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Recently Funded Hardware Startups in San Francisco

Updated Aug 2026

There are 76 funded Hardware startups in San Francisco in the FundedIQ database, each with its funding rounds, amounts, investors, industries, locations and company details. This page provides an overview of the Hardware startup funding landscape in San Francisco, along with the 76 most recently funded Hardware startups in San Francisco.

The median disclosed round is $5.8M, with the middle half of rounds falling between $500K and $78M. Hardware startups in San Francisco closed 34 funding rounds over the last 24 months, 16 of them in the last 12 months, and raised $2.3B in disclosed capital.

San Francisco hardware activity centers on early stage ventures. Pre-Seed and Seed labels dominate, meaning the sector consists mainly of lean teams. This concentration of early companies creates a market of unproven prototypes and small headcounts. Sourcing here means identifying founders before they scale or reach late stage maturity.

Hardware funded startup statistics in San Francisco

Funded Hardware startups in San Francisco
76
tracked in the database
Funding rounds, last 12 months
16
34 over 24 months
Disclosed capital raised, 24 months
$2.3B
30 of 34 rounds disclosed an amount
Median round size
$5.8M
middle half $500K to $78M

Most recent funding round on record: Jun 2026.

76 most recently funded Hardware startups in San Francisco

76 shown

Ordered by the date of the latest funding round. Each row gives the company, its location and industry, what it does, the stage and date of that round, and the disclosed amount.

P
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Prime Data Centers offers purpose-built data center development with unique customer partnership options and…
Series Unknown ·
$900M
M
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Memory Store is a platform that offers a shared memory storage space for office teams and workforce.
Pre-Seed ·
$500k
V
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
vfrog is developer infrastructure for physical AI. Small robotics teams lose most of their engineering time…
Pre-Seed ·
$150k
A
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Astranis is a company that creates innovative satellite technology to send data directly to chosen locations…
Series E ·
$300M
R
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Render provides a cloud platform for developers and teams to host various applications and websites. The…
Series C ·
$100M
U
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Upwind Cloud Security Platform bridges intelligence from runtime to build-time, eliminating friction &…
Series B ·
$250M
O
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Olelo Intelligence uses AI-enabled voice analytics to provide targeted sales guidance to automotive repair…
Angel ·
$1.0M
C
Cerulion
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Cerulion is a Robotics Engineering firm that manufactures and provide operating system for robots.
Seed ·
Undisclosed
A
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
ASR builds the core technology for adaptive, intelligent robotics, streamlining the journey from concept to…
Series Unknown ·
$0k
K
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Kargo is a technology company that provides an AI-driven platform combining hardware and software to automate…
Series B ·
$42M
D
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Drift is fully aware of the computer's simulation environment and has access to all of the tools required to…
Pre-Seed ·
$400k
T
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Tensr specializes in the creation of autonomous robotic factories.
Pre-Seed ·
$500k
F
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Farcast is a satellite tech company that builds advanced satcom user terminals.
Series Unknown ·
$5.0M
I
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
InCountry is a data residency-as-a-service platform that enables global data compliance for international…
Venture - Series Unknown ·
$10M
N
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Normal Factory automates hardware certification and testing to reduce compliance effort across standards like…
Pre-Seed ·
$500k
S
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Swift Navigation is a tech company that offers accurate positioning solutions for advanced automotive…
Series E ·
$50M
A
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Akash Systems primarily specializes in creating and providing advanced technology for small satellites,…
Series Unknown ·
$2.8M
D
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Securing Terraform deployments
Seed ·
$3.6M
I
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
We design computer hardware for Integrated Reasoning to efficiently solve optimization problems, making it…
Seed ·
$1.9M
T
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
The Bot Company is a startup that specializes in household robots.
Series Unknown ·
$150M
I
Instinct
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Seed ·
Undisclosed
I
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Pre-Seed ·
$500k
A
Amplium
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Pre-Seed ·
Undisclosed
P
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Pakal Technologies specializes in IGTO-based semiconductors which are aimed at transforming the IGBT…
Series B ·
$25M
L
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Loft Orbital operates microsatellites and flies customer payloads, as a service. Loft Orbital offers an…
Series C ·
$170M
G
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Gigs is a telecom-as-a-service solution that provides wireless subscriptions for smartphones and wearables.…
Series B ·
$73M
B
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Bifrost Orbital is building relay infrastructure in low Earth orbit to provide always-on, continuous…
Seed ·
$450k
E
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
At Elroy Air our mission is to improve quality of life around the planet by expanding the reach of expedited…
Series Unknown ·
$6.6M
O
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Orbital Sidekick (OSK) is helping companies meet their sustainable operation goals by creating the most…
Series Unknown ·
$8.6M
R
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
AI-powered industrial automation marketplace and platform that simplifies the discovery, design, deployment,…
Seed ·
$5.0M
P
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Pesto is the digitally native, authentically human workplace. In Pesto, teammates build avatars and then…
Series Unknown ·
$8.2M
P
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Pivot Robots uses standard robots and vision sensors along with their innovative AI vision control software…
Seed ·
Undisclosed
T
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Transcend simplifies data privacy for companies by allowing users to control their personal data, which is…
Series B ·
$40M
P
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Patchwork assists the team by offering advanced AI communication tools and serving as a substitute for Slack.
Pre-Seed ·
$500k
U
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Ubicloud, an open source cloud platform, can be utilized in any location and provides users with the option…
·
$16M
A
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Arch is building the System of Intelligence for the sales, design, and financing of home electrification.
Seed ·
$6.2M
P
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Polycam is a 3D creation tool company that develops a sensor app to capture 3D scans of objects. Its tool for…
Series A ·
$18M
K
Kubezy
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Kubezy is a next-generation cloud operator that creates technologies to help service providers and businesses…
Series Unknown ·
Undisclosed
F
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Formant is an infrastructure for monitoring and managing robot fleets in which companies can keep track of…
Series A ·
$21M
M
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Middleware is a cloud observability platform that is supported by Y Combinator and is changing the way…
Seed ·
$6.5M
O
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Orangewood Labs aims to make robots more accessible by creating robotic arms specifically designed for small…
Series Unknown ·
$4.5M
S
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Sourcetable is a platform that allows users to connect, synchronize, and search all the information in a…
Seed ·
$3.0M
C
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of…
Seed ·
$5.0M
G
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Golioth provides turnkey IoT cloud services with unmatched levels of choice in what matters most to hardware…
Seed ·
$4.6M
W
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Our hard-tech IoT platform, Meadow, has been developed to enable average web and mobile developers to create…
Seed ·
$3.3M
T
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
While saving customers money on utility bills, food inventory loss, and human error, Therma° Cooling…
Series A ·
$19M
R
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Making robots to aid in the construction of the physical infrastructure of the world Affiliations: - Autodesk…
Pre-Seed ·
$2.2M
S
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Scenario is a developer of application modeling 3D objects for the metaverse. This technology makes and…
Seed ·
$6.0M
S
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Somewear’s software platform and satellite-powered hardware enable commercial and government teams to…
Series A ·
$14M
G
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Goldsky empowers developers to quickly spin up realtime APIs using data stored on Ethereum and other networks.
Seed ·
$20M
N
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
NeuroTrainer empowers competitors - and at last anybody - to prepare an alternate way. Our computer generated…
Grant ·
$100k
P
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Petra is a Robotics organization that centers exclusively around underground utilities. Petra empowers…
Venture - Series Unknown ·
Undisclosed
S
SafeBeat Rx
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
SafeBeat Rx replaces a hospitalization with a bring back home unit that consolidates FDA-endorsed wearables…
Non-equity Assistance ·
Undisclosed
F
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Fictiv is a Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem that delivers custom mechanical parts at unprecedented speeds…
Series E ·
$100M
R
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Remio delivers a pre-configured VR headset to each team member and hosts the entire team for fun…
Seed ·
$4.5M
K
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Kargo's mission is to build connective tissue between the physical world of freight and the digital ecosystem…
Series A ·
$25M
M
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
MerkleBot trustless robotics data-capture infrastructure unlocking new business models and compliance…
Non-equity Assistance ·
$100k
E
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Electric Sheep Robotics provides robotics and machinery solutions to industries needing mechanized solutions.
Series A ·
$22M
W
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Wilder World is a community-owned, fully decentralized, liquid NFT market and social platform with no artist…
Venture - Series Unknown ·
$30M
M
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
MetaMap is the digital trust and reputation layer that powers borderless services worldwide. By providing new…
Series B ·
$70M
M
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
ManageXR is an enterprise device management platform designed for VR and AR devices. Using ManageXR, admins…
Seed ·
$4.0M
I
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
ixlayer is an industry leader in the health-tech ecosystem, providing innovative solutions for enabling…
Venture - Series Unknown ·
$100k
W
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
WorkPatterns is a platform that helps improve team communication and accountability. The company's platform…
Venture - Series Unknown ·
$100k
P
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
PlusIdentity is a password manager that can be integrated across different startup tools. With PlusIdentity,…
Pre-Seed ·
$100k
R
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Rapid Robotics provides box automation for manufacturers. Its Rapid Machine Operator (RMO) enables…
Series B ·
$37M
F
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
FOVE offers an eye tracking head mount display. Dive into virtual worlds that know where you are looking,…
Venture - Series Unknown ·
$1.0M
L
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Leap is a social learning community that connects writers, storytellers, and creatives via conversations and…
Seed ·
$3.1M
R
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Robocorp is a cloud platform for robotic process automation (RPA) and open source RPA tools. Robocorp’s RPA…
·
$21M
N
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Nylas provides an API platform that enables developers to quickly and securely access and process user data…
·
$120M
M
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Multiply Labs manufactures personalized pharmaceutical capsules that are tailor-made to the unique needs of…
Series A ·
$20M
P
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Pico Interactive focuses on developing innovative VR technology solutions. With operations in the United…
Series B ·
$37M
H
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
HOVER is developing the most accurate and usable data set of physical property available to deliver a simpler…
·
$60M
V
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Vectrix security scans are the fastest and easiest way for engineers and growing security teams to scan their…
·
$2.0M
R
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Ravacan is an analytics and collaboration platform for industrial buyers and their suppliers.
·
$1.6M
J
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
Jamm is a lightweight, spontaneous voice and video collaboration app for remote teams. The app enables…
·
$1.8M
H
San Francisco, United States · Hardware
HashiCorp is an open-source software company based in San Francisco, California. HashiCorp provides open…
·
$175M

Funding stages of funded Hardware startups in San Francisco

How the last 24 months of funding rounds for funded Hardware startups in San Francisco break down by stage.

Stage
Rounds, last 24 months

A further 9 rounds in this period were announced without a stage label and are not ranked above.

About the FundedIQ Hardware startup funding data in San Francisco

FundedIQ tracks announced startup funding rounds and organises them by company, funding date, stage, amount, industry, location and investor. The dataset is refreshed weekly, and new rounds are normalised and de-duplicated before they are published, so the same round reported twice on different dates is recorded once.

Figures on this page cover the 76 funded Hardware startups in San Francisco currently tracked. Round counts, capital totals and the median round are computed over a trailing 24 months. Rounds whose amount was not disclosed (4 of 34 in that period) are counted as rounds but excluded from capital totals and from the median. The most recent round on record for funded Hardware startups in San Francisco is dated Jun 2026.

The table above shows the 76 most recently funded companies. Full funding histories, investor lists and founder contacts across the whole dataset open on a FundedIQ plan.

Frequently asked questions

How many funded Hardware startups are there in San Francisco?

FundedIQ tracks 76 funded Hardware startups in San Francisco. This page lists the 76 most recently funded of them, ordered by the date of their latest round, and the full set is available on a FundedIQ plan.

How much funding have Hardware startups in San Francisco raised?

Hardware startups in San Francisco tracked by FundedIQ have raised $2.3B in disclosed capital across 34 funding rounds over the last 24 months, including 16 rounds in the last 12 months. 30 of those 34 rounds disclosed an amount; undisclosed rounds are excluded from the capital total.

What is a typical funding round size for Hardware startups in San Francisco?

The median disclosed round over the last 24 months is $5.8M, and the middle half of rounds fall between $500K and $78M. Round sizes vary widely by stage, so the seed and later-stage bands sit well either side of that figure.

What is the most common funding stage for Hardware startups in San Francisco?

Pre-Seed is the most common labelled stage, with 8 rounds in the last 24 months, ahead of Seed (6) and Series B (5). A further 9 rounds were announced without a stage label and are not counted here.

How often is the Hardware startup funding data in San Francisco updated?

The dataset is refreshed weekly. New rounds are normalised and de-duplicated before they are published, and the most recent round currently on record for funded Hardware startups in San Francisco is dated Jun 2026. Counts and totals on this page are recomputed on every refresh.

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