Top Hardware Startups in 2026

Data centers and cloud providers consume 6% of the global electricity (more than India) and generate 4% of the global CO2 emissions (more than 2 times commercial air travel). They expect to consume 20% of the electricity worldwide by 2025. Submer (submer.com) develops a highly efficient, ultra-dense and eco-friendly, computing immersion cooling technology (submer.com/what-is-immersion-cooling) that saves 50% of this electricity, 85% of the real estate, and it can be placed anywhere, even without the expensive buildings. Making it also perfect for low latency applications and edge-computing. Submer has renown customers all over the world like some of the top 5 hyper-scale cloud providers, Airbus, the European Commission, the CERN Large Hadron Collider and more. Submer believes our digital world can be more efficient, cost-effective, scalable and eco-friendly. The Submer solution happens to be the best way to get there.

We are an engineering R&D company specialized in developing and implementing next generation, advanced Signal Processing technologies for tactical wireless communications systems. Our current focus is in the Defense & Aerospace industry.

Acculon Energy is a one-stop shop for energy storage programs. Developing and deploying lithium batteries requires systems-level, full stack engineering expertise and broad capabilities to execute. Our 300,000 hours of battery program experience enable vehicle and battery OEMs to go further, faster, safer.

Ommo is the pioneer of permanent magnet–based 3D tracking technology, building a next-generation tracking platform based on magnetic sensing. Our technology enables ultra-precise, real-time 6DOF tracking for millimeter-scale wireless sensors, up to 1,000 times per second with accuracy down to 0.1mm, without line-of-sight constraints. We partner with medical device OEMs and advanced technology companies developing surgical navigation, robotics, simulation, spatial intelligence, and human-machine interface systems.

AITS is a NASA iTech company that provides end-to-end AIoT software and solution running on batteries with no-cloud and no-internet for austere/remote environments for industries including smart auto, aviation, space, farming and IIoT. Our infrastructure includes no-code platform (tinyml.studio) and sensor compiler.

The fastest growing used manufacturing equipment marketplace in the world.

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

Mira builds lightweight AI glasses that act like a second brain. They help people remember conversations, get answers in under a second, translate 60+ languages, and surface useful context in real time—all through a private display and without a camera. We’re a small team of engineers and builders in San Francisco working across wearable hardware, real-time AI, waveguides, low-latency systems, and privacy-by-design. Audio is converted to transcripts rather than stored, and users control their memories and data. We’ve shipped our first batch and are scaling the product from prototype to reliable consumer hardware. If you want high ownership, fast iteration, and the chance to shape how people interact with AI in the real world, we’d love to meet you.