Top Hardware + Software Startups in 2026

Skip is on a mission to make life joyful through powered movement. Movement is a powerful way to build physical, mental and social health. Yet it is elusive for over 2 billion people due to age, injury, or disability. We are building a product that will restore mobility for millions and enable a new frontier of joyful movement experiences. We want to build a future where a grandparent can easily outrun their grandkids and no one is left behind at the trailhead.

Autopilot is building the platform enterprises use to deploy, manage, and scale autonomous systems in the physical world. We are still in stealth, but we’ve closed our latest round and are adding key hires to round out our world-class team. From drones to autonomous vehicles, our founding team has built and sold more robots than most teams in the world. Our mission is to free people from repetitive, dangerous, and physically demanding work so they can spend more time doing the things people do best: creating, connecting, solving problems, and caring for one another. We believe the future of work should be more human, not less. Today, bringing robots and other intelligent machines into real business environments remains fragmented, complex, and difficult to scale. Autopilot connects hardware, software, workflows, and human support to turn autonomous technology into reliable operational outcomes. We are currently operating in stealth and working alongside leading enterprises, robotics companies, and infrastructure partners across mission-critical industries. Our team brings experience commercializing autonomous systems, enterprise software, and emerging technologies. We are backed by leading venture and industrial investors. Our philosophy is simple: do good, have fun, and make money. We want to build a consequential company, create meaningful value for our customers and communities, and enjoy the people and the process along the way. If you want to help shape how intelligence enters the physical world while building a future that gives people more freedom, agency, and time for the things that matter, we would love to meet you.

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SHINE deploys its safe, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly fusion technology in a stepwise approach. Its systems are used to inspect industrial components in aerospace, defense, energy, and other sectors. SHINE’s proprietary medical isotope production processes create molybdenum-99 and non-carrier-added lutetium-177. These important medicines are used in tens of thousands of daily procedures to diagnose and treat heart disease, late-stage cancer, and other serious illnesses. In the future, SHINE plans to scale its fusion technology to help solve one of the energy’s toughest hurdles by recycling nuclear waste. Through a purpose-driven and phased approach, SHINE aims to generate fusion power to deliver clean, abundant energy that could transform life on Earth.

Founded in 2018, VeVe was created by collectors, for collectors to bring premium licensed NFT digital collectibles to the mass market. Launched in Jan 2021, VeVe has experienced rapid uptake with a growing user base of 1.2 million active users and 3.0 million NFTs sold. VeVe is the largest mobile-first digital collectibles platform and one of the top grossing Entertainment Apps in the Google Play and Apple stores. Utilizing a myriad of technologies, including blockchain and augmented reality technologies, VeVe offers premium licensed collectibles from leading brands including Disney, Marvel, Coca-Cola, DC Comics and Warner Bros, tokidoki, Ghostbusters, James Bond, Back to the Future and more, plus a wide range of artists from around the globe. VeVe offers a wide feature set to collectors, including weekly collectable 'Drops', 3D virtual showrooms, augmented reality features with photo mode allowing collectors to interact with every digital collectible, as well as share their collectibles through VeVe’s in-app social feed, sell owned collectibles peer to peer in the VeVe Market and more. With its rapid and growing popularity, VeVe is looking to expand the development team to cater for the demand and roll out new and exciting features to our users. Join the exciting and innovative world of NFTs with the leading company in this space. We are a fully remote engineering team spread across GMT+1 - GMT+12. Our team culture strongly emphasizes supporting each other towards continually improving our user experience.

Frontier is on a mission to make hundreds of millions of critical frontline workers superhuman through a hardware and software AI voice wearable. The company, which is headquartered in Chicago and in stealth mode, has multimillion dollar contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and just raised $5.3M in funding from tier 1 investors, including the first investor in Oculus. The company has more than 10 of the most critical U.S. companies as paid pilot customers, including one of the top 3 largest U.S. steel companies and top five U.S. airlines. It has an extremely talented and ambitious team committed to building a foundational company.

We have provided high value, leading edge solutions and responsive service to our clients for over 30 years. We are customer-focused and provide the tools to enhance and optimize your enterprise processes. Our Service Desk, IT Security, and Infrastructure support experience assures you of superior, cost effective implementation and operations.

SignalRGB is building the unified control layer for RGB hardware. Today, lighting ecosystems are fragmented - each brand requires its own software, devices don’t sync reliably, and performance often suffers. We solve that by providing a single, lightweight platform that connects and controls RGB devices across brands in one seamless experience. Our software integrates directly with hardware to deliver real-time lighting effects, game integrations, and system-wide synchronization - without the bloat and instability of traditional vendor tools. We support a growing ecosystem of keyboards, mice, fans, RAM, GPUs, cases, and more, turning disconnected components into a cohesive system. Under the hood, we’re solving hard problems in hardware abstraction, reverse engineering, device communication, low-latency rendering, and cross-platform performance. We operate at the intersection of embedded systems and consumer software - building infrastructure that millions of PC gamers rely on daily. Our mission is simple: make RGB devices just work.