Top Palo Alto, CA Hardware Startups (35)
HP IQ (formerly Humane) is HP’s new AI innovation lab focused on building an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s products and services for the future of work.
Lightmatter is a startup photonics company that has pioneered a new paradigm in processor chip architecture that uses photons instead of electrons. Now the leader in the photonic AI compute “space race,” this new class of high performance semiconductors is the foundation of Lightmatter’s mission to enable the growth of computing, reduce harmful emissions associated with this growth, and democratize...
Cavnue is building smart roads for smart vehicles, and future-proofing the nation’s roadways. The interstate highway system defined mobility in the second half of the 20th century. Now, transportation is changing again. Mobility in the 21st century will be defined by intelligent, connected, and autonomous vehicles and while billions have been invested into developing in-vehicle technologies, only a small fraction has...
Eridu AI is a Silicon Valley startup focused on accelerating the performance of large AI models. The company is led by a veteran team of Silicon Valley executives and engineers with decades of experience in state-of-the-art semiconductors, systems and software, including serial entrepreneur Drew Perkins, co-founder of Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN), Lightera (acquired by Ciena), Gainspeed (acquired by Nokia) and Mojo...
Avive Solutions, Inc. is a growth stage Automated External Defibrillator (AED) company with a connected response system that is rapidly gaining market share. We are a mission driven team that is quite literally saving lives. Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is a leading cause of death in the United States, and we are on a mission to change that! We are...
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Today, building robots and intelligent machines means navigating fragmented tools, incompatible hardware, and closed ecosystems. It takes too long, costs too much, and locks builders in. There is no default platform for physical AI. We're building it. Springcraft brings together purpose-built hardware, developer tools, and AI models into one open, integrated system so that builders can create machines that sense, understand, and...
ZutaCore’s waterless, direct-to-chip liquid cooling, with its exclusive pool boiling technology, represents a fundamental shift from traditional air or single-phase liquid cooling. Instead of moving heat away gradually, it removes it instantly at the source by turning liquid into vapor, keeping processors consistently cool even under the most extreme workloads. For operators, the impact is immediate: Higher performance per rack — Run...
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We’re on a mission to eliminate waste for good, starting with the food that ends up in landfills. Did you know that more than half of the food in landfills comes from home kitchens (ReFED)? And food in landfills turns into methane – which is 80x more potent than CO2 over a 20-year period (IPCC). At Mill, we’re working to...
Bolt Graphics is a semiconductor startup building the fastest and most efficient graphics processors. Power consumption continues to rise with minimal performance improvements, resulting in increased cost and negative environmental impact. Hardware hasn’t kept up with consumer expectations, especially in industries like architecture, engineering, film, advertising, gaming, & scientific research. Our customers came to us to solve their two main problems:...
EnCharge AI is a leader in advanced AI hardware and software systems for edge computing. EnCharge’s robust and scalable next-generation in-memory computing technology provides orders-of-magnitude higher compute efficiency and density compared to today’s best-in-class solutions. The high-performance architecture is coupled with seamless software integration and will enable the immense potential of AI to be accessible in power, energy, and space...
Access to seamless broadband connectivity for everyone and everything around the world is an urgent challenge, and mmWave wireless plays an essential role. SkyGig has developed an innovative beamforming technology to make wireless broadband communication scalable and cost-effective. Join us and work alongside a team of bright and innovative engineers and researchers to build the future of connectivity. We are...
We are Luminous. We're building the most powerful, scalable AI supercomputer on Earth. We are a group of mission-driven pragmatists. Where some might see an impossible task, we see a series of difficult, interconnected challenges that can be solved with a combination of focus, resources, and smart engineering. We’re here to build tomorrow’s technological miracles. Our mission matters. We’re here to help...
Mythic is a startup developing a breakthrough platform for deploying artificial intelligence in any device. Our hardware and software – based on fundamental breakthroughs in analog computing -- will be the driver of the major technological trends over the next 20 years, including autonomous systems, robotics, AR/VR, drone delivery, and many more.
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Efabless enables non-hardware experts to create the electronics required for intelligent, connected products. Efabless offers a unique process where users can rapidly, cost-effectively and easily create electronics from community-developed building blocks and open design patterns, called templates. We provide everything needed to do this: - Marketplace & request process - Library of building blocks and open designs - Design tools - Manufacturing technology and services We employ multiple models...
Purism believes in users' rights. We believe you should not be monitored, nor recorded, without your consent. We believe you should not surrender your freedom and your information to corporations for their profit. Here at Purism, we work with hardware component manufactures and the free software community to build high quality hardware that respects your digital life.
SyncFab connects OEM part buyers in Aerospace, Defense, Automotive, and Medical industries to distributed parts manufacturers backed by distributed ledger blockchain technology solutions for superior security, traceability and supplier management. SyncFab is a Member of the MOBI Automotive Industry Blockchain Consortium. OEMs can slash procurement time and costs for precision parts with SyncFab's supplier network secured by blockchain for anti-counterfeit, recalls,...
Parasail is the first AI Deployment Network built for the new era of open and scalable AI. We connect teams to the world’s largest pool of on-demand GPU compute—giving AI builders fast, flexible, and cost-efficient infrastructure to deploy and scale models without contracts, quotas, or cloud complexity. From real-time inference to massive batch jobs, Parasail intelligently matches workloads across a global...
Ventana is the RISC-V Performance leader, delivering platforms, chips, and IP for groundbreaking solutions across data center, automotive, client, and AI markets. Our core team includes the pioneers behind the first 64-bit Arm server processor, the X-Gene by Applied Micro. With this proven expertise, we are redefining high-performance computing with the RISC-V architecture. Ventana’s award-winning culture has been celebrated by Forbes...
Crocus Technology develops and supplies magnetic sensors based on its revolutionary and patented XtremeSense® TMR technology. Crocus’ magnetic sensors bring significant advantages to Industrial and Consumer Electronic applications requiring extremely high sensitivity, industry leading consistency of sensitivity over wide temperature range, low power and very low noise. The key product lines are Position Sensors (Switch, Linear and 2D positions), Current Sensors...
