Top Consumer Electronics Startups in 2026

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Skylight is a technology startup building the OS of the family. We make Skylight Calendar, the smart calendar loved by millions of families (plus Wired and the Wirecutter). Our latest product is Calendar 2, which just launched to rave reviews. Our mission is to connect loved ones by creating the world’s simplest products and services that improve family life. Our founders are former venture capitalists and serial entrepreneurs who have scaled this business to $300M+ in annual revenue while being completely bootstrapped and profitable. We get to grow a happy, healthy company focused on making products our customers love without investors breathing down our necks. Smart, hardworking people who care about making actually meaningful products love working here. People like you. We’re busy inventing new ways to simplify family life and help parents raise great kids – and we need your help! Come invent something new with us.

AXIS is an IoT connected device company that makes smart shade solutions. We are developing the most intelligent shade automation platform. Our flagship product, Gear, motorizes and automates existing window shades in minutes. Named as the 2017 Motorized Product of the Year by the Consumer Technology Association, Gear is compatible with a variety of window shades and allows you to control and schedule your shades from the comfort of your phone, on-device, or via voice speakers. AXIS is on a mission to transform the window shade industry with smart and simple technology. Learn more at helloaxis.com. The future is smart. Embrace it.

Lair East Labs is a startup accelerator based in New York that empowers founders to expand internationally. At the heart of Lair East Labs lies the startup accelerator. Each year 15 - 20 startups take on our program and receive investments of $75K~150K. Our 3-month program combines the best of two worlds - learn from alumni founders of top Silicon Valley-style accelerators and gain access to a network of mentors and investors with extensive experience navigating the U.S. and Asian markets. In the first four years of operation, our portfolio companies have raised $60+ million in funding after completing the accelerator. We support founders in their quest to build successful and sustainable ventures that solve global problems. We are founders accelerating founders. For more information: please visit: laireastlabs.com

Raizz is building a new kind of sleep wearable designed not just to track sleep, but to actively help people sleep better. Our wearable combines advanced sleep sensing, AI, and gentle closed-loop neurotechnology to understand sleep in real time and respond when needed. We’re building an integrated hardware and software experience that turns sleep data into personalized support — both during the night and throughout the day. We’re an early-stage, venture-backed team with backgrounds from Apple, Stanford, and Tsinghua, bringing together expertise across consumer hardware, software, AI, sleep science, and design. We’re preparing to launch our first product and are building the team that will take Raizz from an ambitious idea to a product used by people every night.

TechInsights’ success is founded upon the expertise of its patent and technology analysts, their continuous spirit of research and innovation, and a focus on client satisfaction. Our engineering and consulting teams combine cutting edge reverse-engineering capabilities with a deep understanding of patents to deliver high value solutions for our clients.  We have one of the most advanced in-house technical labs in the world with state-of-the-art equipment that enables investigation from “atom-to-system”. Our experienced staff and sophisticated capabilities combine to reveal the innovation that others can’t inside electronics, semiconductor, systems and software. If going deep inside technology and intellectual property to understand how a product functions, is made or maps to a patent gets you excited, you belong here.

Our service saves on time, energy, waste in manufacturing, packaging and transportation. 3D printing paves the way for more innovative designs with more complex shapes and colors. These are available digitally for on-demand production and stored to allow easy modification and adaptation. What’s more, all our 3D printed Philips luminaires are recyclable, specifically designed for a Circular Economy.

Astrohaus builds distraction-free writing tools in hardware and software for modern authors under the Freewrite brand. The company was founded by Adam Leeb and Patrick Paul around the success of the Freewrite smart typewriter (previously, Hemingwrite), that was launched in 2014 on Kickstarter with a shoestring budget and raised $200k in the first 20 hours of the campaign. Since beginning shipping worldwide in 2016, writers in 50 countries have cumulatively written over 250 million words on their Freewrites. Current Product Line: Freewrite - The Freewrite is a modern distraction-free writing tool featuring an E Ink display, mechanical keyboard, and cloud backups. The Freewrite was successfully Kickstarted in 2015 raising $342k. getfreewrite.com/freewrite Freewrite Traveler - The Freewrite Traveler is a distraction-free writing tool that is half the size and weight of a typical laptop. It was launched on Indiegogo in 2018 and generated over $1.5mm of pre-sales. getfreewrite.com/traveler Postbox - Postbox is a web application for Freewrite users to manage their device settings and documents. postbox.getfreewrite.com Sprinter - Sprinter is a goal focused distraction-free web application in the browser. sprinter.getfreewrite.com WTFridays - WTFridays is a project that invites our worldwide community of writers and others to participate in a 30 minute freewriting session every friday at noon. wtf.getfreewrite.com

F5 powers applications from development through their entire lifecycle, across any multi-cloud environment, so our customers—enterprise businesses, service providers, governments, and consumer brands—can deliver differentiated, high-performing, and secure digital experiences. Unique to F5 is its extensible application delivery platform, iRules, which allows application and security architects the ability to offload and implement commodity features and proactively deploy security and application related functionality that improves application deployments without requiring changes to those applications.

Olly is the first home robot with an evolving personality that adapts to each individual. Designed to do more than just respond to commands, Olly’s advanced machine learning technology proactively assists you with your day-to-day routine by remembering your habits. Plus, Olly’s unique brain-inspired AI system – created by Emotech’s leading AI researchers and neuroscientists – creates a truly personalised experience by enabling Olly to understand emotion and adapt to the world around it.