MentionFox lists 56 Manufacturing and industrial companies for 2025. Of them, 32 are Y Combinator companies (the newest batch here is Fall 2025, with 6); 1 filed a Form D notice with the SEC; 23 won an SBIR or STTR award. The median SBIR or STTR award in the table is $1.5M, across 23 awards.
Companies56
Y Combinator32
Form D filers1
SBIR/STTR winners23
Other years
All years (401) 2026 (248) 2024 (34) 2022 (15)
Manufacturing and industrial startups in 2025
| Company | What it does | Date | Amount | Round / stage | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bri Beauty Inc. | Filed Dec 29, 2025 | $200,000 | SEC Form D | ||
| Bluestem Biosciences Inc | Anaerobic biomanufacturing of 3-hydroxypropionic acid utilizing whole-kernel corn feedstock | Award starts Oct 1, 2025 | $1.7M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Beacon Industries, Inc. | Ignite - cryoguard peek-n seals | Award starts Sep 29, 2025 | $849,092 | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Nanosonic Inc. | Nanosonic, inc | Award starts Sep 18, 2025 | $313,000 | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Engeniusmicro LLC | Second-phase ii - manufacturing innovations for next-gen technologies in hypersonic vehicles | Award starts Sep 15, 2025 | $3M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Fluxworks, Inc. | Advancing manufacturing on earth and beyond through magnetic gear technology development | Award starts Sep 15, 2025 | $1.5M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Luna Labs USA LLC | Lightweight lightning strike protective coating for extreme environments | Award starts Sep 2, 2025 | $2M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Allus AI | Transforming manufacturing with our next-gen Vision Foundation Model | Fall 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Axial | Accelerated Physics Kernels for Computational Engineering | Fall 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Bravi | AI operating system for home improvement manufacturers | Fall 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Forge Robotics | A robotics intelligence system for metal fabrication | Fall 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Parametric | Physical businesses that run themselves | Fall 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Prox | AI product specialists for equipment manufacturers | Fall 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Solidec Inc. | Fast-track: direct electrochemical generation of caustic peroxide in a porous solid electrolyte reactor for onsite applications | Award starts Sep 1, 2025 | $1.6M | SBIR Phase I | Federal award record |
| Grid Raster Inc | Multimodal dynamic spatial tracking for enhanced automatic manufacturing - extended reality (steam xr) (sbir phase ii) | Award starts Aug 29, 2025 | $1.4M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Quadrus Corporation | Direct to phase ii: additive manufacturing that enables a low cost dacs architecture | Award starts Aug 27, 2025 | $2M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Jackson Bond Enterprises, LLC | High temperature inflation hoses and ports for next generation inflatable heat shields | Award starts Aug 8, 2025 | $881,238 | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| United Semiconductors, LLC | Physical vapor deposition reactor design and validation for in-space manufacturing of aluminum nitride single crystals | Award starts Jul 31, 2025 | $840,428 | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Irpi LLC | Gravity independent condensing heat exchanger | Award starts Jul 21, 2025 | $849,850 | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Zaiput Flow Technologies LLC | Continuous, scalable crystallizer for pharmaceutical manufacturing | Award starts Jun 15, 2025 | $1.3M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Avent | AI agents for industrial commerce | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Comena | AI agents for distributors and manufacturers to automate order entry. | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Duranium | Reshoring critical metal production | 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 | |
| Normal | Testing and certifying the hardware of the future | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Nox Metals | Supplying America's Industrial Base | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Paloma | Digital transformation for real economy businesses | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Perseus Defense | America's Golden Dome for Drones | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| ProcIndex | AI-powered accounting automation for construction and manufacturing | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Rebulk | AI-native software for managing rail and bulk operations. | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Relling | deploying the first billion robots for manufacturing | Summer 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Texas Research Institute , Austin, Inc. | Base for sbir phase ii topic n121-063, ablative material to efficiently repair and restore the operational capabilities of mk 41… | Award starts May 28, 2025 | $1.4M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Carbon Carbon Advanced Technologies, Inc. | /sttr direct to phase ii r&d design and manufacture of a prototype hypersonic glide vehicle target using c-cat acc materials | Award starts May 22, 2025 | $2.8M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Novineer, Inc. | Generative design technology for robust, editable, manufacturable solutions | Award starts May 15, 2025 | $1.5M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Atum Works | Gigascale Nanomanufacturing | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Bramante | Life sciences reagents and software | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Foundation Industries | We supply hard tech companies with critical components. | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| GroundControl | Vertical AI for highly-regulated manufacturing | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Mbodi AI | Industrial Robots that Learn and Operate Like Humans | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| MorphoAI | Software tool for designing robots and machines | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Photonium | AI-Powered Optical Consulting & Software | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Vision Lab | Industrial data layer for robotics training | Spring 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Cts Cement Manufacturing Corp | Cts cement manufacturing corp | Award starts Mar 3, 2025 | $2M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Stf Technologies LLC | "sintered powder textile surface modification for extreme environments" | Award starts Feb 28, 2025 | $849,999 | STTR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Mentis Sciences Inc | Small business innovative research sbir phase iii mentis sciences proposal msi 24-0612 for hypersonic radome and aperture manufacturing… | Award starts Feb 26, 2025 | $3.3M | SBIR Phase III | Federal award record |
| Improve Group, Inc. | Wt 13178498 sbir material control remodel | Award starts Feb 25, 2025 | $2.5M | SBIR | Federal award record |
| Sciperio Inc | Additively manufactured electronics for extreme environmental conditions | Award starts Feb 14, 2025 | $849,969 | STTR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Advanced Ceramics Manufacturing, LLC | Advanced ceramics manufacturing, llc: sttr phase ii proposal number:l2-0506 proposal title:high entropy tps materials | Award starts Jan 21, 2025 | $1.8M | STTR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Materials Sciences LLC | Topic n211-030 design for additive manufacturing (dfam) risk toolset - msc p4804 | Award starts Jan 14, 2025 | $1.8M | SBIR Phase II | Federal award record |
| Axal | We design, assemble, and test custom PCBs fast. | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Forge Automation | Software Enabled CNC Parts Supplier | 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 | |
| Mercura | AI Quote and Order Automation for Distributors & Manufacturers | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Optifye.ai | AI performance monitoring for factory workers | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Paragon | The AI Growth Engine for Industrials | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Reditus Space | Reusable Satellites | Winter 2025 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing |
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