MUNICH, Germany, Jan 13, 2025 – Siemens launched “Siemens for Startups”, a new program to empower early-stage engineering and manufacturing startups. Announced at CES 2025, the program will enable new companies to accelerate innovation, offer venture services to speed up development and scale faster, reducing costs for Siemens software and hardware access. “Startups are essential to making our customers more competitive, sustainable and resilient. By collaborating with startups, Siemens helps bring breakthrough ideas to industries faster, empowering customers to address global challenges more effectively with cutting-edge technologies, tools and solutions,” said Peter Koerte, member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG, chief technology officer and chief strategy officer.
The Siemens for Startups program has three pillars:
- Connect – Startup companies to connect with the Siemens Xcelerator marketplace, providing access to a global go-to-market channel and the Siemens Xcelerator ecosystem.
- Collaborate – Siemens will collaborate with startups through venture clienting. This will help startups with growth and early revenue.
- Empower – “Siemens for Startups” program will provide startups with packaged access to essential software tools from Siemens Xcelerator.
Partnership with AWS
As part of its ongoing strategic collaboration with AWS, Siemens will link the “Siemens for Startups” program with AWS’s Startup program to accelerate innovation, streamline development processes and enable startups to scale faster. The collaboration underscores both companies’ commitment to fostering entrepreneurship and driving digital transformation in the industrial sector.
“Collaborating with Siemens allows us to extend the capabilities of our AWS Startup program to a new generation of innovators in the engineering and manufacturing space,” said Jon Jones, vice president and global head Startups at AWS. “By providing startups with advanced software, generative AI and cloud services, AWS and Siemens are enabling them to bring their ideas to life more quickly and boost entire industries with cutting-edge solutions.”
Integrating Siemens’ comprehensive suite of industrial software – including design, simulation and manufacturing solutions from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio – into AWS’s scalable cloud infrastructure and startup program will enable startups to access the tools and resources they need to seize market opportunities. For technical and go-to-market support, qualifying startups will receive AWS credits, business development resources and access to the AWS Activate program.
Showcasing startups
At CES 2025, Siemens highlighted the following startup companies that are collaborating with Siemens’ teams and technology to scale operations.
- Arkisys is building one of the first business platforms in space for new technology hosting, satellite integration, assembly and resupply.
- Dirac, a Siemens Technology Partner, has introduced BuildOS, the first automated work instruction platform, using physics-based simulations and manufacturing best practices to automatically generate animated, interactive, 3D assembly-ready work instructions directly from CAD models. Dirac brings technological advancements to the Automotive and Aerospace & Defense industries.
- EthonAI is developing the EthonAI Manufacturing Analytics System (MAS), a software suite designed to achieve operational excellence at scale. Customers using EthonAI have achieved waste reductions of over 50 percent.
- Haddy is revolutionizing furniture manufacturing with advanced 3D printing and robotics, producing sustainable products at a low cost and on a commercial scale. Haddy is building a global network of local micro-factories equipped with hybrid Flexbot systems from CEAD and recycling units that shorten the supply chain and help the environment by reducing waste.
- Instrumental technology automates failure discovery and root cause analysis in electronics manufacturing — accelerating new product development.
- Tended uses geospatial data and wearable technology to transform the safety of high-risk work environments.
