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The Self-Hosting Company
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Top Hardware Startups
This list has 176 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 46 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (99), New York (8), and London (7). Largest teams: Flock Safety, Mashgin, and CoLab. Latest round: CircuitHub raised $25.5M (May 13, 2026).
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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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The Cursor for Chip Design - Delivering Silicon-Ready Chip Designs…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Waymo for excavators
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Using VLMs to Catch Damage
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Your personal context, securely portable across every AI app.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Making Diamond Semiconductors
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Drop-in robotic labor that works on Day 1
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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AI-Native Insurance for Frontier Tech
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The AI Operating System for Auto Shops.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI tools for the chips your AI runs on
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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World's Earliest Test for Alzheimer's Biomarkers
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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A consumer brain-computer interface you can map to anything.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Self-improving inference workstation
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HQ: Milan, Italy
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voice-first hardware interface for human-agent interaction
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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a phone where AI is the interface
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The pit crew for machines and robots.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Pelvic floor fitness made easy
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HQ: Chicago, IL, United States
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Faster processors for solving NP-complete problems
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HQ: San Diego, CA, United States
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Building and Protecting an Exciting Future
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Camera-free AI glasses. Your AI, out in the world.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Force-sensing wristband for training robotic AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Actuators for Physical AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Android for drones
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Protonet provides the easiest way for a small business to run its own…
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YC W16Early stage
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Autonomous Hardware Testing
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S26Early stage
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Resin helps engineers design electronics faster and more reliably
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC F26Early stage
North
Acquired
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Wearable computing hardware: biosignal gesture recognition
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Proxy
Acquired
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Smart ring digital wallet
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Quell
Acquired
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Get fit fighting your way through a fantasy world.
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
Senic
Acquired
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Simple Controls for Sonos, Philips Hue and other Smart Home products
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Nebia
Acquired
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Nebia is a breakthrough shower system, based on a premium experience,…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Rain Neuromorphics
Acquired
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We build artificial intelligence processors inspired by the brain.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Upverter
Acquired
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The future of hardware design. A marketplace for hardware engineering…
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