STANLEY+Techstars has announced the 10 companies joining its 2021 class of the STANLEY + Techstars Accelerator—the first class focused on artificial intelligence (AI) in advanced manufacturing. The diverse group of companies is uniquely positioned to work with Stanley Black & Decker to make a meaningful impact on Industry 4.0.
After successfully accelerating additive manufacturing and sustainable packaging startups in prior years, this year’s class is focused on solutions for AI in advanced manufacturing. STANLEY+Techstars will work with two robotics companies, four software companies, and four companies developing solutions by way of digital and hardware components. The startups originate from several locations across the states, from Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, and Washington and across the globe, from Canada to Germany and to India.
This year’s class kicked off January 25 and will culminate with a demo day and investor days in late April. STANLEY+Techstars is eager to utilize a virtual format for this year’s program to keep founders and accelerator community safe and to broaden the mentor pool to include individuals from across the globe. STANLEY+Techstars believes this extended mentor pool will more than make up for losing some of the social elements of running our program in person. Instead of presenting an alphabetic list of this year’s class, we have categorized our startups into three groups, each representing important focus areas for Stanley Black & Decker.
Presenting the STANLEY+Techstars Class of 2021:
Intelligent Factory as a Service—scalable, agile, intelligent, and service-oriented solutions to factory automation challenges and opportunities
Eduro.ai
Eduro’s platform helps build and deploy automated workflows in manufacturing without any code. Companies can deploy applications in asset, inventory ,and order management and even leverage Eduro’s fully managed services like the procurement marketplace.
MODICA Microindustries
MODICA Microindustries is creating a software platform providing AI-assisted and fully-automated engineering decision support for factory-building and industrial automation tasks, in conjunction with a multi-scale modular hardware platform to improve deployability, density, and interconnectability of digital manufacturing devices, robots, automated equipment, and workspaces.
Slytek
The Slytrackr software/hardware systems have been developed to be adaptable to all ages of machinery in a standard platform to increase ease of use. The company currently provides machine monitoring solutions, tool monitoring and adaptive control, as well as customized process monitoring systems.
Digitization—representing digitization across the lifecycle of products and services (design, supply chain, manufacturing, distribution) and including platforms for sensing industrial internet of things (IIOT), analytics, and overall data and knowledge management in smart factories
EMS Forest
EMS Forest is at the intersection of PCB design quality and supply-chain processes. The company connects OEMs, CMs, and downstream suppliers to optimize product realization cycles. Its AI-powered engine exceeds standards/requirements for high-reliability electronics by preventing manufacturability and supply chain issues before production, eliminating time-to-market delays, design spins, and product recalls.
I-flow
I-flow is creating an intelligent no-coding data management platform to connect, transform, store and share data across shop floor and top floor with just a few clicks.
ProductionAR
ProductionAR brings industrial digital information into the real world using a patented computer vision technology to provide information to users from cloud databases by simply “looking” at the object. The company’s special markers can be detected using commodity mobile devices from far away across the warehouse, simultaneously in multiple locations, or using live video.
Sensai
For manufacturing companies that require thousands of customized machine learning models but lack the data and talent to create them, Sensai Analytic’s low-code platform enables their domain experts, rather than experts in machine learning, to deploy AI solutions.
Human-Machine Synergy, Safety, Sustainability—factory automation solutions that advance human-machine collaboration, enhance safety, and optimize manufacturing including promoting circularity
Hiloslab
HILOS delivers an zero-waste, on-demand product. By unifying design, development, and manufacturing within purpose-built digital molds, HILOS is pioneering personalized products, made locally and sustainably.
Malamute
Malamute builds an AI edge device that, when inserted into a worker’s hearing protection, enables the passthrough of human voice in loud environments, enhancing face-to-face communication and acoustic spatialization.
Peer Robotics
Peer Robotics develops collaborative mobile robots, capable of learning from humans in real time, thereby, providing flexible and adaptable solutions for manufacturing and warehousing sectors.
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