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When Heavy Machines Break, Elevāt Makes Them Talk Back
The Seattle startup wires up off-highway equipment - tractors, cranes, fire trucks - and hands technicians an AI that reads the machine's mind before anyone opens the panel.
Altizon Gave the Factory Floor a Brain That Talks Back
A Princeton-and-Pune software company spent a decade wiring up shop floors. Now it is betting the most useful worker in the plant will be a piece of software you can talk to.
Auk Industries
A Singapore startup wants to be the 'Fitbit for machines' - snapping cheap sensors onto any factory line and turning decades-old equipment into a live data feed in days, not months.
Humatics
Humatics is a Waltham, Massachusetts technology company building microlocation systems - hardware and software that pinpoint the position of people, vehicles, and machines to millimeter and centimeter precision. Combining industrial-grade ultra-wideband radio with inertial sensors, GNSS, and analytics software, its platform serves two markets: industrial automation and robotics through the Milo Microlocation System, and rail and transit through the Humatics Rail Navigation System. Founded in 2015 by MIT professor David Mindell and industry veteran Gary Cohen, the company works with partners including Siemens Mobility and Hitachi Rail on projects such as the New York MTA subway signaling upgrade.
Amper Technologies
Amper Technologies is a Chicago-based industrial IoT company that helps manufacturers see and improve what happens on their shop floors in real time. Its FactoryOS platform pairs non-invasive sensors that clip onto any machine - regardless of age or brand and install in about ten minutes - with AI-driven analytics that track machine utilization, OEE, downtime, labor and job performance. Founded in 2016, Amper turns legacy factory equipment into a source of live production data without expensive retrofits or complex IT integrations, and was acquired by ECI Software Solutions in December 2025.
Avanseus
Avanseus is a Singapore-based artificial intelligence company that builds predictive maintenance software for telecommunications and industrial IoT networks. Its flagship Cognitive Assistant for Networks uses a patented unsupervised learning algorithm to forecast network faults and degradations days in advance and to surface likely root causes, letting operators fix problems before customers feel them. Founded in 2015, the company was acquired by Accenture in February 2026 to strengthen Accenture's push toward autonomous telecom networks.
etalytics
etalytics is a Darmstadt-based deep-tech company that builds AI software to make industrial energy systems more efficient and resilient. Its flagship platform, etaONE, pairs machine learning with physics-based model predictive control and digital twins to monitor, forecast, and autonomously optimize energy-intensive systems - especially HVAC and cooling - in data centers, automotive plants, and pharmaceutical and chemical production. Customers including Volkswagen, Equinix, Merck, and Digital Realty have reported cooling and ventilation energy reductions of up to 50%. Spun out of TU Darmstadt in 2020, the company raised a €16 million Series A backed by Microsoft's M12 fund and Alstin Capital.
Vivity AI
Vivity AI is an industrial AI company building software that connects the physical factory floor to real-time machine intelligence. Its containerized Vivity Edge platform plugs into standard PLCs, IIoT sensors and CCTV systems to run computer-vision and anomaly-detection models on-site - powering Safety AI for accident prevention and Analytics for equipment failure detection. Founded in 2022 with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seoul, the company targets heavy industries like petrochemicals, energy, shipbuilding and heavy manufacturing, and is backed by South Korean strategic investor Hanwha Systems and Plug and Play.
CREAN®
CREAN, Inc. is an Austin, Texas-based aerospace engineering and Smart Factory company that supplies hands-on engineering services and manufacturing-optimization programs to space, defense, and commercial clients. Founded in 2002 by James and Jennifer Crean, the firm fields teams of aerospace subject-matter experts who help customers move systems from concept through full-scale production while modernizing factory operations. CREAN is also developing CelestNet, a proposed lunar communications and navigation network, following its 2023 acquisition of Aquarian Space.
Webee
Webee is a Silicon Valley industrial IoT and AI company that lets manufacturers, food and beverage producers, and agriculture operators connect their machines, sensors, and data without writing code. Its no-code IIoT platform pairs wireless sensors and LoRaWAN connectivity with an AI engine called SOFIA to deliver real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, OEE tracking, and sustainability analytics - taking projects from proof-of-concept to production around 10x faster than traditional integrations.
Augury
Augury is an industrial AI company that helps manufacturers hear what their machines are trying to say. By bolting IoT sensors onto pumps, motors and fans and feeding their vibration, temperature and magnetic data to machine-learning models, Augury predicts and prevents mechanical failures before they cause unplanned downtime. Founded in 2011 in Israel and now headquartered in New York, the company pioneered the 'Machine Health' category, expanded into 'Process Health' for production-line optimization, and serves 500+ manufacturers including PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive, Hershey, DuPont and Heineken. It reached unicorn status in 2021 and maintained a $1B+ valuation with a $75M Series F in 2025.
Instrumental Inc.
Instrumental is a manufacturing AI and data platform that helps brands like Meta, NVIDIA, Cisco, and Bose catch defects on the factory floor by aggregating images and signals from production lines and running discovery-driven machine learning on them. Founded by ex-Apple engineers, the company turns the noisy, siloed world of high-mix electronics assembly into a searchable, controllable dataset.
Sight Machine
Sight Machine is an industrial AI company that turns the messy, unstructured exhaust of factory floors into a single live model of production. Its Manufacturing Data Platform connects machines, lines and plants - then runs AI on top so Global 500 manufacturers can see, decide and act in real time.