AI Hardware Startups

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AlpSemi

France

AlpSemi is a Grenoble, France-based semiconductor company developing wide-bandgap solid-state circuit breakers and power-protection chips for buildings, power grids, electric mobility and AI data centers. Its switches aim to replace mechanical breakers with faster, more efficient electronic power protection.

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Prototyping.io

United States

Prototyping.io provides autonomous manufacturing for mechanical parts, turning CAD designs into finished components through an AI-driven system. It analyzes designs for manufacturability and automates production to deliver quality parts faster and cheaper.

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SpiNNcloud Systems

Germany

SpiNNcloud Systems is a Dresden-based deep-tech company and TU Dresden spin-off building brain-inspired (neuromorphic) supercomputing hardware based on the SpiNNaker2 architecture. Its systems are optimised for energy-efficient inference of dynamically sparse AI algorithms, targeting next-generation real-time and generative AI workloads.

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Kimba

United States

Kimba is a New York-based sleep-technology startup building an AI-powered bedside device that delivers personalized scent therapy through the night. The device monitors biometric signals such as breathing, movement and heart-rate variability via built-in sensors and integrations with wearables (Oura, WHOOP, Apple Watch, Garmin), then times plant-derived scent cues to the user's sleep state to support deeper, drug-free rest. Founded in 2023 by Ben Fuxbruner and Gabi Beck, the company pairs olfactory neuroscience with adaptive AI and sells via a hardware-plus-subscription model.

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Diamond Kinetics

United States

Diamond Kinetics is a Pittsburgh-based sports-technology company building hardware and software for youth baseball and softball. Founded in 2014, it is best known for the DK Bat Sensor, which captures swing data to give players and coaches performance metrics, and for sidelineHD, an AI-powered game-livestreaming platform it acquired in 2024. The company is designated MLB Trusted Youth Development Platform.

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GlobalFoundries

United States

GlobalFoundries is a US-headquartered pure-play semiconductor foundry with manufacturing operations in the US, Europe, and Singapore. The company supplies essential chips for AI infrastructure, communications, automotive, and IoT markets, and is a leading commercial provider of silicon photonics for hyperscaler and quantum-computing customers.

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KoolLogix

Singapore

KoolLogix is a Singapore-based deep-tech company that designs heat-removal hardware for data centres, spun out of electronic-rack manufacturer ERS Industries in 2018. Co-developed with A*STAR, its HRM-series modules attack heat at the rack rather than the room, helping colocation, enterprise and supercomputer operators run higher-density AI workloads with materially lower cooling energy use.

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Orbital Industries

United Kingdom

Orbital Industries is a London-based industrial technology company using AI to design and manufacture physical infrastructure for next-generation compute. Its first commercial product is a PFAS-free dielectric cooling fluid for GPUs, paired with modular data centre systems deployable in months, developed via a multi-year partnership with AWS. Founded in 2022 by former DeepMind researcher Jonathan Godwin with James Gin-Pollock and Daniel Miodovnik, the company employs 50 people across London and San Francisco.

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viaim

Singapore

viaim builds AI-powered workplace earbuds and recording hardware, with OpenNote as its flagship open-ear meeting headset offering real-time AI translation across 78 languages and on-device transcription. The Singapore-based firm has 1.5M+ registered users across 200 countries and is evolving from recording hardware into an office AI Agent platform.