Hard Tech Startups

Clip Health develops at-home and point-of-care diagnostic testing combining proprietary glow-in-the-dark nanochemistry with connected hardware and mobile apps to test for and support treatment of infectious, metabolic, endocrine, and chronic diseases. Its platform serves at-home, point-of-care, and enterprise healthcare settings.

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Degla provides a natural language platform for coordinating autonomous drone fleets for search and rescue, emergency response, infrastructure inspection, and critical field operations. The system automatically plans missions, assigns aircraft, and adapts to real-time conditions without requiring flight plans or specialist training.

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Habu operates in the commercial real estate and multifamily housing sector, positioning around the U.S. housing shortage. The available page content does not describe a specific product or service in concrete terms.

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Hemlock builds a wearable device, the Bracelet, that captures force-labeled human manipulation demonstrations from everyday work to create training datasets for robotics foundation models and embodied AI.

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Hundred provides AI visual inspection that detects sub-millimeter cosmetic defects on parts using one-shot anomaly detection, without requiring programming or labeled defect data. It serves contract manufacturers building consumer electronics, helping factories reduce waste and avoid line-down issues before parts reach assembly.

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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 (IDE) that lets programmers modify running programs in real time and embed content such as websites and games, with the aim of providing immediate feedback on how code behaves. The company's related effort, Eve, is described as a way to make computation accessible to a broader audience.

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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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Pendulum Robotics designs and manufactures custom drone motors and robotic actuators tailored to each robot's form factor, using in-house software and tooling for high-mix machining and assembly at its Los Angeles factory. It serves hardware and robotics teams that need purpose-built motion components rather than off-the-shelf parts.

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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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Rodeo Robotics develops robotic technicians that automate vehicle maintenance tasks, starting with oil changes at centralized fleet depots. Its robots work alongside human technicians and rely on robotic foundation models trained on real-world job data to handle maintenance across different makes and models for fleet operators.

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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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Saccade offers a 15-minute VR-based assessment that uses a patent-pending headset attachment and a machine learning model to analyze eye movement patterns and estimate a patient's risk of Alzheimer's years before symptoms appear. The test is offered to patients through longevity clinics, with those flagged referred to drug treatments and neurology or longevity practices.

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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 develops a miniaturized Raman spectroscope paired with proprietary nanoparticle substrates that lets consumers instantly detect contaminants and toxins. It targets the consumer market with a low-cost handheld toxin-detection device.

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Sinovia Technologies makes thin, flexible printed OLED displays using roll-to-roll printing, offering low-power, low-cost visual indicators for space- and power-constrained smart and IoT products. It targets hardware builders, product designers, and contract manufacturers, and is moving from demos and customer collaboration toward mass production.

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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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The Subvocal Company develops a wearable device that detects silent, subvocalized speech, allowing users to control and interact with a computer at the pace of speaking without producing audible sound. It targets people who want a quiet, discreet alternative to voice input.

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Theseus Robotics develops software and physical AI systems for humanoid robots that handle repetitive tasks in supermarkets, picking e-grocery orders during the day and restocking shelves from warehouse stock overnight. The company serves grocery and retail operators.

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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.

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Ultralight is a GPU-accelerated HTML rendering toolkit for embedding modern HTML into games and native applications, available for C and C++ across platforms including Windows, macOS, Linux, Xbox, and PlayStation. It is built on a lightweight fork of WebKit and developed in collaboration with game studios.

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Viraj Aero develops advanced engines intended for use in aircraft and data centers.

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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.

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