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Gigascale Nanomanufacturing
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Top Manufacturing Startups
This list has 486 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 109 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (223), New York (26), and Los Angeles (22). Largest teams: Relativity Space, Ginkgo Bioworks, and Gecko Robotics. Latest round: Scimplify raised $25M (Oct 15, 2026).
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Datadog for industrial robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The fastest way to launch product catalogs.
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
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A new kind of ERP system for factories
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HQ: Singapore
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Robots that repair roads
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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PCB component librarian
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HQ: Zürich, Switzerland
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We assemble PCBs in under 48 hours for quantities under 10
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Open-source semi-humanoid dev kit → home data → autonomy → 20h/wk
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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AI for the physical world
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI-native software for managing rail and bulk operations.
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HQ: Olathe, KS, United States
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Digital transformation for real economy businesses
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Large-scale real-world robot & human data for embodied AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Machine intelligence for American Welding
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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AI-automated factory for PCBAs
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AI mobile app that helps factory technicians fix broken machines
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HQ: Germany
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Building the Data Infrastructure layer for Physical AI.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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USA-made magnetics for robotics and defense.
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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Making chemicals 100,000x faster
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Evals for robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Discover novel defense related materials/molecules.
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HQ: Haifa, Israel
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Embodied Scientific Intelligence
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Maximum information per experiment, minimum experiments per conclusion
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HQ: Lund, Sweden
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An AI bracelet that remembers your day and acts before you ask.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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100% automated inspection for consumer electronics parts
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The Self-Hosting Company
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Bioengineered kidneys for patients with kidney failure
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HQ: San Diego, CA, United States
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Build factory ready tech packs in minutes.
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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World Models for Aviation MROs
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HQ: Pune, India
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Building low-cost cruise missiles
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Datadog for robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Robotic Training Data at Scale
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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Quick-turn bent tube shop for aerospace, energy, industrials
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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AI-native remote operations center for hardware fleets
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Distributed energy infrastructure unlocking grid power to data centers
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
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Robots for the inspection and maintenance of data centers
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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Life sciences reagents and software
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States