Advanced Manufacturing Startups

Qarbon Aerospace is a manufacturing solutions provider that partners with customers to execute aerospace manufacturing projects. The company operates from Milledgeville, Georgia.

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Qardus provides Sharia-compliant fixed income investment opportunities by funding established UK small and medium-sized businesses through a Murabaha-based financing model. Investors earn fixed returns as borrowing businesses make repayments, while diversifying capital across multiple sectors including healthcare, manufacturing, and retail.

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QiO builds AI-powered software, including its Foresight platform, that helps industrial and energy-intensive organisations improve asset and process performance and reduce energy use and carbon emissions. It offers configurable analytics solutions aimed at driving efficiency, optimisation, and decarbonisation for industrial clients.

1 investor

Kit Co., Ltd. (Qit Group) is a Japanese holding company overseeing the management and administration of its group companies, with a stated focus on technology innovation and manufacturing ("monozukuri"). It operates as the parent of several subsidiaries across Japan.

1 investor

A full-service metal fabrication company serving utility, industrial, and commercial customers with custom parts, assemblies, and finished products from prototypes to high-volume production. In-house capabilities include laser cutting, metal forming, welding, powder coating, mechanical assembly, and engineering support, including UL-listed electrical enclosures.

1 investor

Qpinch develops a patented heat transformation technology that converts waste heat from industrial processes into usable process heat without electricity consumption. The system serves large-scale processing plants in refineries, petrochemical, food and beverage, recycling, and carbon capture industries seeking to reduce CO2 emissions and improve energy efficiency.

1 investor

Qtech is a South Korean materials company founded in 2021 that develops quantum dot display (QD) materials, perovskite solar cells, and retroreflective materials used in applications such as automotive and display devices. It operates a Pyeongtaek factory with a QD process line and a mass-production line for Mini LED reflective film.

1 investor

QUALIS is an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company that designs and manufactures electronic and electromechanical assemblies for customers in automotive, medical device, telecommunications, and other industrial sectors. The company offers end-to-end services including product design, development, certification, mass production, and technical support.

1 investor

Qualiteas develops AI and computer vision technology to improve industrial asset inspection and management processes. It serves industrial asset management operations and was founded by science graduates from Memorial University.

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Quality Harvest Foods is a contract manufacturer of frozen bakery items including filled sticks, handhelds, and bite-sized snacks with various sweet and savory fillings. The company serves retail, foodservice, and club store customers with individually frozen, fully finished products in customizable packaging formats.

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QualityFry manufactures automated professional deep fryers for commercial kitchens and foodservice establishments, designed to reduce labor, energy consumption, and oil usage while maintaining consistent food quality. The company serves restaurants, hotels, bars, convenience stores, and other food service businesses across hospitality and retail sectors.

1 investor

Qualtec provides quality analysis and reliability testing services including failure analysis, power cycle testing, product evaluation, micro fabrication, sample preparation, and bio-pharmaceutical testing. It also offers contract research, R&D, and consulting focused on manufacturing quality and environmental sustainability.

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Quanos IQ Platform integrates service-related information from multiple systems (ERP, CAD, DMS, etc.) and delivers role-specific knowledge to technicians, customers, and support staff. It targets manufacturers seeking to centralize technical documentation, spare parts catalogs, and service workflows while leveraging AI for intelligent information delivery.

1 investor

QuantEQ develops ultra-compact, high-power short-pulsed diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) lasers for material processing tasks such as marking, micro-drilling, micro-cutting, and surface structuring. The lasers span Infrared, Green, UV, and Deep-UV wavelengths and can operate independently or as integrated beam sources, including battery-powered use in small or robotic systems, for industrial and retail customers.

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The company develops coating inkjet systems designed for automated, high-speed industrial production, engineered to handle functional, high-viscosity materials. It also offers services spanning from fluid validation and sample printing to full production line integration.

1 investor

Optimizing energy allocation and purchase decisions.

1 investor

A full-service metal fabrication company serving utility, industrial, and commercial customers, offering custom metal components, powder coating, mechanical assembly, and specialized products like UL-listed electrical enclosures. It handles work ranging from one-off prototypes to high-volume production with in-house engineering, laser cutting, metal forming, and welding, and is based in Coffee County, Tennessee.

1 investor

Quartic provides an industrial AI and DataOps platform that connects OT and IT systems to turn plant signals into real-time decision intelligence for manufacturers. It serves regulated and process manufacturing sectors such as pharmaceuticals, CPG, beverages, and advanced materials, offering predictive process control, quality monitoring, and yield optimization.

1 investor

Quest Global offers end-to-end Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and digitization services for engineering companies, leveraging AI and low-code technologies to optimize product development from concept through operations. The company provides consulting, system integration, customization, support, and data connectivity solutions across multiple industries.

1 investor

Queue0 is an on-device intelligence platform for industrial machines that connects PLCs, robots, sensors, and software using open standards such as Web of Things, OpenAPI, and OPC-UA. It offers a visual drag-and-drop workflow engine and on-device AI agents to orchestrate and automate multi-device manufacturing processes for developers and industrial operators.

1 investor

Qvantum manufactures heat pumps for commercial applications, offering models for air-to-water and liquid-to-water heat exchange systems with integrated control technology.

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R.M.Williams sells leather care products including polishes, cleaners, conditioners, brushes, and boot trees designed for the maintenance of leather boots.

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R3 develops industrial FFF (fused filament fabrication) 3D printers, including the R3 Printer and R3 Printer Ultra, built for high-temperature and reinforced polymer production using materials such as PEEK, PEKK, and PEI/Ultem. The machines are designed and built in the USA for production applications requiring high uptime and throughput.

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R3 Solutions manufactures industrial wireless hardware for real-time control and functional safety in manufacturing and continuous process environments. The company designs ruggedized communication devices built to operate reliably under harsh industrial conditions.

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