MentionFox lists 70 Hardware and semiconductor companies for 2025. Of them, 33 are Y Combinator companies (the newest batch here is Fall 2025, with 5); 1 filed a Form D notice with the SEC; 36 won an SBIR or STTR award. The median SBIR or STTR award in the table is $1.5M, across 36 awards.
Companies70
Y Combinator33
Form D filers1
SBIR/STTR winners36
Other years
All years (302) 2026 (113) 2024 (22) 2021 (20)
Hardware and semiconductor startups in 2025
| Company | What it does | Date | Amount | Round / stage | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nuburu, Inc. | Filed Dec 31, 2025 | $23.3M | SEC Form D | ||
| Lunar Resources, Inc. | Direct to phase ii: helix high-power pulsed electromagnetic microwave power supply (hemps) | Award starts Sep 30, 2025 | $2M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Physical Sciences Inc. | Conformal electromagnetic radiation absorptive mxene-integrated composite (ceramic) | Award starts Sep 30, 2025 | $2M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Senseics Corporation | 80nssc25c0477 " radiation-hard, low-power fmcw signal processing asic" | Award starts Sep 30, 2025 | $844,033 | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Epir, Inc. | Radiation hardened infrared fpa | Award starts Sep 24, 2025 | $1.5M | STTR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Creare LLC | Creare llc - 90 k 30 w cryocooler design and demonstration | Award starts Sep 17, 2025 | $13.4M | SBIR Phase III | Federal award record |
| Makel Engineering, Inc. | Development of the multi-parameter astronaut life support sensor (m-palss) module for extravehicular activity (eva) portable life… | Award starts Sep 10, 2025 | $375,000 | SBIR Phase III | Federal award record |
| Virginia Diodes, Inc. | 80nssc25c0463 aurora 109-192 ghz spectrometer front-end electronics | Award starts Sep 9, 2025 | $1.2M | SBIR Phase III | Federal award record |
| Darwin | Humanoid robots | Fall 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| MOVEdot | AI Agents for Hardware Engineering | Fall 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Norra | Automating equipment operations for nursing facilities | Fall 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Tornyol | We build micro-drones that kill mosquitoes | Fall 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Wardstone | The Modular Interceptor Platform | Fall 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Advanced Systems & Technologies Inc | Ii: sensor-array broadband express-rate wavefront sensor (saber wfs) | Award starts Aug 15, 2025 | $1.8M | SBIR | Federal award record |
| Aqwest, LLC | Ii: high energy, multi-component, optical isolator for 2 micron fiber lasers | Award starts Aug 12, 2025 | $1.8M | SBIR | Federal award record |
| Transwave Photonics, LLC | Ii: high power mwir optical fiber combiner | Award starts Aug 12, 2025 | $1.8M | SBIR | Federal award record |
| Magnolia Optical Technologies, Inc. | 80nssc25c0055 high-sensitivity uv solid-state photon-counting devices and arrays | Award starts Aug 11, 2025 | $849,994 | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Sequoia Scientific, Inc | 80nssc25c0047 in-situ hyperspectral transmissometer for ocean iop closure | Award starts Aug 11, 2025 | $849,267 | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation | /sttr phase ii r&d rad-tol innovative integrated optical driver for ultra-low-loss imu | Award starts Aug 6, 2025 | $2M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Leiden Measurement Technology LLC | 80nssc25c0060 chess: compact high-entendue spectrometer for space | Award starts Aug 6, 2025 | $899,913 | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Metrolaser, Incorporated | 80nssc25c0006 laser-induced incandescence sensor for soot particle size and concentration | Award starts Aug 6, 2025 | $899,982 | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Yank Technologies, Inc. | 80nssc25c0089 dust-tolerant resonant connectors for extreme environments | Award starts Aug 6, 2025 | $899,953 | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Pumpkinseed Technologies Inc | High-throughput de-novo peptide sequencing with metasurface optics | Award starts Aug 1, 2025 | $1.2M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Radiabeam Technologies, LLC | Ii: radiabeam technologies - l-band beam modulator for x-band linear accelerator | Award starts Jul 30, 2025 | $1.8M | SBIR | Federal award record |
| Decryptor, Inc. | Small business innovative research sbir iii decryptor inc -proposal phiii-0019 for c-130h autopilot angular acceleration sensor… | Award starts Jul 23, 2025 | $779,994 | SBIR | Federal award record |
| Mainstream Engineering Corp | Ii proposal f2-18506-scalable and fast epitaxy of high quality, single crystal znse substrates | Award starts Jul 23, 2025 | $1.8M | SBIR | Federal award record |
| Critical Frequency Design LLC | Small business innovation research (sbir) phase ii sequential, topic a21-107, chip-scale optical receivers for communications | Award starts Jul 21, 2025 | $1.9M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Whisper Aero Inc | 80nssc25c0026 - design of an ultra-low noise ventilation fan for space applications | Award starts Jul 17, 2025 | $849,999 | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Saaz Micro, Inc. | Proposal #afford phase-iii proposal entitled "afford - advanced format and feature optimized roic design | Award starts Jul 15, 2025 | $2M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Lairson Bruce | 80nssc25c0054 large silicon carbide grids for x-ray microcalorimeter blocking filters | Award starts Jul 14, 2025 | $849,999 | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Aerodyne Research Inc | 80nssc25c0046 airborne spectroscopic static temperature sensor | Award starts Jul 3, 2025 | $849,547 | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Parabilis Space Technologies, Inc. | Acoustic fluid management device | Award starts Jun 5, 2025 | $849,543 | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Blue | Your phone finally has someone to run it | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| BootLoop | Firmware in minutes, not months - rigorously tested on real hardware | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| F4 Industries | The GD&T Analysis Platform for Engineering Drawings | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Flywheel AI | Waymo for excavators | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Juxta | Building a GPS alternative 100x more powerful with no hardware needed. | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Normal | Testing and certifying the hardware of the future | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Physical Turing | Next generation robot deployer | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| SigmanticAI | The Cursor for Chip Design - Delivering Silicon-Ready Chip Designs… | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Hedgefog Research Inc. | , contact lens integrated physiological sensors | Award starts May 20, 2025 | $1.7M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Intelliepi Ir, Inc | Small business innovation research (sbir) phase ii, topic a23-006, advanced ii-v avalanche photodiode structures in the infrared | Award starts May 9, 2025 | $1.1M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Innosys, Inc. | /sttr phase ii r&d open topic for radiation hardened microelectronics | Award starts Apr 30, 2025 | $1.5M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Torrey Pines Logic, Inc. | Small business innovation research (sbir) phase ii, topic a244-010, non-RF transceiver alternative communicator (nrf-tac). | Award starts Apr 28, 2025 | $1.9M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Nou Systems Inc | R&d: modular fly-along sensor package (modfasp) | Award starts Apr 7, 2025 | $2M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Almond | A dual-arm robot built for physical AI. | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Atum Works | Gigascale Nanomanufacturing | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Cascade Space | Commercial alternative to the Deep Space Network | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Emode Photonix LLC | Nonlinear eigenmode expansion method for integrated quantum photonics | Award starts Apr 1, 2025 | $305,000 | SBIR Phase I | Federal award record |
| Nodi Energy | Distributed energy infrastructure unlocking grid power to data centers | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Partcl | Design a chip in minutes | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Photonium | AI-Powered Optical Consulting & Software | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Rimba | Streamlining Data Capture to Report Creation for Heavy Industries | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Bodkin Design & Engineering LLC | /sttr phase ii r&d pulsed laser lethality effects for missile defense | Award starts Mar 21, 2025 | $2M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| X-wave Innovations, Inc. | D2 phase ii r&d: a low-cost, handheld ultrasonic pressure sensor for non-invasive, rapid, and accurate measurement of helium pressure in… | Award starts Feb 20, 2025 | $2M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Vector Atomic Inc | /sttr phase ii r&d - miniature iodine nanosecond timekeeper (mint) | Award starts Feb 11, 2025 | $2M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| 2WITECH Solutions LLC | This competitive cooperative agreement for a sttr research and development project entitled, “hybridized high-q plasmonic hydrogen… | Award starts Jan 1, 2025 | $1M | STTR | Federal award record |
| Adam | AI Powered CAD | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Artifact | An Collaborative, AI-native IDE for Hardware Engineers | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Bild AI | AI estimating & detailing for Division 8 doors, frames & hardware | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Dartboard | AI-native remote operations center for hardware fleets | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Instinct Space | Building lunar landers | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Inversion Semiconductor | Manufacturing the most powerful chips, 15x faster | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Maritime Fusion | Fusion reactors for ships | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Mentra | Building the open source smart glasses operating system. | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Oki | The memory computer for your digital life. | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Pax Markets | More 𝛼, less latency: exchange and HFT on one chip. | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Pickle | Where your life context becomes understanding. | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Revise Robotics | Automating refurbishment of $1T in consumer electronics | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Stillwind | PCB component librarian | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing |
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