YC Summer 2026 Industrials Startups

Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch included 58 Industrials startups. Of these, 58 remain active, 0 have been acquired, and 0 have shut down.

• Frontier Computing (1 people) — Frontier grows scalable biological brains as an ML training substrate
• Control Seat (2 people) — Predictive maintenance on your plant data and sensors.
• OS3 (2 people) — Deploying US-Built Robots & Training Video Action Models
• Most Robotic (2 people) — Research lab for physical AI
• Molagri (4 people) — Resistance free pesticides.
• 6thSense (4 people) — Nervous System for Physical AI
• Greypoint Industries (4 people) — Building drone swarms that hunt drone operators
• Hop Aero (6 people) — Rocket cargo delivery to contested environments
• Operon — Agentic data layer for manufacturing & process industries.
• Waddle Labs (2 people) — Agents for robotics control.
• Applied Electrodynamics, Inc. (5 people) — A new kind of camera that can see through walls.
• Maingen (2 people) — Simulating Agents Running Industrial Companies
• Rise Reforming (4 people) — We turn waste gases into valuable supply-secure chemicals
• Manifold (2 people) — Deployment-ready robotic labor for the supply chain industry
• Agency Tool Company (3 people) — Reliable infrastructure to build, deploy and manage real-world robots.
• Nori (5 people) — American Humanoid which costs 3% of the competition
• Orvixo (2 people) — AI advanced planning and optimisation for manufacturers.
• Aktoria Robotics (6 people) — Human as API for robots
• Neuron Industries (2 people) — Industrial Controllers built for AI
• Isengard Industries Inc (30 people) — Mass-produced AI strike systems and Counter-UAS
• Cosmic Robotics (8 people) — Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond
• ProvenMetal (4 people) — Fast-turn, American made PCBs
• 83 Sciences (3 people) — AI-native materials discovery powered by unpublished experimental data
• Skymerse — Autopilot for Flight Operations
• Earendil Robotics (7 people) — Drone swarm defence at a small-unit level
• Atomarine (2 people) — Floating nuclear powered data centers at sea.
• Libra Robotics (2 people) — Robotic crews for large-scale infrastructure construction
• Meteoric (2 people) — Drones that clear clouds over solar farms and weaken hurricanes
• Dipole Labs — AI-controlled optical switching for AI clusters
• Proprio Robotics (1 people) — Building autonomous data centers
• Edgerun (8 people) — Military exoskeletons
• Torus (6 people) — Legora for physical engineering firms
• HERA (2 people) — We make sure every factory in the world builds without mistakes.
• Mass Magnetics (3 people) — USA-made magnetics for robotics and defense.
• Kara (3 people) — Making Diamond Engineerable
• Enact (2 people) — Real-world RL environments for robotics models
• Synapse Semiconductor (2 people) — New semiconductors that merge compute and vision
• IMPACT Drones (2 people) — Air Defense as a Service for Civilian Infrastructure.
• GUILD (2 people) — AI-Native Defense Contractor
• Exosat (1 people) — Building a sovereign alternative to Starlink
• Aerogen Systems (4 people) — Building the future of advanced chip manufacturing.
• Hilstart — Autonomous Hardware Testing
• Neuromorphic (3 people) — Building robots to automate wetlabs
• Ultrasonium (5 people) — Manufacturing the metal parts the world runs on faster, cheaper, safer
• Moving Atoms (2 people) — World models that train and test robots in sim, #1 on Physics-IQ
• Pacific (3 people) — Mass-producing and financing micro data center incredibly quickly.
• Marengo (5 people) — AI-Native Engineering Firm designing Data Centers
• Praxis Robotics (3 people) — Turns every company into a data vendor
• Shiraz AI (2 people) — Robots that learn on the job
• Grip (4 people) — Robots for waste manipulation
• Hebbian Robotics (2 people) — Open source SDK for building quality control pipelines for Physical AI
• Ethos Space Resources (2 people) — We make Silicon on the Moon.
• Vernius Systems, Inc. (3 people) — Autonomous radar guidance for interceptors
• Dawn Industries (2 people) — Automatic Diagnosis & Fix for Industrial Automation Cells
• Robocurve (3 people) — Real-world evals for robots
• Salem Robotics Inc (2 people) — Deploying robots for inspections in hazardous spaces, like nuclear.
• Tensr (3 people) — Robotic factories that build robots.
• Baud (3 people) — AI chips for ultra-fast training and inference