Top Hardware Startups in 2026

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Established in 1959, Johnson Electric Group is a global leader in electric motors, actuators, motion subsystems and related electro-mechanical components. It serves a broad range of industries including Automotive, Smart Metering, Medical Devices, Business Equipment, Home Automation, Ventilation, White Goods, Power Tools, and Lawn & Garden Equipment. Johnson Electric Holdings Limited is listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (Stock Code: 179). Company Web Address: johnsonelectric.com Global Revenue: US$3.07 Billion in 2020 Number of Employees worldwide: 35,000 employees in over 23 countries Corporate Headquarter: Hong Kong

The Component Division of EBARA Technologies Inc. supplies advanced vacuum and abatement systems as well as other equipment focused on the needs of the semiconductor, photovoltaic and R&D sectors. Our industry-leading exhaust management solutions consist of dry vacuum pumps, turbomolecular pumps, point-of-use abatement, exhaust line heaters, vacuum hardware and related services. Our Systems Division supplies advanced technologies for front-end and back-end semiconductor manufacturing. EBARA is a leading supplier of 200 mm and 300mm Chemical Mechanical Polishing systems (CMP), advanced Wafer Plating Systems, Bevel and Backside Clean Treatment Systems.

Our service saves on time, energy, waste in manufacturing, packaging and transportation. 3D printing paves the way for more innovative designs with more complex shapes and colors. These are available digitally for on-demand production and stored to allow easy modification and adaptation. What’s more, all our 3D printed Philips luminaires are recyclable, specifically designed for a Circular Economy.

Microchip Technology Inc. develops and manufactures semiconductor products for various embedded control applications worldwide. Its portfolio comprises 8- and 16-bit pic microcontrollers and 16-bit dspic digital signal controllers, which feature onboard flash (reprogrammable) memory technology; and linear, mixed-signal, power management, thermal management, battery management, and interface devices. Development tools enable system designers to program a pic microcontroller and dspic digital signal controllers for specific applications. Application-specific standard products include patented keeloq security devices; memory products include serial electrically erasable programmable read-only memory. Microchip Technology sells to the automotive, communications, computing, consumer, medical electronics, and industrial control markets. The company, which was incorporated in 1989, is based in Chandler, Ariz.

Ndustrial exists to accelerate the optimization of Energy Intensity in industrial facilities and has helped avoid over $100 million in energy spend. Their production-first approach helps clients find – and automate – the energy-saving opportunities that make sense for them. Their Energy Intensity platform integrates over 60 different systems into a single view, processing over 100 million data points every day to enable smarter energy decisions in real time. Ndustrial’s motto, “We help you find energy,” focuses the team to drive down Energy Intensity, decrease costs and increase sustainable operations inside the walls of every industrial facility.

Vayavya Labs is an embedded software tools & solutions provider. Our patented technology, Hardware Software Interface (HSI) specifications, powers the flagship product DDGen, device drivers automation tool. Our R&D focus is to define a new industry standard for Hardware-Software Interface (HSI) specification that can revolutionize the way SoC design, verification, and software developments are done today. Vayavya is a contributing member of the industry association Accellera. Vayavya's solution & services business focuses on niche domains of Embedded Software for Automotive, IoT, Next-generation Ethernet (AVB, TSN, Data center Ethernet), Virtual Platforms(SystemC modeling) development, Board Support Package development including bare metal & Operating system-specific drivers & software porting activities. Our teams help establish Software Driven Verification flows for semiconductor firms across the Simulation, Emulation, and Post Silicon design phases of SoC. We enable Linux/Android bring-up on Hybrid (simulation+emulation) development platforms for today's complex SoCs.

BioConnect is a technology company with a fundamentally different approach to "identity.” We are on a quest to give the 7 billion people on this planet one rightful identity, empowering people to use credentials that are completely unique, such as their face, eyes, voice, heartbeat or fingerprint. This will change how we access applications and processes in both the digital and physical world. BioConnect is a place where innovation, collaboration and commitment lead to your strongest self, your most engaged life and offers the highest business impact and personal growth. We call our employees BioConnectors because we are part of a tribe – take one step into the doors of our headquarters and you’ll experience that. BioConnectors are entrepreneurial, forward-thinking, creative problem solvers, relentlessly passionate and dedicated.