Top Industrial Startups in 2027

Xometry, backed by General Electric, Highland Capital Partners, and other venture investors, is a rapidly growing startup that is transforming American manufacturing. Our proprietary instant quoting technology and nationwide network of manufacturers provides an unparalleled on-demand manufacturing experience. Custom manufacturing is a $60 billion industry in the United States, and it is our mission to provide advanced manufacturing capabilities to customers of all sizes - from Fortune 500 companies and government agencies to small businesses and startups.

Canvass Analytics provides industrial AI for the manufacturing sector. Canvass’ patent-pending AI platform enables intelligent industrial operations by empowering plant operators with data-driven insights to improve operational processes, optimize assets and reduce costs. Canvass’ customers include some of the world's largest industrial companies from the manufacturing and oil and gas industries.

Tagup Inc. was founded in 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts. The team consists of twenty individuals, including eight data scientists. The company’s core IP is related to four areas: 1) High-performance computing pipeline (data acquisition, data wrangling, model and data delivery), 2) Time-to-event modeling (large-scale time series-based modeling of time to event, accurately predicting equipment failure and critical events over timescales ranging from days to decades), 3) Anomaly detection and operating mode classification (a semi-supervised approach for identifying unusual operation without explicit alarm thresholds), and 4) Inference and optimization (for specific applications, recommending specific control actions to optimize equipment use). Tagup’s customers are primarily in the energy industry, ranging from distribution through generation. The technology is deployed in various applications, including electric distribution networks, high-purity water systems, offshore wind turbines, and military ground vehicles, among others.

Acculon Energy is a one-stop shop for energy storage programs. Developing and deploying lithium batteries requires systems-level, full stack engineering expertise and broad capabilities to execute. Our 300,000 hours of battery program experience enable vehicle and battery OEMs to go further, faster, safer.

Corva is the emerging leader in real time data and analytics for oil & gas. With our platform, customers and vendors alike develop powerful apps & dashboards that facilitate faster and improved quality during drilling and completion operations. Our team strives to exceed our customers’ expectations with every interaction.

The HandStand Shop is building a better way to bring everyday hygiene into the spaces where people work, gather, and do business. Founded by a mechanical designer, our company combines practical engineering with thoughtful design to create versatile hand sanitizing towers for modern environments. We believe hygiene stations should be accessible, organized, easy to maintain, and visually suited to the spaces they serve. Our HandStand towers offer configurable options for sanitizer dispensers, bottle supports, waste collection, and accessories. With multiple packages and color choices, businesses can select a setup that fits their needs—from a simple sanitizer station to a multipurpose hygiene hub. Beyond our towers, we offer dispensers, refills, wipes, and accessories to help businesses keep essential supplies within reach. We serve organizations across healthcare, hospitality, education, retail, offices, fitness, and other shared spaces. As an early-stage, founder-led business, we value initiative, clear communication, creative problem-solving, and follow-through. We’re interested in people who enjoy building relationships, contributing ideas, and taking ownership of their work. Joining us means helping shape a growing business where individual contributions have a direct impact. Our mission is straightforward: make everyday hygiene more convenient through purposeful design, versatile products, and dependable service. The HandStand Shop — Designing Tomorrow’s Hygiene.

Refinery turnarounds, contractor crews, and safety-critical work run on paperwork, disconnected systems, and tribal knowledge. Valorian builds the technology that connects it. We are a technology consulting firm serving downstream energy and the contractors who keep it running. We build custom operational platforms, integrations between the systems our clients already use, safety tools for the field, and digital workers that take repetitive work off of our client's plate. We start with the problem, not the technology. Every engagement is scoped around a measurable operational outcome: less rework, faster approvals, clearer visibility, safer jobs. Our team understands how plants and contractors actually operate, so you spend less time explaining your world and more time seeing results. We hold ourselves to the standards our clients do. Our SOC 2 Type II program means the platforms we build and the vendors we use are held to a documented security standard.

Our business lines include: Aluminum, Automation, Cement/Minerals, Combustion, Cryogenics/Energy, Cutting Tools/Abrasives, Filling/Sealing, Glass, Grinding/Ultra-Precision, Induction, Intralogistics, Maintenance, Metal Cutting/Composites, Piping Solutions, Steel, Sugar/Bio-Energy, Tube/Pipe, and more. We build the plants of the future through our unrivaled spirit of innovation. We currently hold 2,113 patents in 645 families. In 2018 alone, we patented 45 new inventions and invested over $37 million dollars in R&D. We are leading the way towards Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IOT).