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Outerport

Active · Design automation for industrial electrical controls

WebsiteYC profile

Why it ranks

How the rank works
10signal of 100 · rising 5
  • went through YCProgram · this site+4
  • team of 4Team size · YC's directory+3.6
  • hiringHiring · Titles (titles.fru.dev), YC+2

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Competitors

AIHERAShared: design, industrial, manufacturingYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIMechanical AIShared: design automationPlug and PlayUnited StatesStartup →AIAsterquanta Systems Inc.Shared: design automationAlchemist Class 41TorontoStartup →AIPlanby TechnologiesShared: design automation500 Global 2023South KoreaStartup →AIMstackShared: specialty chemicalAntler 2026USStartup →
Companies closest to Outerport
Company
HERAShared: design, industrial, manufacturingYC S26ActiveAI
Mechanical AIShared: design automationPlug and Play Not statedAI
Asterquanta Systems Inc.Shared: design automationAlchemist Class 41Not statedAI
Planby TechnologiesShared: design automation500 Global 2023Not statedAI
MstackShared: specialty chemicalAntler 2026Not statedAI

Adjacent

AINormalShared: industrial, manufacturing, hardwareYC S25San FranciscoStartup →AINeuron IndustriesShared: industrial, manufacturing, controlYC S26Los AngelesStartup →AIF4 IndustriesShared: industrial, hardware, drawingYC S25San FranciscoStartup →AIPartclShared: design automationYC X25San FranciscoStartup →AIPivot RoboticsShared: labor intensive, industrialYC W24San FranciscoStartup →
Companies next to Outerport
Company
NormalShared: industrial, manufacturing, hardwareYC S25ActiveAI
Neuron IndustriesShared: industrial, manufacturing, controlYC S26ActiveAI
F4 IndustriesShared: industrial, hardware, drawingYC S25ActiveAI
PartclShared: design automationYC X25ActiveAI, Devtools
Pivot RoboticsShared: labor intensive, industrialYC W24ActiveAI

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Founders

  • Towaki TakikawaFounder/CEO

About Outerport

We’re about to see an influx in the AI-led discovery of new medicines, specialty chemicals, and materials. This means the bottleneck will shift from R&D, to the scale-up of these new recipes. Unfortunately, designing these production systems and making sure they can be operated safely is an expensive and labor-intensive ordeal that involves thousands of pages of drawings where one mistake can cause millions of dollars in rework or even disasters. Outerport solves this by helping engineering firms automate the design of the industrial control systems needed for production scale-up, using a domain-specific language for electrical design with thousands of unit tests that verify performance, and building simulators that can ingest already built schematics of plants to help automate comissioning and help train operators to prevent costly mistakes.

YC batch
S24 · Summer 2024
Status, per YC
Active
Category
AI, Developer tools
Team size
4
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Founded
2024
Checked
6h ago

YC tags: Hardware, Design, Manufacturing, Industrial

Changes seen

One-linerOct 8, 2026

Rewrote its one-liner; it read "EDA for Industrial Control Systems"

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TagsOct 8, 2026

Newly tagged Design; no longer tagged Semiconductors.

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Outerport in S24: 248 companies, 85% AI

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Outerport: questions

Which YC batch was Outerport in?

Outerport was in Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch (S24).

Is Outerport still active?

Y Combinator lists Outerport as active.

Who founded Outerport?

Outerport's founders, as listed on its YC page: Towaki Takikawa (Founder/CEO).

Where is Outerport based?

Outerport lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.