Top Hardware Startups in 2026

Using comScore verified, real-time data from 50 million first-party integrations with the world's most popular apps, inMarket identifies and engages consumers at every stage of the shopping cycle and creates exciting experiences that drive huge campaign ROI for the world’s top brands.

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.

LitByLeia Our core IP uses a nanostructured light guide plate in a standard edge-lit configuration to produce a custom lightfield illumination of the LCD front-plane. From smartphones to TV screens, the possibilities for the LitByLeia™ experience are endless. Supporting standard applications processors and standard display interfaces. LeiaLoft Engage, immerse and experience. LeiaLoft™ is an exciting platform that offers bespoke content designed for Leia-enabled devices. Experience games and apps like never before and open up a world of alluring beauty. Watch your favorite movies on your device in new depth. With no need for glasses, these movies are made for sharing. Find new ways to experience familiar things: see apps come to life and create images you can move around. Virtual reality becomes real as you mix the two in richer, more immersive ways.

WE ARE HIRING! Check out our new open positions across the US here: Sifive.com/jobs, and apply directly. The explosion of data from the first wave of IoT devices has demonstrated the need for on-device data processing and decision making. SiFive’s mission is to help companies of all sizes turn their idea into silicon with our powerful methodology and help our customers declare silicon independence and unleash their product roadmaps. SiFive market opportunities include fast-growing new markets in IoT, storage, enterprise, and datacenter accelerators, as well as mature markets for low-power, highly-efficient embedded devices. SiFive was founded by the inventors of RISC-V, a free and open instruction set architecture rapidly being adopted worldwide. SiFive is led by a team of seasoned industry executives, and is the leading commercial provider of RISC-V IP, with a robust portfolio of processor IP, SoC IP, and silicon expertise. SiFive has 16 design centers worldwide, a global network of IP partners, and backing from Sutter Hill Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Spark Capital, Osage University Partners, Chengwei, Huami, SK Hynix, Intel Capital, and Western Digital. Join us as we empower the innovators of the future.

Swoop is building a secure, distributed operating system, allowing our customers to securely harness their data and construct a programmable, autonomous edge. The edge is where digital rubber meets the real-world road. Where data is produced, consumed, or networked to accomplish an objective. It is covered in assets -- chips, memory, networking interfaces -- that comprise a distributed computing platform. The edge is strategically important and asset-rich. Swoop is helping unlock its potential, so that search and analysis no longer end simply with incremental insights or neatly organized search results, but with autonomous action directly at the edge. Swoop's technology has been deployed in some of the world's most sophisticated environments. Our team is purposeful in directing our technology toward solving important problems. We are building for a future where advancements in critical infrastructure, smart grids, supply chains, and manufacturing are programmed into existing systems -- rapidly, adaptive, and economically feasible.

Freeform is deploying software-defined, autonomous metal 3D printing factories around the world, bringing the scalability of software to physical production. Our proprietary technology stack leverages advanced sensing, real-time controls, and data-driven learning to produce digitally-verified, flawless parts at unprecedented speed and cost. Our mission is to make the transformative power of 3D printing available to all industries at scale and unlock the future of innovation.

James Monsees and Adam Bowen co-founded JUUL when they applied their background in product design to the challenge of finding a better alternative to smoking. They’d been smokers for many years, but they were increasingly dissatisfied with the health and social impacts of cigarettes. When they could find no attractive alternative to cigarettes, James and Adam recognized a groundbreaking opportunity to apply industrial design to the smoking industry, which had not materially evolved in over one hundred years. As smokers, they knew a viable alternative to cigarettes would have to offer a nicotine level found in no other alternative on the market. It would also have to invite its own ritual. The result was JUUL.

The idea of building a personalized firearm is decades old; the challenge is designing a Smart Gun that is ultra-reliable, simple to use, and easy to maintain. At Biofire, we are building a home defense weapon that just works when you need it, every single time. We’re laser-focused on quality and safety in everything we do, and we have the experience to back it up. In past roles, Biofire employees have built satellites, cars, medical devices, rockets, robots, supersonic jets, fire rings, and, of course, firearms.

PayJoy's mission is to deliver access to credit to the next billion people in emerging markets worldwide. Our unique mobile security technology creates collateral that enables customers to afford their first smartphone on credit and then allows them further access to credit to help weather life's unexpected financial surprises and climb the ladder of economic well-being. Founded in 2015, today PayJoy has reached hundreds of thousands of customers in a dozen countries around the globe, from Mexico to Indonesia, India, Kenya, and Nigeria, and is on a strong growth path with support from major industry partners to bring credit to millions in 2019.

We are an e-commerce company based in New York City focusing on design-driven online and printed stationery, including greetings, invitations, birth announcements, wedding suites, and custom stationery. Some of our partners include leading fashion designers Kate Spade New York, Kelly Wearstler, and Oscar de la Renta. Millions of people use our elegant technologies and expressive designs to celebrate their most important life occasions.