Top Manufacturing Startups in North America

Tulip, the Frontline Operations Platform, is empowering the world’s leading manufacturers to improve the productivity of their teams, the quality of their output, and the efficiency of their operations. With Tulip’s no-code platform, manufacturers can empower those closest to operations to digitally transform their facilities and gain real-time visibility into the people, machines and processes involved in production--all in a matter of days. Manufacturers of all sizes, across industries including consumer electronics, aerospace and defense, contract manufacturing, automotive, apparel, medical devices and more, have implemented Tulip’s intuitive platform to solve some of the most pressing challenges in manufacturing: error-proofing processes with guided workflows, integrating industrial IoT (IIoT) technologies with legacy factory machines, and capturing and analyzing real-time production floor data. A spinoff out of MIT, the company is headquartered in Somerville, MA, with offices in the UK and Germany. It has been recognized as a MES Challenger on the Gartner Magic Quadrant, Frost and Sullivan Entrepreneurial Company of the year and a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. You can learn more and get started for free at Tulip.co.

Fictiv is a Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem that rapidly delivers custom parts on-demand, to help companies accelerate new product introduction. From early-stage companies to large enterprises, thousands of companies use Fictiv to innovate with agility, de-risk their supply chains, and get products to market faster. Fictiv works with companies like Tesla, Honeywell, and NASA to build the next rockets, self-driving cars, and live-saving robots. We're transforming how teams design, develop, and deliver the next generation of hardware products. For more information about Fictiv or to learn about hardware manufacturing best practices, visit fictiv.com

Our team works on state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision and sensors to make industrial robots intelligent. We are intelligence enablers, enabling hardware to do more with less human input. Our first system we have developed is a transformative robotic welder. It is a system that sees, understands, and requires almost zero human input to do its job. Join our talented team and help us create the future of manufacturing.

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company capable of returning a spacecraft from low Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in 2010. The company made history again in 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft became the first commercial spacecraft to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station. SpaceX successfully achieved the historic first reflight of an orbital class rocket in 2017, and the company now regularly launches flight-proven rockets. In 2018, SpaceX began launching Falcon Heavy, the world’s most powerful operational rocket by a factor of two. As one of the world’s fastest growing providers of launch services, SpaceX has secured over 100 missions to its manifest, representing over $12 billion on contract. These include commercial satellite launches as well as US government missions. SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft is flying numerous cargo resupply missions to the space station under a series of Commercial Resupply Services contracts. Dragon was designed from the outset to carry humans to space and will soon fly astronauts under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Building on the achievements of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy, SpaceX is working on a next generation of fully reusable launch vehicles that will be the most powerful ever built, capable of carrying humans to Mars and other destinations in the solar system.

Freeform is deploying software-defined, autonomous metal 3D printing factories around the world, bringing the scalability of software to physical production. Our proprietary technology stack leverages advanced sensing, real-time controls, and data-driven learning to produce digitally-verified, flawless parts at unprecedented speed and cost. Our mission is to make the transformative power of 3D printing available to all industries at scale and unlock the future of innovation.

When it comes to securing Industrial Operations environments, we believe humans should always be in the loop as actions in the cyber-physical world have real consequences. Threats are increasing faster than we can hire and train employees. We provide an intelligence augmentation platform that acts as your “cyber-sidekick”. Galvanick helps industrial companies secure their operations by reducing the time to detection of anomalous behavior on their most sensitive assets. The Galvanick cloud-native analysis platform aggregates telemetry from industrial environments and hosts systemic models that enable operators to quickly understand the difference between, and context around, both normal and abnormal behavior.

Synonym is a financing and development platform for essential biomanufacturing infrastructure - we’re building production capacity for synthetic biology companies and creating a new asset class for investors. We provide synbio companies with flexible capacity for microbial fermentation.  We build new biomanufacturing facilities, offering synbio companies access to dedicated, scalable capacity for minimal upfront capital investment. We accelerate project timelines and minimize internal complexity by handling facility development activities, from site selection through commissioning. We provide capital markets partners with curated access to biomanufacturing infrastructure investments, an emerging asset class and we manage these investments on behalf of investors, with an emphasis on risk management and maximizing returns.

Botsync is a Singapore-based robotics and automation startup building autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and intelligent software for modern factories and warehouses. We combine robotics with intelligent software to create scalable automation systems for modern industries. Our mission is simple — make industrial automation flexible, scalable, and easier to adopt for modern businesses. Founded in 2017, we help companies improve material movement, warehouse operations, and factory workflows through software-driven robotics solutions. Today, our solutions are deployed across global markets with multiple Fortune 500 companies. Backed by leading investors and currently in our Series A growth stage, we are growing rapidly across engineering, product, and business teams.

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.

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.