Hardware startups.

MemVerge

Series A

MemVerge is a leading AI infrastructure software company specializing in memory-centric GPU computing and Big Memory Computing solutions. Its flagship Memory Machine product line enables data-intensive workloads — including AI/ML, analytics, and HPC — to run faster and at lower cost by virtualizing DRAM, CXL, and persistent memory across cloud and on-premises environments. The company serves enterprises, cloud operators, and researchers who need to maximize GPU utilization and break through the memory wall.

EdgeQ

Series B

EdgeQ is a leading innovator in 5G systems-on-a-chip, headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. The company pioneers the world's first 5G Base Station-on-a-Chip, delivering a converged connectivity and AI platform built on open RISC-V architecture that is fully software-customizable and programmable. Its customers include enterprise, telco, and hyperscale cloud operators seeking to deploy private 5G networks, O-RAN macro cells, and small cell infrastructure.

Solcoa Industries

Pre-seed

Solcoa is scaling the next generation of American metalmaking — starting with rare earth metals, made cheaper, faster, and cleaner.

Lightmatter

Series D

Lightmatter is a photonic computing company that develops silicon photonic interconnect chips and light engines for AI infrastructure. Its flagship products — Passage photonic interconnects and Guide VLSP light engines — enable ultra-high-bandwidth, energy-efficient data communication within AI supercomputers and data centers. The company serves hyperscalers, chipmakers, and AI firms seeking to overcome the bandwidth and power bottlenecks of traditional electrical interconnects.

Cambridge Terahertz

Seed

Building terahertz imaging systems for non-invasive concealed weapons detection, making airport-level security available to the masses.

Revel

Series B

Revel is a unified software platform for hardware test and control, serving teams in aerospace, defense, robotics, and advanced energy. Its platform enables engineers to visually configure hardware systems, monitor live telemetry, and safely issue commands in real time, covering the full lifecycle from prototype through production. The company was founded by engineers from SpaceX, Anduril, and Palantir.

Skild AI

Series C

Building general-purpose robotic intelligence — a platform-agnostic AI brain that can be deployed into any robot hardware.

Quantum Machines

Series C

Quantum Machines (QM) is a leading provider of advanced quantum control solutions, building both hardware and software to operate quantum computers via its Quantum Orchestration Platform (QOP). Its Hybrid Control approach integrates quantum and classical computing to give researchers and quantum computer developers precise, scalable control over quantum processors. The company serves quantum research labs, universities, enterprises, and quantum computing firms worldwide, enabling them to build and scale practical quantum systems.

Intel

Public

Intel Corporation is an American multinational technology company that designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells computer components and related products and services, including microprocessors, chipsets, embedded processors, and AI and data center solutions. Its products serve OEMs, industrial manufacturers, and enterprises across client computing, data center, network and edge, and foundry services segments. Intel is publicly traded on Nasdaq (INTC) and is one of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers.

SambaNova

Series E

SambaNova Systems is an American AI and semiconductor company that designs Reconfigurable Dataflow Units (RDUs) and a full-stack AI platform for high-speed inference and model deployment. Its product portfolio — SambaCloud, SambaStack, and SambaManaged — serves developers, enterprises, governments, and sovereign AI data centers. The platform enables customers to run large open-source models such as Llama, DeepSeek, and Qwen with superior throughput and energy efficiency.

Metalenz

Series B

Metalenz is a fabless semiconductor optics company and the first to commercialize meta-optics, founded in 2016 as a spinout from Harvard University's Capasso Lab. Its metasurface technology integrates complex, multifunctional optical performance into a single semiconductor layer, enabling flat lenses (metalenses) to be manufactured at scale in standard semiconductor foundries. Products include Polar ID (polarization-based secure face unlock) and Orion Dot Pattern Projectors (3D depth sensing), targeting consumer electronics, automotive, and smart robotics markets.

TetraMem

Seed

TetraMem is a Silicon Valley-based semiconductor company founded in 2018 that develops analog in-memory computing (IMC) hardware for AI applications, using multi-level RRAM (resistive RAM/memristor) technology to eliminate the memory bottleneck. Its core product is an AI accelerator SoC (codenamed "Cullinan") targeting edge AI inference with high performance at ultra-low power. The company also provides software development services to optimize AI applications on its analog computing platform.

Crown Castle

Public

Crown Castle owns, operates, and leases towers and other infrastructure for wireless communications. Crown Castle offers significant wireless communications coverage to 92 of the top 100 US markets and to substantially all of the Australian population. Technology is changing the way they interact with the world. They don't go online anymore. They exist there. Their smartphones and tablets are connected, of course, but soon things like traffic lights, machines, appliances, and autonomous cars will all be online. They work closely with community members, government officials, and their customers to design and build solutions that meet their unique connectivity needs—from wireless coverage to smart city solutions to custom fiber optic networks. Their solutions are built with the future in mind. They play an important role in tomorrow's smarter, better-connected communities, while paving the way for new innovations in the way they live, work, and stay safe. Their infrastructure solutions create important connections that make communities around the country safer, better places to live. But they don’t stop there. They have offices in every major US market and are committed to being responsible members of the communities where they live and work. One of the ways they do this is through their Connected by Good program.

Vicarious Surgical

Public

Vicarious Surgical is a next-generation robotics company developing a disruptive technology with the goal of increasing the efficiency of surgical procedures, improving patient outcomes, and reducing healthcare costs. Vicarious Surgical aims to revolutionize the field of minimally invasive surgery by developing advanced robotic systems that allow surgeons to perform complex procedures with greater precision and control. The company's robotic system is designed to be compact and portable, enabling it to be easily integrated into existing operating rooms without significant modifications. The robot's design also aims to minimize the invasiveness of surgical procedures, leading to faster patient recovery times and reduced post-operative discomfort.

Velaura AI

Series C

Innovating AI Solutions Driven By Ultra-Low-Power Technology

Ampaire

Series B

Ampaire builds hybrid-electric powertrains that repower existing aircraft — cutting fuel consumption by 50–70% on the fastest, most practical path to FAA-certified sustainable aviation.

Sunday Robotics

Series B

Sunday Robotics builds personal home robots that handle repetitive household tasks, giving families back their quality time.

Vermeer

Series A

see the world

Swarm Aero

Series A

Building the largest UAV swarm on the planet.

AllSpice.io

Series A

Hardware collaboration platform 🤖 Inspired by software development principles

Biofire Group

Series B

Building the future of firearms

Rama

Seed

The operating system for electronic component supply chain.

Rivan

Series A

Synthetic fuels for industries you cannot electrify.

Pilot

Growth

Pilot is NYC's modern fiber infrastructure company, owning and operating 300+ miles of enterprise-grade fiber across the NYC metro area. It provides businesses of all sizes with dedicated internet access, dark fiber, IP transit, cloud connectivity, and ethernet transport — with no contracts and 24/7 support. Customers range from startups to large enterprises across industries such as finance, media, tech, hospitality, and healthcare.