Top Hardware Startups in 2026

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.

Dailymotion is the video platform for discovering the events and ideas that keep the world surprising and diverse on four main topics: news, sports, music, and entertainment, as well as comedy skits, political debates, fashion shows, gaming live-streams and more. Launched in 2005, Dailymotion commands a global audience of 300 million entertainment-seekers who frequent the site and its dedicated mobile experience to surface the most relevant professional video content based on their unique tastes and interests. In 2017, Dailymotion relaunched its user experience and platform with a focus on premium content from trusted publishers. Global content partners include: Universal Music Group, Condé Nast Entertainment, Hearst Magazines Digital Media, Bloomberg Media, Group Nine Media, BBC News, VICE, Genius, Refinery29, Mic, Billboard/The Hollywood Reporter, Cheddar, Fuse Media, and FOX Deportes. Dailymotion’s world-class video player enables publishers to deliver flawless viewing experiences across 30,000+ channels and monetize their video investment on their owned media properties. The platform sees an average of 600,000 uploads per month. Dailymotion is owned by Vivendi, a Paris-based multinational media company. For more information, visit dailymotion.com.

Entrada Ventures is a seed-stage fund started by passionate, experienced operators and investors who have built multiple successful companies. We don’t just write checks. We work personally and intensely with a few companies each year helping them develop from a startup with product-market fit to a strong business ready for its first round of institutional financing. By investing in and working with strong founders who’ve demonstrated some traction, we can significantly improve those companies’ ability to understand, manage, and scale their business and raise a tier-one Series A on great terms. Entrada Ventures is based in Santa Barbara, CA, and invests across a broad range of innovative technologies. We are interested to hear from you, but please don't submit business plans or ideas to any of our partners via AngelList. Check out our website and, if you think you are a good fit for our strategy, connect with us through a mutual contact or via our site at entradaventures.com

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.

Toradex specializes in embedded computing technology, offering Arm®-based System on Modules (SoMs) and Customized SBCs. Complemented with direct online sales and long-term product availability, Toradex offers direct premium support and ex-stock availability with local warehouses. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Horw, Switzerland, the company’s network stretches across the globe with additional offices in the USA, Vietnam, China, India, Japan, and Brazil.

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.

We've developed diamond technology with incredible results. to create diamond at mining scale, we developed proprietary reactor designs capable of forming plasma as hot as the sun at unprecedented density. our diamonds have impeccable provenance. created in america in our carbon-neutral foundry. masterfully polished.

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.