A tiny steel joint can decide whether a mine, bakery, or parcel hub keeps moving. Flexco has spent 119 years turning that vulnerable seam - and the rest of the conveyor - into a global business built around uptime.
The 1910 mining-repair shop that quietly became the backbone of the world's power grids and railways is now betting its next century on AI you can touch.
Emerson spent a century making the machinery of modern life. Now it is assembling something harder to see: the digital nervous system for factories, power grids and process plants.
GE Aerospace sells some of the most complicated machines humans make. The deeper business begins after delivery, when decades of maintenance, data and parts turn an engine under the wing into a long-lived service relationship.
After spinning off aerospace and advanced materials, Honeywell is smaller, sharper and focused on one difficult job: teaching the physical world to run with less waste, fewer surprises and more autonomy.
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.
Arrow Labs is a Dubai-founded enterprise software company behind MIMS, a service-delivery and field-operations platform that connects deskless workers, assets, and back-office systems through mobile apps, wearables, and IoT. Using AI-driven scheduling, dispatch, and workflow automation, MIMS gives operations teams in telecom, oil and gas, logistics, utilities, and security real-time visibility and SLA control across distributed, mission-critical environments.

Tim Zinkl is the CEO and co-founder of Pairio (YC P26), an AI mobile app that helps factory technicians fix broken machines faster. Raised across Brazil, Spain, and China and schooled in the UK and Germany, he built an events business in college, was an early employee at battery-recycling startup tozero, and teamed up with engineer Matthias Wolf - whom he met at a Technical University of Munich entrepreneurship scholarship - to attack the expensive, everyday problem of machine downtime on the factory floor.
Pairio is an AI mobile app that helps factory technicians fix broken machines. A technician speaks into their phone or snaps a photo of a faulty machine, and Pairio searches thousands of pages of OEM manuals and past repair records to return step-by-step fixes on the spot. After each repair, the technician talks through what they did and Pairio structures the learnings into shareable know-how, so institutional knowledge outlives the workers who retire. Founded in 2025 by Tim Zinkl and Matthias Wolf and backed by Y Combinator (P26), Pairio is already cutting repair times by roughly 25% across four manufacturing plants in Germany.
Groundup.ai is a Singapore-based industrial AI company that helps asset-heavy operators prevent unplanned machine downtime. It pairs proprietary, magnetic-mount IoT sensors - which capture vibration, temperature and sound - with an agentic AI platform called GINA to move maintenance from reactive firefighting to a predictive, self-monitoring discipline it brands as Cognitive Maintenance. Founded by serial entrepreneur Leon Lim, the company serves manufacturing, maritime, defense, oil & gas and infrastructure clients across Asia and the Middle East.
Inauro is a Sydney-based Industrial AI and IoT software company that fuses real-time data from sensors, telematics, ERP, CRM and digital forms into a single operational view through its Perspio platform. It helps equipment rental, construction, cold chain, agriculture, logistics and mining operators automate workflows, monitor assets, cut maintenance costs and meet compliance obligations. Founded in 2020 by former Kennards Hire leaders Angus Kennard and Craig Kesby, Inauro monitors tens of thousands of connected devices worldwide and was backed by a A$3M investment from SafetyCulture.
Overdrive IOT is a Singapore-headquartered industrial IoT company that connects and monitors physical assets - vehicles, equipment, facilities and people - in real time on a single cloud platform. Founded in 2015 by Aston Chia and Zen Chin, it uses a mix of sensors, connectivity technologies and mesh networking to automate data sensing, then turns that data into tracking, alerting and command-centre visualisation for clients across aviation, logistics, construction and public services in Asia. Customers include Changi Airport, Sentosa, NTU, FedEx and Singapore's Ministry of Manpower. The company raised a US$2.9M Series A from Tin Men Capital.

TransTRACK is an Indonesian fleet telematics and supply-chain technology company that helps businesses track, monitor and optimize their vehicles, vessels and cargo in real time. Founded in Jakarta in 2019, it combines IoT hardware (GPS trackers, sensors, electronic seals) with a software platform spanning fleet management, transportation management, vessel monitoring and driver behavior analysis. The company serves more than 1,200 clients and over 150,000 subscription units across Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, and raised a US$12 million Series A in 2024 to expand across Asia.
Trendspek is a Sydney-based software company that turns drone and reality-capture imagery into exact 3D digital models of buildings and infrastructure. Its Structural Lifecycle Management System (SLMS), built on the Precision Asset Intelligence (PAI) platform, lets asset owners, engineers and contractors inspect, measure, report on, remediate and monitor structures from a single living record - replacing scattered PDFs and site visits with traceable, measurable digital evidence used across 45+ countries.
Unleash live is a Sydney-based enterprise computer vision company that turns live video and imagery from drones, CCTV, IP cameras and mobile devices into real-time, actionable insights. Its cloud and edge platform runs a library of AI models to inspect critical infrastructure - power lines, wind turbines, solar farms, rail, roads and industrial sites - detecting faults, corrosion and equipment wear so utilities, transport authorities and resource companies can inspect assets faster and safer. Alongside the core platform it offers Autofly for automated drone and robot inspections and an AI App marketplace for building and deploying custom vision models.
XSQUARE Technologies is a Singapore-based intralogistics company that builds autonomous forklifts and the Xymphony warehouse orchestration software to automate warehouses without requiring reconfiguration. Founded in 2019 and backed by Goldbell Group's four decades of material-handling expertise, XSQUARE pairs its own line of AGVs with an AI-driven control layer, offered largely through a Robots-as-a-Service subscription model. Its clients include Coca-Cola, GSK and Katoen Natie, and it raised S$10.5 million in Series A funding in May 2024 led by Wavemaker Partners.
Yu-Sung Chang is the co-founder, CEO and CTO of Vivity AI, an industrial AI company building software for heavy industries like petrochemicals, shipbuilding and manufacturing. A computer scientist with a Ph.D. from Stony Brook University, he spent years at Wolfram Research working on Mathematica's graphics and geometry systems before moving into e-commerce technology leadership as CTO of Korea's SSG.COM and co-founding the healthcare AI startup Huma.AI. In 2022 he founded Vivity AI, which raised roughly $8.4M in a round backed by Hanwha Systems, to close the gap between the physical and digital worlds on the factory floor.
Aquant is a New York-based enterprise AI company that builds agentic AI purpose-built for servicing complex equipment. Its platform turns an organization's service data and expert knowledge into AI agents that guide field technicians, call-center agents, customers and service leaders in real time - improving first-time fix rates, cutting repeat visits and closing the service skills gap across industries like medical devices, industrial machinery and manufacturing.
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.
Joyride is a Toronto-based mobility software company that gives operators, cities, dealers and OEMs a white-label platform to launch and run shared and rental fleets of e-bikes, e-scooters, golf carts, low-speed vehicles and other lightweight vehicles. Its hardware-agnostic system turns vehicles into connected, keyless and trackable assets, pairing branded rider apps with a fleet-management dashboard, IoT connectivity, payments and increasingly AI-driven operations tools. Founded in 2014 and backed by Yamaha Motor, Joyride powers fleets across 250+ markets on five continents.
Nrby is a New Hampshire-based AI software company that turns raw network telemetry and location data into proactive action for broadband and telecom operators. Its platform - built around SmartPins, VisionAI, and the Link AI framework - shifts network operations from reactive repair to predictive prevention, guiding field technicians to the exact location of a fault and validating that work is done right the first time. Founded in 2015 by telecom veteran Kurt Dobbins, Nrby serves Tier One wireless, fiber, and broadband providers across North and South America.
DataPattern is a San Ramon, California based IT services and consulting firm founded in 2019 that helps regulated and data-heavy enterprises move from legacy systems to modern data, AI and IoT platforms. Its teams build data engineering pipelines, generative AI and machine learning solutions, IoT use cases, cloud migrations and DevOps/MLOps practices, with a stated emphasis on data governance, quality and lineage as the foundation for reliable AI. The company works across manufacturing, healthcare, finance and energy, positioning itself as a hands-on transformation partner rather than a single-product vendor.
Archetype AI is a San Mateo-based physical AI company founded by former Google Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) leaders. It builds Newton, a multimodal foundation model that fuses real-time data from cameras, radar, microphones, accelerometers and dozens of other sensors with natural language, so machines can perceive, understand and reason about the physical world. On top of Newton, the company ships an Archetype Platform, an Agent Toolkit and prebuilt Physical Agents that turn raw sensor streams into actionable insight for manufacturing, construction, energy, telecom and city infrastructure. It raised a $35M Series A in November 2025, bringing total funding to $48M.
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.
Cogniac Corporation is a Silicon Valley company building an enterprise-grade, no-code computer vision platform that lets non-experts train and deploy AI models on visual data. Founded in 2015 by Ruckus Wireless veteran Bill Kish and Amy Wang, Cogniac turns cameras and images into operational insight - inspecting products, detecting defects, monitoring safety, and automating document handling across manufacturing, transportation, automotive, government, and logistics. Backed by roughly $46M from investors including National Grid Partners, Cisco Investments, and Autotech Ventures, it counts BNSF Railway, Ford, Georgia-Pacific, Doosan Bobcat, and Trimac among its customers.
EdgeCross (엣지크로스) is a South Korean industrial AIoT company that turns ordinary factory machines into 'smart machines' without ripping out existing equipment. Its MODLINK edge devices bolt onto CNC machines, compressors, robots and other gear to stream live data, while its MachineManager SaaS and LLM-powered MachineGPT let operators monitor, self-diagnose and literally chat with their machinery in plain language. Founded in 2015 as VITCON and rebranded EdgeCross in 2022, the company says more than 8,000 machines now run its devices, generating roughly 3.2GB of operational data per day.
Gridware builds pole-mounted sensors and an analytics platform that give electric utilities real-time awareness of what is physically happening on their power lines. Its Gridscope device measures mechanical, electrical, and environmental signals directly at the pole, and its Active Grid Response platform turns those signals into immediate hazard detection, precise fault localization, and faster outage response. Founded in 2020 by three UC Berkeley graduate students - including a former lineman - Gridware aims to close the 'hazard awareness delay' that leaves utilities blind to fallen limbs and damaged lines until after they spark outages or wildfires.
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.
Shahar Chen is the CEO and co-founder of Aquant, a New York-based generative AI company that helps field-service teams diagnose and repair complex industrial equipment. He and co-founder Assaf Melochna launched Aquant in 2016 after Chen spent 14 years at ClickSoftware watching skilled technicians age out of the workforce faster than new ones came in. Aquant has raised $112.6M to date, including a $70M Series C in 2021.
Aren is a New York-based AI company that helps owners of bridges, tunnels, and other large civil infrastructure figure out what is quietly falling apart before it becomes a headline. Its platform ingests source-agnostic data - smartphone photos, drone video, laser scans, infrared, and sensors - and turns it into 3D digital twins that detect and quantify damage, track deterioration over time, and produce maintenance and capital-allocation plans. Founded by structural engineer Ali Khaloo out of Cornell Tech, Aren pairs computer vision and deep learning with decades of structural mechanics to give asset owners a quantitative, repeatable way to decide where to spend limited repair dollars.