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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.
YC Corporation
YC Corporation is a Seoul-based digital transformation company that helps small and mid-sized Korean manufacturers go digital. As an official Autodesk partner, it supplies and consults on CAD/CAM/PLM software (Fusion 360, AutoCAD, Inventor, PowerMill), builds its own YC Smart Line MES, and sells the hardware - CNC routers, laser markers, 3D printers and IoT sensors - to run it. Founded in 2022 and bootstrapped, the company reached roughly 7 billion won in revenue by mid-2024 by focusing on shops that earlier smart-factory programs overlooked.
3i Inc.
3i Inc. is a Seoul-based spatial AI company that turns physical spaces into interactive digital twins. Founded in 2017, it operates two brands: Beamo, an enterprise digital twin platform used to remotely inspect and manage mission-critical facilities like data centers and factories, and Pivo, a consumer AI-powered auto-tracking pod for content creators. Backed by a $24M Series A led by SV Investment, the company holds dozens of technology patents in computer vision, 3D scanning, and SLAM.
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.
EdgeCross
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.
Superb AI
Superb AI is a computer vision AI company that builds an end-to-end MLOps and DataOps platform, letting teams label, curate, train, and deploy vision models on images, video, and 3D LiDAR data. Founded in 2018 and a Y Combinator alum, it uses AI-assisted automation to shrink the slow, manual work of preparing training data, and serves enterprise customers across autonomous driving, manufacturing, security, and public sector from offices in San Mateo and Seoul.
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.
Cellares
Cellares is the first Integrated Development and Manufacturing Organization (IDMO) for cell therapy. Its Cell Shuttle - a fully automated, high-throughput platform roughly the size of a small conference room - replaces a warren of manual labs with one box that can run 16 patient batches in parallel, cutting labor and facility footprint by about 90 percent.