Top Hardware Startups in 2027

Backed by top-tier Silicon Valley VC funds, Shield AI established itself as the leader in AI for aviation. Shield AI has been named to Forbes’ AI 50 and Best Startups lists, CB Insights Top 100 AI Companies, and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies. Our mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. We're hiring! Visit shield.ai/careers to learn more.

We are experts & innovators in adaptive streaming video technologies. Bitmovin video infrastructure APIs enable media companies & brands to deliver premium video experiences to any device, without buffering or startup delays. Designed by developers for developers, our APIs provide complete control and flexibility to support common and advanced video workflows and applications, and feature: - Fastest Video Encoding on the market, in the cloud & on-premise (100x realtime) - World's most intelligent Adaptive Video Player & Mobile SDKs - Support for VR & 360 video, DRM, advertising, and more. Bitmovin actively participates in video streaming research, continuously integrating latest technology into our APIs.

bluerivert.com We use computer vision to identify weeds in organic crop fields and then selectively eliminate them using very hot organic oil. Our product mounts behind a tractor. We are an alternative to chemical fertilizers which organic farmers can't use. Our first target is organic vegetables growers who currently spend upto $1000 per acre to weed their fields by hand. Longer term will move to weeding of corn in glyphosate resistant areas. $25B/yr are spent in herbicides. Update: 5/13. We've started recurring revenue in lettuce thinning - an application that is very well suited to our technology. Our first customer is the largest lettuce grower in the world. Out team has now 15 people including 4 PhDs, an agronomist, and experienced business people in the Ag-tech area.

Recent Awards / Mentions: - Apple's Top 10 Apps in the World - Business Insider's most innovative companies in the world along with Uber and Snapchat: At Lark, we’re on a mission to improve people’s health and happiness through our digital health coach AI which has become the first A.I. nurse to be reimbursed as a live healthcare professional. Our app takes data from phones and wearables, and uses it to create a personalized health "chat bot" buddy that sticks with users and helps them stay active, sleep more, and eat healthy. We are using NLP to process millions of meals, and accelerometer data to compute activity and sleep amounts from users' phones. Our chat AI is the most sophisticated digital health engagement tool in the world. Join us and make it even better!

We are an e-commerce company based in New York City focusing on design-driven online and printed stationery, including greetings, invitations, birth announcements, wedding suites, and custom stationery. Some of our partners include leading fashion designers Kate Spade New York, Kelly Wearstler, and Oscar de la Renta. Millions of people use our elegant technologies and expressive designs to celebrate their most important life occasions.

About Eight Sleep Eight Sleep is building an end-to-end predictive health platform, starting with the one place humans spend a third of their lives - the bed. Founded in 2014, we began by reimagining sleep as a trainable input to health and performance. Our flagship product, the Pod, turns the bed into an always-on lab, combining advanced temperature regulation, biometric sensing, and AI to optimize recovery, improve performance, and surface early signals for preventative action. Today, Eight Sleep has analyzed 1B+ hours of sleep data, serves customers across 30+ countries, and has recently raised an additional $100M to expand beyond sleep optimization into broader health prediction and intervention. Backed by leading investors including Founders Fund, Y Combinator, Valor Equity Partners, and HSG, we’re building the foundation for how people understand and improve their health every day - passively, continuously, and proactively. Learn more at eightsleep.com

Fictiv is a Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem that rapidly delivers custom parts on-demand, to help companies accelerate new product introduction. From early-stage companies to large enterprises, thousands of companies use Fictiv to innovate with agility, de-risk their supply chains, and get products to market faster. Fictiv works with companies like Tesla, Honeywell, and NASA to build the next rockets, self-driving cars, and live-saving robots. We're transforming how teams design, develop, and deliver the next generation of hardware products. For more information about Fictiv or to learn about hardware manufacturing best practices, visit fictiv.com

Fellow wants to help people easily brew ridiculously good coffee and tea at home. Our first product, the Duo Coffee Steeper, is a dual chamber french press with a two-stage filter. The value prop seems to be appealing as Duo is now over $200,000 in pre-sales. Right now we're working on a portfolio of complementary products that will fast follow behind the launch of Duo in February.

Founded in 2012 by Mike Henry and Dave Fick, and based in Austin, TX and Redwood City, CA, Mythic is creating a unified hardware and software platform that relies on unique analog compute-in-memory technology to deliver revolutionary power, cost, and performance that will shatter the limits restricting AI innovation. Mythic is making it much easier and more affordable to deploy powerful AI solutions, from the data center to the edge device.

LitByLeia Our core IP uses a nanostructured light guide plate in a standard edge-lit configuration to produce a custom lightfield illumination of the LCD front-plane. From smartphones to TV screens, the possibilities for the LitByLeia™ experience are endless. Supporting standard applications processors and standard display interfaces. LeiaLoft Engage, immerse and experience. LeiaLoft™ is an exciting platform that offers bespoke content designed for Leia-enabled devices. Experience games and apps like never before and open up a world of alluring beauty. Watch your favorite movies on your device in new depth. With no need for glasses, these movies are made for sharing. Find new ways to experience familiar things: see apps come to life and create images you can move around. Virtual reality becomes real as you mix the two in richer, more immersive ways.