For Startups and Spin-offs

At EnCata, we are your one-stop partner for comprehensive hardware and firmware development, tailored to empower startups in IoT, robotics, aerospace, MedTech, and deep-tech industries. We specialize in guiding startups through the critical pre-seed phase, where your product begins to take shape, and the seed stage, as you prepare to make your market debut.

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Development Hub for New Physical Products and Hardware Solutions

We recognize the unique hurdles and challenges entrepreneurs and startups face in designing hardware devices, tangible prototypes, or embedded systems. The longer timelines, higher costs of changes, and the need for significant investments in MVPs demand smart, meticulous engineering to ensure your ideas meet market needs. Our one-stop service bridges the gap between your product concept and mass production.

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Your Extended Team

EnCata becomes your extended team, bringing deep expertise to your project. With us, you can strategically allocate resources as needed, reducing overhead and HR costs.

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Retain Full IP Ownership

You retain complete ownership of all generated IP, including technology, CAD models, source code, and engineering documentation.

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Agile Product Development

Our agile approach ensures flexible responses to changes, enabling you to achieve early results and adapt quickly throughout the project lifecycle.

Enhance Your Team's Engineering Expertise

Partner with us to add experienced industrial designers, PCB developers, and programmers to your team. Our production team will help reduce costs and create an efficient prototyping strategy.
Rely on our expertise at any stage, from feasibility studies to working with your chosen OEM.

Industrial design

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design sketching; competitors analysis, ergonomics and special human factors, solid and surface modelling

Mechanical design

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metal structures; drives, gearboxes and suspension units; pneumatics and hydraulics; robotics and complex kinematics

Electrical engineering

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PCB design and prototyping, PLC programming and industrial automation, PF design, Battery management systems (BMS)

Design for manufacturing

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injection molding, metal bending and welding, CNC machining, wiring and assembling.

EnCata's key industry

Food Tech

EnCata designs custom equipment for the food and drinks industry, from automated systems and precision dosing to packaging machinery and personal use devices, tailored for home, service, and industrial needs.

Robotics

Our engineers are ready to bring your innovative ideas and business model into developing autonomous mobile robots, service robots, drone systems, automated guided vehicles, and more.

Industrial Equipment & Tools

EnCata designs custom conveyors, dispensers, manipulators, quality control systems, and more, integrating AI, if needed, to enhance efficiency and meet your production needs. Click to find the expertise you seek.

Industrial IoT and Automation

Our team will integrate sensors, actuators, communication protocols, data acquisition systems, and human-machine interfaces to fully automate your production facility or warehouse.

Consumer Electronics & Wearables

Got an idea for earrings that detect nearby objects or answer calls like earphones? Whatever the concept, our engineering team has your project covered.

Analytical & Lab Equipment

EnCata will assist you in developing and manufacturing custom chromatography systems, spectroscopy equipment, microscopy and imaging tools, lab automation systems, environmental monitoring instruments, thermal analysis equipment, and more.

Agri Tech

Autonomous machinery, precision systems, robotic equipment, livestock monitoring, post-harvest and processing equipment, farm management systems, we’ll get you covered.

Healthcare

Our engineering team will guide your medical device, equipment, or system from concept to small-batch production, taking care of every detail along the way.

Flexible Development to Meet Your Goals

Product development should align with your company's investment and growth strategy. We create an optimal roadmap tailored to your needs, whether for pitching to investors or competing in technology contests.

Time + Materials

Ideal for agile development and on-demand consulting, T&M lets you quickly adjust your level of commitment.

Fixed Price

Setting up clear deliverables and acceptance procedures which leads to firm dealines and a fixed budget.

Hybrid / Milestones

We divide the project into phases and estimate only the next phase using insights gained from the previous one.

  • On demand consultancy
  • Research projects and R&D
  • Early stage engineering / product development
  • Rapid and first-time physical prototype manufacturing
  • Physical prototype assembly
  • Firmware development
  • Tests and design validation
  • Design of subsystems and units
  • Tight deadlines
  • Product concept is validated through testing and approved by users
  • Iterative device improvements
  • Easily verifiable and demonstrable deliverable quality
  • Look-alike prototype for presentation or pitching
  • Deep science projects
  • Long term partnership (up to TRL-8)
  • Design for manufacturing
  • Discovery phase and feasibility study
  • Aligned with your fundrising strategy
  • Look-alike prototype for presentation or pitching

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