaterials company using industrial biotechnology to develop silk.

13

Funding Rounds

$1.1b

Money raised

Help Scout logo

Help Scout

Help Scout is a company developing a software platform for customer service.

4

Funding Rounds

$13.0m

Money raised

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Construction Robotics

Construction Robotics is a company that develops robotics and automation equipment.

3

Funding Rounds

$1.7m

Money raised

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AMSilk

AMSilk is a Munich-based synthetic biology company that produces fibers made from the same protein as spider silk.

6

Funding Rounds

$129.3m

Money raised