Top Manufacturing Startups in 2026

We are on the brink of the next industrial revolution and Oden is using our technologies to usher in the new era of manufacturing. We’re on a mission to eliminate waste in manufacturing. Manufacturing has long been an analog world, but this has changed. By introducing machines to the digital world, there’s a staggering opportunity for efficiency and production leaps. We empower engineering and operations leaders to automatically solve and prevent quality and performance issues through our pre-built ML models. Through our manufacturing analytics platform, efficiency, sustainability, and competitiveness are democratized. Why We Do It: We like to enable those who make things - to make more, to waste less, to serve their customers, and to thrive in a competitive world. Help enough makers, and the world can give us all the abundance we want for less cost and environmental impact. We’re on the verge of a 4th industrial revolution that begs for absolute efficiency in all factors of life. We plan to deliver that to everyone who makes things.

Divergent provides a disruptive new approach to auto manufacturing that incorporates 3D printed joints, which we call a NODE™, connecting carbon fiber structural materials that results in an industrial strength chassis that can be assembled in a matter of minutes.

We at Spinlaunch develop and design technology for mass accelerators. Spinlaunch was founded by Jonathan Yaney in 2014, and has since raised over $80 million dollars in funding. Our corporate headquarters is in Long Beach California. We also have a flight test facility at Spaceport America in New Mexico. We are developing a kinetic energy space launch system that lowers the dependency on traditional chemical rockets which lowers the cost dramatically.

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.

Squint is a Silicon Valley based software company backed by Sequoia Capital (investors in Apple, Google, Instagram, and more) and Menlo Ventures (investors in Uber, Siri, and more). Our team has deep expertise in Augmented Reality — over 45 foundational patents and past work featured in Apple Event keynotes. Squint’s mission is to accelerate human potential by bringing digital knowledge into the real world. Our team has developed the only AR product in the world that is truly “open world” — that is: it can be created anywhere, on the spot, and doesn’t require a QR code or a 3D model to detect objects and orient itself precisely.

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

The biggest waste in manufacturing today is not on the shop floor. It's in the meetings, emails, and data transfer that overwhelm knowledge processes (eg quality assurance, vendor management, engineering, R&D, and sales). That's because traditional enterprise tools split collaboration and processes into disparate systems, resulting in up to 85% of time and effort being wasted. Unifize solves this problem by bringing collaboration and process into one place. By creating a conversation for every process record, Unifize measurably reduces waste in knowledge processes by up to 95%.

We manufacture Functional Medicine. All Ortho Molecular Products are evidence-based. The most reliable evidence comes in the form of well-controlled human clinical trials, in populations demographically similar to our doctors’ patients, published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. This is the standard we are aiming for when we consider which ingredients to include in our formulas. However, we also honor the historical data of thousands of years of traditional use, as well as the direct observations of health care practitioners in clinical practice.

ELCO Lighting is a renowned Lighting Manufacturer dedicated to delivering high-quality lighting products to our customers. We are committed to innovation, sustainability, and excellence in our field.

Crane Pumps & Systems creates innovative pump solutions for the effective and efficient transport of wastewater. We develop long-term customer relationships by providing exceptional service and responsiveness, which is enabled by our commitment to continuous improvement through the Crane Business System.