Top 40 Startups developing AI for Manufacturing

Nov 04, 2024 | By Siddhant Patel

These startups develop AI systems that can control factory robots, ensure safety measures and product quality, improve supply chain efficiency.
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Country: France | Funding: €2.1M
Aprex Solutions develops machine vision & image analysis systems for manufacturing and service companies
2
Country: USA | Funding: $437M
Bright Machines brings together intelligent software with flexible factory robots and machine learning to help our customers meet the growing demands of the next generation of manufacturing.
3
Country: USA | Funding: $271M
Path Robotics is focused on robotic welding. The system uses scanning, computer vision and AI to adjust itself to different parts, understanding that sizing parts is a kind of imperfect science.
4
Country: Israel | Funding: $121M
Buildots specializes in transforming construction sites into a data-driven digital environment. It is leveraging artificial intelligence computer vision technology to address construction inefficiencies.
5
Country: UK | Funding: $5.3M
Peak provides a software platform that enables companies across sectors including retail, consumer goods and manufacturing. Peak’s data analytics-as-a-service model helps companies of all sizes use data, machine learning and AI technologies to drive growth.
6
Country: USA | Funding: $286.6M
SparkCognition engages in developing AI-Powered cyber-physical software for the safety, security, and reliability of IT, OT, and the IoT. SparkCognition builds artificial intelligence solutions for applications in energy, oil and gas, manufacturing, finance, aerospace, defense, and security.
7
Country: USA | Funding: $222M
Covariant is building universal AI that allows robots to see, reason and act on the world around
8
Country: Japan | Funding: $159.5M
Mujin develops automation solutions for industrial robots to simplify factory and logistics automation and increase worldwide productivity.
9
Country: USA | Funding: $158.5M
Beyond Limits is an Industrial and Enterprise grade AI technology company that covers the full range of Artificial Intelligence capabilities
10
Country: USA | Funding: $149.5M
Rethink Robotics helps manufacturers meet the challenges of an agile economy with an integrated workforce, combining trainable, safe and cost-effective robots with skilled labor. Its Baxter robot, driven by Intera, an advanced software platform, gives world-class manufacturers and distributors in automotive, plastics, consumer goods, electronics and more, a workforce multiplier that optimizes labor.
11
Country: China | Funding: $137.8M
ForwardX Robotics specializes in R&D of computer vision robots that apply to consumer and business products.
12
Country: Israel | Funding: $115.6M
Aquant‘s predictive AI technology monitors equipment, aggregates data, and helps spot equipment failure before it happens. The company’s systems operate across several verticals including Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Medical, HVAC, Communications, Computer and Office Equipment, and Home Appliances.
13
Country: USA | Funding: $108.5M
Versatile is a construction tech company that has pioneered a new, non-intrusive way to capture site performance data. The data we capture from jobsites operations gives smart insights that support users to make better decisions. Decisions that improve budgets, speed up site production and sets new standards in safety, learning, and performance.
14
Country: USA | Funding: $109M
Urbint predicts threats to workers and critical infrastructure to stop incidents before they happen.
15
Country: USA | Funding: $80.3M
Instrumental uses vision-powered AI to detect manufacturing anomalies
16
Country: Brazil | Funding: $63.7M
Tractian uses AI to monitor industrial equipment
17
Country: USA | Funding: $57M
Landing AI applies AI and deep learning to help manufacturers solve challenging visual inspection problems and generate business value.
18
Country: USA | Funding: $54.2M
Rapid Robotics automates common machine operator tasks to help manufacturers solve labor shortages, scale their business and outbid competitors.
19
Country: USA | Funding: $48.3M
Machina Labs is a mechanical & industrial engineering & manufacturing firm that unlocks manufacturing through AI & machine learning.
20
Country: USA | Funding: $25.6M
Osperity's technology provides AI-driven intelligent visual monitoring for industrial operations that can result in improved safety, reduced carbon footprints, and more.
21
Country: Switzerland | Funding: CHF22.6M
EthonAI is an AI-powered platform that detects and prevents quality defects in manufacturing.
22
Country: USA | Funding: $22M
Synergies Intelligent Systems provides artificial intelligence services for what’s called an “augmented analytics” platform to help manufacturers optimize efficiency on three fronts — supply chain, yield, and production capacity.
23
Country: USA | Funding: $21.6M
Invisible AI is a next-generation computer vision company.
24
Country: USA | Funding: $21M
Quartic.ai is helping process manufacturing move to autonomous manufacturing. It provides a suite of purpose-built applications and workflows for batch and continuous manufacturing to increase adoption by users in Life Sciences, specialty chemicals, advanced materials, and energy. Quartic.ai has built proprietary sample-efficient AI to overcome the lack of large data needed for traditional machine learning.
25
Country: USA | Funding: $17.8M
Skymind makes tools for prediction, data analytics and machine perception available to all businesses via open-core deep-learning.
26
Country: Russia
Clover Group develops predictive analytics platform for industrial companies. It makes predictions about the technical condition of equipment and the manufacture of defective products
27
Country: USA | Funding: $13.6M
Bonsai offers an AI platform that empowers enterprises to build and deploy intelligent systems.
28
Country: Germany | Funding: €13.5M
Luminovo is your co-pilot for the electronics supply chain. Electronics designers and manufacturers can monitor their design, manufacturing, and supplier data and automate design, quoting, and procurement decisions. This allows them to bring products to market faster, cheaper, and more sustainable, having a significant impact on profitability.
29
Country: USA | Funding: $13.8M
ControlRooms is the AI-powered monitoring and observability tool for critical infrastructure.
30
Country: India | Funding: $8.5M
Flutura is an AI Solutions company focused on improving two core business objectives of "Asset Uptime" and "Operational Efficiency". Flutura does this with Cerebra, their AI Platform tuned for IIOT in Oil & Gas, Process Manufacturing, and Heavy machinery manufacturing industries, powering connected asset and connected operations use cases.
31
Country: Chile | Funding: $6.2M
Odd builds Odd Vision, a computer vision platform that transforms offline processes into online data without friction.
32
Country: USA | Funding: $5M
Sciotex is a Manufacturing AI Company and AI Consultant specializing in AI Computer Vision and Automated Test Equipment.
33
Country: Singapore | Funding: $3.7M
SixSense is an AI-powered defect analytics platform for smart manufacturing.
34
Country: Switzerland | Funding: €1.9M
ANYbotics leads the way in developing mobile robotics for industrial applications. Their autonomous legged robots solve customer problems in challenging environments so far only accessible to humans – and beyond that.
35
Country: Croatia | Funding: €680K
Ascalia helps manufacturing factories increase productivity using IoT and AI
36
Country: Norway
FactoryMind is the only AI driven digital twin platform for industrial innovation. Its novel integration of processes, AI modelling and many professions, brings the future of Manufacturing Execution (MES).
37
Country: USA
Kaizntree is the Next-Generation AI-powered operating software for small business owners to manage what they make and sell. Our mission is to empower small business owners to scale their product business by simplifying the inventory management process.
Editor: Siddhant Patel
Siddhant Patel is a senior editor for AI-Startups. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. Siddhant has a special interest in artificial intelligence and has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the industry. Siddhant graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). When he’s not writing, Siddhant is also a developer and has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. You can contact Siddhant at sidpatel(at)ai-startups(dot)org