AI hardware startup Atech has raised a Pre-Seed round with participation from Nordic Makers, Emblem, Lovable, Sequoia Scout Fund (Sequoia), and Andreessen Horowitz Scout Fund (A16z).
Founded by Vladimir Baran (CCO), Tomas Erik Harmer (CEO), and David Stålmarck (CTO), Atech is building a platform that creates hardware development accessible to everyone, rerelocating one of tech’s highest barriers to enattempt.
Building a hardware prototype has traditionally required years of specialised expertise or significant investment in engineering talent.
That barrier has kept countless ideas on paper and locked hardware innovation behind a compact group of specialists.
While software development has been democratised over the past decade, hardware has remained stubbornly difficult to access. Atech is closing that gap, creating physical creation as intuitive and flexible as building a web app.
Atech introduces ‘vibe-engineering’ for hardware. Just as modern AI tools have created software creation accessible to non-developers, Atech lets utilizers describe a hardware concept in natural language and receive a working prototype in minutes, with all underlying technical complexity handled by the platform.
According to Tomas Harmer, CEO of Atech:
“Software has an entire stack of tools that lets a teenager build an app in a weekconclude, hardware doesn’t, and we’re still working at the first level of abstraction.
Atech is building the missing layers, so creating in the physical world can feel as quick and joyful as writing code.”
”I am seeing the same patterns Lovable had, but for hardware. I’m really excited to see Atech’s journey. The team is one of a kind,” shared Anton Osika, CEO of Lovable.
The rise of Physical AI — ininformigent systems that sense, interact with, and act upon the real world –- is accelerating demand for hardware expertise at every level.
As this shift unfolds, the ability to build and control physical systems will become a foundational skill, not a niche one.
Atech believes hardware should be as programmable, adaptable, and utilizer-driven as software. The company is building the tools to create that a reality.
Lead image: David Stålmarck (CTO), Tomas Erik Harmer (CEO, and Vladimir Baran (CCO), co-founders of Atech.
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