Advanced Manufacturing Startups

CLO is 3D garment design software that lets fashion designers visualize the fabric, fit, and silhouette of clothing in real time. It supports virtual sampling and remote collaboration to reduce time-to-market and physical sample waste for apparel design teams.

3 investors

CloudWorx builds browser-based digital twins that visualize and monitor industrial assets in real-time without requiring GPU servers, serving manufacturing plants, utilities, ports, and logistics operations.

3 investors

Cognite provides an Industrial AI and data platform that ingests, contextualizes, and manages operational data for industrial teams to optimize production, reduce downtime, and apply AI across workflows. It serves enterprises in asset-heavy industries such as oil and gas, chemicals, energy, and manufacturing.

3 investors

Copia provides Git-based version control and disaster recovery software for industrial automation and manufacturing. The platform enables manufacturers and distribution operations to modernize their code lifecycle management and operational resilience.

3 investors

Cuby Technologies is a full-stack technology company that develops hardware and software for building homes. It positions itself in the construction technology space with an integrated approach to home manufacturing.

3 investors

CURA develops electrochemical technology to reduce the process CO2 emissions released during limestone calcination in cement production. The company targets cement producers with an upstream approach designed to integrate with existing plants rather than requiring material substitution or plant replacement.

3 investors

CVector is an AI-native margin optimization platform that continuously ingests real-time plant, equipment, and market data to generate dollar-scored operating recommendations for industrial plant operators. It serves chemicals and industrial gases, dispatchable power, and metals and foundries operations, integrating with existing SCADA, DCS, and historian systems.

3 investors

Dataspan.ai provides agentic visual AI agents that monitor manufacturing production lines in real time using existing cameras, triggering alerts and guiding operator actions without adding new physical sensors. Shopfloor experts build these visual agents using plain language to track machine, process, and operator activity and improve OEE, downtime, and throughput.

3 investors

DeepSilicon develops software and hardware tools that enable neural networks to run with improved speed and reduced computational costs.

3 investors

Demand Driven Technologies offers Intuiflow, software for demand planning, forecasting, and inventory management aimed at manufacturing and supply chain teams. The product helps companies reduce excess inventory and expedited shipments by improving forecast stability and operating resilience.

3 investors

Descycle develops metals processing infrastructure and closed-loop manufacturing solutions with digital traceability for supply chain resilience. The company serves original equipment manufacturers and defense sectors seeking domestic metals supply capabilities.

3 investors

Deskera offers a cloud-based all-in-one business management platform that combines ERP, MRP, CRM, and HR/time-tracking functions for companies. It targets CEOs and business leaders, with industry configurations for manufacturing sectors such as industrial, automotive, food and beverage, and apparel.

3 investors

DexMat produces Galvorn, an advanced carbon material that combines high electrical and thermal conductivity with strength, light weight, flexibility, and recyclability as an alternative to copper and other metals. It targets industries including aerospace and defense, automotive and electrification, and energy and transmission for wire, cable, and conductor applications.

3 investors

DigiFabster provides software for manufacturing shops that offers instant quoting and an eCommerce storefront for additive, CNC, and sheet metal manufacturing businesses. It helps these shops process quotes quickly, sell online around the clock, and collect payments.

3 investors

DTE builds LP-LIBS analyzers that perform real-time elemental composition analysis directly from molten metals, delivering reference-grade results from liquid aluminum in under 60 seconds. Its systems serve the metals value chain—from primary smelters to recycling plants and manufacturers—for process control in metal production and recycling.

3 investors

Efference builds robotic-grade perception and compute hardware and devices for distributed data collection and real-time inference, serving robotics companies and applications at scale.

3 investors

Eigen Innovations applies AI-powered thermal vision to manufacturing, using thermal imaging and machine learning to detect product defects (such as voids, adhesion issues, and material inconsistencies) and continuously monitor equipment and process temperatures. It serves manufacturers across industries including plastics, metals, adhesives, building materials, and food and beverages for inline quality inspection and condition monitoring.

3 investors

Electric Fish builds products for a decentralized electric grid system to enable energy independence. The company operates in the energy and critical infrastructure sector.

3 investors

Electroninks develops metal complex conductive inks for semiconductor packaging, printed circuit boards, consumer electronics, and wearables that achieve conductivities up to 90% of bulk metal at low annealing temperatures. The company provides patented formulations designed to replace traditional nanoparticle inks and sputtered metals while reducing manufacturing costs, energy use, and waste.

3 investors

Elementary Robotics builds a factory AI stack for automated visual quality inspection, combining machine vision hardware (cameras, lighting, edge controllers), self-training defect-detection AI (VisionStream), and a cloud platform (QualityOS) for traceability and analytics. It serves manufacturers across industries seeking to inspect production parts and reduce defect escapes.

3 investors

Empirium is a B2B marketplace that connects verified buyers and suppliers in critical industries, enabling sourcing of materials, components, manufacturing services, and finished systems with compliance oversight for U.S. commercial and government procurement.

3 investors

Eureka provides AI vision software for 3D picking automation in factories, handling tasks like picking items from bins and conveyors, stacking pallets, sorting SKUs, and loading machines such as CNCs and presses. It targets manufacturers seeking to automate repetitive manual material-handling tasks.

3 investors

EverCurrent is an AI platform for hardware product organizations and engineering teams that integrates with tools like CAD, MES, Slack, email, Drive, and task management to unify data and manage change. It tracks changes across design, requirements, engineering, and manufacturing with full traceability and surfaces risks, operating with SOC 2 and ITAR compliance.

3 investors

Exlens builds exOS, an AI-native operations platform with a reasoning layer (SureLock) that sits on top of existing EAM, SCADA, historian, and ERP systems, plus standalone modules for maintenance, inventory, manufacturing execution, and quality. It predicts equipment failures, traces root cause, and optimizes maintenance and scheduling for industrial operators in manufacturing, utilities, water, energy, and infrastructure.

3 investors