Hard Tech Startups
130 companies tagged Hard Tech, with their investors and founders.
Thesis is an AI research lab that automates AI research and development through autonomous experimentation. It applies recursive self-improvement machine learning to problems in biology and materials science.
1 investor
Trident Bioscience develops software for protein design that uses computational models to identify candidate protein sequences and optimize them into gene libraries for rapid experimental testing. The platform aims to shorten the timeline for developing synthetic proteins.
1 investor
Ultralight is a GPU-accelerated HTML rendering toolkit that embeds modern web content in games and native applications across Windows, macOS, Linux, and game consoles. Built on a lightweight WebKit fork, it serves game developers and native app developers who need high-performance, resource-efficient HTML rendering.
1 investor
Ultrasonium is a company focused on materials science and advanced manufacturing, developing engineering systems.
1 investor
Vernius makes drop-in hardware modules that add autonomous or operator-assisted targeting to existing FPV interceptor drones. The module sits between the drone's receiver and flight controller to provide beyond-visual-range sensing, autonomous guidance, or target bearing data for manual pilots, aimed at low-cost, high-volume defense deployment.
1 investor
Visibl Semiconductors handles end-to-end custom chip design, verification, and manufacturing for hardware companies in robotics, drones, industrial, and IoT sectors that cannot afford traditional semiconductor development costs.
1 investor
Vorelios develops foundation models that learn physics to run engineering simulations in seconds at lower cost than traditional methods. The company serves engineering and product development teams that rely on physical simulation.
1 investor
Wardstone designs and plans to deploy a constellation of satellites equipped with sensors and kinetic interceptors to detect, predict, and counter hypersonic and ballistic missiles for U.S. military defense agencies. The system, called the Golden Dome, is intended to provide global missile defense capabilities across multiple domains of conflict for the Space Force, Air Force, Navy, and Missile Defense Agency.
1 investor
Warpdrive generates automated desktop workflows and procedural documentation from video recordings by parsing the visual activity and producing executable code.
1 investor
Well Principled builds AI models for optimization across multiple domains: consumer durable purchasing behavior for marketing and supply chain planning, battery electrochemistry for materials science, and personalized metabolic modeling for fitness applications.
1 investor