Top California Hardware Startups (268)

Doodle Labs designs and produces industrial-grade wireless networking solutions. The company focuses on mesh networking for robotic systems, providing high throughput, long-range Mesh Rider solutions for UAVs, UGVs, AMRs and other robotic applications. The company’s Helix Mesh Rider Radio was developed with sponsorship from DIU and is the Blue UAS program’s datalink of choice. Doodle Labs was named one of Fast...

Headquartered in sunny Los Angeles, GrayMatter Robotics is an AI robotics company that builds the factories of the future today, empowering people, creating safer workplaces, and shaping a more prosperous society. We build next-generation factories that transcend human constraints, driving exponential productivity and sustainable economic growth. Our technology brings together robotics, Physical AI, and human ingenuity to create intelligent systems...

Treeswift builds physical AI for labor. We use robotics and machine learning to help the people who do real work get more done, starting with the crews who keep the electric grid running,.

Red 6 is an innovative Augmented Reality (AR) technology startup leading the way in synthetic air combat training. Our primary technology, supporting our ATARS product, enables pilots to simulate the cognitive challenges of flying while accessing realistic, scalable training in dynamic outdoor environments

PseudolithIC, Inc is a rapidly-growing semiconductor start-up company based in Santa Barbara, CA pioneering heterogeneous integration for radio-frequency integrated circuit solutions.

InnoPhase IoT, a fabless semiconductor company, specializes in ultra-low-power wireless connectivity solutions for IoT products. Its award-winning Talaria TWO™ Wi-Fi modules with BLE5 enable battery-based, intelligent, always-on, cloud-connected IoT products by increasing battery-life performance up to 8x current solutions with its patented digital radio design. It is ideal for remote security cameras, video doorbells, connected sensors, wearables, lossless audio, and...

Efficient is building the world’s most energy-efficient general-purpose processor by combining ultra-efficient hardware with an intuitive, developer-friendly compiler and software stack that unlocks 10–100× efficiency gains across every part of an application, including AI. Efficient was founded in 2022 to commercialize a breakthrough in efficient computation developed over nearly a decade by a team of world-leading computer architects. Efficient's world-class...

i3D.net is a global operating high performance hosting provider. We are specialized in global game hosting for publishers and developers. With i3D.net's own low-latency network and global coverage we also offer solutions for Enterprises and IT Service providers.

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.

Ranked “Highest in Customer Satisfaction for Wireless Routers” by J.D. Power. TP-Link is an industry-leading provider of wireless networking products. With tens of millions of customers in more than 120 countries, TP-Link’s consumer and business products reflect the company’s substantial investment in research and development and meticulous in-house design, manufacturing and testing. TP-Link’s award-winning product line includes routers, range extenders, switches, network...

Powering the future of hardware design

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...

Life @ElveSpeed: hundred times faster internet access in urban settings and remote locations.

Quadric has built a unified hardware/software architecture optimized for on-device machine learning inference. Only the Quadric GPNPU (general purpose neural processing unit) delivers high ML inference performance while also running C++ code without forcing the developer to artificially partition application code between two or three different kinds of processors. Quadric's GPNPU is a licensable processor IP core that scales from...

Mesh Optical Technologies manufactures advanced optical systems at scale.

Observable Space is unlocking continuous, real-time observations of space with the industry’s first line of vertically integrated hardware and software products. The company is the result of a merger between PlaneWave Instruments, the leader in advanced telescope design and manufacturing in the US, and OurSky, a company founded by SpaceX’s former VP of software engineering to create a developer platform...

Axiado Corporation is a security processor company redefining hardware root of trust with hardware-based security technologies, including per-system AI. Its solution with Secure Vault™ boot system and Secure AI™ engine solution eliminates breaches at the perimeter of existing cloud infrastructures, networks, and IoT devices.

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...

Atomic Semi is building a small, fast semiconductor fab. We’ll build the tools ourselves then quickly push them to more advanced geometries. We’re building a small team of exceptional, hands-on engineers to make this happen.

We specialize on integrated connectivity, advanced timing, and signal integrity solutions for the computing, communications, and consumer market segments. Our technology offers system design solutions to the challenges presented by high-bandwidth, high-speed serial protocols. Our standards-compliant products enable signal integrity, switching, bridging and timing of high-speed signals for specific protocols such as PCI Express, SATA, SAS, USB, DisplayPort, HDMI/DVI, GbE,...