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Design Catapult takes the sketch all the way to the shipping box
A hospital cart, a contamination scanner and a cold-brew machine have something in common: Design Catapult. The California firm makes a business of the difficult distance between a clever idea and a product someone can actually use.
M.C. Dean, Inc.
The 77-year-old family company has turned electrical contracting into a $3 billion cyber-physical infrastructure business - one that builds critical systems in a factory before they ever reach the job site.
Riot Platforms, Inc.
Riot spent years turning cheap electricity into Bitcoin. Now the same land, substations and cooling know-how are being repackaged for AI - a pivot that could make the power connection more valuable than the mine.
AllSpice.io
AllSpice.io is a Boston-based hardware development platform that brings software-style workflows - version control, automated design reviews, visual diffs, and CI/CD - to electronics and PCB engineering. Founded in 2019 by Valentina Ratner and Kyle Dumont, the company connects native ECAD tools so hardware teams can catch errors early, collaborate asynchronously, and ship reliable designs with full traceability. Its AI agent, DRCY, flags issues like misconfigured pins, swapped TX/RX lines, and missing capacitors before they reach production. Customers range from startups to Fortune 500s across aerospace, robotics, defense, autonomous vehicles, and medical devices.
Arena Physica
Arena Physica is a New York-based AI company building 'electromagnetic superintelligence' - AI systems grounded in applied physics that accelerate the design, testing, and optimization of advanced hardware. Its Atlas platform and Heaviside foundation model predict electromagnetic behavior from geometry in milliseconds, claiming roughly 800,000x faster results than commercial solvers, and are used by hardware leaders across semiconductors, aerospace, automotive, medical devices, and defense.