Today we’re covering the top 143 Application Specific Semiconductors startups. This is going to be really exciting and I’ve spent a ton of time researching these interesting startups in Application Specific Semiconductors. Let’s get right into it!

Criteria for selection:

• The startup should be privately held
• Has raised at least $10 million in funding
• We haven’t including the IPO’d startups and companies as they’re already well-known to most people in the biotechnology sector. This list of 143 companies covers the most funded ones since their found dates.

Top Application Specific Semiconductors Startups of With >$10 Million Funding

Let’s get right down to the list and begin with the list of the top startups in the Application Specific Semiconductors sector. In the below list, we’ve covered the major information about the company’s operations, headquarters, funding amounts and some of the active investors. The investors listed here are the ones I found during my process of researching the company. So there’s a high possibility that there are more investors than the ones in the list.

1. Bitmain – Total Raised $764.75 million

Official Website: www.bitmain.com

Bitmain is a Venture Capital-Backed Application Specific Semiconductors company founded in 2013. Manufacturer of bitcoin mining hardware designed to offer cryptocurrency. The company’s hardware develops and sells bitcoin miners using ASIC chip technology, enabling users to get high quality and efficient computing chips, high density server equipment and large scale parallel computing software.

Active Investors:

• Bluebell (Asia)(www.bluebellgroup.com)
• Coatue Management(www.coatue.com)
• Crimson Capital China(www.crimcap.com)
• EDBI(www.edbi.com)
• Evernew Capital(www.evernewcap.com)
• IDG Capital(en.idgcapital.com)
• Lightspeed Venture Partners(www.lsvp.com)
• Lioness Capital(www.lionesscap.com)
• Palace Investment Company(www.palaceinvestmentco.com)
• Palm Drive Capital(www.palmdrive.vc)
• Schafer Condon Carter(www.schafercondoncarter.com)

Competitors:

HashFast Technologies, MicroBT, eSilicon, Butterfly Labs, Triad Semiconductor, BitFury, Nvidia, Amberdata, BlockCypher, Renesas Electronics, Ledger (Electronic Equipment and Instruments)

2. Carbon – Total Raised $682 million

Official Website: www.carbon3d.com

Carbon is a Venture Capital-Backed Electrical Equipment company founded in 2013. Developer of digital manufacturing platform designed to help in making advanced thinking a practical reality. The company’s technology has developed Continuous Liquid Interface Production Technology (CLIP) which grows molecularly solid objects from a pool of polymeric resin and produces parts with isotropic properties that can be considered final parts, enabling manufacturers to unlock new business opportunities such as mass customization, on-demand inventory and differentiated products made with unique functional materials as well as eliminating tooling costs and decreasing time to market.

Active Investors:

• 40 North Ventures(www.40northventures.com)
• Adidas Ventures(www.hydra-ventures.com)
• Arkema(www.arkema.com)
• Autodesk(www.autodesk.com)
• Baillie Gifford(www.bailliegifford.com)
• BMW i Ventures(www.bmwiventures.com)
• Emerson Collective(www.emersoncollective.com)
• Eshelman Ventures(www.eshelmanventures.com)
• Fidelity Investments(www.fidelity.com)
• Founders Circle Capital(www.founderscircle.com)
• G2VP(www.g2vp.com)

Competitors:

Stratasys, Formlabs, Desktop Metal, EnvisionTEC, 3D Systems, nTopology, Ansys, Autodesk

3. Ubox Technology & Trade – Total Raised $475.65 million

Official Website: www.ubox.cn

Ubox Technology & Trade is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2011. Operator of unmanned vending machines. The company researches, develops, and manufactures vending machines and convenience cabinets that are placed in schools, subways, and offices, selling beverages, food and other daily consumer goods both online and offline. The company also provides value-added services including the sales, leasing, and advertising of the vending machines.

Active Investors:

• Ant Group(www.antgroup.com)
• Baoying Fund Management(www.byfunds.com)
• CIB Fund Management(www.cib-fund.com.cn)
• CITIC Securities(www.citics.com)
• Dongzheng Rongtong(www.dzrt.cn)
• Foryon Asset(www.foryons.com)
• HuaXia Haina(www.huaxiahn.com)
• Primavera Capital Group(www.primavera-capital.com)
• Qingdao Haier Venture Capital(www.haiercapital.com)

Competitors:

SmartBox

4. GW Lasertech – Total Raised $323.47 million

Official Website: www.gwlaser.tech

GW Lasertech is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2014. Developer of laser technology. The company’s technology are bidirectional, single-cavity lasers with high photoelectronic conversion efficiency, enabling users to improve their laser cutting and welding operations.

Active Investors:

• Beijing Hualian Hypermarket Company(www.beijing-hualian.com)
• DT Capital Partners(www.dtcap.com)
• Feimalv(www.feimalv.com)
• Inspiration Capital(www.ins-vc.com)
• Liansheng Capital(www.atlas-venture.com)
• Shenzhen Bridge Capital(www.bridgecap.cn)

Competitors: No competitors found

5. Locus (Machinery (B2B)) – Total Raised $262.45 million

Official Website: www.locusrobotics.com

Locus (Machinery (B2B)) is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2014. Producer of autonomous mobile robots intended to simplify and automate warehouse and e-commerce operations for clients. The company’s robots operate collaboratively with human workers to dramatically improve piece-handling productivity, with less labor compared to traditional picking systems, enabling clients to achieve efficient fulfillment operations, while simultaneously managing both labor costs and fluctuating order volume.

Active Investors:

• Bond Capital (San Francisco)(www.bondcap.com)
• Scale Venture Partners(www.scalevp.com)
• Tiger Global Management(www.tigerglobal.com)

Competitors:

Fetch Robotics, SCCRSG Corporation, Magazino, 6 River Systems, Fabric (Logistics), GreyOrange, IAM Robotics, Grabit, Invia Robotics, fellowAI, Exotec Solutions, System Logistics, Dematic Group, HighJump, RightHand Robotics, Soft Robotics, Bossa Nova Robotics, eShip-4u, KNAPP, Rethink Robotics, Universal Robots, Skycatch, Clearpath Robotics, Westfalia, Geek+, Mecademic, Savioke, Bastian Solutions

6. Quotient Kinetic Machine – Total Raised $166 million

Official Website: www.qkmtech.com

Quotient Kinetic Machine is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2011. Developer of light-weight automatic robots and related application technologies for business. The company focuses on the development, production, sales and application of light-weight autonomous robots, robot accessories and related software for applications in sorting, assembly, packing and other areas of electronics. It serves a range of sectors including precision machinery, energy, food, pharmaceutical products, glass and cosmetic products.

Active Investors:

• Future Capital Discovery Fund(www.future-cap.com)
• Guangdong Technology Financial Group(www.gvcgc.com)
• SAIF Partners(www.sbaif.com)
• Sequoia Capital China(www.sequoiacap.com/china)
• Tianying Capital(www.yingcapital.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

7. Velo3D – Total Raised $150 million

Official Website: www.velo3d.com

Velo3D is a Venture Capital-Backed Printing Services (B2B) company founded in 2014. Developer of metal laser sintering printing machines intended to offer 3D printing. The company’s machines address the difficult additive manufacturing challenges by delivering comprehensive, end-to-end services, enabling users to bring new possibilities to the critical areas of design innovation and reduce the cost of ownership.

Active Investors:

• Bessemer Investors(www.bessemerinvestors.com)
• Bessemer Venture Partners(www.bvp.com)
• Flex’s Lab IX(www.labix.io/expertise/startups)
• Khosla Ventures(www.khoslaventures.com)
• Piva Capital(www.piva.vc)
• Playground Global(www.playground.global)
• Taiyo Nippon Sanso(www.nipponsanso-hd.co.jp)

Competitors: No competitors found

8. Heygears Technology – Total Raised $109.39 million

Official Website: www.heygears.com

Heygears Technology is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2015. Developer of printing technology designed for manufacturing. The company’s technology offers 3D printing solutions to create a 3D headset series, print medical applications, customized Snore Stopper dental Invisalign and equipment to adjust the peel strength of each layer in real time, speeding up printing and enhancing stability, enabling hospitals, clinics and technicians to reduce the pulling force of the peeling process and improve the printing yield.

Active Investors:

• China Science & Merchants Investment Management Group(www.csm-inv.com)
• Group 42 AI(www.g42.ai)
• IDG Capital(en.idgcapital.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

9. Delta Peanut – Total Raised $102.58 million

Official Website: www.deltapeanut.com

Delta Peanut is a Angel-Backed Other Agriculture company founded in 2018. Operator of shelling factory catering to peanut farmers in the Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana region. The company’s factory uses state of the art facilities to shell a large number of peanuts in a sustainable manner and has a storage facility to store the excess produce, helping farmers to vertically integrate peanut production.

Active Investors:

No active investors

Competitors: No competitors found

10. Rovop – Total Raised $101.77 million

Official Website: www.rovop.com

Rovop is a Private Equity-Backed Marine company founded in 2011. Operator of underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) based in Aberdeen, Scotland. The company offers a range of ROV services which include wind farm cable-lay and ongoing inspection, sub sea construction, survey and inspection, repair and maintenance of pipelines and sub sea infrastructure to oil and gas, offshore wind, telecoms and power transmission industries.

Active Investors:

• BGF(www.bgf.co.uk)
• Blue Water Energy(www.bluewaterpe.com)
• NatWest Group(www.natwestgroup.com)

Competitors:

DeepOcean Group, M2 Subsea, Akofs Offshore, Mercosul Line Navegação e Logística

11. VulcanForms – Total Raised $98.5 million

Official Website: www.vulcanforms.com

VulcanForms is a Venture Capital-Backed Other Commercial Services company founded in 2015. Operator of an engineering company intended to develop and commercialize a fully scalable, industrial metal additive manufacturing (AM) solution. The company is engaged in building powerful and advanced metal AM systems, enabling businesses by providing easy and effective additive manufacturing solutions.

Active Investors:

• Eclipse Ventures(www.eclipse.vc)
• Fontinalis Partners(www.fontinalis.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

12. Fenix Parts – Total Raised $96 million

Official Website: www.fenixparts.com

Fenix Parts is a Private Equity-Backed Electrical Equipment company founded in 2014. Provider of automobile equipment recycling services. The company’s automobile equipment recycling services include repair, replacement and resale of used and spare parts, enabling its clients to get a wide range of automotive parts.

Active Investors:

• Stellex Capital Management(www.stellexcapital.com)

Competitors:

Green Oak Investments

13. YunZhou – Total Raised $82.52 million

Official Website: www.yunzhou-tech.com

YunZhou is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2010. nan

Active Investors:

• BOC Guangdong Finance(Www.bocutrust.com)
• China Merchants Capital(www.cmcapital.com.cn)
• Fang Fund Partners(www.fangfund.com)
• GGV Capital(www.ggvc.com)
• QIANHAI Wutong Mergers and Acquisitions Funds(www.qhee-ma.com)
• V Star Capital(www.vstarcap.com)
• Zhencheng Capital(www.zhenchengcap.com)
• ZhenFund(www.zhenfund.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

14. Dobot – Total Raised $78.04 million

Official Website: www.dobot.cc

Dobot is a Venture Capital-Backed Computers company founded in 2015. Developer of smart desktop robotic arms. The company’s robotic arms can be controlled by mobile devices, human voice and gestures, providing professional and flexible lightweight full-sensing robot solutions for users in different industries, enabling manufacturing users to improve product quality and work efficiency.

Active Investors:

• China Merchants Capital(www.cmcapital.com.cn)
• China V Fund(www.cvfund.cn)
• CICC Capital(www.cicccapital.com.cn)
• Daocin Capital(www.daocin.com)
• Entertainment Workshop(www.entworks.com.cn)
• Galaxy Holdings(www.chngalaxy.com)
• Green Pine Capital Partners(pinevc.com.cn)
• PreAngel(www.preangelfund.cn)
• Qianhai FoF(www.qhpefof.com)
• Scheme Capital(www.schemecapital.com)
• Shenzhen Capital Group(www.szvc.com.cn)

Competitors:

Adept Technology, Rethink Robotics

15. Essentium – Total Raised $74 million

Official Website: essentium.com

Essentium is a Venture Capital-Backed Electrical Equipment company founded in 2013. Developer of innovative industrial 3D printers and materials designed to bridge the gap between 3D printing and manufacturing. The company’s printers and materials are optimized for optimal strength, performance and flexibility in the most demanding environments, enabling clients to solve the issues of strength, speed and cost

Active Investors:

• BASF Venture Capital(www.basf-vc.de)
• Genesis Park(www.genesis-park.com)
• Materialise(www.materialise.com)
• National Science Foundation(www.nsf.gov)

Competitors:

Airwolf 3D, Carbon, BigRep, The ExOne Company, Voodoo Manufacturing, Microfabrica, SLM Solutions Group, Vader Systems, Model Solution, Arcam, AOS

16. Jaka – Total Raised $72.67 million

Official Website: www.jaka.com

Jaka is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2014. Developer and manufacturer of collaborative robots. The company aims to develop robotics technology that are utilized in smart factories where their robots work in intelligent equipment production lines, enabling clients to save time and money.

Active Investors:

• CPE Funds Management(www.citicpe.com)
• F&G Ventures(www.fgventure.com)
• Hejun Group(www.hejun.com)
• SAIF Partners(www.sbaif.com)
• State Development and Investment Corporation(www.sdic.com.cn/en/index.htm)

Competitors: No competitors found

17. Dexterity – Total Raised $72.35 million

Official Website: www.dexterity.ai

Dexterity is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2017. Developer of robotic systems designed to serve the logistics and supply chain companies. The company’s robotic system helps customers to unlock the maximum value of their workforce by automating repetitive pick-pack tasks, and deliver full-stack, end-to-end systems for kitting, picking, packing, counting, sorting, palletizing, and order fulfillment, and also excel at handling packaged foods, consumer packaged goods, industrial and automotive parts, parcels, and boxes, enabling clients to unleash human potential by delegating repetition to robots.

Active Investors:

• B37 Ventures(www.b37.vc)
• Blackhorn Ventures(www.blackhornvc.com)
• Kleiner Perkins(www.kleinerperkins.com)
• Lightspeed Venture Partners(www.lsvp.com)
• Liquid 2 Ventures(www.liquid2.vc)
• Obvious Ventures(www.obvious.com)
• Pacific Western Bank (Los Angeles)(www.pacwest.com)
• Presidio Ventures(www.presidio-ventures.com)
• StartX (US)(www.startx.com)

Competitors:

Agility (United States)

18. Megarobo – Total Raised $72.28 million

Official Website: www.megarobo.tech

Megarobo is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2016. Developer of collaborative robots focusing on automation of life science research. The company specializes in developing flexible, efficient and practical automation solutions for life science companies and scientific research institutions, providing innovative laboratory services that aim to increase research efficiency.

Active Investors:

• Future Capital Discovery Fund(www.future-cap.com)
• Gobi Ventures(www.gobivc.com)
• Innoangel Fund(www.innoangel.com)
• Joy Capital (Beijing)(www.joycapital.com.cn)
• Liando U Valley(www.liando.cn)
• Matrix Partners China(www.matrixpartners.cn)
• PowerCloud Venture Capital(www.powercloudvc.com)
• Robert Bosch Venture Capital(www.rbvc.com)
• Sinovation Ventures(www.sinovationventures.com)
• Zhulu Capital(www.zhulu.vc)

Competitors: No competitors found

19. CloudNC – Total Raised $66.62 million

Official Website: www.cloudnc.com

CloudNC is a Venture Capital-Backed Industrial Supplies and Parts company founded in 2015. Provider of an AI software-enabled precision manufacturing intended to replace all skilled human roles normally required for the production of metal components. The company’s software automates the programming of CNC milling machines thus making milling machines a one-click device that can produce a part easily, efficiently, and with minimal human intervention, enabling the clients to improve profit per machine, improve lead times, and scalability.

Active Investors:

• Acequia Capital(acecap.com)
• Atomico(www.atomico.com)
• Backed VC(www.backed.vc)
• Elkstone Partners(www.elkstonepartners.com)
• Entrepreneur First(www.joinef.com)
• Episode 1 Ventures(www.episode1.com)
• Join Capital(www.join.capital)
• La Famiglia(www.lafamiglia.vc)
• Tornig(www.tornig.com)

Competitors:

Adept Technology, Universal Robots, Rethink Robotics, Plethora, KUKA, Formlogic, Vicarious, Proto Labs, Daedalus

20. Bellwether Coffee – Total Raised $61 million

Official Website: www.bellwethercoffee.com

Bellwether Coffee is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2013. Provider of a ventless coffee roaster intended to empower coffee companies to create exceptional coffee. The company’s roaster is an iOS-integrated and zero-emissions roaster that offers balanced and flavored coffee as well as makes coffee accessible and sustainable for planet and communities, enabling clients to have coffee with customized roasting technology that helps to maximize flavor profiles.

Active Investors:

• Balius Partners(www.baliuspartners.com)
• Congruent Ventures(www.congruentvc.com)
• DBL Partners(www.dblpartners.vc)
• frogVentures(www.frogdesign.com/services/startups)
• FusionX Ventures(www.fusionxventures.com)
• Hardware Club(www.hardwareclub.co)
• New Ground Ventures(www.newground.vc)
• RSE Ventures(www.rseventures.com)
• Spindrift Equities(www.spindriftequities.com)
• Tandem Capital(www.tandemcap.com)
• XN-Ventures(www.xn-ventures.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

21. FJ Dynamics – Total Raised $60.88 million

Official Website: www.fjdynamics.com

FJ Dynamics is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2017. Developer of intelligent logistics robots intended for the agricultural industry. The company integrates big data technology, Internet of Things, deep learning, unmanned driving, machine vision and other technologies to provide intelligent ground robots, terminal unmanned logistics, agricultural robots, and intelligent high-speed rice transplanters, enabling improved productivity and efficiency of the agricultural industry.

Active Investors:

• China Post Group(english.chinapost.com.cn)
• Dongfeng Motor(www.dfmc.com.cn)
• Greater Bay Area Homeland(www.gbahomeland.com)
• HanJiang Investment Holdings(www.hanjiangkonggu.com)
• Linden Asset(www.lindenasset.com)
• New China Life Insurance(www.newchinalife.com)
• Shenzhen Capital Group(www.szvc.com.cn)
• SZ DJI Technology Company(www.dji.com)
• Tencent Industry Win-Win Fund(investment.tencent.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

22. Hyperion (Materials & Technologies) – Total Raised $59 million

Official Website: www.hyperionmt.com

Hyperion (Materials & Technologies) is a Private Equity-Backed Industrial Supplies and Parts company founded in 2018. Manufacturer of metal cutting and drilling equipment. The company specializes in developing and manufacturing tungsten carbide powders, cemented carbide, industrial diamond and cubic boron nitride products, which enable its customers to improve business performance with effective, wear-resistant tools and components for their most demanding applications.

Active Investors:

• Kohlberg Kravis Roberts(www.kkr.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

23. Hongan Robots – Total Raised $58.53 million

Official Website: www.honganrobots.com

Hongan Robots is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2016. Developer of intelligent dishwashing machines and leasing services. The company’s machines are IOT integrated, enabling users to monitor dishwashing progress, temperature and maintenance issues.

Active Investors:

• Hejun Group(www.hejun.com)
• IDG Capital(en.idgcapital.com)
• InnoVen Capital(www.innovencapital.com)
• Lan Fund(www.lanfund.com.cn)
• Source Code Capital(www.sourcecodecap.com)
• ZhenFund(www.zhenfund.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

24. Soft Robotics – Total Raised $54.32 million

Official Website: www.softroboticsinc.com

Soft Robotics is a Venture Capital-Backed Electronic Equipment and Instruments company founded in 2012. Developer of robotic end-of-arm tools designed to bring automation to high SKU processing, packaging and supply chain applications. The company’s services include designing and building soft robotic automation systems that can grasp and manipulate items of varying size, shape and weight, enabling businesses, corporate clients and industrial players to access innovative robotics technology that empowers them to increase business productivity and optimize business efficiency.

Active Investors:

• ABB Technology Ventures(www.global.abb/group/en/technology/ventures)
• Calibrate Ventures(www.calibratevc.com)
• Fanuc(www.fanuc.co.jp)
• Four Palms Ventures(www.fourpalmsventuresllc.com)
• Haiyin Venture Partners(www.haiyinfund.com)
• Honeywell(www.honeywell.com)
• Hyperplane Venture Capital(www.hyperplane.vc)
• In-Q-Tel(www.iqt.org)
• Mark IV Capital(www.markiv.com)
• Material Impact Fund(www.materialimpact.com)
• National Science Foundation(www.nsf.gov)

Competitors:

IAM Robotics, Rethink Robotics, Kindred AI, Invia Robotics, Exotec Solutions, Grabit, Locus (Machinery (B2B)), KNAPP, ASIMOV Robotics, Bossa Nova Robotics, RE2 Robotics, 6 River Systems, Perception Robotics, Geek+, RightHand Robotics, Robotiq, Savioke, Plus One Robotics, Clearpath Robotics, Empire Robotics, Mecademic, Optofidelity, Swisslog Holding, Fetch Robotics, fellowAI, SynTouch, AutoStore, Fabric (Logistics), Humatics, iRobot, Simbe, Skycatch, Osaro, Embodied Labs, Covariant

25. Tommy’s Express Car Wash – Total Raised $54.2 million

Official Website: www.tommys-express.com

Tommy’s Express Car Wash is a Angel-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2015. Manufacturer of car washing equipment created to provide car washing and car care services. The company’s equipment automatically adjusts to every vehicle size and shape to ensure that every surface is evenly cleaned, dual belt conveyor makes it easy to enter and leave the wash and tire gloss applicator applies a protective gloss coating to keep tires shiny and clean, enabling customers to receive quality car wash services using quality equipment and detergents.

Active Investors:

No active investors

Competitors: No competitors found

26. Sparx Hockey – Total Raised $51.91 million

Official Website: www.sparxhockey.com

Sparx Hockey is a Private Equity-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2013. Developer and manufacturer of skate sharpening equipment. The company provides skate sharpening equipment and related accessories for ice hockey, figure skating and sled hockey, enabling customers with no prior skate sharpening experience to easily sharpen hockey skates with pro-level accuracy.

Active Investors:

• North Castle Partners(www.northcastlepartners.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

27. Xiaoe Weidian – Total Raised $51.24 million

Official Website: www.xedaojia.com

Xiaoe Weidian is a Venture Capital-Backed Specialty Retail company founded in 2015. Operator of snack-bar focused checkout-free convenience store. The company has placed snack bars in offices where customers can buy snacks, drinks and instant noodles by scanning a QR code and paying via mobile payment options.

Active Investors:

• Hainan Development Holding(www.hnhold.cn)
• Stp Capital(www.stpcapital.com)
• Zijue Capital(www.zijueziben.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

28. Nimble Robotics – Total Raised $50.2 million

Official Website: www.nimble.ai

Nimble Robotics is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2017. Designer of a robotic system created to provide automated end-to-end piece-picking, sorting and packing solutions for eCommerce orders. The company’s system integrates within existing warehouse infrastructure and combines artificial intelligence, computer vision and remote human-in-the-loop supervision to create smart robots, enabling companies to avail immediate cost reduction, reduction in staffing churn and boost efficiency in various fulfillment workflows.

Active Investors:

• Accel(www.accel.com)
• DNS Capital(www.dnscap.com)
• GSR Ventures(www.gsrventures.com)
• Reinvent Capital(reinventcapital.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

29. Magazino – Total Raised $49.57 million

Official Website: www.magazino.eu

Magazino is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2013. Manufacturer and distributor of storage and dispensing robotic machines intended to provide cost-effective and efficient robotic services. The company’s storage and dispensing robotic machines include shelve robots to pick individual items directly from the shelves for mail-order, enabling eCommerce, logistics and production companies to automate their day-to-day operations.

Active Investors:

• European Investment Bank(www.eib.org)
• Fiege(www.fiege.com)
• Jungheinrich(www.jungheinrich.com)
• Körber(www.koerber.de)
• Siemens(new.siemens.com)
• UnternehmerTUM(www.unternehmertum.de)
• Zalando(www.zalando.com)

Competitors:

Grabit, Intelligrated, Locus (Machinery (B2B)), RightHand Robotics, Exotec Solutions, Invia Robotics, SCCRSG Corporation, Universal Robots, Fetch Robotics, Adept Technology, eShip-4u, Starship (Logistics), GreyOrange, Westfalia, Dematic Group, AutoStore, Rethink Robotics

30. Kindred AI – Total Raised $48 million

Official Website: www.kindred.ai

Kindred AI is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2014. Developer of robots designed to have human-like intelligence. The company’s robots are made using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and remote human guidance to interact with the physical world, with the ultimate goal of a future where intelligent machines can solve real-world problems alongside humans in messy, complex, changing environments, enabling users with an intelligent machine to work together with people to create abundance shared by all the power of a new generation of smarter robots.

Active Investors:

• 11.2 Capital(www.112capital.com)
• AME Cloud Ventures(www.amecloudventures.com)
• Bloomberg Beta(www.bloombergbeta.com)
• Bold Capital Partners(www.boldcapitalpartners.com)
• Data Collective(www.dcvc.com)
• Eclipse Ventures(www.eclipse.vc)
• First Round Capital(www.firstround.com)
• GarageCapital(www.garage.vc)
• GV(www.gv.com)
• Innovation Endeavors(www.innovationendeavors.com)
• Tencent Holdings(www.tencent.com)

Competitors:

Rethink Robotics, Vicarious, Vincross, Boston Dynamics, FurHat Robotics, SoftBank Robotics Holding, Mojin Robotics

31. NUBURU – Total Raised $47.55 million

Official Website: www.nuburu.net

NUBURU is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2015. Developer of blue laser technology designed to transform metal cutting and welding and additive manufacturing. The company’s blue lasers provide radical gains in speed and quality in existing metal processes and also provide the path to new designs for both conventional laser-metal machining and additive manufacturing, enabling aerospace, automotive, energy, consumer electronics, healthcare and research industries to dramatically improve process performance as and when compared to industry-standard IR fiber lasers.

Active Investors:

• Anzu Partners(www.anzupartners.com)

Competitors:

TRUMPF, Laguna Tools, Coherent, nLIGHT, IPG Photonics, Shimadzu, Laserline Gesellschaft Für Entwicklung Und Vertrieb Von Diodenlasern mbH

32. Rokae – Total Raised $46.03 million

Official Website: www.rokae.com

Rokae is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2014. Manufacturer of light-weight industrial robots and robot control systems. The company provides robotic products and interactive control systems used in the field of computing, communications, consumer electronics, textiles, food, medicine, and automotive manufacturing. The company is dedicated to add value for high-end manufacturer clients through independent research and development of robot hardware and integrated application solutions.

Active Investors:

• Angel Crunch(www.angelcrunch.com)
• Challenjers Capital(www.challenjers.com)
• Delian Capital(www.bjdeliancap.com)
• GSR United Capital(www.gsrunited.com)
• Nanchang Xinshiji Venture Capital(www.xsjvc.com)
• Plum Ventures(www.plumventures.cn)
• Shunwei Capital(www.shunwei.com)
• THG Ventures(www.th-vc.com)
• Xiang He Capital(www.xianghecap.com)

Competitors:

Dobot, KUKA, Rethink Robotics, Adept Technology, Comau, Gomtec, Danfoss, Universal Robots, Rockwell Automation, iRobot, Gamma 2 Robotics

33. Dishcraft Robotics – Total Raised $45.59 million

Official Website: www.dishcraft.com

Dishcraft Robotics is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2015. Developer of a robotic system designed to improve the way dishes in commercial kitchens is washed. The company’s offerings include a dishwashing system that leverages a vision-based artificial intelligence system to inspect the plates and clean them again if any food remnants are found, enabling restaurants and hotels to improve sustainability, efficiency, and the dining experience of foodservice operations.

Active Investors:

• Anorak Ventures(www.anorak.vc)
• Baseline Ventures(www.baselinev.com)
• Creative Ventures(www.creativeventures.vc)
• CSC UpShot Ventures(www.csc-upshot.vc)
• First Round Capital(www.firstround.com)
• FUEL Capital(www.fuelcapital.com)
• Grids Capital(www.gridscapital.com)
• Grit Ventures (San Mateo)(gritventures.com)
• Hemisphere Ventures(www.hemisphere.com)
• Kevin Moore(www.agileangel.com)
• Lemnos(www.lemnos.vc)

Competitors: No competitors found

34. Bear Robotics – Total Raised $45.19 million

Official Website: www.bearrobotics.ai

Bear Robotics is a Venture Capital-Backed Electronic Equipment and Instruments company founded in 2017. Developer of robots designed to serve foods at restaurants. The company’s robots uses AI to understand the restaurant customers, tables and food items, enabling restaurant owners to deliver foods fast and easily.

Active Investors:

• DSC Investment(www.dscinvestment.com)
• FuturePlay(www.futureplay.co)
• Line Ventures(lineventurescorp.com)
• Lotte Group(www.lotte.co.kr)
• Momentor Ventures(www.momentorvc.com)
• SmileGate(www.smilegate.com)
• SoftBank Group(www.softbank.jp)
• Vela Partners(www.vela.partners)
• Woowa Brothers(www.woowahan.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

35. Blue World Technologies – Total Raised $43.37 million

Official Website: www.blue.world

Blue World Technologies is a Venture Capital-Backed Industrial Supplies and Parts company founded in 2018. Developer and manufacturer of fuel cell components intended to bring energy-efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective methanol fuel cell technology to the world. The company’s cell components are focused on High-Temperature PEM-technology combined with methanol-reforming, enabling the automotive sector to set up development and manufacturing activities in key markets to optimize the supply chain and ensure proximity to the customers.

Active Investors:

• AIWAYS(www.ai-ways.com)
• Conduit Ventures(www.conduit-ventures.com)
• VF Venture(vfventure.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

36. Vention – Total Raised $42.62 million

Official Website: www.vention.io

Vention is a Venture Capital-Backed Multimedia and Design Software company founded in 2016. Developer of a cloud-based digital manufacturing platform intended to make industrial automation easier and more accessible. The company’s platform consists of a library of structural, motion, and control components, a free cloud-based 3D machine builder, and artificial intelligence-enabled 3D constraints, enabling manufacturing companies to design, program, simulate, order and commission automated equipment directly from a single digital environment.

Active Investors:

• Bain Capital Ventures(www.baincapitalventures.com)
• Bolt Innovation Group(www.bolt.io)
• C100 Association(www.thec100.org)
• Creative Destruction Lab(www.creativedestructionlab.com)
• Georgian(georgian.io)
• Real Ventures(www.realventures.com)
• White Star Capital(www.whitestarcapital.com)

Competitors:

EVRYTHNG, Hawk Ridge Systems, Onshape, IronCAD, OrCAD, Solidworks, PlanGrid, Javelin Technologies (Canada), Procore (Business/Productivity Software), DASI Solutions, Romax Technology, solidThinking, Fieldscale, Fisher Unitech, Symmetry Solutions, eShip-4u, Computer Aided Technology, Vectorworks, PTC Software, MCAD Technologies, Frustum, Ansys, CADD Edge, Rhinoceros, nTopology, @Last Software, Bentley Systems, CD-Adapco Group, Aras, Burstorm, Dassault Systemes, Gooee, 3D Systems, Computer-Aided Products, MechWorks, MSC Software, Cimtronics Midwest, Sigmetrix, Polarion Software, TurboSquid

37. Blue Ocean Robotics – Total Raised $42 million

Official Website: www.blue-ocean-robotics.com

Blue Ocean Robotics is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2013. Developer, producer and seller of professional service robots designed primarily for healthcare, hospitality, construction, and agriculture markets. The company’s technology develops innovative market-ready robots for a broad range of industries from production to offshore, as well as offers design, concept development, support and maintenance, enabling companies to integrate transformation process regardless of industry and geographic location.

Active Investors:

• Nordic Eye Venture Capital(www.nordiceye.com)
• Startup Scaleup(www.startup-scaleup.eu)

Competitors: No competitors found

38. Cafe X – Total Raised $40.6 million

Official Website: www.cafexapp.com

Cafe X is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2014. Developer and operator of robotic coffee systems and bars intended to serve specialty instant coffee from local roasters. The company leverages machine learning techniques and develops systems consisting of a coffee roaster and robotic arm which is used for serving the coffee, enabling customers to enjoy consistent coffee when desired.

Active Investors:

• Base Ventures(www.base.ventures)
• Beehive VC(www.hive.vc)
• Brighter Capital(www.brightercapital.com)
• CoCoon Ignite Ventures(www.cocoonigniteventures.com)
• Craft Ventures(www.craftventures.com)
• Felicis Ventures(www.felicis.com)
• Hemisphere Ventures(www.hemisphere.com)
• Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks(www.hkstp.org)
• Khosla Ventures(www.khoslaventures.com)
• Launch Fund(www.launch.co)
• Leaf Ventures(www.leafventures.co)

Competitors: No competitors found

39. Inspire Automation – Total Raised $40 million

Official Website: www.inspireautomation.com

Inspire Automation is a Private Equity-Backed Distributors/Wholesale company founded in 2015. Manufacturer of conveying and material handling equipment for the corrugated box industry. The company designs and manufactures graphics, robotic material handling equipment and high-speed litho label laminators for corrugated box makers to add value to strong, plain corrugated boxes easily and economically.

Active Investors:

• Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners(www.hrco.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

40. Veo Robotics – Total Raised $40 million

Official Website: www.veobot.com

Veo Robotics is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2016. Developer of industrial automation products intended to create industrial robots to work safely and efficiently alongside people. The company’s products use proprietary algorithms, sensing, and control systems that use intelligent algorithms running on parallel computing hardware and distributed 3D sensors, enabling clients to increase productivity and reduce operating costs in manufacturing and logistics.

Active Investors:

• Alpha Intelligence Capital Fund(www.aicapital.ai)
• Baidu Ventures(www.bv.ai)
• GV(www.gv.com)
• Lux Capital Management(www.luxcapital.com)
• Next47(Next47.com)
• Nikon(www.nikon.co.jp)
• SBI Investment(www.sbinvestment.co.jp)

Competitors:

Universal Robots, Danfoss, Comau, Rethink Robotics, KNAPP, ZenRobotics, Gamma 2 Robotics, AMP Robotics, Emerson, Adept Technology, Cognex, Intelligrated, Keyence, Sick, Fanuc

41. Aqrose Technology – Total Raised $39.45 million

Official Website: www.aqrose.com

Aqrose Technology is a Venture Capital-Backed Electronic Equipment and Instruments company founded in 2017. Provider of industrial inspecting and sorting robots based on 3D vision technology as well as other automation technologies.The company offers “AIPICK”, an intelligent industrial inspecting and sorting robot and also technologies such as Artificial Intelligent Defect Inspection and cloud data management, enabling the streamlining of manufacturing processes and higher quality products.

Active Investors:

• Baidu Ventures(www.bv.ai)
• DCM Ventures(www.dcm.com)
• Innoangel Fund(www.innoangel.com)
• Legend Capital(www.legendcapital.com.cn)
• Long Capital(www.longcapital.cn)
• PowerCloud Venture Capital(www.powercloudvc.com)
• Xiang He Capital(www.xianghecap.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

42. Voxel8 – Total Raised $35.7 million

Official Website: www.voxel8.com

Voxel8 is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2014. Developer of a digital manufacturing systems designed to revolutionize the footwear and athletic apparel. The company’s manufacturing systems eliminates the need for tooling, decreasing set-up costs and dramatically accelerating time to market, enabling users to get the power to digitally fabricate functional features with zonal control of material properties and full color graphics using excess performance elastomers and ink jet technology.

Active Investors:

• ARCH Venture Partners(www.archventure.com)
• Autodesk(www.autodesk.com)
• Braemar Energy Ventures(www.braemarenergy.com)
• Greentown Labs(www.greentownlabs.com)
• HP Tech Ventures(hptechventures.com)
• In-Q-Tel(www.iqt.org)
• MassChallenge(www.masschallenge.org)
• Osage University Partners(oup.vc)

Competitors:

The ExOne Company, Pratt & Whitney Measurement Systems, Optomec, Airwolf 3D, Zortrax, Carbon, SLM Solutions Group, Model Solution, TRUMPF Photonic Components

43. Emergen – Total Raised $35.13 million

Official Website: www.emergen.cn

Emergen is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2016. Developer and manufacturer of intelligent robots and provider of a wide range of manufacture solutions. The company’s high-performance robot controller, group intelligence network controller and industrial 4.0 intelligent engine are being widely applied in the construction of smart factories to realize closed-loop control of process data of all processes in smart factories, traceability of process quality information and comprehensive intelligent logistics control.

Active Investors:

No active investors

Competitors: No competitors found

44. TBSTest – Total Raised $34.3 million

Official Website: www.bjtbstest.com

TBSTest is a Venture Capital-Backed Electronic Equipment and Instruments company founded in 2017. Developer of semiconductor test equipment. The company focuses on research and development of integrated circuit automatic test equipment and provides testing solutions and for semiconductor manufacturers.

Active Investors:

• Elevation China Capital(ecc-capital.com)
• Grand Yangtze Capital(www.grandyangtze.com)
• SDIC Venture Capital(www.sdicvc.com)
• Shenzhen Inovance Technology Company(www.inovance.cn)
• Walden International(www.waldenintl.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

45. Upwing Energy – Total Raised $34.13 million

Official Website: www.upwingenergy.com

Upwing Energy is a Venture Capital-Backed Oil and Gas Equipment company founded in 2011. Developer of an artificial lift technology intended to increase the production and recovery of hydrocarbons from conventional and unconventional wells. The company’s technology utilizes magnetic systems and focuses on increasing the output of natural gas wells from downhole environments, enabling clients to increase the volume of mass flow and ultimate recovery from wells.

Active Investors:

• Cooper and Company(www.cooperandcompany.org)

Competitors: No competitors found

46. Prologtechnology – Total Raised $33 million

Official Website: www.prolog-int.com

Prologtechnology is a Venture Capital-Backed Logistics company founded in 2012. Provider of supply chain and logistics services. The company provides supply chain and logistics services to businesses in various industries including medicine, e-commerce, clothing, fast-moving consumer goods, retail, cold chain, and publishing, enabling enterprises to improve logistics efficiency.

Active Investors:

• Cathay Capital Private Equity(cathaycapital.com)
• Cathay Innovation(www.cathayinnovation.com)
• China Capital Management(www.ccmc.csc108.com)
• China Merchants Bank(www.cmbchina.com)
• Hejun Group(www.hejun.com)
• Shenzhen International Holdings(www.szihl.com)
• Shineland Capital(www.shinelandpe.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

47. Velox (Electrical Equipment) – Total Raised $33 million

Official Website: www.velox-digital.com

Velox (Electrical Equipment) is a Venture Capital-Backed Electrical Equipment company founded in 2012. Manufacturer of digital printing products intended to provide and improve direct-to-shape digital decoration technology. The company’s products include direct-to-shape inkjet technology is based on uniquely formulated inks and dedicated deposition architecture and offers personalized photo-realistic packaging and container designing, enabling converters and production facilities to print photo-quality images and embellishments directly onto cylindrical metal, plastic, or glass packaging.

Active Investors:

• Altana(www.altana.com)
• Evonik Venture Capital(www.evonik-vc.com)
• JAL Ventures(www.jalventures.com)
• ORT Technologies(www.ortechno.com)

Competitors:

Scodix, Landa Digital Printing, Xometry, EskoArtwork, PV Nano Cell, GPI Prototype

48. PrecisioNext – Total Raised $32.73 million

Official Website: www.plxcn.com

PrecisioNext is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2017. Provider and developer of semiconductor technology and devices designed for industrial enterprises. The company’s technology includes motion control, algorithm, linear motion, machine vision, and 5G optical communication, enabling industrial enterprises in China to fulfill their product technology and supply needs.

Active Investors:

• CDH Investments(www.cdhfund.com)
• Fellow Partners(www.fellowcap.com)
• Lan Fund(www.lanfund.com.cn)
• Lightspeed China Partners(www.lightspeedcp.com)
• Oriza Holdings(www.oriza.com.cn)
• QF Capital(www.qfvc.cn)
• Yunqi Partners(www.yunqi.vc)

Competitors: No competitors found

49. Avidbots – Total Raised $31.56 million

Official Website: www.avidbots.com

Avidbots is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2014. Developer of autonomous robots designed to automate commercial floor cleaning. The company’s systems cooperate to clean department stores, auto dealerships, education facilities, airports, and other commercial cleaning spaces and thus automates the most labor and time-intensive part of commercial cleaning, enabling the cleaning crew to focus on higher-value cleaning tasks and leaving repetitive and tedious floor scrubbing to robots.

Active Investors:

• 500 Startups(www.500.co)
• 500 Startups Canada(www.500canada.ca)
• Communitech(www.communitech.ca)
• Felicis Ventures(www.felicis.com)
• GGV Capital(www.ggvc.com)
• Golden Ventures(www.golden.ventures)
• Ian Hogarth(ianhogarth.com)
• Kfintech(www.kfintech.com)
• Next47(Next47.com)
• Real Ventures(www.realventures.com)
• SOSV(www.sosv.com)

Competitors:

KNAPP, Adept Technology, Universal Robots, Intellibot Robotics, Rethink Robotics

50. Recycling Technologies – Total Raised $31.23 million

Official Website: www.recyclingtechnologies.co.uk

Recycling Technologies is a Venture Capital-Backed Environmental Services (B2B) company founded in 2011. Developer of a technology designed to recycle residual plastic waste into feedstock for new plastic production. The company’s technology can be installed at existing waste sites, enabling users access to a chemical recycling technology that offers an alternative to landfill and energy from waste incineration for residual plastic waste.

Active Investors:

• Althelia(www.althelia.com)
• Innovate UK(www.gov.uk/government/organisations/innovate-uk)
• Neste(www.neste.com)
• Ruffena Capital(www.ruffena.co.uk)
• Uncharted(www.uncharted.org)

Competitors:

Renewlogy, Centriforce (Plastic Containers & Packaging), Quantafuel, PLASgran, Vadxx Energy, Total Recycling Services, TWMA Group, Weir Waste Services, Zero Waste Advocacy

51. GINFON – Total Raised $30.91 million

Official Website: www.goldpeakcn.com

GINFON is a Private Equity-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2012. Provider of domestic logistics solutions in China. The company specializes in providing logistics automation solutions and logistical data management services for domestic customers in various industries, aiming to improve the efficiency and reliability of the domestic logistical network through developing advanced logistics machinery and control systems.

Active Investors:

• Addor Capital(www.addorcapital.com)
• Eastern Bell Venture Capital(www.ebvc.com.cn)
• Infinity Group(www.infinity-equity.com)
• Maintrend Capital(www.maintrendcapital.com)
• Oriza Holdings(www.oriza.com.cn)
• Suzhou Guofa Venture Capital(www.sidvc.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

52. Monad Biology – Total Raised $30.89 million

Official Website: www.monadts.com

Monad Biology is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2017. Developer and manufacturer of scientific research equipment. The company provides a wide variety of technical services and research equipment for the biotechnology sector.

Active Investors:

• ABclonal China(www.abclonal.com.cn)
• Huaxin Capital(www.huaxincapital.com.cn)
• Lucion Venture Capital(www.600783.cn)
• Wuxi Capital(www.wxfig.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

53. LuxCreo – Total Raised $30 million

Official Website: www.luxcreo.com

LuxCreo is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2016. Provider of a 3D printing and software development platform designed to provide 3D printing technology service. The company’s main services include software development, electronic hardware development and material development and offers innovative fast 3D printing equipment, enabling clients to improve the production efficiency of the manufacturing industry and reduce enterprise costs at the same time.

Active Investors:

• Fosun International(www.fosun.com)
• Kleiner Perkins(www.kleinerperkins.com)
• Northern Light Venture Capital(www.nlvc.com)
• Shunwei Capital(www.shunwei.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

54. Vi Pioneers – Total Raised $28.83 million

Official Website: www.vipioneers.com

Vi Pioneers is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2014. Developer of cloud based intelligent autonomous driving technology for mining and construction applications. The company focuses on building the training data and R&D ecosystem around the intelligent vehicles field, empowering its clients to improve the quality of their autonomous car systems. The company’s mission is to build the world leading cloud based intelligent autonomous driving ecosystem.

Active Investors:

• CASH Capital(www.cashcapital.cn)
• Cathay Capital Private Equity(cathaycapital.com)
• Qingdao Haier Venture Capital(www.haiercapital.com)
• SAIF Partners(www.sbaif.com)
• Sigma Square Capital(www.sigmasquare.ch)
• The Hina Group(www.hinagroup.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

55. GreenMantra Technologies – Total Raised $27.21 million

Official Website: www.greenmantra.com

GreenMantra Technologies is a Venture Capital-Backed Specialty Chemicals company founded in 2010. Developer of a proprietary thermo-catalytic system intended to produce waxes and specialty polymers. The company’s thermo-catalytic system uses a proprietary catalytic depolymerization technology to convert waste plastics, including hard-to-recycle streams such as grocery bags and film, into high-value waxes and other specialty chemicals, enabling industries to use recyclable fuel and wax products in manufacturing processes which have a broad range of applications in plastic processing, roofing and roads.

Active Investors:

• ArcTern Ventures(www.arcternventures.com)
• Canadian Technology Accelerator(www.ctaconnects.com)
• Crux Capital(www.cruxcapital.ca)
• Cycle Capital Management(www.cyclecapital.com)
• MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund(www.marsiaf.com)
• Sun Chemical(www.sunchemical.com)
• Sustainable Development Technology Canada(www.sdtc.ca)

Competitors:

Westlake Chemical, Clariant Chemicals, BASF Colors & Effects

56. Intelligent Wellhead Systems – Total Raised $26.43 million

Official Website: www.intelligentwellheadsystems.com

Intelligent Wellhead Systems is a Private Equity-Backed Oil and Gas Equipment company founded in 2011. The company’s renting systems are offered for live well fishing operations, complex snubbing operations, coiled Tubing Operations, wire-Line Operations, critical sour wells and high-pressure Wells, enabling oil and gas industries to eliminate costly incidents and safely increase tripping speeds.

Active Investors:

• Pason Systems(www.pason.com)
• Werklund Ventures(ventures.werklund.com)
• Zone Startups Calgary(calgary.zonestartups.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

57. Go&Up Automation – Total Raised $26.41 million

Official Website: www.goupautomation.com

Go&Up Automation is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2013. Provider of factory automation equipments designed to provide automation solutions to industrial enterprises. The company’s products include assembly automation, function testing , MES(software), Resistance spot welding enabling enterprises from various industries to utilize smart manufacturing solutions, leading to better product outcome.

Active Investors:

• CrestValue Capital(www.crestvalue.com)
• Goldport Capital(www.goldportcap.com)
• Juren Capital(www.jurencapital.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

58. SVXR – Total Raised $25.8 million

Official Website: www.svxr.com

SVXR is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2013. Developer of an x-ray inspection system designed to to bring high speed inspection and metrology technology to the semiconductor packaging industry. The company’s fully-automated defect detection and process control inspection systems are for sensitive IC’s, including DRAM and is a pioneer in the development and deployment of fully-automatic fast inline X-ray inspection solutions utilizing the latest Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) methodologies, enabling clients to collect meaningful line health data and transform it into information leading to improved manufacturing outcomes.

Active Investors:

• Firsthand Technology Value Fund(www.firsthandtvf.com)
• Sand Hill Angels(www.sandhillangels.com)
• United States Department of Defense(www.defense.gov)

Competitors: No competitors found

59. Gaiya Technology – Total Raised $25.77 million

Official Website: www.jsgaiya.cn

Gaiya Technology is a Venture Capital-Backed Environmental Services (B2B) company founded in 2012. Developer of green, smart machinery designed to improve the environmental protection capabilities of clients. The company has developed robotics focused on soil remediation and thermal desorption, as well as chemical agents for soil repair.

Active Investors:

• Chang’an Capital(www.changancap.com)
• Hongxin Assets(hongxincapital.com)
• Qiming Venture Partners(www.qimingvc.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

60. SunCulture – Total Raised $25.7 million

Official Website: www.sunculture.com

SunCulture is a Venture Capital-Backed Alternative Energy Equipment company founded in 2011. Provider of solar-powered drip irrigation systems intended to save water and generate clean electricity. The company’s system combines solar water pumping technology with high-efficiency drip irrigation, enabling farmers to reduce fertilizer waste by adding fertilizer directly to the water tank to apply it consistently throughout the drip system and produce high-quality vegetables that meet the standards of restaurants, greengrocers and produce exporters.

Active Investors:

• Acumen Capital Partners(www.acumencapital.com)
• Aster Capital(www.aster.com)
• Dream Project Incubators(www.dpigroup.org)
• Électricité de France(www.edf.fr)
• Energy Access Ventures(www.eavafrica.com)
• Partners Group(www.partnersgroup.com)
• PG Impact Investments(www.pg-impact.com)
• Powering Agriculture(www.poweringag.org)

Competitors: No competitors found

61. Hans Robot – Total Raised $24.25 million

Official Website: www.hansrobot.com

Hans Robot is a Venture Capital-Backed Computers company founded in 2017. Developer and manufacturer of smart robots designed for automation. The company has developed core functional components of robots such as robot motors, servo drives, robot controllers, and machine vision, and successfully launched robots and automation products such as human-machine collaborative robots, precision Cartesian robots, AGV, SCARA, mobile operating robots, and intelligent detection, enabling enterprises to increase work efficiency and reduce labor costs.

Active Investors:

• Shenzhen Credit Guarantee Group(www.szcgc.com)
• Win Digital Capital(www.windigitalchina.com)
• Zhuojia Huizhi Venture Capital(www.zhuojiavc.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

62. Yingdao SharePrint – Total Raised $24.1 million

Official Website: www.jsshareprint.com

Yingdao SharePrint is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2016. Develoepr of printing machines intended to provide printer-sharing services. The company develops printing machines with digital poster screens, enabling users to get printing services conveniently.

Active Investors:

• Fuying Education(www.fuyingy.com)
• Taoli Capital(www.taolicap.com)
• Zhongcheng Business Incubator(www.zcfhq.com)
• ZOL(www.zol.com.cn)

Competitors: No competitors found

63. FarmWise Labs – Total Raised $24.09 million

Official Website: www.farmwise.io

FarmWise Labs is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2016. Developer of farming robots designed to facilitate autonomous cultivation and organic farming. The company’s robots leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence for taking on cultivation tasks including weeding, planting, sowing and soil tilling using adaptable machinery and its autonomous vegetable weeder assists to get rid of herbicides, enabling farmers to nurture each plant, grow healthier crops and enjoy profits.

Active Investors:

• Alchemist Accelerator(www.alchemistaccelerator.com)
• Alumni Ventures Group(www.avgfunds.com)
• Basis Set Ventures(www.basisset.ventures)
• Calibrate Ventures(www.calibratevc.com)
• Cavallo Ventures(www.cavallovc.com)
• Chestnut Street Ventures(www.chestnutstreetventures.com)
• Felicis Ventures(www.felicis.com)
• Hemisphere Ventures(www.hemisphere.com)
• Lemnos(www.lemnos.vc)
• Playground Global(www.playground.global)
• SVG Ventures-THRIVE(thriveagrifood.com)

Competitors:

Naïo Technologies, Harvest Automation, Hagie Manufacturing

64. Elite Robot – Total Raised $24.04 million

Official Website: www.elibot.cn

Elite Robot is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2014. Manufacturer and developer of robotic intelligence technology designed to offer artificial intelligence and robotic solutions for businesses. The company’s products include motion control, collaboration robot, industrial robot, and smart controller, enabling businesses to increase work efficiency and reduce overall cost.

Active Investors:

• Ceyuan Ventures(www.ceyuan.com)
• Everest VC(lmfvc.com)
• Oriza Holdings(www.oriza.com.cn)
• Seekdource(www.seekdource.com)
• Shenzhen Guozhong Venture Capital Management(www.gzvcm.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

65. BioForceTech Corporation – Total Raised $24 million

Official Website: www.bioforcetech.com

BioForceTech Corporation is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2012. Provider of biosolids and organic waste solutions intended to eliminate organic waste while generating valuable by-products. The company specializes in a self-sustained and automated system that generates renewable energy and upcycles any organic waste into high-carbon and fine-grained residue, thereby providing clients with sustainable and affordable waste management solutions.

Active Investors:

• Waste Management(www.wm.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

66. VEDA Technology – Total Raised $22.26 million

Official Website: www.jsveda.cn

VEDA Technology is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2010. Developer of water treatment technology designed to provide disinfection and purification equipment for water industry. The company provides complete sets of technical equipment and automatic production system software for water companies and sewage plants to improve the quality of urban water supply and drainage, enabling urban residents to obtain safe water supply.

Active Investors:

• Addor Capital(www.addorcapital.com)
• THG Ventures(www.th-vc.com)
• Wuxi Public Utilities Industrial Group(www.wxszjt.com)
• Yonglong Investment(www.ynovo.cn)

Competitors: No competitors found

67. Freesense Image – Total Raised $21.7 million

Official Website: www.freesense.cn

Freesense Image is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2012. Developer of machine vision system and industrial artificial intelligence technology designed to provide machine vision inspection. The company provides solutions for machine vision inspection, optical inspection, process control measurement, electrical performance testing, electrostatic protection and product quality process monitoring.

Active Investors:

• Beyond Fund(beyondfund.com)
• Ditoo Investment(www.ditoo.cc)
• Fengying Capital(www.fengying.cc)
• Shanghai Venture Capital(www.shvc.com.cn)

Competitors: No competitors found

68. Toolots – Total Raised $20.9 million

Official Website: www.toolots.com

Toolots is a Angel-Backed Industrial Supplies and Parts company founded in 2016. Owner and operator of an online factory tool marketplace intended to sell good quality manufacturing equipment at an affordable costs. The company’s platform provide a simplified way to sell online while expanding the scope of market without impeding day to day operations and allows vendors to join the network for products, enabling merchants and B2B buyers to buy their required commercial product easily.

Active Investors:

No active investors

Competitors: No competitors found

69. Trevi Systems – Total Raised $20.84 million

Official Website: www.trevisystems.com

Trevi Systems is a Venture Capital-Backed Environmental Services (B2B) company founded in 2010. Developer of a water purification technology designed to provide desalination of salt and brackish water as well as cleaning industrial and municipal wastewater.
The company’s technology uses an osmosis process that can operate at a much higher salinity than RO as well, to desalinate water at lower pressure and electrical energy than a reverse osmosis system taking advantage of a concentration gradient to pull water across a selectively permeable membrane, enabling people to have access to potable water regardless of geographic or socioeconomic barriers.

Active Investors:

• Asahi Kasei Corporate Venture Capital(www.asahikaseiventures.com)
• California Energy Commission(www.energy.ca.gov)
• U.S. Department of Energy(www.energy.gov)

Competitors:

Sylvan Source

70. Igenesisbio – Total Raised $20.52 million

Official Website: www.igenesisbio.com

Igenesisbio is a Venture Capital-Backed Diagnostic Equipment company founded in 2015. Developer and manufacturer of biosensors and related products. The company is mainly engaged in the research, development and production of police forensic equipment, medical in-vitro diagnostic equipment, nucleic acid extraction kits and more, providing high quality diagnostic and sensing equipment for medical facilities and other industries.

Active Investors:

• Shanghai Kehua Biological Engineering(www.skhb.com)
• Shenzhen Capital Group(www.szvc.com.cn)

Competitors: No competitors found

71. CRP (China) – Total Raised $20.33 million

Official Website: www.crprobot.com

CRP (China) is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2012. Developer of industrial robot and control systems designed for industrial automation. The company specializes in developing industrial automation control systems, robotic electrical solutions, and intelligent sensing systems, enabling customers to obtain cost-effective industrial robot control systems and related solutions.

Active Investors:

• Grand Yangtze Capital(www.grandyangtze.com)
• Northern Light Venture Capital(www.nlvc.com)
• Richen Capital(www.xffunds.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

72. Monarch Tractor – Total Raised $20 million

Official Website: www.monarchtractor.com

Monarch Tractor is a Venture Capital-Backed Automotive company founded in 2017. Developer of electric tractors intended to make the transition to productive, precise and sustainable farming practices. The company’s tractors run on artificial intelligence and are equipped with sensors and 360° cameras to implement, identify and eliminate plant ailments and estimate yields, enabling farmers to enhance the existing growing operations, reduce costs and increases the yield.

Active Investors:

• At One Ventures(www.atoneventures.com)
• CNH Industrial(www.cnhindustrial.com)
• Incite Ventures (Burlingame)(www.incite.org)
• Musashi Seimitsu Industry Company(www.musashi.co.jp)
• MUUS Asset Management(www.muus.com)
• VST Tillers Tractors(www.vsttractors.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

73. Kangwo Power – Total Raised $19.99 million

Official Website: www.kangwopower.com

Kangwo Power is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2010. Developer and manufacturer of diesel and natural gas engines, parts and generator units. The company develops and manufactures diesel equipment that are widely applied in industries such as generating equipment, industrial water pumps, ships, agricultural machinery, construction machinery, vehicles and special machinery, enabling industrials to improve productivity with innovative high-tech.

Active Investors:

• Everest VC(lmfvc.com)
• Guotai Junan Securities(www.gtja.com)
• Y&R Capital(itr-lab.com)
• Zhongrui Fund(www.zhongruifund.cn)

Competitors: No competitors found

74. Axine – Total Raised $19.43 million

Official Website: www.axinewater.com

Axine is a Venture Capital-Backed Environmental Services (B2B) company founded in 2010. Provider of industrial wastewater treatment services intended to facilitate on-site treatment of toxic organics in industrial wastewater. The company’s services offer wireless and remotely monitored systems that utilize advanced catalysts and electricity to oxidize pollutants to harmless trace by-product gases with zero-waste generated, enabling clients to improve wastewater system performance, increase water reuse and ensure compliance in a chemical-free manner.

Active Investors:

• Asahi Kasei Corporate Venture Capital(www.asahikaseiventures.com)
• BDC Industrial
• Clean and Energy Technology Venture Fund(www.bdc.ca/EN/bdc-capital/venture-capital/strategic-approach/Pages/energy-cleantech-venture-fund.aspx)
• Chrysalix Venture Capital(www.chrysalix.com)
• Innovate BC(www.innovatebc.ca)
• National Research Council Canada(nrc.canada.ca)
• Sustainable Development Technology Canada(www.sdtc.ca)
• The Roda Group(www.rodagroup.com)
• Western Economic Diversification Canada(www.wd-deo.gc.ca)

Competitors:

WaterTectonics, Minetek

75. Afming – Total Raised $19.42 million

Official Website: www.afming.com

Afming is a Private Equity-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2015. Manufacturer of CNC equipment and machines in China. The company’s main businesses include five-axis linkage machine tools, graphite machining centers, high-speed machining centers, and precision molds and mechanical parts processing.

Active Investors:

No active investors

Competitors: No competitors found

76. Digital Alloys – Total Raised $18.97 million

Official Website: www.digitalalloys.com

Digital Alloys is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2017. Developer of high speed, metal additive manufacturing technology that prints production quality parts at a fraction of the cost of other systems. The company’s systems have the ability to mix multiple metals in a solid part using low-cost wire as raw material that melts the wire using Joule heating which heats the wire from within, eliminating the thermodynamic bottlenecks that limit the systems allowing extremely high print speeds at very low energy, enabling manufacturers to push the limits of design and create new products at reduced costs with optimized thermal, electrical, magnetic and mechanical properties.

Active Investors:

• G20 Ventures(www.g20vc.com)
• Khosla Ventures(www.khoslaventures.com)
• Q Venture Partners(www.qventure.partners)
• The Lincoln Electric Company(www.lincolnelectric.com)

Competitors:

Xcentric Mold & Engineering, Vader Systems, The ExOne Company, MarkForged, Norsk Titanium, Sciaky Electric Welding Machines Ltd, Desktop Metal

77. McFly – Total Raised $18.84 million

Official Website: www.mcfly.com.cn

McFly is a Venture Capital-Backed Other Agriculture company founded in 2016. Provider of AI and big data service, focusing on crop and plant protection using variable spray solutions. The company’s remote sensing inversion model for agricultural crop parameters accurately monitors crop growth, pest, and disease information at the canopy and individual plant scales, enabling customers to monitor crop information in real-time.

Active Investors:

• Baidu Ventures(www.bv.ai)
• CAS Star(casstar.com.cn)
• Elevation China Capital(ecc-capital.com)
• Frees Fund(www.freesvc.com)
• GF Qianhe(qh.gf.com.cn)
• Riverhill Fund(www.riverhillfund.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

78. Klarx – Total Raised $18.49 million

Official Website: www.klarx.de

Klarx is a Venture Capital-Backed Construction and Engineering company founded in 2015. Developer of an online rental platform designed to rent construction machines. The company’s platform offers construction site equipment on rental basis and assists tenants to get right machines at low prices, enabling users to get access to a broad assortment of machines combined with GPS tracking technology for tracking construction equipment.

Active Investors:

• B&C Industrieholding(www.bcholding.at)
• ESA Business Incubation Centre Bavaria(www.esa-bic.de)
• Lukasz Gadowski(www.lukaszgadowski.com)
• Target Global(www.targetglobal.vc)

Competitors:

Neff Rental, BlueLine Rental, EquipmentShare, Dozr, Yard Club, Ahern Rentals, Contractors Equipment Center, Cooper Equipment Rentals, Sunbelt Rentals, Best Line Leasing, Molson Group, BigRentz, Sunstate Equipment Co., CRS Contractors Rental Supply, Getable, Nove, NES Rentals Holdings, We Rent It, WesternOne Rentals and Sales, Dryco

79. iOranges – Total Raised $18.36 million

Official Website: www.ioranges.cn

iOranges is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2014. Developer of precision assembly and test technology. The company provides standard automation products and flexible production line solutions to end customers in various industries including 3C electronics, automotive electronics, medical electronics, and semiconductor industry, enabling clients to have a full life cycle of industrial services through data collection and data analysis.

Active Investors:

• China V Fund(www.cvfund.cn)
• ChinaEquity Group(www.chinaequity.net)
• Future Capital Discovery Fund(www.future-cap.com)
• GGV Capital(www.ggvc.com)
• Matrix Partners China(www.matrixpartners.cn)
• Vertex Ventures China(www.vertexventures.cn)

Competitors: No competitors found

80. Krund Robotics – Total Raised $18.15 million

Official Website: www.krund.cn

Krund Robotics is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2015. Developer of a service robot designed to replace human physical activities in China. The company focuses on research and development of service robots and helps conduct various physical activities that can meet human demands, enabling clients to improve management efficiency and reduce costs.

Active Investors:

• China Merchants Securities Capital(www.newone.com.cn)
• ChinaEquity Group(www.chinaequity.net)

Competitors: No competitors found

81. Robot Phoenix – Total Raised $18.1 million

Official Website: www.robotphoenix.com

Robot Phoenix is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2012. Manufacturer and developer of industrial robots and manufacturing systems designed to provide technological solutions for enterprises in the manufacturing industry. The company’s products include controllers, visual module, and bat parallel robots, enabling manufacturing enterprises to receive assistance in the process of sorting, handling, packaging, coating, and stacking, enabling customers to increase efficiency.

Active Investors:

• China Broadband Capital Partners(www.cbc-capital.com)
• ChinaEquity Group(www.chinaequity.net)
• Chuxin Capital(www.chuxincapital.com)
• Coco Capital(www.cococapital.com.cn)
• Frees Fund(www.freesvc.com)
• Fujian Septwolves Industry Company(www.septwolves.com)
• Himile Capital(www.himilecapital.com)
• Infinity Group(www.infinity-equity.com)
• Ivy Capital(www.ivycapital.com)
• Lan Fund(www.lanfund.com.cn)
• Runzhe Capital(www.runzhe.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

82. SG Papertronics – Total Raised $17.17 million

Official Website: www.sgpapertronics.com

SG Papertronics is a Venture Capital-Backed Electronic Equipment and Instruments company founded in 2016. Developer of an onsite testing device designed to fathom brewed beer in a few minutes. The company’s patented technology tests the brewing parameters including Plato, alcohol, bitterness, calcium, magnesium and chloride, thereby helping craft breweries to get lab-grade quality control without the need for static machines or specialized lab technicians.

Active Investors:

• Noordelijke Ontwikkelings Maatschappij(www.nom.nl)
• RUG Holding(www.rugholding.nl)
• Samenwerkingsverband Noord-Nederland(www.samenwerkingsverbandnoordnederland.eu)

Competitors: No competitors found

83. SpeedBot – Total Raised $17.12 million

Official Website: www.speedbot.net

SpeedBot is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2018. Developer of vision-guided intelligent robots. The company develops vision-guided intelligent robots integrating 3D visual perception and flexible robotic control, empowering robots with smart vision and brain and developing vision-guided smart and flexible robots targeting challenging application scenarios in manufacturing, logistics, retailing, etc.

Active Investors:

• Co-Power Capital Management(www.chinacopower.com)
• Daocin Capital(www.daocin.com)
• MSA Capital(www.msacap.com)
• Turing Ventures(www.ainanjing.org.cn)

Competitors: No competitors found

84. VisionNav Robotics – Total Raised $17.09 million

Official Website: www.visionnav.cn

VisionNav Robotics is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2016. Developer of unmanned driving technology designed for industrial vehicles. The company develops unmanned universal technology to liberate global industrial vehicles, enabling businesses to improve production, and the operation and management efficiency of the warehousing link, and greatly reduce the labor cost.

Active Investors:

• Coco Capital(www.cococapital.com.cn)
• Eastern Bell Venture Capital(www.ebvc.com.cn)
• Flyfot Ventures(www.flyfot.cn)
• Innovation and Technology Fund(itf.gov.hk)
• Ivy Capital(www.ivycapital.com)
• Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group(capital.lenovo.com)
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong(cuhk.edu.hk)

Competitors: No competitors found

85. SRT Robots – Total Raised $16.76 million

Official Website: www.softrobottech.com

SRT Robots is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2016. Developer and manufacturer of flexible robotic grippers designed to provide technological solutions for enterprises in various industries. The company’s products include software gripper, pneumatic controller, and electrostatic adsoption, enabling enterprises to automate the workflow and increase efficiency.

Active Investors:

• Envision Capital (China)(www.evcap.com.cn)
• Joy Capital (Beijing)(www.joycapital.com.cn)
• Puhua Capital(www.puhuacapital.com)
• Shenzhen Capital Group(www.szvc.com.cn)
• Sinovation Ventures(www.sinovationventures.com)
• Y&R Capital(itr-lab.com)
• Yingdong Capital(www.incapital.cn)

Competitors: No competitors found

86. arculus – Total Raised $16.61 million

Official Website: www.arculus.de

arculus is a Venture Capital-Backed Business/Productivity Software company founded in 2016. Provider of modular production services intended to offer production lines built to cater to the needs of standardization. The company’s services facilitate designing and developing a modular production system whose benefits include independent work station modules, variable production orders and flexible production standards, enabling businesses to measure, create, run and predict production projects from the very idea and conceptualization to implementation and prediction of system responsiveness.

Active Investors:

• Atomico(www.atomico.com)
• La Famiglia(www.lafamiglia.vc)
• SAP.iO(www.sap.io)
• Startup Autobahn(www.startup-autobahn.com)
• TechFounders(www.techfounders.com)
• Visionaries Club(www.visionaries.vc)

Competitors: No competitors found

87. Vitibot – Total Raised $16.41 million

Official Website: www.vitibot.fr

Vitibot is a Angel-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2016. Producer of wine straddles intended to make wine making work easy. The company’s wine straddles has electric transmission power tool, gives the complete infrared vision and provides night work remote monitoring, enabling winemakers to produce fine wines.

Active Investors:

• Champagnes Charles Heidsieck(www.charlesheidsieck.com)
• EuraTechnologies(www.euratechnologies.com)
• Grand e-nov(www.grandenov.fr)
• Louis Roederer Champagne(www.louis-roederer.com)
• VITeff Innovation(www.viteff.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

88. Basil Street – Total Raised $16.35 million

Official Website: www.basilstreetpizza.com

Basil Street is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2016. Developer of a self interactive pizza vending machine designed to offer delicious pizza out of oven taste. The company’s machine uses a three-element speed oven and robotic automated delivery system, enabling employees to get an array of pizzas in a short time anywhere.

Active Investors:

No active investors

Competitors: No competitors found

89. Cryo Pur – Total Raised $16.31 million

Official Website: www.cryopur.com

Cryo Pur is a Venture Capital-Backed Gas Utilities company founded in 2015. Manufacturer of cryogenic biogas processing systems intended for biomethane liquefaction (Bio-LNG) and liquid CO2 production. The company’s biogas manufactures and designs systems for cryogenic biogas upgrading and biomethane liquefaction, flare gas recovery and natural gas microliquefaction, enabling cryogenic industry players with vital equipment and resources to optimize efficiency of their cryogenic plants and labs.

Active Investors:

• Bpifrance(www.bpifrance.fr)
• Xerys Gestion(www.xerys.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

90. Canvas – Total Raised $16.19 million

Official Website: www.canvas.build

Canvas is a Venture Capital-Backed Electronic Equipment and Instruments company founded in 2012. Developer of robotic technology designed to improve the quality of construction on infrastructure. The company’s technology is building a class of machine for construction that empowers the current workforce to be productive and free from repetitive, physically taxing and dangerous tasks, enabling the worker class to improve the quality and affordability of the places where individuals live and work while simultaneously improving the working conditions of the people who build these spaces.

Active Investors:

• Brick & Mortar Ventures(www.brickmortar.vc)
• Cthulhu Ventures(www.cthulhuventures.com)
• GettyLab(www.gettylab.com)
• Grit Ventures (San Mateo)(gritventures.com)
• Innovation Endeavors(www.innovationendeavors.com)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration(www.nasa.gov)
• Obvious Ventures(www.obvious.com)
• Otherlab(www.otherlab.com)

Competitors:

Blackboard (Educational Software), Schoology, Canvass Analytics

91. Anke Technology – Total Raised $16.18 million

Official Website: www.ankexy.com

Anke Technology is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2010. Manufacturer and provider of disaster monitoring and detection products. The company’s products include safety monitoring devices and applications for mines, highways, slopes, tunnels as well as provision of products related to geotechnical monitoring.

Active Investors:

No active investors

Competitors: No competitors found

92. Zhongsheng Optoelectronics – Total Raised $16.18 million

Official Website: www.topecsh.com

Zhongsheng Optoelectronics is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2011. Developer and manufacturer of metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) equipment. The company is engaged in the research, development and production of metal organic chemical vapor deposition equipment that are used to deposit very thin layers of atoms onto a semiconductor wafer and also provides after sales and maintenance services for their products.

Active Investors:

• CAS Star(casstar.com.cn)
• Haitong Innovation Capital Management(www.hticm.com)
• Shanghai Zhangjiang Science & Technology Venture Capital(www.zjventure.com)
• Spinnotec(www.spinnotec.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

93. Xiannongshi – Total Raised $15.89 million

Official Website: www.xiannianmi.com

Xiannongshi is a Private Equity-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2010. Manufacturer of rice milling machines intended to serve the agricultural sector in China. The company’s machines help in producing and restoring safe, nutritious healthy and fresh rice, enabling users to speed up the process of rice milling and serve the end customers in a short time span.

Active Investors:

• Colour Life Services Group Company(www.colourlife.hk)
• Guangdong Venture Capital Asset Management Company(www.investcapital.cn)
• ZSY Capital(www.zsycapital.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

94. De-Ice Technologies – Total Raised $15.52 million

Official Website: www.deice.io

De-Ice Technologies is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2015. Developer of an electric de-icing technology designed to develop ground and in-flight ice protection systems for the aerospace industry. The company’s technology generates time and cost efficiencies by replacing the incumbent on-ground chemicals with a technology that is faster, cheaper, safer and less disruptive to operations, enabling flights to move into and out of remote locations, as well as enhancing in-flight capability through eliminating bleed air.

Active Investors:

• Founder Collective(www.foundercollective.com)
• Greentown Labs(www.greentownlabs.com)
• Homebrew(www.homebrew.co)
• Intuitive Private Equity(www.intuitivepe.com)
• Mass Gov(www.mass.gov)
• Massachusetts Clean Energy Center(www.masscec.com)
• MassChallenge(www.masschallenge.org)
• MassVentures(www.mass-ventures.com)
• Natural Bridge Fund(www.naturalbridge.fund)
• Proton Enterprises(www.protonenterprises.com)
• Right Side Capital Management(www.rightsidecapital.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

95. KUBO (AI) – Total Raised $15.45 million

Official Website: hairoutech.com

KUBO (AI) is a Venture Capital-Backed Business/Productivity Software company founded in 2016. Developer of robotics and artificial algorithm intended to optimize warehousing operations. The company’s warehousing technologies leverages artificial intelligence and robotic technology to improve warehouse functions, enabling warehouse operators to improve working efficiency and automate storage functions.

Active Investors:

• 01vc(www.01vc.com)
• 5Y Capital(www.5ycap.com)
• BEST Logistics Technology(www.best-inc.com)
• Source Code Capital(www.sourcecodecap.com)
• Walden International(www.waldenintl.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

96. WeNext Technology – Total Raised $15.39 million

Official Website: www.wenext.hk

WeNext Technology is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2014. Developer of an online platform intended to provide Internet-based manufacturing services to makers and small- to mid-size enterprises (SMEs) . The company’s platform provides a flexible supply chain with clear price, 24-hour delivery and full self-service production, enabling users to increase production capacity.

Active Investors:

• CAS Investment Management(www.casim.cn)
• NIO Capital(www.niocapital.com/en)
• Oriza Holdings(www.oriza.com.cn)

Competitors: No competitors found

97. Diligent Robotics – Total Raised $15.15 million

Official Website: www.diligentrobots.com

Diligent Robotics is a Venture Capital-Backed Other Healthcare Technology Systems company founded in 2017. Developer of artificial intelligence-based robot assistants designed to support people operating in dynamic and semi-structured environments. The company’s technologies encompass a suite of artificial intelligence that can assist clinical staff with logistical tasks in everyday environments, enabling healthcare providers to spend more of their time on direct patient care, improving patient satisfaction, quality of service and safety.

Active Investors:

• Boom Capital Ventures(www.boomcap.co)
• Capital Factory(www.capitalfactory.com)
• DNX Ventures(www.dnx.vc)
• E14 Fund Management(www.e14fund.com)
• Gaingels Syndicate(www.gaingels.com)
• Georgia Tech VentureLab(www.venturelab.gatech.edu)
• Grit Ventures (San Mateo)(gritventures.com)
• National Science Foundation(www.nsf.gov)
• NEX Group(www.nex.com)
• Next Coast Ventures(www.nextcoastventures.com)
• Pathbreaker Ventures(www.pathbreakervc.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

98. Dinnar – Total Raised $15.13 million

Official Website: www.dinnar.cn

Dinnar is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2010. Developer of machine vision technology and provider of automation solutions. The company utilizes AI technology to develop machine vision that enables their intelligent machines with object recognition capabilities for their clients to achieve better precision manufacturing.

Active Investors:

• Cixing(www.ci-xing.com)
• DT Capital Partners(www.dtcap.com)
• Ocean Fortune Glory Fund Management(www.ofgfund.com)
• Source Code Capital(www.sourcecodecap.com)
• Zoy Capital(www.zycvc.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

99. LC Drives – Total Raised $15.1 million

Official Website: www.lcdrives.com

LC Drives is a Accelerator/Incubator Backed Electrical Equipment company founded in 2012. Developer of electric motors designed to revolutionize high power dense electrical machines for a wide range of industries and applications. The company’s electric motors use a patent pending technology that can be used in rugged environments, enabling oil, gas, mining, marine and other related industries to avail customized ultra-efficient electric motors and generators.

Active Investors:

• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(www.darpa.mil)
• Empire State Development(www.esd.ny.gov)
• Koch Industries(www.kochind.com)
• National Science Foundation(www.nsf.gov)
• NYSERDA(www.nyserda.ny.gov)
• St. Lawrence County IDA(www.slcida.com)
• The Tech Garden(www.thetechgarden.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

100. Bo Tsing Technology – Total Raised $15.05 million

Official Website: www.botsing.net

Bo Tsing Technology is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2017. Developer of autonomous robotic welding technology. The company’s robots utilizes laser tracking systems, memory reasoning and decision making to trace weld seams and curved surfaces and can be implemented in large scale structural and narrow space applications, reducing a welder’s exposure to unsafe/difficult work sites.

Active Investors:

• Addor Capital(www.addorcapital.com)
• Cinda Fund(www.cindafund.com/cn)
• E-Town International Investment(www.etowncapital.com)
• GSR United Capital(www.gsrunited.com)
• JC Capital(www.jkjccapital.com)
• Qihang Capital(www.zgcqh-vc.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

101. Ojjo – Total Raised $15 million

Official Website: www.ojjo.com

Ojjo is a Venture Capital-Backed Alternative Energy Equipment company founded in 2018. Developer of solar foundation system designed to optimize solar-specific load conditions. The company’s system provides an efficient use of material as the loads are resisted by the strong axes of the structure leading to a reduction in steel and optimized structural configuration, enabling businesses to minimize embedment depth and greatly reduce sub-surface risk.

Active Investors:

• Cthulhu Ventures(www.cthulhuventures.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

102. Zortrax – Total Raised $14.94 million

Official Website: www.zortrax.com

Zortrax is a Venture Capital-Backed Computers company founded in 2011. Manufacturer of 3D printers intended to achieve professional results such as top print quality and high dimensional accuracy at a reasonable price. The company’s printers produce plastic elements, shorten the time period, and cut costs in the prototyping process, enabling businesses to improve the printing and post-processing process.

Active Investors:

• Corelens(www.corelens.pl)
• Ultro(www.ultro.pl)

Competitors:

Carbon, Roboze, Type A Machines, The ExOne Company, ZMorph, MarkForged, Massivit 3D, Formlabs, Ultimaker, Model Solution, LulzBot, Desktop Metal

103. Bominwell Robotics – Total Raised $14.81 million

Official Website: www.bominwell.com

Bominwell Robotics is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2014. Developer of special robots designed to facilitate big data information and professional services. The company is dedicated to research an development of special robots and provides pipe network detection service to improve smart city operation.

Active Investors:

• China CSSC Holdings(www.csscholdings.cssc.net.cn)
• Huaruixin Capital(www.hrxasset.com)
• Leaguer Finance(www.leaguer-hr.com)
• Northern Light Venture Capital(www.nlvc.com)
• Zhengxuan Investment(www.zxholdings.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

104. Inkbit – Total Raised $14.8 million

Official Website: www.inkbit3d.com

Inkbit is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2016. Developer of a multi-material jetting platform designed to make production-ready additive manufacturing systems. The company’s platform integrates machine vision systems and artificial intelligence technologies and offers the combination of reliability, throughput, precision, and quality materials required by a factory floor, enabling businesses to eliminate the existing chasm between prototyping and manufacturing to offer rapid, on-demand manufacturing of multi-material and end-use products.

Active Investors:

• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(www.darpa.mil)
• Industria Macchine Automatiche(www.ima.it)
• MassVentures(www.mass-ventures.com)
• National Science Foundation(www.nsf.gov)
• Ocado Group(www.ocadogroup.com)
• Saint-Gobain(www.saint-gobain.com)
• Saint-Gobain NOVA(www.nova-saint-gobain.com)
• Stratasys(www.stratasys.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

105. Miso Robotics – Total Raised $14.65 million

Official Website: www.misorobotics.com

Miso Robotics is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2016. Developer of an autonomous robotic kitchen assistant designed to empower chefs to make food consistently and perfectly. The company’s product is a robotic arm that can learn from its surroundings and acquire new skills over time like flipping burgers, real-time monitoring of patties and other skills required in the kitchen, enabling restaurants to improve dining experiences, create operating efficiency and save future capital expenditure.

Active Investors:

• Acacia Research(www.acaciaresearch.com)
• Caliburger(www.caliburger.com)
• California Institute of Technology Endowment(www.caltech.edu)
• Canyon Creek Capital(www.canyoncreekcapital.com)
• Levy Restaurants(www.levyrestaurants.com)
• MAG Ventures(www.magventures.com)
• Thermal(www.thermal.co)
• Wavemaker Partners(www.wavemaker.vc)

Competitors:

Creator

106. SkyX (Media and Information Services) – Total Raised $14.5 million

Official Website: www.skyx.com

SkyX (Media and Information Services) is a Venture Capital-Backed Aerospace and Defense company founded in 2015. Developer of an industrial data management platform intended to analyze information relating to aerospace and aviation. The company’s platform allows asset operators in the energy sector to capture aerial data to develop a predictive analytics model in order to effectively protect critical infrastructure, thereby enabling commercial and government agencies to get data for inspection of midstream oil and gas, border patrol and emergency search operations.

Active Investors:

• Almond Tree Enterprise(almondtreeenterprise.com)
• Clanton Capital(clantoncapital.com)
• Drone Fund(www.dronefund.vc)
• Kuang-Chi(www.kuang-chi.com/en)
• Plug and Play Tech Center(www.plugandplaytechcenter.com)
• Tracxn Technologies(www.tracxn.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

107. Easy Go – Total Raised $14.46 million

Official Website: www.easygovm.com

Easy Go is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2015. Developer and manufacturer of smart vending machine designed to optimize self-serving retail system solutions. The company’s various types of Easy Go vending machine allows temperature adjustments and supports AliPay and WeChat Pay. The vending machines record purchasing behavior of consumers that allows operators to conduct data management, the company’s platform also integrates the needs of manufacturers, operators and suppliers with platform transactions to reduce costs.

Active Investors:

• Chengxin VC(www.chengxinvc.com.cn)

Competitors: No competitors found

108. Zhijiu – Total Raised $14.43 million

Official Website: www.zj-r.com

Zhijiu is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2013. Developer of industrial robots intended to help SMEs lower their handling costs. The company sells and leases industrial handling robots that include features such as laser navigation, obstacle avoidance, auto charging, visual identification to assist in logistic processes, enabling SMEs in the logistics industry to improve the efficiency and automate logistic processes.

Active Investors:

• Kylin Fund(www.70fund.com)
• Newsion Venture Capital(www.newsionvc.com)
• Yantai High-Tech Zone Management Committee(www.ytgxq.gov.cn)

Competitors: No competitors found

109. Polly Polymer – Total Raised $14.36 million

Official Website: www.pollypolymer.com

Polly Polymer is a Venture Capital-Backed Industrial Supplies and Parts company founded in 2017. Developer of nanotechnology used in 3D printing. The company focuses on the research and development of dental medical polymer materials and 3D printing for sports equipment, medical, consumer electronics, automobiles, and other industries, enabling clients to shorten R&D cycle and reduce R&D cost.

Active Investors:

• Beijing Century Galaxy Group(www.shijichanghe.com/class/view)
• GSR United Capital(www.gsrunited.com)
• SDIC Unity Capital(Www.sdicfof.com)
• Tech Intelligence Capital(www.bscc-bj.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

110. Youibot Robotics – Total Raised $14.32 million

Official Website: www.youibot.com

Youibot Robotics is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2017. Developer of robotics technology intended to produce auto operating robots. The company’s products include autonomous operating robots with a stand-alone control system and cluster collaboration platform, providing clients with competitive industry solutions.

Active Investors:

• C&I Capital(www.ci-capital.com)
• Innoangel Fund(www.innoangel.com)
• Lanchi Ventures(www.brv.com.cn)
• Plug and Play Tech Center(www.plugandplaytechcenter.com)
• SOSV(www.sosv.com)
• Susquehanna Asia Investments(www.sig-china.com)
• Xi’an Jiaotong University 1896 Incubator(www.xjtu1896.com)
• ZhenFund(www.zhenfund.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

111. ecoRobotix – Total Raised $13.66 million

Official Website: www.ecorobotix.com

ecoRobotix is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2011. Developer of an autonomous machine for the ecological and economical weeding of row crops, meadows and inter-cropping cultures. The company’s machine uses 20 times less herbicide due to precise detection and discriminating spraying of weeds and works up to 12 hours a day without a human operator, enabling farmers to reduce the amount of pesticides needed in crop farming.

Active Investors:

• BASF Venture Capital(www.basf-vc.de)
• Business Angels Switzerland(www.businessangels.ch)
• Capagro(www.capagro.fr)
• Fondation pour l’Innovation Technologique(www.fondation-fit.ch)
• Verve Ventures(www.verve.vc)
• Y-Parc(www.y-parc.ch)

Competitors:

Agrobot, Harvest Automation, Naïo Technologies

112. EM3 AgriServices – Total Raised $13.3 million

Official Website: www.em3agri.com

EM3 AgriServices is a Venture Capital-Backed Cultivation company founded in 2013. Provider of technology and mechanization services intended to help small and medium farmers in India to improve their yields. The company’s services focus on the elimination of the necessity of ownership by providing services and production practices that will enhance yields through a pay-per-use service model, enabling farmers to benefit from mechanized farming that are cheaper than hiring manual labor for the entire cultivation cycle.

Active Investors:

• Global Innovation Fund(www.globalinnovation.fund)
• LGT Lightstone Aspada(www.aspada.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

113. Refraction AI – Total Raised $13.3 million

Official Website: www.refraction.ai

Refraction AI is a Venture Capital-Backed Logistics company founded in 2017. Developer of an autonomous logistics robot designed to provide safe and scalable last-mile goods delivery in urban areas. The company’s robotic vehicle can navigate using camera sensors, operate in the traditional car and bike lanes and pick up goods from places like restaurants, pharmacies and grocery stores, enabling businesses to streamline and optimize mobility and deliveries.

Active Investors:

• Alumni Ventures Group(www.avgfunds.com)
• eLab Ventures(www.elabvc.com)
• Invest Detroit Ventures(investdetroit.vc)
• Invest Michigan(www.investmichigan.org)
• Osage Venture Partners(osageventurepartners.com)
• Pillar VC(www.pillar.vc)
• Service Provider Capital(www.serviceprovidercapital.com)
• Trucks Venture Capital(www.trucks.vc)

Competitors: No competitors found

114. Fox Robotics – Total Raised $13 million

Official Website: www.foxrobotics.com

Fox Robotics is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2017. Developer of self-driving forklifts intended to load and unload trailers in an automated environment. The company’s forklifts are capable of increasing workplace productivity up to two to three times and can be easily integrated into the warehouse system, enabling companies to automate their workplace while reducing environmental impacts and fund social services.

Active Investors:

• AME Cloud Ventures(www.amecloudventures.com)
• Congruent Investment Partners(www.congruentinv.com)
• Eniac Ventures(www.eniac.vc)
• La Famiglia(www.lafamiglia.vc)
• Menlo Ventures(www.menlovc.com)
• SignalFire(www.signalfire.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

115. Laserax – Total Raised $12.95 million

Official Website: www.laserax.com

Laserax is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2010. Manufacturer of a laser system designed to provide efficient, innovative and safe outcome for the most demanding industrial applications. The company’s system specializes in implementing itself for various industries and comes with an application guarantee based on the specifications need, enabling users to draw maximum benefits from the laser service tailored for their level of comfort with the technology.

Active Investors:

• Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions(dec.canada.ca/eng/index.html)
• Desjardins Capital(www.desjardinscapital.com)
• Fonds Innovexport(www.fondsinnovexport.com)
• Inno-centre(www.inno-centre.com)
• Investissement Québec(www.investquebec.com)
• IRAP(refugeerights.org)
• Sovar(www.sovar.com)

Competitors:

TYKMA, Cognex, Zebra Technologies, Panther Industries (Colorado), Control Laser, FOBA Laser Marking + Engraving, Energetiq Technology, Newport, Bruker Alicona, Banner Engineering, Rofin Sinar Technologies, ZEISS International, Sick Stegmann, Datalogic

116. Picnic (Machinery (B2B)) – Total Raised $12.55 million

Official Website: www.hellopicnic.com

Picnic (Machinery (B2B)) is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2016. Provider of a modular, easy to use, automated pizza assembly system intended to work with the recipe to top dough with precise amounts of sauce, cheese, meat, and veggies, and sends them directly to the oven. The company’s system makes consistent, delicious pizza with lower food waste requiring a fraction of the labor, reducing human contact with food ingredients for superior safety and cleanliness standards.

Active Investors:

• Alliance of Angels(www.allianceofangels.com)
• Alumni Ventures Group(www.avgfunds.com)
• Baseline Growth Capital(baselinegrowthcapital.com)
• Creative Ventures(www.creativeventures.vc)
• Draper Associates(www.draper.vc)
• Flight Ventures(www.flight.vc)
• Flying Fish Partners(www.flyingfish.vc)
• Heda Ventures(www.hedaventures.com)
• Hemisphere Ventures(www.hemisphere.com)
• Vulcan Capital(capital.vulcan.com)
• Wisemont Capital(www.wisemontcapital.com)

Competitors:

Miso Robotics, Chowbotics

117. Path Robotics – Total Raised $12.5 million

Official Website: www.path-robotics.com

Path Robotics is a Venture Capital-Backed Electrical Equipment company founded in 2014. Manufacturer of welding robots designed to autonomously find and weld seams. The company’s product includes robots that eliminates long hours of production time, improve testing, tolerances and inconsistencies that cause crashes or scrap, as well as checks the parts and builds the tool paths for every part or parts introduced, enabling industries to simplify and improve the production process.

Active Investors:

• Basis Set Ventures(www.basisset.ventures)
• Comeback Capital(www.comeback.vc)
• Creative Ventures(www.creativeventures.vc)
• Drive Capital(www.drivecapital.com)
• Eudaimonia Capital(eudaimoniacapital.com)
• LaunchTown Entrepreneurship Award(launchtown.com)
• Lemnos(www.lemnos.vc)
• Xplorer Capital(www.xplorer.vc)

Competitors: No competitors found

118. Linear Labs (Electrical Equipment) – Total Raised $12.35 million

Official Website: www.linearlabsinc.com

Linear Labs (Electrical Equipment) is a Venture Capital-Backed Electrical Equipment company founded in 2013. Manufacturer of electric motors and generators intended to create more power while using less energy. The company’s motors are equipped with new technologies which help to produce torque up to an 8:1 gear ratio for the same size permanent magnet machine used today, enabling customers to lower electric application costs by reducing component, raw material costs as well as assembly costs while increasing motor efficiency.

Active Investors:

• Alumni Ventures Group(www.avgfunds.com)
• Champion Hill Labs(www.championhilllabs.com)
• Duke Angel Network(www.dukeangelnetwork.duke.edu)
• Kindred Ventures(www.kindredventures.com)
• Lowercarbon Capital(www.lowercarboncapital.com)
• Moving Capital(www.movingcapital.com)
• Saltwater Capital(www.saltwater.com)
• Science(www.science-inc.com)
• TECH Fort Worth(www.techfortworth.org)

Competitors:

Ohio Electric Motors

119. Promobot – Total Raised $12.14 million

Official Website: www.promo-bot.ru

Promobot is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2013. Developer and manufacturer of service robots designed to assist people with navigation, queries and translation. The company’s robots are humanoid machines that are capable of understanding live speech, answering queries and hold conversations, memorize dialogues and recognize people, enabling businesses to save on hiring costs, improve quality of their service, increase visitor loyalty, optimize efficiency and increase productivity.

Active Investors:

• Foundation for Internet Development-Initiatives(www.iidf.ru)
• Russian Venture Company(www.rvc.ru)
• Skolkovo Foundation(www.sk.ru/foundation/about)
• VEB Innovations(www.innoveb.ru)
• VentureOutNY(www.ventureoutny.com)
• Vostok Ventures (Russia)(www.vostokventures.ru)

Competitors: No competitors found

120. Harvest CROO Robotics – Total Raised $12.09 million

Official Website: www.harvestcroo.com

Harvest CROO Robotics is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2013. Developer of an agricultural robotics designed to revolutionize the agriculture industry with automation. The company’s robotic technology includes a strawberry picker and other automated equipment which can be used for harvesting process, enabling agricultural industries to save time and money and increase prodcution.

Active Investors:

• California Giant
• Inc.(www.calgiant.com)
• Central West Produce(www.centralwestproduce.com)
• Driscoll’s(www.driscolls.com)
• iSelect Fund(www.iselectfund.com)
• National Science Foundation(www.nsf.gov)
• Naturipe Farms(naturipefarms.com)
• Omphalos Venture Partners(www.omphalosventures.net)
• Wishnatzki(wishfarms.com)

Competitors:

Traptic, Agrobot, Advanced Farm Technologies

121. Square Robot – Total Raised $12.08 million

Official Website: www.squarerobots.com

Square Robot is a Corporate Backed or Acquired Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2016. Developer of a robotic platform designed to inspect the presence of submerged oil and gas. The company’s platform designs and develops autonomous technologies focused on the area of robotic inspection, enabling petrochemical industries to enhance the value chain for confined space inspection with increased safety and minimum human risk.

Active Investors:

No active investors

Competitors: No competitors found

122. Levitate Technologies – Total Raised $12 million

Official Website: www.levitatetech.com

Levitate Technologies is a Angel-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2013. Developer of a wearable exoskeleton designed to reduce upper extremity muscle and joint strain and discomfort while at work. The company’s wearable exoskeleton transfers weight of the arm off of the wearer’s shoulder, neck and upper back and disperse it safely to the core body combined with moving seamlessly with the user without limiting motion or dexterity, enabling companies to reduce injury risk of employees.

Active Investors:

No active investors

Competitors: No competitors found

123. SwarmFarm Robotics – Total Raised $11.94 million

Official Website: www.swarmfarm.com

SwarmFarm Robotics is a Venture Capital-Backed Other Agriculture company founded in 2012. Developer of autonomous robotics technologies intended to promote efficient and sustainable agriculture. The company offers collision-avoiding robots that can replace large tractors and sprayers and can spray on crops with accuracy, while also being used in mowing and slashing applications, on turf farms and in between orchard rows, enabling farmers to avoid the problem of a rural labour shortage.

Active Investors:

• Artesian Capital Management(www.artesianinvest.com)
• Australian Research Council(arc.gov.au)
• Elders(www.elders.com.au)
• Queensland Government(advance.qld.gov.au)
• Tenacious Ventures(www.tenacious.ventures)

Competitors: No competitors found

124. HyperSciences – Total Raised $11.64 million

Official Website: www.hypersciences.com

HyperSciences is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2014. Developer of a geothermal drilling technology designed to create better solutions for tunneling, energy, and transportation operations. The company’s technology uses low-cost chemical energy to accelerate consumable projectiles to hypersonic velocities to increase the rate of penetration, thereby enabling multilateral businesses to reach untapped geothermal resources in a cost-effective manner.

Active Investors:

• Alliance of Angels(www.allianceofangels.com)
• Cowles Company(www.cowlescompany.com)
• Kickstart Seed Fund(www.kickstartfund.com)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration(www.nasa.gov)
• Royal Dutch Shell(www.shell.com)
• Scott Belsky(www.scottbelsky.com)
• The Toolbox(www.toolboxnw.com)
• The W Fund(www.thewfund.com)
• WRF Capital(wrfseattle.org/startup-investments)

Competitors: No competitors found

125. Cloud&Heat – Total Raised $11.55 million

Official Website: www.cloudandheat.com

Cloud&Heat is a Venture Capital-Backed Systems and Information Management company founded in 2011. Provider of server units intended to deliver a complete, fully-integrated service for data and cloud infrastructure. The company’s units are designed for advanced security and scalability based on water-cooled hardware technology to meet digital demands, enabling clients to receive cost-effective information technology infrastructure.

Active Investors:

• ETF Partners(www.etfpartners.capital)
• Fysis Fund SICAV-SIF(www.fysisfund.eu)
• Inven Capital(www.invencapital.cz)
• VNG Innovation(www.vng-innovation.de)

Competitors: No competitors found

126. Verdant Robotics – Total Raised $11.5 million

Official Website: www.verdantrobotics.com

Verdant Robotics is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2018. Developer of mobile autonomous agricultural robotics designed for high-value specialty crops. The company’s core technology combines computer vision, artificial intelligence and automated robotics to empower grower results and improve agricultural yields, enabling farmers to understand every part of every plant at massive scale.

Active Investors:

• AgFunder(www.agfunder.com)
• Autotech Ventures(www.autotechvc.com)
• Cavallo Ventures(www.cavallovc.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

127. Vartega – Total Raised $11.27 million

Official Website: www.vartega.com

Vartega is a Venture Capital-Backed Environmental Services (B2B) company founded in 2014. Operator of a carbon fiber recycling company intended to offer low-cost carbon fiber for use in mass-market applications. The company’s system uses chemistry-based technology and hardware to divert thousand tons of high-value carbon fiber scrap and waste from landfill and incineration, enabling automotive and aerospace industries to improve vehicle fuel economy and reduce greenhouse gas emission by millions of pounds each year.

Active Investors:

• Arizona Tech Investors(www.arizonatechinvestors.com)
• BELLE Impact Fund(www.bellefunds.com)
• Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade(www.choosecolorado.com)
• E8(www.e8angels.com)
• Frontier Angels(www.frontierangels.com)
• Imperative (Pasadena)(www.imperativefunds.com)
• Innosphere(www.innosphere.org)
• National Science Foundation(www.nsf.gov)
• Plug and Play Tech Center(www.plugandplaytechcenter.com)
• Right Side Capital Management(www.rightsidecapital.com)
• Rockies Venture Club(www.rockiesventureclub.org)

Competitors:

Carbon Fiber Recycle Industry, Shocker Composites, Carbon Conversions, ELG Carbon Fibre, Zoltek Companies, CFK Valley Stade Recycling

128. Sterilis Medical – Total Raised $11.25 million

Official Website: www.sterilissolutions.com

Sterilis Medical is a Angel-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2011. Manufacturer of a medical waste sterilization machine designed to safely dump and sterilize medical wastes and convert them into recyclable materials. The company’s medical waste sterilization machine autoclaves, sterilizes and grinds medical waste and rendering it acceptable for disposal in regular trash, enabling health centers, dialysis centers, surgery centers and nursing homes to sterilize medical wastes and convert them into recyclable materials.

Active Investors:

• Wasson Enterprise(www.wassonenterprise.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

129. Aurelia (Alternative Energy Equipment) – Total Raised $11.14 million

Official Website: www.aureliaturbines.com

Aurelia (Alternative Energy Equipment) is a Venture Capital-Backed Alternative Energy Equipment company founded in 2013. Manufacturer of two-stage gas turbines designed to generate steam. The company utilizes IRG2-process and it manufactures efficient gas turbines for the benefit of end-customers around the world to reduce their operating costs, improve their performance, and protect the environment and its turbines have a capacity of 450 kW, enabling small and medium-sized industries to generate electricity from steam.

Active Investors:

• Besodos Investors(www.besodos.fi)
• First Imagine! Ventures(www.firstimagine.com)
• Green Campus Innovations(www.greencampusinnovations.fi)
• Loudspring(www.loudspring.earth)

Competitors: No competitors found

130. Moleaer – Total Raised $11 million

Official Website: www.moleaer.com

Moleaer is a Venture Capital-Backed Electrical Equipment company founded in 2016. Developer and manufacturer of nanobubble generators designed to deliver and ensure sustainable and chemical-free water quality improvement. The company leverages nanobubble technology and offers industrial-scale generators for applications and improvements in farming, horticulture, lake and pond aquatic management, water treatment and the recovery of natural resources, enabling clients to recover valuable resources and industries to treat water using less energy.

Active Investors:

• Cibus Fund(www.cibusfund.com)
• Energy Innovation Capital(www.energyinnovationcapital.com)
• Rusheen Capital Management(www.rusheen.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

131. RISE Robotics – Total Raised $10.91 million

Official Website: www.riserobotics.com

RISE Robotics is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2011. Manufacturer of a linear actuator intended to replace hydraulic cylinder systems. The company’s actuator uses carbon fibers that supercharge human motion with performance-enhancing equipment powered by spring technology, create the push-and-pull movements in the mechanisms of heavy machinery which are essential for lifting and loading materials across many industries, enabling clients to get motor-to-movement services from sea to space.

Active Investors:

• Greentown Labs(www.greentownlabs.com)
• Iron Yard Ventures(www.ironyardventures.com)
• Reed Sturtevant(www.sturtevant.com/contact)
• Techstars(www.techstars.com)
• The Engine(www.engine.xyz)

Competitors: No competitors found

132. Hive Farm – Total Raised $10.85 million

Official Website: www.hivefarm.com.cn

Hive Farm is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2015. Developer of drones designed for efficient crop protection activities. The company’s drones allow systematic cluster operation, use sustainable energy for battery, and easy monitoring, enabling farm owners to spray pesticide with efficiency and precision.

Active Investors:

• Gobi Ventures(www.gobivc.com)
• JD Digits(jddglobal.com)
• Tendence Capital(www.tendencevc.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

133. Peregrine Turbine – Total Raised $10.78 million

Official Website: www.peregrineturbine.com

Peregrine Turbine is a Angel-Backed Alternative Energy Equipment company founded in 2012. Developer of an advanced turbine technology designed to offer power and thermal management. The company’s technology specializes in the development of a new turbine engine based on a novel cycle concept that utilizes Super Critical Carbon Dioxide and provides it for a unique heat or energy recapturing technique, enabling companies to achieve thermal efficiencies for a primary cycle turbine engine.

Active Investors:

• Maine Technology Institute(www.mainetechnology.org)
• United States Department of Defense(www.defense.gov)

Competitors: No competitors found

134. AMT PostPro – Total Raised $10.59 million

Official Website: www.amtechnologies.com

AMT PostPro is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2015. Developer of automated post-processing technology intended for scaling up additive manufacturing facilities into high volume production lines. The company offers connected digital technology solutions for the post-processing of 3D Printed polymer parts, enabling clients to reduce lead time and manufacturing costs.

Active Investors:

• Foresight Group(www.foresightgroup.eu)
• Innovate UK(www.gov.uk/government/organisations/innovate-uk)
• Mercia Asset Management(www.mercia.co.uk)
• Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund(www.npif.co.uk)

Competitors: No competitors found

135. Tesalys – Total Raised $10.57 million

Official Website: www.tesalys.fr

Tesalys is a Private Equity-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2012. Manufacturer of a waste material recycling equipment designed to treat biomedical waste. The company’s equipments are offered to laboratories, hemodialysis centers, hospitals and medical facilities for treatment of bio-contaminated waste materials, enabling clients to reuse waste materials.

Active Investors:

• Entrepreneur Invest(www.entrepreneurinvest.com)
• iXO Private Equity(www.ixope.fr)
• Languedoc-Roussillon Region(www.laregion.fr)
• Sigma Gestion(www.sigmagestion.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

136. Byte Technology – Total Raised $10.54 million

Official Website: www.bytetechnology.co

Byte Technology is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2012. Developer of smart food vending machines intended to provide fresh food and beverage options around the clock. The company’s systems stores serve fresh, healthy meals and snacks 24 hours a day, lets food producers provide instant access to their fresh food through small footprint unattended stores, enabling retailers and restaurants to provide access to fresh food at all times.

Active Investors:

• 808 Ventures(www.808ventures.vc)
• Alchemist Accelerator(www.alchemistaccelerator.com)
• Arsenal Growth(www.arsenalgrowth.com)
• Bessemer Venture Partners(www.bvp.com)
• Better Food Ventures(www.betterfoodventures.com)
• Bolt Innovation Group(www.bolt.io)
• DFE Capital Management(www.dfecm.com)
• HWH Hospitality Investments(www.hwh.ae)
• Lemnos(www.lemnos.vc)

Competitors: No competitors found

137. ICR Turbine Engine – Total Raised $10.5 million

Official Website: www.icrtec.com

ICR Turbine Engine is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2010. Developer of a gas turbine engine designed to replace diesel engines in mobile and stationary applications. The company’s engine uses ceramics and serves for heavy-duty truck transportation, oil and gas production and data centers, enabling clients to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and promote the usage of environment friendly energy sources.

Active Investors:

• New Venture Partners(www.nvpllc.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

138. Jishi Gezi – Total Raised $10.29 million

Official Website: www.akedj.com

Jishi Gezi is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2018. Developer of smart retail equipment for hotels. The company’s smart vending machines are developed with IoT and AI analysis system, helping hotels to improve room services and generate more revenue.

Active Investors:

No active investors

Competitors: No competitors found

139. Ichthion – Total Raised $10.02 million

Official Website: www.ichthion.com

Ichthion is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2017. Developer of a technology designed to remove volumes of plastic from rivers and oceans. The company’s technology offers an energy-generative system that can be installed in rivers, coastal areas, and oceans to reduce the flow of plastics, thereby enabling clients to keep the water clean from hazardous plastic material.

Active Investors:

• Addidi(www.addidi.com)
• ClearlySo(www.clearlyso.com)
• Innovate UK(www.gov.uk/government/organisations/innovate-uk)
• Katapult Ocean(www.katapultocean.com)

Competitors: No competitors found

140. Clarentis Technologies – Total Raised $10 million

Official Website: www.clarentistechnologies.com

Clarentis Technologies is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2010. Manufacturer of non-toxic disinfectant and anti-microbial devices created to generate high-quality, pure and effective green sanitizing and disinfection. The company’s products kill common bacteria across a broad spectrum of applications and also eradicate antibiotic-resistant strains of the virulent pathogens found around the globe, thus enabling industrial businesses to reduce the number of chemicals that they use in purification.

Active Investors:

No active investors

Competitors: No competitors found

141. Full Spectrum Laser – Total Raised $10 million

Official Website: www.fslaser.com

Full Spectrum Laser is a Private Equity-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2010. Manufacturer and retailer of laser equipment. The company designs and produces a range of consumer and industrial grade laser cutters, 3D printers, mechanical hardware and chemistry in-house for integration of engineering disciplines.

Active Investors:

• Summer Street Capital Partners(www.summerstreetcapital.com)

Competitors:

Glowforge

142. Kitov.ai – Total Raised $10 million

Official Website: www.kitov.ai

Kitov.ai is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2014. Developer of an AI-based automated visual inspection system designed to find defects that are often missed by human inspectors while providing powerful insights that help boost quality and operational efficiency. The company’s system leverages computer vision, artificial intelligence capabilities including deep learning, advanced robotics, and big data analytics, enabling industrial manufacturers to reduce manufacturing costs, eliminate inefficiencies and improve quality without the need for any programming or automation expertise.

Active Investors:

• GiTV(www.gitv.vc)
• Hahn Group(www.hahnag.de)
• RAG-Stiftung(www.rag-stiftung.de)

Competitors: No competitors found

143. NuMilk – Total Raised $10 million

Official Website: www.numilk.com

NuMilk is a Venture Capital-Backed Machinery (B2B) company founded in 2017. Manufacturer milk vending machines intended to produce any type of plant-based milk. The company’s machines produce almond milk without any preservatives or fillers that have five grams of protein and three grams of fiber, vitamin E and calcium, enabling consumers to drink fresh vegan milk.

Active Investors:

• FusionX Ventures(www.fusionxventures.com)
• Groundswell Ventures(www.groundswell-ventures.com)
• Stray Dog Capital(www.straydogcapital.com)
• Westlake International Group(www.westlakeinternational.com)

Competitors: No competitors found