Hard Tech Startups

Instinct Space develops lunar lander and orbital transfer vehicles to deliver cargo to the Moon, enabling rideshare-style launches from any orbit and landing payloads on the lunar surface.

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Kilobaser develops tabletop DNA and RNA synthesizers designed for laboratory professionals to produce custom oligonucleotides on demand. The company targets life science researchers and lab professionals seeking independent access to genetic material synthesis.

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Libra Robotics builds autonomous robots for solar farm installation at utility-scale and commercial projects. The company serves electrical contractors, equipment manufacturers, and solar project developers.

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Light Table is an interactive development environment that allows programmers to edit code while it runs and integrate external content like websites and games, providing immediate visual feedback on program behavior.

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Mass Magnetics manufactures high-performance neodymium-iron-boron rare-earth magnets in the United States from recycled and domestic feedstocks, using a rapid sintering process and machine learning to sort scrap by grade and chemistry. It targets defense and industrial buyers needing DFARS-compliant domestic magnets and also sells DFARS-compliant rare-earth alloys to domestic metallurgists.

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Meteoric uses drones to fly into low- and mid-altitude clouds above solar plants and alter cloud droplets to reduce cloud reflectivity, letting more sunlight reach the panels. The company targets solar power operators, offering site-specific estimates of energy uplift across U.S. grid regions.

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Micro Meat develops technological solutions to increase production capacity for cultivated meat manufacturing.

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Moving Atoms develops robotics AI, including a world model called Atom 1 that predicts future states from a robot's visual input and control signals to learn and execute motion. It uses agents and a frontier LLM to grade robot rollouts step by step, surfacing failure modes with footage.

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Neuromorphic develops hardware-agnostic control software for robots, letting operators deploy and manage them through everyday interfaces such as Slack, email, and phone. It targets wet labs and other physical industries that want to add robots with minimal setup.

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Nine Fives develops RF (radio frequency) test equipment for hardware engineers. The company focuses on delivering simple, easy-to-use testing equipment backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee and 2-year warranty.

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PWR Matrix develops simplified power delivery architectures and semiconductor innovations to improve energy efficiency for advanced applications including AI infrastructure and electronics.

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Nori Robotics manufactures household robots that autonomously handle domestic tasks like cleaning, organizing, and food preparation. The robots can learn and share skills via a marketplace, and support remote operation for household assistance.

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Optifye.ai installs cameras on factory floors and uses computer vision to track worker activity, allowing manufacturers to monitor productivity and identify which employees are active or idle in real time.

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Ornadyne makes flapping-wing unmanned aircraft designed to resemble birds for covert reconnaissance missions. The company addresses limitations of conventional drones by engineering systems optimized for stealth, endurance, and autonomous operation in field environments.

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Palitronica develops physics-based hardware assurance solutions that use radio-frequency signal analysis and machine learning to detect defects, counterfeits, unauthorized design changes, and malicious tampering in electronics. The company serves manufacturers and purchasers in automotive, aerospace & defense, government, medical, and advanced manufacturing sectors.

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Praxis AI collects egocentric video, 3D scans, and multimodal sensor data from industrial and residential work environments through partnerships with large corporations, then sells this real-world training data to AI companies developing physical robotics and other systems.

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Robocurve develops open-source tools and benchmarks for evaluating the real-world capabilities of AI systems and robots. The company serves robotics labs and the broader public by providing independent, rigorous evaluation frameworks to assess progress in physical AI and general-purpose robotics.

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Roin Technologies makes robots that automate the pouring and finishing of concrete floors on construction sites, allowing a single operator to complete work that traditionally requires multiple workers.

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Salem Robotics develops autonomy software for robotic radiological surveys and inspections in nuclear and hazardous environments. The platform automates route planning, radiation measurement collection, and compliance reporting on existing robot hardware to reduce worker exposure and improve data consistency.

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Shepherd is an AI assistant that integrates with a team's existing tools (messaging, code editors, CRM platforms) to create a unified memory system. It automatically captures messages, calls, and commits, allowing teams and AI agents to query and act on company information without manual tagging.

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Silver manufactures a portable Raman spectroscope device that uses specialized nanoparticle technology to help consumers quickly identify contaminants in their environment or products.

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Sinovia manufactures printed light films that emit light uniformly across custom geometries, replacing traditional LEDs, PCBs, and optical components for products where space and thinness are constraints. The company serves manufacturers in consumer products, industrial, and specialty applications seeking thinner, faster, and more sustainable lighting solutions.

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SubVysion creates high-precision 3D mapping technology that reveals the locations of subsurface utilities, enabling construction teams to identify and navigate around buried infrastructure during excavation work.

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Synapse Semiconductor is a semiconductor research lab building image sensors that run neural-network computation directly on the sensor, integrating light capture and AI processing in each pixel to replace GPU-based edge vision. Its chips target computer vision applications in self-driving cars, drones, humanoid robotics, and space systems.

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