Advanced Manufacturing Startups

SilkPLM provides an AI-powered product description generator and product lifecycle management platform for e-commerce retailers. The platform enables teams to manage products and suppliers, collaborate on collections, run cost simulations, and generate SEO-optimized product descriptions in a single workspace.

2 investors

Simple Labs is a jewelry production service that manufactures jewelry for retailers and businesses, using experienced craftsmen to handle production processes on behalf of clients. It aims to reduce the costs and operational burden of coordinating multiple suppliers and tracking production status.

2 investors

Singular Machines develops AI-native engineering tools for designing complex machines, facilities, and infrastructure in the advanced manufacturing sector.

2 investors

Singular Medical develops implantable cardiac devices and digital health solutions for arrhythmia and heart failure management, including pacemakers, defibrillators, and remote monitoring systems. The company serves hospitals and patients in China and developing markets with products spanning screening, diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring across implant and AI domains.

2 investors

SIXAI is a system integration company that embeds advanced technologies and artificial intelligence into legacy industrial sectors. Its portfolio includes MAESTRO, a centralized control tower for coordinating indoor and outdoor floor operations, and Powermat, a wireless power/inductive charging technology developer.

2 investors

Skills Base offers a skills management platform that helps organizations build a skills taxonomy, map skills to roles and locations, assess competencies, track certifications, and identify skill gaps for workforce development. It is aimed at team leaders and HR, with this page tailored to engineering teams.

2 investors

SKYDEX engineers patented impact-protection technology used across applications including footwear, fall protection, athletic gear, vehicle blast protection, and soldier body armor. It serves defense and military customers such as the U.S. Marine Corps, as well as industries like sports stadiums, film sets, and construction.

2 investors

Skygauge builds drones for industrial inspection and maintenance, allowing teams to perform ultrasonic inspections and spot rust repair on pipes, tanks, and complex structures from the ground. The drone maintains controlled contact from multiple orientations to reach undersides, vertical walls, and elevated surfaces without scaffolding, manlifts, or rope access.

2 investors

Smart Craft is a cloud-based manufacturing execution system that digitizes factory operations from production planning through data collection and analysis. It serves manufacturing companies seeking to improve production visibility, reduce administrative costs, and enhance operational efficiency through comprehensive shop floor management.

2 investors

SmartCert is a cloud-based platform for managing certificates ("certs"), letting companies create, request, store, and share inbound and outbound certification documents with suppliers and customers. It targets businesses that handle vendor and customer cert packages, replacing paper-based and manual cert workflows.

2 investors

Smarter Alloys develops Multiple Memory Material technology, a platform based on shape memory alloys that enables devices to function with previously inaccessible capabilities across medical, wearable, and industrial applications. The company serves manufacturers and product designers seeking lighter, more reliable, and smarter materials solutions.

2 investors

Smile Plastics (Smile Materials) makes recycled panel materials and solid surfaces for commercial interiors, turning waste streams such as plastics and reclaimed solid surface into durable panels for worktops, vanities, furniture and joinery. It serves hospitality, workplace, retail and residential design projects, with a focus on sustainability, circularity, and verified environmental accreditations.

2 investors

SMTC Corporation is a mid-size provider of end-to-end electronics manufacturing services (EMS), including PCBA production, systems integration, testing, enclosure fabrication, product design, sustaining engineering, and supply chain management. It serves global OEMs and emerging technology companies across market segments such as medical, semiconductor, retail and payment systems, test and measurement, industrial and clean tech, telecom, and defense and aerospace.

2 investors

Soft Robotics Inc. rebranded as Oxipital AI after divesting its robotic gripper business to the Schmalz Group in August 2024, shifting its focus to machine vision inspection and defect detection technology. The company develops AI-based vision inspection systems.

2 investors

Software Defined Automation provides a platform for industrial operations that manages factory automation and control systems with AI-driven insights and built-in OT (operational technology) security. It serves manufacturing enterprises looking to centrally manage, monitor, and secure their industrial automation infrastructure.

2 investors

Solabia is a producer of raw materials including ingredients, active ingredients, culture media, and diagnostic kits for the cosmetics, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and biotechnology industries. The group serves manufacturers in these sectors with a focus on innovation, sustainability, and responsible growth.

2 investors

SolidWatts manufactures electric heating systems for industrial process heating, replacing fossil fuel-based solutions with efficient, electrified alternatives. The company serves manufacturing and industrial operators seeking to reduce carbon emissions and comply with sustainability standards.

2 investors

Sonibel Instruments makes a compact, torch-mounted acoustic sensor that captures the sound of the weld arc and uses machine learning to detect defects such as porosity, lack of penetration, lack of fusion, and slag inclusions in real time. Aimed at fabricators and welders in shipbuilding, structural steel, and oil and gas, it acts as an early warning layer that lets welders rework defects during welding before inspection.

2 investors

Sorting Robotics builds automation and robotics technology for the cannabis industry, using robotic process automation and computer vision. The company is based in Los Angeles.

2 investors

SOURCIX helps engineering and procurement teams transition from prototype to production by managing supplier coordination and sourcing. The platform connects clients to a vetted supplier network across 15 countries, handles production logistics, and prevents delays caused by re-sourcing or supplier mismatches.

2 investors

Southern Aluminum manufactures banquet and event tables under various branded product lines, serving the hospitality and events industry.

2 investors

SouthernCarlson supplies construction fasteners, tools, packaging, and related products along with services such as plant installs, takeoffs, and deliveries. It serves commercial, multi-family, and residential construction, manufacturing, distribution, hardware stores, lumberyards, and wholesale building materials customers.

2 investors

Sovity provides standardized, secure data exchange solutions that enable organizations to collaborate through data spaces. The company helps customers innovate faster and work smarter by facilitating secure data sharing built on industry standards.

2 investors

Space Copy develops additive manufacturing and printing systems designed for extreme environments, including remote terrestrial construction and off-world applications. The company serves defense, space, mining, and disaster response sectors with solutions for on-site fabrication of infrastructure and tooling.

2 investors