Advanced Manufacturing Startups

Zumen is a cloud-based procurement platform designed for discrete manufacturers to manage their end-to-end sourcing, procurement, and purchasing processes, with particular focus on product development and strategic sourcing programs. The platform provides part-level granularity for bill of materials management, supplier relationship management, and real-time spend tracking.

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A Russian dealer of industrial machinery and equipment, supplying machine tools from Chinese and Russian manufacturers (such as ACCURL, BOFENG, and HEAD WaterJet) to production businesses. The company also advises clients on selecting equipment and technology to improve their manufacturing processes.

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Provides a data portal aggregating over a million industrial components from leading manufacturers, most equipped with macros and compliant with the EPLAN Data Standard (EDS), to support engineers designing industrial systems in EPLAN.

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Custom furniture maker producing made-to-measure wardrobes (including sliding-door wardrobes), kitchens, and other cabinet furniture from its own workshop. Serves residential and office customers in Moscow and the Moscow region, offering measurement, design, delivery, and installation.

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Extragent DOS produces dioctyl sulfide, an extractant used for high-precision analysis of gold, silver, and iridium at various processing stages. The reagent is synthesized from imported raw material and is aimed at analytical laboratories in the metallurgical and mining industries.

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Koh Young Technology is a manufacturer of 3D inspection solutions, including SPI (Solder Paste Inspection) and AOI (Automated Optical Inspection) technologies for electronics manufacturing and related industries. The company has held the global market leadership position in inspection equipment since 2006.

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Narnia Labs builds AslanX, a generative and agentic AI platform for manufacturing that automates the repeated design, simulation, and evaluation steps of product development. It generates novel component geometries and predicts their engineering performance in seconds, targeting use cases such as automotive brake parts, wheels, and jet engine brackets.

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The company manufactures precision screwdrivers and related hand tools for professional repair and maintenance work. Products are marketed toward skilled technicians and repair specialists.

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Deediim develops machine vision sensors for surface inspection, using free-illumination and surface-property-imaging technology to detect defects. The system is aimed at industrial quality inspection and manufacturing applications.

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V-Art manufactures proprietary display components and decorative materials for appliances, mobile devices, automotive electronics, and building materials. The company serves major global manufacturers including LG Electronics and Winnex Electronics.

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Bridge Technology is a South Korean construction company that designs and manufactures precast/prestressed concrete (PSC) and steel-composite bridge girder systems, including multi-box girders, curved PSC box girders, PSC-I girders, and through-girder bridges for road and railway projects. It handles bridge construction and installation work.

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Senstone provides authentication solutions optimized for operational technology (OT) environments, addressing user identification and authentication challenges in industrial control systems without requiring legacy device replacement or manufacturer support.

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Sizl provides an AI-powered Manufacturing Execution System (MES) that monitors industrial processes using IIoT sensors, controllers, and vision sensors to improve production efficiency and workplace safety for discrete manufacturers. The platform uses voice recognition for automatic data input and provides equipment monitoring, production tracking, and carbon emission monitoring capabilities.

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IDEAL System (㈜아이디알시스템) designs and installs equipment and engineering systems for post-harvest processing of grains, soybeans, mixed grains, and fresh agricultural produce, including drying, storage, sorting, and packaging facilities. Founded in 1990, it also provides machine-vision sorting for grains and other materials, dust-collection environmental systems, and smart-factory ICT solutions for the agri-food sector.

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Affection (어펙션) manufactures ultra-high-purity ozone generators and systems used in semiconductor manufacturing, having localized production of these components in Korea. The company also provides repair services for its own and third-party (MKS, TMEIC) ozone equipment models.

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NK manufactures marine and environmental equipment including marine fire extinguishing systems, ballast water treatment systems, offshore plant products, and jumbo tubes for the shipbuilding and heavy industry sectors. The company operates its own research institute and positions itself in the global marine, environment, and energy industries.

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LHE designs and manufactures heat exchangers and welded pressure vessels for industrial applications, including plate-type heat exchangers and boiler systems.

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MPROTEK manufactures precision automotive components and semiconductor processing equipment, including turbocharger parts and heating blocks for industrial applications.

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InnerBottle makes a packaging solution featuring an inner container that shrinks as its contents are used, compatible with standard filling equipment and offered in sizes from 30mL to 1,000mL across formats such as color, paper-tube, pulp, refill, spray, and pumpless containers. The design separates contents from the outer container to reduce product residue (tested at 1.24%), limit oxygen permeation, and enable reuse of the cleaned outer container.

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JR Energy Solution is a battery foundry company that supplies high-quality electrodes and cells to clients in the secondary battery market, offers AI-based production data sharing, and builds turnkey electrode factories. It positions itself as a dedicated battery manufacturing solutions provider for battery industry customers.

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CarbonBlack Group is a team of entrepreneurs, operators, and engineers that works with founders to build and scale companies across the physical industry. The team brings experience from venture-backed exits, AI product launches, and scaled manufacturing systems.

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Carima is a South Korean manufacturer of DLP 3D printers, founded in 2000, offering a range of desktop and industrial machines along with materials, slicing software, 3D scanning solutions, and 3D printing training. Its products serve industrial applications and digital dentistry, and are exported through distributors in around 20 countries including the US, Germany, Japan, and Russia.

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KOCETAL® is a polyacetal (POM) copolymer engineering plastic used in automotive components (gears, fuel pump modules, door latches), appliance drive parts, and consumer goods like buckles and zippers. The product line includes eco variants made from bio-waste, carbon-capture, and renewable-energy-derived feedstocks, with ISCC PLUS certification for a sustainable supply chain.

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F4GE operates instrumented precision manufacturing on a trusted production base, producing parts at production scale while capturing process data and building software that creates a verified record for every part. It serves defense and allied supply chains (drones, satellites, ships, robots), providing qualified production capacity along with data for physical AI.

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