Advanced Manufacturing Startups

Koch is a diversified global holding company with businesses spanning energy, consumer goods, technology, communications, healthcare, and real estate, serving customers and markets across more than 50 countries. The company operates through a portfolio of subsidiaries guided by principles-based management focused on long-term mutual benefit.

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Kodiak Cakes makes whole grain breakfast foods sold in retail stores. The company also runs a give-back program called Keep it Wild that partners with conservation non-profits.

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Köttermann designs and manufactures custom laboratory furnishings, including fume hoods, steel lab furniture, media supply systems, and hazardous-materials storage cabinets. It also offers control systems like the TouchTronic fume hood controller and provides consulting and installation services for research, educational, and clinical labs.

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The Köttermann Group is a coalition of European manufacturers providing laboratory infrastructure and Design/Build solutions for laboratories worldwide, serving both public and commercial sectors. It operates as a holding structure coordinating its member companies and is part of the private investment firm BHM group.

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Kogent Surgical is a medical device manufacturer that designs and produces microsurgical instrumentation, including disposable and reusable non-stick bipolar forceps, lighted suctions, scissors, and titanium micro-surgery instruments. Its products focus on electrosurgery and surgical site illumination for microsurgeons and their patients.

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Kojima Seisakusho manufactures joints (couplings) for concrete piles and winged steel-pipe piles used as foundation piles for civil engineering and building structures. Its products support infrastructure such as houses, factories, warehouses, schools, hospitals, and office buildings, produced to customer-specific standards on a made-to-order basis.

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KOMP-ACT manufactures linear motors and positioning/vibrating pusher hardware components for industrial automation applications. The company specializes in fieldbus-integrated actuators and motion control devices.

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KOMPAN designs and manufactures outdoor playgrounds and outdoor fitness equipment for community spaces, serving children, adults, and active seniors. The company builds inclusive, durable outdoor environments using research-based and universal design principles.

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Falkor (formerly Kongsberg Digital) provides industrial intelligence platforms and digital twin technology for asset-intensive industries including oil & gas, renewables, utilities, and chemicals. The company develops IoT solutions, agentic AI, and automation workflows to optimize operations, enhance safety, and improve efficiency across complex industrial environments.

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Kongsberg Ferrotech provides remotely operated subsea robots for inspection, repair, and maintenance (IRM) of underwater installations, including in situ metal-to-metal 3D printing repairs. It serves the energy, maritime, and offshore renewables sectors.

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Korall Engineering is a design technology firm specializing in industrial design optimization and additive manufacturing solutions across oil & gas, maritime, automotive, and medical industries.

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KORE Power (T1) is developing energy storage and battery manufacturing in Texas, with a headquarters in Austin and a factory south of Dallas. The company focuses on advancing the transition to new energy technologies through domestic U.S. manufacturing.

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Kos is an AI-powered virtual worker that automates critical finance and operations workflows for capital-intensive industrial companies, handling tasks like vendor invoice reconciliation, purchase order generation, and complex financial processes through natural conversation interfaces.

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Company that designs, develops, manufactures, and sells custom equipment for public transportation infrastructure such as railways and buses, including destination/route display devices, along with network construction, system integration, and server setup and management. It has operated for over 70 years and also has experience producing and selling public transit equipment overseas.

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Kovalus develops liquid-solid separation technologies used for product recovery, concentration, purification, and wastewater treatment across a range of industrial process applications. It works with clients to design solutions for purifying and recovering valuable process streams and meeting sustainability goals.

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Kovant builds an enterprise AI platform that models entire job roles as autonomous "foundation agents" — digital employees that run end-to-end business operations such as procurement, supply chain, compliance, and customer operations under human oversight and defined governance. It serves industrial enterprises, with early customers among Nordic industrial companies, and integrates with channels like Teams, Slack, and email.

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KPI Fire provides continuous improvement and idea management software for organizations implementing Lean Six Sigma, DMAIC, and other problem-solving methodologies. The platform helps teams capture, prioritize, and manage improvement ideas and projects while tracking benefits and outcomes.

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Kraftstoff Bikes manufactures custom bicycles that customers design online by selecting frame type, components, and color. The company produces and assembles bikes in-house in Dornbirn, Austria, including powder coating and expert assembly.

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Motion Makers manufactures high-speed synchronous and asynchronous motors for test stands, industrial applications, and vehicle electrification. The company serves automotive, aerospace, research, and industrial sectors requiring precision drive systems and dyno solutions.

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Kremen Group is a Slovenian company made up of businesses operating in cooperation with strategic partners RHI Magnesita CZ and EKW GmbH. It operates under ISO 9001 quality and ISO 14001 environmental standards.

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Kristin Company is a footwear tech company that connects planning, design, sampling, and production through AI-driven shoe design and manufacturing platforms. It serves shoe brands and manufacturers, offering AI design tools, factory matching, production, inspection, and logistics, and also operates its own in-house shoe brands.

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Kriya Materials develops nanoparticle-based coating systems and dispersions for optical applications, covering functions such as anti-reflection, anti-static, anti-fouling and hardcoats. It serves manufacturers across industries including consumer electronics, automotive, solar and photonics, controlling the value chain from nanoparticle synthesis to finished coatings.

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Kruger Products is a North American manufacturer of tissue paper products for household, industrial, and commercial use, with a focus on Canadian consumer brands. It operates 10 manufacturing plants across North America and emphasizes sustainability and community investment.

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KSI Auto Parts supplies quality replacement auto body parts to the automotive industry and has been an industry leader for nearly 40 years. The company operates as both a supplier and partner to customers, with operations spanning multiple regions including Taiwan.

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