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.
design sketching; competitors analysis, ergonomics and special human factors, solid and surface modelling
metal structures; drives, gearboxes and suspension units; pneumatics and hydraulics; robotics and complex kinematics
PCB design and prototyping, PLC programming and industrial automation, PF design, Battery management systems (BMS)
injection molding, metal bending and welding, CNC machining, wiring and assembling.

EnCata's key industry

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.

  • 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

Testimonials

EnCata is an outsourced product development services company. You can get our support in hardware engineering and obtain a full-cycle product development service, such as industrial design, mechanical and electrical engineering, prototyping and design-for-manufacturing.
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4.9

Max Malukalo

Founder
5.0
Top-quality VR prototype on time, excelling in expertise and communication—highly recommended!

Our experience with EnCata was exceptional. They took on the challenging task of designing and developing a virtual reality headset for sports training, delivering a functional prototype despite the tight timeline. Their expertise in custom hardware design, electronics, and manufacturing was evident at every stage. They successfully addressed critical factors like the device's weight without compromising functionality. The team was proactive, asking insightful questions and recommending adjustments to enhance the project, which made the process smoother and more efficient.

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Jens Voges

Principal at Winely
5.0
Mechanical Development of Large Scale Industrial IOT Sensor that Withstands Harsh Environment

This is the second project I've worked on with EnCata and I continue to be impressed. The first project was electrical and firmware engineering intensive and this one was mostly mechanical in nature. In both cases, EnCata delivered solid engineering work, which is a testament to the breadth and depth of their capabilities. On this most recent project, we developed a large and complex IOT sensor assembly that is used in a harsh environment. We collaborated with EnCata entirely remotely. Although most of their engineers don't speak English fluently, their project managers do.

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Francesco Lo Conte

Founder, Managing Director at Esprow LLC in New York
4.8
"Fabrication of a large electromechanical appliance."

I selected EnCata after researching about 50 firms globally from Japan to San Diego. Eventually my decision was driven by the availability of in-house design and fabrication capabilities and by costs. While other firms may have one but not the others, EnCata has both under the same roof, which allowed me to prototype very quickly. You can literally walk from the engineering department to the manufacturing shop. It’s amazing. The team at EnCata is skilled across the entire manufacturing spectrum, including electronic design, mechanical design, simulation, programming, DFM, and so forth.

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