Top 35 Renewable Energy Startup Investors in Switzerland in October 2023

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• Voltiris — Voltiris filters natural sunlight to transmit it to plants and recycle the "wasted" sunlight into green electricity.
• PeriVision — Perivision combines artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and the cloud to build the next generation of systems to understand visual function. The company's systems improve workflow efficiency in practices and hospitals and provide deeper clinical insight into eye diseases.
• AdVentura Works — AdVentura Works is a Swiss technology company offering material handing as a service to logistics and industrial companies

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• BigOmics — Get robust and reproducible results in a few clicks with Omics Playground: your user-friendly Omics Data Analysis Software.
• Hive Power — Hive Power provides a SaaS platform to optimise your existing electrical distribution grid, both from the technical and economic points of view.
• Gaia Turbine — Gaia Turbine creates a plug-and-play hydroelectric microturbine with an efficiency of over 90% that is perfect for aqueducts and the smallest necessary outflows. Gaia's two patent applications have been filed to protect the technology of the mini/micro hydroelectric turbine.

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• Ascento — Secure, maintain, and inspect outdoor assets by reducing the intervention times and augmenting data capturing capability.
• Tune Insight — Tune Insight orchestrates secure collaborations on sensitive data between multiple organizations to extract collective insights.
• Saeki Robotics — Building the future of autonomous robotic manufacturing.

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• WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
• Okra Solar — Okra Solar is an IoT technology solution that enables solar generating communities to share and utilize more energy. It is a plug-and-play smart grid technology that enables rapid electrification for last-mile communities. Using mobile payments, modular grid design, and remote monitoring, they provide utility companies with a low-cost, data-drivensolution to operate solar networks in hard to reach communities. They are on a mission to connect off-grid communities to the modern economy.Okra Solar was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
• Solarise Africa — Solarise Africa is a pan African energy leasing company for solar PV and other energy assets focusing on Commercial and Industrial (C&I) clients. Its business model is designed for scalability. Solarise Africa focuses on providing smart financing through close collaboration with a selected group of partners across solar and other renewableenergy technologies. For solar PV it is focusing on captive rooftop and ground mounted solar projects ranging from 100kW to 3MW. It is currently active in Kenya, looking to open in South Africa and has plans to expand into East, Southern and West Africa.

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• Axom — Axom automating visual inspection through image analysis in the healthcare industry.
• Gaia Tech — Gaia Technologies turns agricultural sidestreams into high-value ingredients for cosmetics, food, and feed manufacturers.
• PeriVision — Perivision combines artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and the cloud to build the next generation of systems to understand visual function. The company's systems improve workflow efficiency in practices and hospitals and provide deeper clinical insight into eye diseases.

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• Hydrosat — Hydrosat provides daily, high-resolution thermal and multispectral infrared imagery of the entire Earth. Leveraging our first-in-history thermal capabilities, we also provide analytics solutions to solve climate and agriculture issues.
• Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
• Efficient Energy Technology — Photovoltaik mit Speicher zum Einstecken in der Steckdose - Mit deinem Balkonkraftwerk von EET produzierst du eigenen Sonnenstrom.

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• Helio — Carbon Aware Cloud Computing.
• Tune Insight — Tune Insight orchestrates secure collaborations on sensitive data between multiple organizations to extract collective insights.
• Nagi Bioscience — Enabling small organisms testing to any lab. Unleash unique datapoints efficiently at a high-throughput rate.

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• Younergy — Younergy is a Swiss start-up providing distributed solar electricity to consumers.

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• Hakimo — Hakimo automatically resolves false alarms so that your existing GSOC operators can handle more alarms as your company grows.
• 1touch.io — By continuously analyzing traffic and repository stores connected to your network, our network-based solution can detect all elements on the network that are storing, processing, and sharing personal data, both internally and externally. Whether structured or unstructured data, data in motion or at rest, and even data that is unknown to you,1touch.io can track it for you.
• RevSure.AI — Grow your pipeline with confidence to improve conversions across Marketing, SDR/BDR & Sales and optimize campaigns for revenue with AI-based projections and complete visibility of your connected revenue funnel.

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• UniSieve — UniSieve is a cleantech company that provides molecular separation membrane solutions for a wide range of applications. Its platform technology enables a unique combination of various molecular sieves and polymeric membranes, yielding reliable separation solutions. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
• ATMOS Space Cargo — ATMOS Space Cargo develops and manufactures space capsules to return cargo from space, microgravity experiments, Commercial products to entire rocket stages.

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• Amogy — Amogy develops a novel carbon-free energy storage system using ammonia as a fuel, exhibiting unprecedented energy density
• Hystar — Hystar is a high tech company specializing in advanced PEM electrolysers for large scale green hydrogen production, that is 100% sustainable.
• Fabrum — Fabrum offers onsite liquid Nitrogen Systems for the production of cryogenic and engineering solutions. Contact us to meet your requirements.

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• DuraMon — DuraMon provides sensor for monitoring durability in concrete.
• Arda Biomaterials — Arda Biomaterials transforms waste feedstocks into smarter, circular biomaterials for fashion, home goods, automotive and more.
• Antefil Composite Tech — Microengineered hybrid fibres for lightweight structures. What are hybrid fibres? The fastest, most affordable, scalable, and high-quality solution for the production of energy-efficient lightweight structures. Hybrid fibres are glass reinforcement fibres which are individually coated with a meltable, recyclable plastic.They provide all the material needed to produce lightweight composites in a perfect mix - at

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• Livmed's — Livmed's is a software platform that provides home medicine delivery services for fellow citizens and healthcare players. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Nice, France.
• TreaTech — TreaTech is a Swiss Cleantech company founded in 2015 by EPFL engineers. We are developing a ground-breaking treatment technology that will enable an eco-friendly treatment of the ever-increasing quantities of wastewater while recycling its valuable by-products and most notably, clean water. Our catalytic hydrothermal gasification (HTG) systemhas been developed for the disposal of different types of liquid wastes (such as sewage sludge) that are usually incinerated or landfilled and instead, turns them into by-products such as biogas, clean water, and mineral salts that can further be upgraded into phosphorus products (e.g. fertilizers).
• Angell — Angell is a manufacturer of electric bicycles to come up with a transformation in the urban mobility experience.

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• Picosats — PicoSaTs envisages a new generation of telecommunication systems for space applications dedicated to CubeSat pico-satellites. The key technologies at the core of this system are a software defined radio and a highly directive and configurable antenna, operating at higher frequencies (Ka band), and providing very high data rates.
• Leaf Space — Leaf Space aims to become a global leading service provider in the new, emerging microsatellite market by developing a technology platform providing all basic services required by microsatellite operators.
• Energy Dome — Energy Dome | Groundbreaking Long Duration Energy Storage. Using CO2 against climate change. Our Technology enables to store renewable energy efficiently.

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• Anergis — Anergis, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, discovers and develops allergy vaccines based on the technology of Contiguous Overlapping Peptides for ultra-fast desensitization. It offers vaccines against birch pollen, ragweed pollen, and house dust mite allergies. Francois Spertini founded Anergis in 2001. Its headquarters in Lausanne inSwitzerland.
• SENSIMED — Sensimed designs, develops, and commercializes integrated micro-systems for medical devices. The company’s product portfolio includes SENSIMED Triggerfish, a product that offers an automated recoding of continuous ocular dimensional change over 24 hours. Sensimed is now focused on expanding the knowledge of how this individual data can best beused in the clinical setting to deliver customized treatment. The 24 hour profiles are being centralized on a registry together with patient and treatment information. The data is being analyzed and modeled on an ongoing basis in an attempt to identifying pathological patterns that can be used to differentiate indication, personalize treatment and assess efficacy following treatment.Sensimed was founded by Matteo Leonardi and Sacha Cerboni in August 2003 and is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Beqom — beqom is a Total Compensation Management Software Solution focused exclusively on managing compensation & performance for HR & Sales.

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• FINALCAD — Finalcad is a construction software management specialist. We help on buildings, infrastructure and energy projects. We cover the whole construction lifecycle.
• DCbrain — DCbrain helps Datacenters teams to run and optimize their buildings. They provide a systemic view of their systems displaying a dynamic map of all datacenter flows (energy, chilled water ...) and dynamic expert dashboards.
• Warehousing1 — Warehousing1 is building the number one warehousing and distribution network in Europe. Companies can utilize the innovative platform to find ideal warehousing solutions anywhere, manage them digitally and optimize processes by gaining real-time visibility and data transparency.

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• Wyth — Wyth makes technologies that help humans create meaningful relationships by bringing emotions, stories and connections beyond the interface.
• Smeetz — Smeetz is the future of a unified, data-driven and dynamic pricing-oriented commerce for attractions and cultural venues.
• Avelo — Our mission is to save lives by bringing fast and actionable infectious disease diagnosis closer to the patient. Avelo's solution is a breath collection device. It works with existing molecular tests to detect multiple respiratory tract infections causing pneumonia

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• MedTrace Pharma — MedTrace develops a hardware platform (MT-100) that automates the production and injection of the gold standard tracer 15O-water into the patient. MedTrace also develops an analytical software platform to interpret the results from the PET scanner.By use of 15O-water, doctors will increase sensitivity in the analysis of the patient while at thesame time increasing patient throughput up to a factor of 4 compared to today's clinical workhorse.
• Hylomorph — Hylomorph is a clinical-stage medical device company developing innovative materials designed to transform the biocompatibility of implantable medical devices.
• Puraffinity — Puraffinity develops targeted materials for water treatment, focused on forever chemicals called PFAS. Our strategic intent is to provide 1 billion people with PFAS safe water by 2030

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• PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
• Teamshares — One hundred percent close rate on LOIs. Committed capital with no financing contingency. Teamshares is the buyer of choice for your business listing. Request a buyer profile to learn more about us.
• Lydian — Lydian aims to accelerate the decarbonization of the chemical industry by electrifying the chemical production process. Founded in 2021 by Branko Zugic, Lydian is headquartered in

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• Candi — Combining the best of its roots in Switzerland, and extensive local presence, candi offers companies of all sizes the simplest, most efficient way to take advantage of solar power for their business.
• Agros — Agros exist to make farming economically viable and environmentally sustainable. The company provides farmers with carbon-reducing and income-increasing products and services, from input to market. Their unique ecosystem approach aggregates different low-carbon technologies, bundled with affordable finance, insurance, advisory and market access.Agros’ mission is to double the income of millions of farmers while reducing 100 megatons of annual carbon emissions.
• MyJouleBox — MyJouleBox offers a solution for solar professionals in Africa to offer leased solar installations to their customers.

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• Evana — Evana is a specializing in data exchange company.
• iDWELL — iDWELL (www.idwell.com) is a revolutionary CRM cloud software and tenant app, especially designed for the next generation of real estate management. It enables the automation of routine processes, and bundles as well as optimizes all communication between the stakeholders of a property, including service providers, asset managers, landlords,tenants and property managers. Currently, more than 750,000 apartment units are managed with the assistance of iDWELL.The iDWELL ticketing system and the connected tenant app automates routine maintenance tasks with regards to handling and reporting damages. This allows iDWELL customers to focus on more important and revenue-generating tasks. The iDWELL marketplace provides further opportunities to service tenants and landlords while generating revenue.
• Meisterwerk — B2B SaaS Operating System for SMB field service and craftsman companies

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• InspiraFarms — InspiraFarms provides on-and-near farm, grid & solar powered Cold Rooms & Packhouses for agribusinesses & distributors. Reduce energy costs & food losses!
• SunCulture — At SunCulture, we strive to solve the biggest daily challenges of smallholder farmers. We use off-grid solar technology to provide our customers with reliable access to water, irrigation, lighting, and mobile charging, and we can do all of that with a single system.
• Solarise Africa — Solarise Africa is a pan African energy leasing company for solar PV and other energy assets focusing on Commercial and Industrial (C&I) clients. Its business model is designed for scalability. Solarise Africa focuses on providing smart financing through close collaboration with a selected group of partners across solar and other renewableenergy technologies. For solar PV it is focusing on captive rooftop and ground mounted solar projects ranging from 100kW to 3MW. It is currently active in Kenya, looking to open in South Africa and has plans to expand into East, Southern and West Africa.

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• H.GLASS — H.Glass, formerly g2e glass2energy SA, has since acquired the dye-sensitised solar cell (DSSC) licence for this new type of photovoltaic cell. H.Glass is a preferred partner of companies specialising in solar technology, using ready-to-use modules laminated between two plates of glass – a piece of technology with a wide range of uses.In 2017,g2e glass2energy SA became H.Glass – a name that is a better reflection of the Swiss company’s ambition, its quality, its values and its vision. The change was spurred by the firm’s repositioning on the global market.Today, H.Glass employs more than 50 people in various fields. Its teams of researchers, chemists, and process and machine engineers help the firm to develop its products independently. H.Glass has also grown to encompass three production teams. Owing to its success, the Swiss company has ramped up production and is striving to expand the scale of manufacturing to better serve its customers’ needs.H.Glass panels open up new channels to harness the energy potential of buildings. They are rewriting the rules on construction and can be used on façades (as building-integrated photovoltaics) and windows to generate electricity or simply because they look good!H.Glass panels are a testament to the unprecedented design potential for architectural projects, with colours and designs covering the entire building.
• LE DRIVE TOUT NU — LE DRIVE TOUT NU is a startup of Consumers services Buyer aid.
• Daphne Technology — Discover how Daphne Technology leads the way to Net-Zero by solving the methane and GHG challenge in tough-to-decarbonise industries. Our innovative solutions make sustainability a reality. Join us in creating a greener future.

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• Medyria — Medyria is a Swiss medtech startup that engineers technologies for cardiovascular catheter navigation and sensing. They develop a unique guiding and sensing medical device based on proprietary Blood Flow Velocity Sensor technology. The TrackCath System is designed to be cost-effective and safe during EVAR procedures.Medyria's goal is todevelop devices that enable safer and more effective endovascular procedures. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland.
• Pipra — PIPRA AG (Pre-Interventional Preventive Risk assessment) is developing a cutting-edge AI-based pre-operative test to assess a patient's risk of suffering from cognitive disorders after surgery.
• Hylomorph — Hylomorph is a clinical-stage medical device company developing innovative materials designed to transform the biocompatibility of implantable medical devices.

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• FGen — FGen is a Swiss start-up company founded 2011 in Basel as a spin-off from the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering of the ETH Zurich. As a contract reasearch organization we collaborate with partners from Biotech, Life Sciences, and Pharma in order to establish efficient bioprocesses and to develop new biopharmaceuticals.
• Calopad — Calopad, awarded by the Swiss Confederation, offers a unique and the most holistic solution in pain therapy and muscle regeneration. The therapeutic deep heat of 42 degrees solves any muscle pain, muscle tension, or muscle spasms of chronic patients in the long term and in a highly efficient way through new forms of therapy. With the associatedapp, Calopad brings the physiotherapist digitally into any user's home and enables personalized all-around care in real time - utterly independent of time and place. In the future, the modular design will make it possible to combine different therapies such as heat, cold, or light with just one device, opening up the possibility of new therapeutic successes.
• Selfrag — SELFRAG AG is specialized in the development of high voltage pulse power products, plants and systems for selective fragmentation of solid materials.

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• DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
• Ecobean — Ecobean developed a proprietary technology to process waste coffee grounds into sustainable raw materials and specialty chemicals. The company addresses a global problem with a scalable, deep-tech solution that decreases carbon footprint and creates significant economic value. Coffee is the second most valuable commodity traded globally and itswaste is a rich source of compounds which require greater reuse.
• UniSieve — UniSieve is a cleantech company that provides molecular separation membrane solutions for a wide range of applications. Its platform technology enables a unique combination of various molecular sieves and polymeric membranes, yielding reliable separation solutions. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

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• Inovedis — Inovedis offers innovative solutions in medical technology that contribute both to optimized patient care as well as time and cost reductions in the healthcare sector.
• Resourcify — Mein Recycling is developed by Resourcify GmbH from Hamburg. The app is the easiest solution for businesses to easily manage all of their waste, collections, and recyclers in one app, and for waste management companies to seamlessly connect with their customers online. Their vision is zero-waste: enabled with the digital transformation of the wastesector as the foundation for the circular economy.
• traceless materials — traceless materials offer a holistically sustainable alternative to plastics: 100% biobased on plant residues, compostable under natural conditions, and free of toxic chemicals. For a future free of pollution and waste!

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• Voltiris — Voltiris filters natural sunlight to transmit it to plants and recycle the "wasted" sunlight into green electricity.
• Cyltronic AG — Cytronic AG is the brand for compact and user-friendly linear drives and the market leader with the worldwide unique electric cylinder.

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• Largix — Largix is the first company to develop and commercially produce 3D Robotic Printers for real production processes. We have invented the "Cold 3D Printing®" technology that makes 3DP possible for real industrial production. Largix uses the most common thermoplastic polymers: Polypropylene and Polyethylene, polymers that nobody else iscapable of printing.
• TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.
• Electra Vehicles — Control, Analyze, & Design Innovative Battery Packs using Electra Vehicles' EVE-Ai 360 Adaptive Controls and Analytics and EnPower Design.

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• tiun — Tiun is a software company that allows media and streaming services to accept online payments from non-subscribed users who are willing to pay for the time they used a service for.
• Bollwerk — Bollwerk is the modern finance data stack: All the finance data you need with awesome collaboration features.
• Maven Health — Maven Health offers Personalized Metabolic health test measurements for healthcare professionals

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• Hive Power — Hive Power provides a SaaS platform to optimise your existing electrical distribution grid, both from the technical and economic points of view.

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• matriq — matriq offers innovative solutions for the part-individual marking of plastic components of all kinds. With the DynamicMold technology, marking takes place directly in the manufacturing machine, whether in injection molding, blow molding or thermoforming. Besides the application for traceability, the DynamicMold technology also offers thepossibility to integrate product protection.
• Gilytics — Speed-up planning routing HV | accelerate planning routing HV | GIS planning infrastructure design | Railway optimal routing GIS

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• Lyfa — Lyfa offers home delivery of about 250 different products all completely waste-free in reusable packaging and collects empty packaging from customers during a subsequent delivery.
• Pabio — Get your apartment fully furnished by a professional interior designer and rent high-quality furniture from premium brands on a monthly subscription with Pabio.
• Supersapiens — Master your metabolism. A real-time glucose monitor optimising performance, recovery, and nutrition through glucose stability.

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• Abionic — Abionic SA is ideally positioned at the boundaries of medical technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology. As a spin-off from EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland), Abionic uses these highly advanced technologies to provide the medical profession with a novel diagnostic tool designed to give patients personal allergyprofiles. Abionic aims to become an important international player in the field of personalized medicine, in particular in allergy detection.Abionic SA is a certified ISO 9001/13485 company, including research, development and commercialization of in vitro diagnostic devices for allergies detection. The standard ISO 13485 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization has to demonstrate its ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements.Abionic SA is a privately owned high-tech company and is strongly supported by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), The Canton of Vaud and Venturelab.Abionic was founded by former scientists from the biomedical optics laboratory (LOB) at EPFL. Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland.Abionic appreciates the support it has received from:
• GUURU — Convert undecided shoppers into confident buyers with instant, authentic advice from your expert community.
• Pregnolia — Pregnolia ensures that every woman can have a happy, healthy and informed pregnancy until term. Their team knows that the existing research about preterm birth assessment is very promising, but this alone does not guarantee success. Sabrina, Francisco and Annette are highly committed to develop the commercial version of the device, complete theclinical trial, follow the regulatory roadmap and execute on their business vision to successfully support gynaecologists in improving the preterm birth risk assessment and birth management.

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• Plotlogic — We are Plotlogic, one of the world’s most innovative mining technology companies.
• BioLoomics — BioLoomics is a preclinical stage biotechnology company that uses evolution in a microscope to develop drug discovery tools and protein drugs. Our VariVolve platform tests millions of protein designs for a targeted activity in hours, enabling efficient mining of the vast chemical space of protein designs. A strong advantage of our approach is theuse of whole intact cells as test vessels that capture complex drug behavior not attainable in conventional assays.
• Machina Labs — Machina Labs is an advanced manufacturing company using next-gen AI and robotics technologies to build software-defined factories of the future.