Top Hardware Startups in 2026

Markforged transforms manufacturing with the most affordable 3D metal and carbon fiber printers capable of producing parts tough enough for the factory floor. Engineers, designers, and manufacturing professionals all over the world rely on Markforged metal and composite printers for tooling, fixtures, functional prototyping, and high-value end-use production. Founded in 2013 and based in Watertown, MA, Markforged has about 300 employees globally, with $137 million in both strategic and venture capital. Markforged was recently recognized by Forbes in the Next Billion-Dollar Startups list and listed as the tenth fastest-growing tech company in the US in the 2018 Deloitte Fast 500. To learn more about Markforged, please visit markforged.com.

Threekit makes product visualization easy. Once your products are loaded into the system, we do the heavy lifting—rendering images on 3D Configurator, Virtual Photographer or Augmented Reality, deploying them to the right channels and keeping them accessible and organized on our content management system. Our unified platform approach enables businesses of any size to scale and automate beautiful product visuals across channels, both online and offline. Build it once, use it anywhere, and future-proof your investment for the next big thing.

Mojo Vision is pioneering a highly flexible, wafers-in, wafers-out micro-LED platform to unlock AI applications in multiple market segments. Built over the past decade by our world-class engineers, our system-level approach combines advanced 300mm silicon architecture with GaN-on-Silicon emitters, proprietary quantum dots, photodetectors, micro-lens arrays, and packaging to solve conventional trade-offs in size, brightness, bandwidth density, and power. Our scalable, manufacturing-ready approach enables breakthrough products such as next-generation optical interconnects and AI glasses. At Mojo, our team includes talented professionals with expertise in hardware, software, optics, photonics, electronics, chemistry, and applied physics. We are based in Cupertino, California and are backed by some of the world’s leading technology investors.

Our product is a software stack that automates the low-level, detail-oriented parts of circuit board design. We free engineers up to be more creative and more productive. Our software captures electrical engineering knowledge and makes it reusable, so all of the hard-won design knowledge out in the world can be applied to every new design.

We're building a future where hardware companies can design and iterate as fast as software companies CircuitHub is on a mission to fix rapid electronics prototyping. We are the first automated electronics factory built around a modern tech stack. We help hardware companies producing self driving cars, satellites, 3D printers, robotics, & more to rapidly prototype electronics and get to market faster. We've raised $5M from top investors that include Y Combinator , Google Ventures, & more. Explore more on circuithub.com

Ayar Labs helps companies keep up with skyrocketing volumes of data by offering a breakthrough hardware that brings the super-high bandwidths and low energy use of fiber optics inside computers. We are on a mission to get optics inside all electronics, replacing electricity with light, and bringing breakthrough improvements in performance and energy efficiency to computing. We are commercializing a breakthrough technology from MIT, UC Berkeley, and CU Boulder in which we have figured out how to get silicon chips, such as processors, memory, and ASICs, to communicate with light instead of electricity using established CMOS fabrication processes with no process changes. This alternative to copper interconnects brings unprecedented bandwidth and energy efficiency to computing.

Barsys is a culmination of robotics, electronics and IOT. It’s a fully automated cocktail maker designed to act as a tool for bar-tenders, enabling themto cater more number of customers. The cocktails can easily be ordered by an app on a handheld device and the Barsys allows you to have the system be kept at home/office. Barsys monitors the consumption patterns, pour quantities, and can notify the user for ingredients if they are running low. The App, stores all the data in the cloud and can be used to improve inventory management and develop data backed consumer insights. The system combines robotic hardware with cloud-based software to prepare your favorite cocktail faster than a bartender.

ShapeScale is a personal 3D body scanner and fitness tracker that digitizes your body shape in photorealistic 3D so that you can track where exactly you gain muscle and lose fat. Nobody really cares about their weight or even how many steps one takes. These are just numbers to a specific end. What everyone really cares about is whether they are staying in shape or getting in a better shape. ShapeScale will show you even the smallest changes that you cannot see with your own bare eyes. ShapeScale will be the fitness centerpiece for the home that makes sense of your fitness and diet and how it affects your body. Beyond fitness, ShapeScale will enable an entire body computing platform that provides additional applications such as bespoke fashion, virtual 3D fitting rooms, 3D printing, and much more.

Echodyne Corp (echodyne.com) is building complete radar vision platforms as well as passive and active subsystems using our patented Metamaterial Electronically Scanning Array (MESA). Echodyne’s radar vision platform represents a new category of sensor technology – combining the all-weather, long-range, ground-truth measurement capabilities of radar with the high-resolution imaging capabilities normally associated with cameras or high-end LIDAR. Echodyneis a privately held company founded in 2014 to bring to market metamaterials-based radar products. Echodyne's investors include: Bill Gates, Madrona Venture Group, Vulcan Capital, Lux Capital, The Kresge Foundation, and others. The company is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

Fabric8Labs' patented Electrochemical Additive Manufacturing (ECAM) process produces metal parts at the atomic level and eliminates the need for expensive metal powders, debinding and sintering furnaces, lasers or binders. Bring the cost of metal additive manufacturing within reach for a much broader market while meeting or exceeding the state of the art in print resolution, print speed, and print quality.