Advanced Manufacturing Startups

dakuro GmbH supplies personal protective equipment, focusing on work gloves suited to different working environments. The company works within a partner ecosystem centered on norms, standards, and product development.

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Danaher is a diversified conglomerate that operates a portfolio of businesses in life sciences, diagnostics, and related fields, guided by its Danaher Business System (DBS) operating model.

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Danfoss engineers industrial solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, and lower energy consumption across hydraulics, fluid conveyance, data center applications, and electrification. The company serves industrial and mobile equipment manufacturers globally with a focus on sustainability and efficiency.

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DANOSA manufactures bituminous waterproofing membranes and distributes roof thermal insulation and acoustic materials for construction applications in Europe.

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Dantherm Group designs and supplies climate control products including heating, cooling, drying, dehumidification, swimming pool climate systems, and residential ventilation for professional, industrial, humanitarian, and defense customers worldwide. Its products are engineered in Europe and range from fuel-fired, electric, and infrared heaters to evaporative coolers, air-conditioning units, and desiccant dehumidifiers.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

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Dappas is an online DIY packaging service that lets customers design and order custom-printed products such as cups, pouches, tissue paper, and boxes with no minimum order. It targets businesses and brands needing custom packaging, offering products printed in the USA.

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Daptic provides an AI-powered platform for regulatory and product compliance, helping global manufacturers build and sell compliant products by connecting compliance and engineering teams. It generates personalized compliance reports, flags blind spots, and surfaces relevant information within large regulatory documents.

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DART Aerospace designs and manufactures mission equipment, parts, and accessories for helicopters, including aerial firefighting systems, flotation systems, landing gear, fuel cells, cargo expansion systems, and interior/exterior upgrades. It serves rotorcraft operators and OEMs across sectors such as emergency medical services, firefighting, utility, law enforcement, and defense, supporting over 5,000 aircraft in more than 120 countries.

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Dartboard Energy processes raw alarms and state data from industrial systems into classified events with audit trails, eliminating manual log reconstruction for energy and industrial operations. The platform reads data from data lakes, historians, and energy management systems, then writes structured events back to existing workflow tools.

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Riff builds AI agents that automate the operational work behind manufacturing orders — quoting, procurement, planning, order confirmation, invoice matching, and flagging at-risk deliveries — running on top of existing ERP systems like Infor, SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft. It targets manufacturers' procurement, planning, and logistics teams, with data kept in the EU and SOC 2 / ISO 27001 aligned, GDPR-compliant infrastructure.

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Datacor provides industry-specific software solutions designed for process manufacturers, chemical distributors, and engineers to address complex operational challenges. The company offers its platform through a partner channel program.

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Datagon (operating as Manex AI) builds autonomous manufacturing systems for quality control, production execution, and shopfloor visibility, serving manufacturers across industries. The company provides an Autonomous Enterprise AI Platform that integrates existing systems and enables AI-driven decision-making to optimize production and reduce defects.

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ECI provides ERP software for manufacturers, offering three products—JobBOSS² for job shops and make-to-order operations, M1 for discrete manufacturers, and Deacom for batch and process manufacturers—with embedded AI, quality control, inventory management, and government compliance features (ITAR, CMMC, FDA). The cloud and on-premises solutions serve small to mid-sized job shops, discrete, batch, and process manufacturers.

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DataMesh provides an industrial digital twin platform that combines 3D visualization, real-time data integration, simulation, and AI agents to enable operational decision-making for manufacturing, construction, facility management, and logistics teams. The platform includes tools for work instruction authoring, facility operations management, and synthetic data generation for physical AI development.

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DataStories, part of Partners in Performance, provides prescriptive analytics software for industrial operations, delivering real-time optimization to improve recovery, quality, yield, and energy efficiency.

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Davis-Standard Corporation manufactures end-to-end processing and extrusion equipment used to produce products such as medical tubing, food packaging, pipe and profile, wire and cable, film, and fiber. It serves global manufacturers across markets including infrastructure, automotive, agriculture, packaging, and healthcare.

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Dawn Industries builds VIM, a system that connects to industrial automation cells—including PLCs, robots, CNC machines, and sensors—to diagnose faults, stage operator-approved fixes, and detect part deviations shortly after machining. It serves manufacturers looking to reduce equipment recovery time and fault-related costs.

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Dayton Superior is a single-source supplier of concrete accessories, concrete chemicals, and concrete forming products for the non-residential construction industry. It also offers engineering support and training programs covering products, safety, and construction techniques.

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DazPak is a flexible packaging manufacturer that offers printing, laminating, and converting services to produce products such as pouches, bags, printed roll stock, and mil-spec packaging for consumer brands. It serves innovative brands nationally, with a focus on food packaging and brand commercialization.

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De Wave Group is an integrated company providing complete interior and outfitting solutions for the cruise and yacht industry, covering everything from design to final realization including carpentry, upholstery, metalwork, and glass. Founded in Genoa, Italy, it works with major shipyards through a global network spanning Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

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Deadwood Innovations develops a lumber upgrading technology for the forestry industry, including the utilization of aspen wood. The company targets sustainable production of wood products for forestry sector customers.

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Specialty enzyme solutions combined with continuous manufacturing.

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Decom Engineering designs and deploys subsea and onshore "Chopsaw" cold-cutting tools and bespoke cutting systems for the offshore energy sector, including precision cuts on risers, conductors and mooring chains. The company serves oil and gas, industrial and energy transition operators, delivering projects across more than 10 countries.

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Silicon Valley Robotics Center is a full-stack robotics infrastructure provider offering hardware procurement, data collection, AI training, and fleet teleoperation services for robot learning and deployment. It serves academic labs, startups, and enterprises developing physical AI systems.

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