What they do:
Autonomous trucks to fully automate long-haul freight shipping
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HQ: Seoul, South Korea
Top Industrials Startups
This list has 485 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 139 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (237), Los Angeles (40), and New York (21). Largest teams: Cruise, Relativity Space, and Tractian. Latest round: HyLight raised €13M (Oct 12, 2026).
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Vorticity
Hiring
What they do:
The Fastest Scientific Computing Platform on the Planet
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Kalam Labs
Hiring
What they do:
Autonomous Stratospheric UAVs
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HQ: India
AstroForge
Hiring
What they do:
We Mine Asteroids
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
Posh
Hiring
What they do:
Rapidly deployable energy solutions for modern commercial and…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Olympian Motors
Hiring
What they do:
Next-generation, modular electric vehicles
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Vendra
Hiring
What they do:
Custom Parts, Manufactured in America 🇺🇸
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Orbital Operations
Hiring
What they do:
High Thrust Space Vehicles for Satellite Defense
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
Proception Inc
Hiring
What they do:
Making humanoids dexterous enough to thread a needle
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Building AGI that can innovate.
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HQ: Remote
Intelligence Factory
Hiring
What they do:
Human Intelligence for Robots
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
What they do:
Robots that feed the world - robotic harvesting and analytics
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HQ: Pittsburgh, PA, United States
What they do:
Last-mile delivery for satellites.
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HQ: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Enerjazz
Hiring
What they do:
Making electric vehicle batteries affordable
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Airhart Aeronautics
Hiring
What they do:
Airplanes anyone can fly
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
Splash Inc.
Hiring
What they do:
Autonomous patrol-boats for National Security
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
What they do:
Automated factory to produce insect protein for farm animals.
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
Orangewood Labs
Hiring
What they do:
Orangewood builds amazing robots that people want
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
BotBuilt
Hiring
What they do:
We use robots to build houses.
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HQ: Southern Pines, NC, United States
TransAstra Corporation
Hiring
What they do:
Orbital logistics: Unleashing space industry, from Earth to asteroids
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
Pivot Robotics
Hiring
What they do:
AI for Robot Arms in Factories
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Bucket Robotics
Hiring
What they do:
Defect detection for manufacturing built from CAD and synthetic data.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Discovering new pesticides with AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
GroundControl
Hiring
What they do:
Vertical AI for highly-regulated manufacturing
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Wardstone
Hiring
What they do:
The Modular Interceptor Platform
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
What they do:
We deploy autonomous drones to 911 calls. Our software gives first…
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HQ: Houston, TX, United States
Yummy Future
Hiring
What they do:
We build robotic workforces for the food & beverage industry.
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HQ: Champaign, IL, United States
What they do:
Predictive Explorer and Driller for Critical Metal Deposits
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Providing clean, safe, virus free air for homes, buildings and cars
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HQ: Hong Kong
Ohm
Hiring
What they do:
Ohm helps engineering teams accelerate hardware development & testing.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Nectar
Hiring
What they do:
Manage energy cost & usage with AI for facility & sustainability teams
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Navier AI
Hiring
What they do:
Agent-Driven Engineering
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Yondu
Hiring
What they do:
Robots to Automate Fulfillment
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
Theseus
Hiring
What they do:
GPS Denied Navigation for Drones
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Apolink
Hiring
What they do:
24/7 satellite connectivity in low Earth orbit
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
MorphoAI
Hiring
What they do:
Software tool for designing robots and machines
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HQ: New York, NY, United States