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Atira, founded in Munich, Germany in November 2024 by Florian Diegruber and August DuMont Schutte, builds an AI orchestration layer sitting between a manufacturer’s CRM and ERP systems to automate requirement extraction, bid/no-bid decisions and technical documentation generation for industrial sales engineering.

CognVision (Shenzhen CognVision Technology Co., Ltd.), founded in 2018 and headquartered in Shenzhen with sites in Xi'an and Suzhou, builds high-end optical inspection equipment for PCB and broader semiconductor manufacturing. Its product line spans pure 3D AOI, hybrid 2D+3D AOI, micro-via inspection and final appearance inspection systems, combining classical machine vision with deep learning to detect three-dimensional defects that conventional 2D inspection cannot cover as AI compute boards grow denser and more layered.

Hemu Intelligence (legal entity: Hemu Artificial Intelligence Technology (Chengdu) Co., Ltd.) was founded in May 2026, incubated jointly by the Dongguan Institute of Next-Generation AI Industry Technology and mold manufacturer Duanpin Precision. Registered in Chengdu with its core incubation and operations in Dongguan (plus a Guangzhou branch), the company focuses on physical AI and manufacturing semantic computing for mold making, developing its own Uniwood large model to build an AI process brain covering quotation, mold design, DFM analysis, process scheduling, production and quality inspection, with plans to extend into hardware forming a "brain + carrier" product model.

Almetra (formerly Deltia), founded in 2022 in Berlin, Germany, deploys AI cameras above factory production lines to transform local video in real time into structured manufacturing data—including takt time, output, and utilization—helping manufacturers identify bottlenecks.

Dryft, founded in 2024 by Anna-Julia (AJ) Storch and Leonie Freisinger and headquartered in San Francisco, builds an agentic operating system for manufacturing operations (Hugo AI). It combines context-aware AI agents with mathematical optimization to automate decisions such as inventory monitoring, supplier follow-up, safety-stock adjustment, production planning and supply-chain coordination that legacy ERP systems leave to manual work, a category it calls Enterprise Resource Automation, serving European and US industrial manufacturers.

Hadrian, founded in 2020 in Torrance, California, builds automated factories to manufacture precision parts for the aerospace and defense industries.