Top Hardware Startups in 2027

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.

Mission: Be the compute platform for AGI and make AI better, faster, and cheaper by building more powerful hardware. Approach: We target just LLMs, whereas GPUs target all ML models. LLMs are different; our hardware and software can be much simpler. By combining deep domain experience, a few key ideas, and a lot of careful engineering.

Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social, and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion, encouraging kids and adults to move more, play more, and have fun together. Nex Playground, the company’s award-winning active play system, is purpose-built to get families moving year-round, with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE+ COPPA compliant and built to support healthy, active play for all ages and abilities.

ScaleFlux builds Computational Storage, a new category of Flash-based SSD that represents our vision for the future of scalable, responsive storage infrastructure. We integrate the latest 3D NAND Flash technology with an FPGA to bring a host of compute engines straight to the data. This enables accelerations to tasks such as compression, KV-store, erasure coding, etc... and allows significantly easier scaling by bypassing processing and storage I/O bottlenecks.

If you’re familiar with any of the DIY single-point smart home products that have appeared on store shelves in the past few years, you might be surprised to learn exactly how ambitious the Vivint Smart Home product suite is, and how both expansive and detailed our knowledge must be to build it. Delivering an industry leading smart home platform requires impressive coordination, as well as broad and deep technical expertise, neither of which is in short supply here. Here’s a sampling of our smart home development efforts: innovation.vivint.com/inside-the-vivint-innovation-center-building-a-smarter-…

Halma has a highly sustainable financial model. We are focused on maintaining our companies' growth and returns over the longer term, while delivering performance in the shorter term.

Parsyl specializes in insuring complex supply chains through data-powered underwriting practices. The company offers a range of insurance products, including cargo and liability coverage, to help customers navigate modern risks. Parsyl aims to promote resilience and sustainability in supply chain management while supporting various industries.

At Halo Industries, we’re on a mission to reinvent a decades-old semiconductor manufacturing process that wastes billions of dollars each year. Our laser-based technology will provide a drastic reduction in cost and improvement in performance that will enable advancements in a diverse set of high-tech industries, such as solar, semiconductor, battery, LED, telecommunications, and power electronics. Our company spun out of Stanford University in 2014 and is funded by a combination of VCs, government grants, and strategic corporate partners. We are hitting the ground running after a recent funding round and are looking to continue building a passionate team to meet our next milestone of deploying a pilot production line to make the world more connected, efficient, and clean.

Motorola provides products, technologies, and services for mobile, wireline digital communication, information, and entertainment applications. Its product portfolio includes smartphones operating on the Android operating system, feature phones, media tablet devices, wireless accessories, and more. Its range of smartphone products includes the Moto X first generation, Moto X second generation, Moto G first generation, Moto G second generation, and more. It is also the manufacturer of Moto 360, a smartwatch that provides services such as notifications, updates, and other related features. It also provides monitors, cordless phones, applications, and accessories such as cases, wireless headsets, wireless speakers, and more. In addition, it provides multimedia content, including video, voice, messaging, and cloud-based and Internet-based applications and services to multiple screens such as mobile devices, televisions, media tablets, and personal computers. Its Medios service platform enables service providers to deliver content on devices. Motorola is based in Chicago, Illinois. It primarily sells its products in the United States, China, Brazil, and Singapore. Motorola currently operates as a subsidiary of Google Inc.

Algorized is a Swiss-based start-up developing advanced sensing and perception technologies to protect life. Its radical technology interfaces seamlessly with people, places and sensors to monitor wellbeing and reduce any risk of harm. Algorized solution is exceptionally sustainable and also entirely inobtrusive. It includes complex processing algorithms for ultra-wideband (UWB) impulse radar sensors, designed for human presence and objects detection, tracking and positioning as well as vital signs monitoring, even through obstacles. Features are: accurate real-time short-range detection, tracking and positioning as well as detection and monitoring of vital signs (breathing and heart-rate). Algorized technologies are used in a variety of fields from people safety, greener buildings and life-saving technologies through to autonomous vehicles, human machine interaction and consumer electronics.