Top Palo Alto, CA Hardware Startups (45)

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...

At Ayar Labs we’re about to revolutionize computing by moving data with light. We’re unleashing processing power for artificial intelligence, high performance computing, aerospace and telecommunications by removing the bottlenecks created by today’s electrical I/O -- making it possible to continue scaling computing system performance. Ayar Labs is the first to deliver in-package optical I/O chiplets, a new universal I/O...

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...

Fidus specializes in leading-edge electronic product development. Our hardware, software, FPGA and signal integrity teams architect, design and deliver next-generation products for clients in emerging technology markets. We build long-term relationships by consistently exceeding expectations. Since 2001, Fidus has completed nearly 3000+ projects for 400+ customers in a variety of industries. By leveraging in-house expert knowledge and utilizing industry leading tools,...

Brilliant NextGen is transforming the smart home experience for builders, home owners, smart home professionals, and condos/apartment residents and property managers. Our award winning, all-in-one control hardware and platform, mobile app and connected ecosystem make it easy for integrators, builders, and homeowners to create beautifully designed, easily approachable intelligent living spaces. With a focus on design, simplicity, and performance, we’re...

We build tools that make debugging hardware a joy. Electrical engineers, hardware hackers, and students use our tools to record, visualize, and analyze electrical signals - so they can easily understand, debug, and optimize the behavior of their firmware, FPGA code, and electrical circuits. We started in a garage and soldered the first products by hand; we've build a loyal following and...

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.

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...

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...

RIOS Intelligent Machines is a robotics startup in Silicon Valley built around mission-driven engineering. We are building the smart factory of the future, supercharged by robotics and AI, which empowers organizations to effectively manage their production lines including integrating their data, decisions, and operations. RIOS was founded by former Xerox PARC engineers who saw a massive failure of modern robots...

Rigetti Computing is building the world’s most powerful computers to help solve humanity’s most pressing and important problems. These systems will perform computations that today’s fastest supercomputers are incapable of — unlocking entirely new classes of problems and offering a direct path to solutions. We believe quantum computing is going to significantly affect health care, how we treat disease, how...

Intuition Robotics is on a mission to care for our older adult population with an empathetic AI companion, allowing them to live healthier, happier and more independent lives. Our ground breaking technology synthesizes empathy to create an AI companion that establishes a trusted relationship, maintains high engagement and drives behavior change in older adults. Intuition Robotics' award-winning product, ElliQ®, is an...

MatX designs hardware tailored for the world’s best AI models: We dedicate every transistor to maximizing performance for large models. For these models, we deliver 10× more computing power, enabling AI labs to make models an order of magnitude smarter and more useful. Our hardware would make it possible to train GPT-4 and run ChatGPT, but on the budget of...

Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS provider of choice to build, launch and scale connected mobility services. Mojio’s platform and mobile apps deliver a smarter, safer and more convenient car ownership experience for the global driving community. Force by Mojio helps small businesses manage, monitor and maintain their fleets, while delighting their customers with real-time tracking...

The automobile industry has arrived at a crossroads. The transition to electric vehicles (EV) and the vitalized development of fully-autonomous vehicles (AV) has placed a big burden on fitting extraordinary amounts of computational power for artificial intelligence within the energy budget of batteries without affecting range. While battery technology is improving slowly, advances in compute efficiency have stalled as mere...

CoMira provides silicon, software, systems and support products and services.

We create novel laser-based hardware systems for materials fabrication that help manufacturers drastically reduce waste, improve quality, and enable next generation technologies.

Our mission: intelligent robots for a new golden age. In fifteen years, we believe robots will be as commonplace and easy to use as mobile phones. Artificial general intelligence is the finish line on our journey toward progressively more capable robots. Our approach leverages deep expertise in neuroscience and is shaped by a decade of research.

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...

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...