Hardware Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) in the San Francisco Bay Area 2024

December 2024

Browse 27 of the top Hardware startups funded by Y Combinator. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, these are some of the hottest and fastest-growing startups.

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  • Proxy
    Proxy (s2016)Acquired • 20 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    We're building a mobile and wearable digital wallet that makes interacting with payments, identity, and authentication seamless, fun, and empowering. Acquired by OURA in 2023
    hard-tech
    hardware
    consumer
    identity
  • Zendar
    Zendar (s2017)Active • 45 employees • Berkeley, CA, USA
    Zendar develops high-definition radar for autonomous vehicles.
    hardware
    radar
    automotive
  • SnapMagic
    SnapMagic (s2015)Active • 28 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Built by electrical engineers for electrical engineers, SnapMagic removes monotony so that engineers can do their best work. SnapMagic’s electronic component data is used by over 1.5 million engineers across the world’s largest organizations. Its new AI Copilot will change the way that every engineer designs electronics. Join at www.snapmagic.com.
    developer-tools
    hardware
    marketplace
    ai
  • Koko
    Koko (s2017)Active • 25 employees • Palo Alto, CA, USA
    Full Sleep by Koko Labs is the first at-home sleep program that combines the power of clinical grade, radar based wireless sleep tracking with best-in-class CBT-I sleep techniques. Full Sleep delivers daily lessons developed with evidence-based principles. The multi-week curriculum is customized based on your daily overnight sleep data and other health conditions that could impact sleep, such as menopause, chronic pain, or depression. Learn how to challenge assumptions, change habits, and introduce behaviors to help you fall and stay asleep.
    hardware
    machine-learning
    consumer-health-services
  • Orangewood Labs
    Orangewood Labs (w2018)Active • 40 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Orangewood Labs makes the world's most affordable AI-powered industrial robotic arms for small businesses! Our robots can be programmed by just using natural language prompts and cost a fraction of human labor.
    artificial-intelligence
    generative-ai
    hardware
    robotics
  • Holy Grail
    Holy Grail (s2019)Active • 7 employees • San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
    Holy Grail removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to contribute to the long-term sustainability of humans and other species on Earth
    carbon-capture-and-removal
    hard-tech
    hardware
    climate
    climatetech
  • Gridware
    Gridware (w2021)Active • 50 employees • Walnut Creek, CA, USA
    Gridware exists to enhance and protect the mother of all networks: the electrical grid. The grid touches everyone and makes our modern economy possible. But it’s also fragile. When the grid is compromised, everything grinds to a halt, and the consequences can be dire: wildfires burn, land is destroyed, property is damaged, progress stops, and lives are lost. Our team builds smart sensors that help utility companies to immediately detect, find, and fix outages and take steps to prevent new outages, and other related disasters, from happening at all. The need for power will only increase. We protect the grid of today while we build the grid of tomorrow. Gridware is privately held and backed by the best climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. We are headquartered in the Bay Area in northern California.
    hardware
    climate
    energy
    enterprise-software
  • Ferveret
    Ferveret (s2021)Active • 6 employees • San Jose, CA, USA
    Ferveret develops liquid cooling solutions inspired by nuclear power plant cooling. We save data centers 96% in cooling costs, 68% on capital costs, and reduce their carbon footprint by 40% while increasing chip performance by 2X. Today, about 40% of the electricity used in these facilities is wasted on cooling. Our technology eliminates this wasted energy.
    hardware
    climate
    energy
  • Integrated Reasoning
    Integrated Reasoning (s2022)Active • 1 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Integrated Reasoning builds efficient computer processors that are tailored to the memory access patterns of Karp's 21 NP-complete problems. We’re making it 100x - 10,000x faster to perform computations like scheduling airline pilots or optimizing packing layouts for shipping containers.
    artificial-intelligence
    developer-tools
    hard-tech
    hardware
    saas
  • Shape (ShapeScale)
    Shape (ShapeScale) (s2015)Active • 7 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Shape is a health tech startup based in San Francisco, California. We are backed by Y Combinator and the company is led by experienced hardware serial entrepreneurs. Shape has designed a product called ShapeScale. ShapeScale is transforming the way we measure our health goals by enabling you to visualize yourself in 3D and see where you have been losing fat and gaining muscle.
    hardware
    computer-vision
    consumer-health-services
  • Mashgin
    Mashgin (w2015)Active • 75 employees • Palo Alto, CA, USA
    Mashgin creates better retail experiences through visual automation. We’ve built a self-checkout kiosk that uses computer vision to scan multiple items without barcodes, reducing checkout time by 10x. We’re completely recreating the checkout experience in an industry that’s had little innovation in decades. Our clients see dramatic reductions in lines and revenue increases of as much as 400% as a result.
    cashierless-checkout
    deep-learning
    hardware
    computer-vision
    ai
  • Sinovia Technologies
    Sinovia Technologies (w2017)Active • 7 employees • San Carlos, CA, USA
    We use the printing methods used for newspapers, packaging, posters, and other graphic media to make beautiful, emissive electronic displays with high-end OLED technology aimed at low-cost applications. Our displays are paper-thin, flexible, and can be easily custom printed in a variety of shapes and sizes, allowing hardware designers to use displays and indicators on curved surfaces and in new ways.
    hard-tech
    hardware
    iot
  • UNISON
    UNISON (w2022)Active • 15 employees • Mountain View, CA, USA
    UNISON is building a unified reality headset to dive in and resurface from virtual worlds with new-found value. UNISON is a small team of passionate people from companies like Meta, Sony, Apple and research labs like the IARAI, based in the SF Bay Area and backed by some of the world’s best investors. Learn more about us, our product, and team here: in-unison.com.
    hardware
    virtual-reality
    consumer
    gaming
  • CircuitLab
    CircuitLab (w2013)Active • 2 employees • Redwood City, CA, USA
    CircuitLab makes it easier for electrical engineers, students, and electronics hobbyists to design, analyze, build, and share electronic circuits.
    hardware
    saas
  • Double Robotics (s2012)Active • 11 employees • Burlingame, CA, USA
    Double Robotics is the creator of Double, the world’s leading telepresence robot. We help telecommuters feel more connected to their colleagues by giving them a physical presence wherever they need to be. Having your own Double in the office means you can be free to roam around anywhere without scheduling a call or meeting. Double takes everything you love about video calls on an iPad and places that on a mobile base that puts the remote worker in control. By combining cutting edge technology with an intuitive, elegant design, Double is the ultimate tool for telecommuters. Our mission is to connect the world through remote experiences. http://www.doublerobotics.com info@doublerobotics.com
    hardware
    robotics
  • Petcube
    Petcube (w2016)Active • 51 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Petcube is a company reimagining pet care, and using technology to keep people connected with their pets. Its first product, Petcube Camera, is an interactive pet monitor with real time video and built-in laser pointer. It allows pet owners to watch, talk to, and play with their pet from their smartphone, no matter where they are. Founded in Kyiv in 2013, Petcube was funded on Kickstarter and became one of the most successful crowdfunding pet products in history. Since graduating from the prestigious Y-Combinator incubation program, Petcube has gone on to launch two additional products, Petcube Play and Petcube Bites, as well as a cloud video recording service, Petcube Care. Petcube products are available online and in stores including Brookstone, Best Buy, and Petco.
    hardware
  • Rain Neuromorphics
    Rain Neuromorphics (s2018)Active • 12 employees • Redwood City, CA, USA
    At Rain Neuromorphics, we envision a future where every device possesses a dynamic and continuously learning AI brain. Neural Networks are the most powerful engines behind today's AI, but simulations require massive amounts of power and time to learn all of the synaptic connections. As opposed to a simulation, our neuromorphic hardware is a physical artificial neural network, composed of spiking neurons and physical synapses. We combine unique electroceramic materials, nanofabrication techniques, and biologically plausible models of learning to create the Memristive Nanowire Neural Network (MN3), a new type of AI chip. The MN3 can possess over ten million spiking neurons per square centimeter, and uses far less power than conventional GPUs and CPUs.
    artificial-intelligence
    hardware
    neurotechnology
  • AudioFocus
    AudioFocus (s2019)Active • 4 employees • Oakland, CA, USA
    If we've learned anything in the last few years it's that spending time with our friends and family is essential to our well-being and happiness. Unfortunately, loud and noisy places like weddings and family gatherings hinder human connection, especially for the hearing impaired. In fact, the biggest unmet need in the entire hearing healthcare industry is hearing in noisy places. AudioFocus helps patients hear in these environments by only enhancing voices nearby the patients and ignoring ones farther away. We do this using acoustics informed machine learning and custom microphone array design. Our goal is to increase the adoption rate of 37M US adults with hearing loss, only 8M use hearing aids today. Founded by Auditory Neuroscientist & AI expert and a Hearing Aid hardware design expert.
    deep-learning
    hardware
    medical-devices
  • Ananya Health
    Ananya Health (s2021)Active • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Building a standard-of-care medical device to freeze abnormal cells before they become cervical cancer, in any clinic, anywhere in the world, at 1/10 the cost. -- Ananya Health is building a portable cryoablation unit designed for every primary care clinic in the world. Our beachhead application is cervical cancer prevention -- even though cervical cancer is easy to screen for, 80% of clinics worldwide lack the infrastructure and specialized staff to treat at the earliest stages. Our platform technology allows nurses and lower level health workers to treat at the point of care for 1/10 the cost of traditional ablation, and is the only cryo device that will help us achieve the WHO target to eliminate cervical cancer in our lifetime.
    hardware
    health-tech
    medical-devices
  • AirMyne
    AirMyne (w2022)Active • 11 employees • Berkeley, CA, USA
    AirMyne is building machines to capture & remove carbon dioxide from ambient atmospheric air so it can be utilized or sequestered downstream. Our team is based in Berkeley, CA.
    carbon-capture-and-removal
    hard-tech
    hardware
    climate
  • Nebia
    Nebia (s2015)Acquired • 16 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    (acquired by Brondell in 2022) At Nebia we build innovative and impactful products that improve how people use water in their daily lives. Through thoughtful reinvention of everyday interactions, we empower people everywhere to collectively make a greater impact with their most basic daily rituals. We started with the shower. The Nebia shower embodies the highest standards of experience, design, engineering and water and energy use. With water savings up to 70% compared to traditional showers, Nebia was designed to make a meaningful impact without compromising on experience. At the heart of our products is our unwavering dedication to developing groundbreaking sustainable solutions that stand the test of time. Every new iteration is made to solve a complex engineering challenge that has limited innovation for over a century. Our investment in R&D and product development is second only to our investment in the people who are making it possible. After several years working behind the scenes, we are extremely proud of what we have recently achieved: - $10m raised on Kickstarter - Products in 100,000 homes - 500+ million gallons of water saved (c. 2022) - 27 million kWh (27 GWh) of energy (approx. energy to heat 2,700 U.S. homes in one year)
    hardware
    sustainability
    climate
    climatetech
  • Lockitron
    Lockitron (s2009)Acquired • 11 employees • Palo Alto, CA, USA
    Apigy is the developer of Lockitron, a device which can lock and unlock deadbolt locks via remote control or a mobile device.
    hardware
    iot
  • Correlia Biosystems
    Correlia Biosystems (w2018)Acquired • 16 employees • Berkeley, CA, USA
    Correlia Biosystems is a UC Berkeley spinoff company based in Berkeley, CA. Correlia develops innovative microscale tools that accelerate rapid quantification of biomolecules. Our versatile "SimpleScan" technology opens up new biological questions from one microliter of sample, with rapid results that allow for dynamic monitoring of protein expression profiles (rather than simple end-point measurement). Applications range from enabling next-gen proteomic data sets to point-of-care diagnostics.
    hardware
    lab-on-a-chip
    microfluidics
  • Voyage Biomedical
    Voyage Biomedical (s2019)Acquired • 3 employees • Berkeley, CA, USA
    Acquired by Penumbra (NYSE:PEN).
    hardware
    neurotechnology
    medical-devices
  • Replenish
    Replenish (s2014)Acquired • 11 employees • San Leandro, CA, USA
    Meet the Replenish Blender, the first self-cleaning appliance that instantly and harmoniously prepares healthy smoothies and snacks. The Replenish Blender mixes health, wellness, and simplicity in under a minute.
    hardware
    consumer
    food-&-beverage
  • Roin Technologies
    Roin Technologies (w2021)Acquired • 3 employees • San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
    We build automated robots for concrete floor construction. One person with our robots does the work of 6 construction workers.
    hard-tech
    hardware
    robotics