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"Hardware" Startups in San Francisco

Every active San Francisco startup we index that carries the "Hardware" tag.

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Last updated

2026-09-02

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City San Francisco

Our index currently lists 81 tech startups in San Francisco tagged "Hardware" — a city×tag slice of the live directory, not every "Hardware" company nationwide and not every San Francisco startup regardless of tag. 0% of this slice is hiring right now (0 of 81). Apply links on each profile go to the company's own site; we don't act as a middleman. "Hardware" startups in San Francisco include Adam, Adialante, AICE, AICE Power, and AirMyne. Categories represented here: AI / ML, Hardware, and Industrials. YC batches in this slice: S26, Sp26, W25, and S24, among others. Widen the view anytime: all San Francisco startups at /startups/location/san-francisco, or every "Hardware" company nationwide at /startups/tag/hardware.

HardwareDesignAI

Cancer screening without barriers

HardwareMedical DevicesHealth & Wellness

Submarine drones for defense

HardwareSwarm AIRobotics

Submarine drones for defense

HardwareSwarm AIRobotics

Building systems to remove carbon dioxide from air at industrial scale

Carbon Capture and RemovalHard TechHardware

A dual-arm robot built for physical AI.

HardwareRoboticsManufacturing

Portable cryoablation to prevent cervical cancer

HardwareHealth TechMedical Devices

The first wearable that reads your emotions to enhance your EQ.

Artificial IntelligenceHardwareMental Health Tech

voice-first hardware interface for human-agent interaction

HardwareConsumerAI

Applied Electrodynamics, Inc.

A new kind of camera that can see through walls.

Hard TechHardwareConstruction

Arlo Industries

Track drones and missiles without radars - Accurate, Passive, Scalable

Hard TechHardwareDefense

Robotic pitstops for self-driving cars

Artificial IntelligenceHardwareMachine Learning

Datadog for industrial robots

HardwareRobotic Process AutomationSaaS

Service company that designs, sources, and quality-tests custom PCBs

HardwareRoboticsManufacturing

Your phone finally has someone to run it. Plug in Blue, just ask.

HardwareProductivityAI

Your voice. Your health. We care.

HardwareMachine LearningConsumer Health Services

Building the world’s first AI mechanical engineer.

Generative AIHardwareProductivity

Commercial alternative to the Deep Space Network

Hard TechHardwareSaaS

Online circuit simulator and electronic schematic editor.

AI-native remote operations center for hardware fleets

Artificial IntelligenceHardwareRobotics

Real-world data network for robots & world models

Artificial IntelligenceHardwareMachine Learning

Double Robotics

Telepresence robots

HardwareRobotics

Pocket-sized AI cameras that catch asset damage.

Artificial IntelligenceHardwareMachine Learning

HardwareConsumerAI Assistant

Hardware-Aware AI for Embedded Software Development

Artificial IntelligenceDeveloper ToolsHardware

The GD&T Analysis Platform for Engineering Drawings

HardwareB2BIndustrial

Nuclear-inspired cooling that turns wasted power into more AI compute

HardwareClimateEnergy

Waymo for excavators

Deep LearningHardwareConstruction

Vanta for hardware

Artificial IntelligenceHardwareRobotics

AI Physics Engine to replace simulations and prototypes

Artificial IntelligenceHard TechHardware

Greypoint Industries

Building drone swarms that hunt drone operators

HardwareRoboticsDrones

Protecting the grid today, preparing the grid for tomorrow

HardwareClimateEnergy

hardware intelligence

AI tools for the chips your AI runs on

Artificial IntelligenceDeveloper ToolsHardware

Autonomous Hardware Testing

Developer ToolsHardware

Air Defense as a Service for Civilian Infrastructure.

Artificial IntelligenceHardwareDrones

Inversion Semiconductor

Manufacturing the most powerful chips, 15x faster

HardwareManufacturingSemiconductors

Making Diamond Engineerable

HardwareB2BManufacturing

Robots with soul

Hard TechHardwareRobotics

Lockitron makes electronic locks you can control locally from your…

Hyper-efficient coolers for data centers

Artificial IntelligenceHardwareClimate

Maquoketa Research

The intelligence layer for drones

Hard TechHardwareDrones

Self-Checkout using Computer Vision.

Artificial IntelligenceCashierless CheckoutDeep Learning

Building the open source smart glasses operating system.

Artificial IntelligenceHardwareConsumer

Firmware cybersecurity

DevSecOpsHardwareGovTech

Mobius Materials

The spot market for semiconductors

HardwareManufacturingSupply Chain

AI Agents for Hardware Engineering

HardwareManufacturingAI

Nebia is a breakthrough shower system, based on a premium experience,…

HardwareSustainabilityClimate

We build and operate underwater data centers.

Artificial IntelligenceHard TechHardware

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Marketplace for AI agents to hire humans.

Artificial IntelligenceMarketplace

Earendil Robotics

Drone swarm defence at a small-unit level

DronesSwarm RoboticsAR

The Robot Learning Company

Tools for the next era of physical automation.

Machine LearningRobotics

Shinkei Systems

Robots for longer-lasting, better-tasting fish at scale.

HardwareRoboticsFood Tech

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Frequently asked questions

How many "Hardware" startups are in San Francisco?

Our index currently tracks 81 active tech startups in San Francisco tagged "Hardware". Counts move as scrapers discover new companies and flag shutdowns inactive.

Which "Hardware" startups are based in San Francisco?

Companies on this page include Adam, Adialante, and AICE, plus 78 more below. Each profile links to the company's site and any open roles we scrape.

How is this different from the San Francisco startups page or the "Hardware" tag page?

/startups/location/san-francisco lists every indexed startup in San Francisco across tags. /startups/tag/hardware lists every "Hardware" startup nationwide. This page is the intersection — only companies that resolve to both San Francisco and "Hardware".

Are these San Francisco "Hardware" startups hiring?

0 of the 81 companies on this page currently have open roles in our jobs index.

How often is this list updated?

Automated scrapers refresh on the same daily cadence as the rest of the directory. The last index update was 2026-09-02.