Top Industrial Automation Startups in 2024

Synthego’s vision is to turn biology into an information science, with the ultimate goal of dramatically extending the healthy human lifespan. Synthego builds advanced bioinformatics and automated hardware platforms to create next-generation molecular biology tools, starting with full-stack genome engineering. These world-class tools accelerate basic scientific discovery, critical disease cures and novel synthetic biology applications to improve and prolong life.

We are providing a complete “business in a box” solution for owner-operators and small trucking carriers at a much lower cost using software engineering, data science and world class operations processes. Our mission is simple — to put more money in the hands of truck drivers and reduce their headaches. CloudTrucks will improve the three core metrics that every truck driver cares about — revenue, cash-flow and costs. We focus on the owner-operator and small trucking companies because they are the lifeblood of the industry and facing the largest pressures with fast rising insurance rates, predatory factoring options and a quickly changing landscape. It’s more important than ever to have someone in their corner whose incentives are 100% aligned with theirs.

Volta Labs was spun out of MIT in 2018 with the simple mission of building biological automation from the ground up. Volta is in the proximity of Kendall Square, known as "the most innovative square mile on the planet". Being part of the open biotech culture in Kendall Square made us realize that today’s biologists are held back by the limitations of existing automation tools. With DNA sequencing in particular, we observed that the advances in DNA readout technologies had moved further along than the advances in the upstream steps of preparing samples for sequencing (sample prep). ‍ What started out as a simple printed circuit board to manipulate colored droplets at the MIT Media Lab during co-founder Udayan Umapathi’s graduate work was quickly directed toward solving the “sample prep bottleneck”. The company raised Seed Funding from top VCs in 2019 and later that year added Will Langford as a co-founder and Head of Engineering. ‍ Since then, we have been heads down in the lab inventing and building novel fluidic and sample manipulation technologies. We take an anti-disciplinary approach to solve very hard problems and weave together instrumentation, fluidics, software, biology and chemistry. While our current focus is on sequencing sample prep, we envision a new approach where a single universal machine automates most biological workflows in genomics, proteomics and synthetic biology.

Atomic Machines is doing something truly epic: inventing the future of how things are made. And a glorious future it will be. We envision an era of atomically precise manufacturing (APM), in which everything is made by assembling matter at the molecular level, making anything from its digital description, blurring the line between bits and atoms. Our first move on the long journey to this APM future is in the realm of microfabrication, making mechanical devices with features sized in the single-digit microns scale. Our fabrication technology will be full-stack, 100% automated and data-driven, and we’re expanding the engineering team now to take it to commercial reality. We have engineering offices in Berkeley and Santa Clara, CA. We are well funded, and our leadership has a long track record of success. We have successfully developed multiple prototype generations of our first MEMS device and are benefitting directly from the direct-write nature of our fabrication technology, going from bits to atoms in hours, not months or years.

Phaidra’s mission is to enable industry practitioners (i.e. the domain experts) to develop their own AI solutions. We believe that AI is a powerful technology with countless applications. However, it is also an exclusive technology — the benefits of AI are currently locked to the few companies with the resources and AI / software expertise to commercialize it. We seek to broaden access to AI by creating no-code software that hides the complexity of applying AI from the domain experts. We focus on the industrial sector (e.x. manufacturing, logistics, energy, etc.) because it is data-rich with abundant AI applications and room for optimization. It is also an area that our founding team is deeply familiar with, having reduced Google's data center cooling energy consumption by 40% while working at DeepMind.

We offer a cloud-basec platform that calculates the exact rate for each employee, which simplifies reimbursement for workers who use their phones as a means to gain and track work while on the go.

We are a software house with a 15-year history, a rich portfolio, projects all over the world and an appetite for more. We have built our brand on professionalism and flexibility in delivering software solutions. We are not afraid of unconventional ideas and value innovation and imaginative change. What is our focus? Software solutions that meet the challenges of businesses. Production systems, transport, e-commerce: anything that improves productivity – on any platform. Our core competences are in Industry 4.0, integrations, migrating legacy systems and custom software development We strongly believe in the power of talent. We approach challenges as a team, without unhealthy competition. Knowledge is there to be shared and gained.

Our loading dock sensor platform verifies all incoming and outgoing freight, aggregating data that enables shippers and carriers to efficiently manage dock operations, switch out suppliers and understand material flow in real time.

SuperProcure is a fast-growing SAAS company that provides logistics and supply chain management digitization solutions to manufacturing companies. At SuperProcure, we strive to create and maintain a well-oiled machine that provides a one-stop solution for all the major logistics troubles. We are centred around our clients and continually learn from them to provide customised yet robust solutions for each one of them. We have over 50+ satisfied enterprise clients with 100% retention rate. The product brings key stakeholders associated with the planning, dispatch, and delivery of a truckload under a single umbrella. As a community, we are a fast-growing group of dreamers who are extremely dedicated to waking up and making a tangible contribution to our goals at SuperProcure as a team. We boost manpower productivity by 300% with a 67% drop-in truckload processing time via automation of key business activities which in-turns streamlines communication and correspondence across the board. And at the rate we are going, we make sure not to forget our ethics, core values and vision that help us feel grounded and motivated. Our ever-expanding client base includes large companies like Tata Consumer, Godrej Agrovet, Pepsico, Borosil Industries, LnTECC, Haldirams, KEC, KEI Industries, and many more.