Hardware & Manufacturing accelerators

Hardware and manufacturing accelerators are few, and the three we track could not be more different in structure. HAX, SOSV's Newark residency, writes the biggest first check in the vertical, a $550,000 initial investment with hands-on engineering support, though its equity percentage is unpublished. mHUB in Chicago currently markets a $200,000 package for 6.5% equity across its energy, medtech, and sustainable manufacturing tracks, but its own pages describe the cash and in-kind breakdown inconsistently, and we disclose that rather than pick a number. The MassRobotics Accelerator paid robotics startups $100,000 with no equity taken, but it ran as a funded two-year initiative through 2025 and no new cohort is announced, so its page carries an honest dormancy note. Every figure here is the program's own published number; where a program does not publish a figure, we say so instead of guessing.