Top Hardware + Software Startups in 2027

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.

We believe people are at their best when they’re living free from the burden of energy costs. The sun is the energy source of all life on earth, yet humanity captures almost none of what if offers. To close that gap, Optivolt builds solar systems that think — designed with aerospace power electronics inside to make solar more powerful, reliable, and cost effective than ever. Optivolt's Breakthrough: We realized deep integration between solar panels and power electronics unlocks an entirely new design space for innovation. This led us to inventing the Power Balancer (19 patents issued, 27 pending), an advanced power electronics device which embeds inside solar panels. Balancers work by shuffling power from stronger to weaker zones in the panel to keep power flowing, maximizing energy output and reliability. Performance vs. $8B market leader: • Up to 6x higher power output in real-world conditions • 40% lower equipment cost, 50% faster to install • 4x less failure points, while eliminating hotspots (#1 solar failure mode) Optivolt's development is funded in part by the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Sage is on a mission to improve the quality of life for older adults, starting with those residing in senior living facilities. Falls are the leading cause of injury-related deaths among adults over 65. At the same time, fall prevention and emergency response systems for older adults are archaic and ineffective. This issue is exacerbated by the inefficient procedures that operators of these facilities are forced to use to provide care to their residents. Sage's integrated software aims to reinvent how we care for and respond to older adults in times of need. We aim to build a platform that gives caregivers the means to provide care for modern aging.

Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. We connect users to the streaming content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers with unique capabilities to engage consumers. Come join us at the forefront of media and technology.

Carbon is reinventing how products are designed, engineered, made & delivered. Carbon’s Digital Manufacturing platform enables repeatable production of end-use parts with industrial grade materials and exceptional surface finish. Whether you’re making one or a million. Making the impossible possible. Carbon is a 3D printing (late stage, series E) startup in Redwood City, Ca. that creates the software, hardware and materials to enable production of groundbreaking parts — parts that can't be made any other way. The best example is Carbon's partnership with Adidas. Adidas had been interested in 3D printing shoes for years but could not find a technology that was good enough. With Carbon, Adidas finally could design and produce a lattice-based midsole that not only performs well but opens the door for a future of personalized shoes, and they're heading toward making millions of them.

Avidbots makes autonomous commercial floor cleaning robots. Their sweeping and scrubbing robots cooperate to clean department stores, auto dealerships, education facilities, airports, etc. These robots automate the most labor and time intensive part of commercial cleaning. Cleaning companies, building services companies, and facility operators can save between 50% to 70% savings for the most common use cases.

Resilient data movement for agentic AI with software, systems and silicon delivering low latency and high bandwidth data network between compute, memory and storage.

Meter helps companies save time and money with our all-in-one solution. Unlike traditional internet solutions, Meter’s approach is vertically-integrated across engineering and operations. We work on hardware (including routers, switches, and wireless access points) and software to manage thousands of devices, process millions of packets, and scale operations. Meter operates in every major US city, and our customer base is expanding quickly. We serve customers across a number of industries including e-commerce, financial services, life sciences, software as a service, and robotics. We can deploy our products and services across a variety of commercial spaces including labs, office buildings, and warehouses. You can find more details regarding our customers by visiting meter.com/customers (meter.com/customers).

General Compute is the neocloud for alternative chips. Inference is fragmenting: purpose-built silicon from SambaNova, Cerebras, Positron, d-Matrix, and others already beats GPUs on decode, and we productionize that hardware — we buy the racks, find the data center space, and run it for our customers. Each piece of hardware runs the workload it's actually built for: prefill stays on GPUs, decode moves to the chip built for it, and today that means generating tokens 5–7× faster than existing GPU-based competitors. Our customers are frontier labs, fast-growing AI application companies, and asset-light clouds. We closed a $15M seed round in May 2026, and have since closed a $400M debt facility — $100M funded upfront by Upper90, with the balance available for drawdown — collateralized by our inference chips.