Top Palo Alto, CA Hardware Startups (31)

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Iotera focuses on developing advanced wireless technologies to enable the internet of things. The Iotera wireless technology is being used to power the next generation of intelligent sensing and tracking products. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Redwood City.

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...

TenaFe, Inc. is a solid-state drive (SSD) controller startup that brings innovative, transformative and patented technology to data centers, edge computing and client OEM. The team's rich heritage in OEM and enterprise storage inspired the creation of a first-of-its-kind failure analysis and prediction technology. The company’s technology will revolutionize the SSD qualification process– enabling customers to shorten qualification times and...

Element Energy is an advanced battery management technology company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. We utilize proprietary hardware and software algorithms to improve the safety, intelligence, and economics of large-format battery systems. We seek to offer our technology solutions broadly across first and second-life energy storage and EV applications. Our shareholder base includes world-renowned renewable energy...

Thank you very much for following us these past many years. Tilera® Corporation has been acquired by EZchip, the leading supplier of Network Processors, as of November 2014. Please see the update below with details on the acquisition and follow us at EZchip's LinkedIn company page for the latest exciting news, coming events and job opportunities.

TurnOnGreen (OTC: IMHC) provides flexible and scalable electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions with a portfolio of residential, commercial, and ultra-fast charging station products, charging management software, and network services. We believe that we are the only green-energy technology company in the EV charging market that develops a broad range of robust products with smart service management support and cultivates strong...

Entrepreneurs often need strong partners in order to scale their businesses. This is particularly true for those developing novel hardware systems, exploring new business models, or growing international ventures. Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley (YMVSV) exists to accelerate the efforts of teams driving disruptive change. We have the resources and backing of Yamaha Motor Company (Japan), yet the openness...

Energous Corporation (NASDAQ: WATT) is leading the next generation of wireless charging – Wireless Charging 2.0 – with its award-winning WattUp® technology, which supports fast, efficient contact-based charging, as well as charging over-the-air. WattUp is a scalable, RF-based wireless charging technology that offers substantial improvements in contact-based charging efficiency, foreign object detection, orientation freedom and thermal performance compared to older,...

Analogix Semiconductor designs and manufactures semiconductors for the digital multimedia market, from portable devices such as smartphones, notebooks, and VR head mounted displays, to large, high-definition TVs and high-end graphics cards. Analogix is the market leader in providing end-to-end interface connectivity semiconductor solutions for DisplayPort under its SlimPort brand, including high-speed signal conditioners, and an industry leader in mobile display...

zGlue is a Silicon Valley company offering a platform and process for building custom chips on demand. As businesses in the hardware space face increasingly intense time-to-market challenges, zGlue provides an innovative solution through their ChipBuilder software platform, proprietary Smart Fabric™ interposer, and manufacturing partnerships with world-renowned TSMC and ASE. zGlue’s approach to accelerated product development delivers top-quality chips at...

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...