Top Hardware + Software Startups in 2027

Knightscope’s long-term ambition is to make the United States of America the safest country in the world. We build Autonomous Security Robots (ASRs) that are a unique combination of self-driving technology, robotics, A.I. and electric vehicles to help officers and guards have eyes, ears, and voice on the ground at multiple locations at the same time. The massive amount of data generated by the ASRs feed into our a Knightscope Security Operations Center (KSOC) user interface that our clients utilize to be better secure the places you live, work, study and visit. Mission: Our long-term ambition is to make the United States of America the safest country in the world. - A Violent Crime Occurs Every 24.6 Seconds | A Property Crime Occurs Every 4.1 Seconds; - Crime Has a $1+ Trillion Negative Economic Impact on the U.S. Annually

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.

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Wearable device, artificial intelligence, mobile application

SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable and enterprise-grade open source solutions, relied upon by more than 60% of the Fortune 500 to power their mission-critical workloads. We specialize in Enterprise Linux, Kubernetes Management, and Edge solutions, and collaborate with partners and communities to empower our customers to innovate everywhere –- from the data center, to the cloud, to the edge and beyond. SUSE puts the “open” back in open source, giving customers the agility to tackle innovation challenges today and the freedom to evolve their strategy and solutions tomorrow. The company is headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany, and employs nearly 2000 people globally. SUSE is listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

We founded Standard Bots because we believe that automation can lead to a better world. By performing time-consuming, repetitive, and dangerous tasks, robotics gives us more time to be creative, spend time with loved ones, and chase our dreams. Though the potential of this technology is immense, when we looked around we saw a broken robotics market — one with enormous upfront costs, excessively complex software, and outdated support systems that make it impossible for many business to take advantage of automation’s vast benefits. So we assembled a team of experts to build a new robot, write custom software for it, and develop a new kind of subscription model that opens the world of automation to everyone. Expanding access to robotics doesn’t end when our customers receive their product either. We are committed to offering the best ongoing support to keep every RO1 operating at the cutting edge. Automation will define our future, so it must be widely available and applied toward a noble mission. We’ve taken the first step, and we’re just getting started.

Electrification, automation and digitalization require innovative solutions: Discover Siemens as a strong partner, technological pioneer and responsible employer.

Flow is “Github for hardware”. We’re building a core design/test collaboration platform for the hardware engineering industry. Flow helps Rockets, Robots and Nuclear reactors get to market years ahead of schedule and save billions in R&D costs. Our mission is to bring agile software development philosophies (CI/CD, pull/push, branching) to an industry that is desperate for a better solution. Flow is loved by the fastest-moving hardware teams in the world. They are solving fundamental problems in space travel, energy, and air transportation. You will get to learn about how these things are designed as well as help build the modern playbook for the entire industry.

Mobiz Inc provides managed IT services & software development to our customers in many industry sectors, including retail, distribution, health care, entertainment, technology, consumer electronics, construction, and government.