Top Hardware Startups in North America

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.

Palo Alto Networks is the next-generation security company maintaining trust in the digital age by helping tens of thousands of organizations worldwide prevent cyber breaches. With our deep cybersecurity expertise, commitment to innovation, and game-changing Next-Generation Security Platform, customers can confidently pursue a digital-first strategy and embark on new technology initiatives, such as cloud and mobility. This kind of thinking and know-how helps customer organizations grow their business and empower employees all while maintaining complete visibility and the control needed to protect their critical control systems and most valued data assets. Our platform was built from the ground up for breach prevention, with threat information shared across security functions system-wide, and designed to operate in increasingly mobile, modern networks. By combining network, cloud and endpoint security with advanced threat intelligence in a natively integrated security platform, we safely enable all applications and deliver highly automated, preventive protection against cyberthreats at all stages in the attack lifecycle without compromising performance. Customers benefit from superior security to what legacy or point products provide and realize a better total cost of ownership.

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.

Our first product is an automated hair braider that reduces appointment times from hours to minutes, empowering stylists to triple their business and addressing the 8 billion hours spent braiding hair each year.

Quilter is a physics-driven AI platform that automates printed circuit board (PCB) layout. Electrical engineers and PCB designers use it to turn circuit schematics into finished boards in hours instead of weeks.

Astrohaus builds distraction-free writing tools in hardware and software for modern authors under the Freewrite brand. The company was founded by Adam Leeb and Patrick Paul around the success of the Freewrite smart typewriter (previously, Hemingwrite), that was launched in 2014 on Kickstarter with a shoestring budget and raised $200k in the first 20 hours of the campaign. Since beginning shipping worldwide in 2016, writers in 50 countries have cumulatively written over 250 million words on their Freewrites. Current Product Line: Freewrite - The Freewrite is a modern distraction-free writing tool featuring an E Ink display, mechanical keyboard, and cloud backups. The Freewrite was successfully Kickstarted in 2015 raising $342k. getfreewrite.com/freewrite Freewrite Traveler - The Freewrite Traveler is a distraction-free writing tool that is half the size and weight of a typical laptop. It was launched on Indiegogo in 2018 and generated over $1.5mm of pre-sales. getfreewrite.com/traveler Postbox - Postbox is a web application for Freewrite users to manage their device settings and documents. postbox.getfreewrite.com Sprinter - Sprinter is a goal focused distraction-free web application in the browser. sprinter.getfreewrite.com WTFridays - WTFridays is a project that invites our worldwide community of writers and others to participate in a 30 minute freewriting session every friday at noon. wtf.getfreewrite.com

As passionate scientists and engineers, we are well aware of the plethora of critical problems in the world that cannot be solved because humanity simply does not have enough computing power. To address this, Vorticity is developing a radically new silicon chip architecture and system to dramatically accelerate scientific computing problems. Vorticity’s mission is to expand human ingenuity. To do that we are building a team of exceptional people to work together on big problems. Join us!

AnySignal was developed to reimagine how RF capabilities are delivered for the most difficult tasks around the globe. offers complete solutions for modern aircraft, satellites, and national security that span communications, radar, navigation, and RF sensing. Current solutions are overpriced, unimaginative, and provide little end-to-end capability. To shift this paradigm, they are bringing the appropriate talent, procedures, and technologies together. They are developing communications systems for satellites, launchers, space stations, and aircraft. They provide full-stack connectivity solutions that include software modems, hardware for use in flight and on the ground, data management software, ground station integration software, and vehicle telemetry software.

Neuralink is developing a fully-implanted, wireless, high-channel count brain-machine interface (BMI) with the goal of enabling people with paralysis to directly use their neural activity to operate computers and mobile devices with speed and ease. Neuralink was founded in 2016 by Elon Musk and the company is headquartered in Fremont, CA with a second location opening in Austin, TX.