36 Best Hardware Startups in San Francisco to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Hardware Startups in San Francisco

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There are 36 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $1.7b. The average funding per company in this subset is $48.6m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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$230.0m

Money raised

Humane develops and commercializes consumer hardware, software, and services.

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$217.2m

Money raised

Density is a San Francisco-based company building a people-counting system to measure the number of people in or passing through a physical space such as a hallway, lobby, or conference hall.

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$3.4m

Money raised

Chai Biotechnologies (also known as Chai and Chai Bio) is a biotechnology company building real-time PCR, qPCR and devices that detect pathogens, speciate meat and genotype DNA.

6

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$30.0m

Money raised

Rain AI is a company developing a new AI compute platform by co-designing every layer of the AI stack.

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$13.7m

Money raised

Petcube is a technology company designing and developing hardware and software products for pets.

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Funding Rounds

$18.7m

Money raised

Creator is the developer of a robotic burger maker.

7

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$128.9m

Money raised

Dredrone is an airspace security platform that detects, classifies, and mitigates drone threats.

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An inventory financing platform. It was founded in 2014 and is located in San Francisco, California.

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$56.5m

Money raised

Indiegogo is a web-based crowdfunding platform founded by Danae Ringelmann, Salva Rubin, Eric Schell in 2008, that is headquartered San Francisco, California.

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Funding Rounds

$92.8m

Money raised

Skycatch is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2013 by Christian Sanz.

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$47.3m

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Sofar builds ocean sensing and exploration tools for ocean enthusiasts, industry, and conservation. Products include the Spotter weather buoy and Trident underwater drone.

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$7.6m

Money raised

Lightform is a U.S-based company developing AR hardware and software founded in 2014 by Brett Jones, Raj Sodhi and Kevin Karsch.

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Funding Rounds

$18.2m

Money raised

Sproutling is a company founded in 2012 by Chris Bruce.

6

Funding Rounds

$65.9m

Money raised

Qualio developed a SaaS quality management platform that provides scalable quality management services for life sciences companies.

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Funding Rounds

$193.5m

Money raised

Particle Industries, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company.

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$2.4m

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Proxy42 provides modern digital entertainment.

4

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$29.6m

Money raised

Shaper (company) is a robotics company.

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$11.0m

Money raised

SKULLY is a San Francisco-based company.

3

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$104.8m

Money raised

EcoFlow is a mobile power company that is reinventing the way the world accesses energy.

4

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$183.0m

Money raised

Fictiv is a San Francisco-based company.

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Funding Rounds

$101.8m

Money raised

Willow is a Mountain View, Calif.-based company and developer of an in-bra wearable breast pump.

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Robomart is a company that operates as the first self-driving store in the world.

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$74.6m

Money raised

Tempo Automation is a software-driven factory using data, analytics and automation for prototyping in hardware development environments to manufacture printed circuit board assemblies.

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$3.7m

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Water filter service providing a stylish glass carafe and advanced water filters.

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$56.3m

Money raised

Skip Scooters is an electric scooter rental startup, headquartered in San Francisco.

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Funding Rounds

$2.4m

Money raised

Shasta Crystals, Inc. is a hardware company that manufactures laser crystals and nonlinear optical crystals for infrared/medical lasers.

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Funding Rounds

$1.6m

Money raised

Praan creates hyperlocal clean air zones within your open areas on corporate campuses, schools, universities, hotels, hospitals, residential complexes, malls, industrial areas, and more!

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Funding Rounds

$15.3m

Money raised

Platform enabling convenient and affordable flying comparable to driving.

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$3.6m

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Flying camera captures photos and videos in real-time.

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$7.0m

Money raised

Solo AVT is a trucking platform founded in 2021.

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Funding Rounds

$154.0k

Money raised

Somewear is a San Francisco-based company.

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Funding Rounds

$4.6m

Money raised

Zeepro is a company founded by Philippe Guglielmetti.

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Funding Rounds

$12.0m

Money raised

Flux offers a collaborative, cloud-based platform for hardware design.

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Droplet Inc. is an internet software infrastructure company founded by Steve Fernholz.

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$300.0k

Money raised

Vivanta is a the API to access digital biomarkers.

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$10.0m

Money raised

Revolutionary micro-sized and eco-friendly AC/DC & DC/DC power converters - inductive and capacitive wireless charging & data technologies

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