From Funded to Shipping — Without the Surprises
We help venture-backed hardware companies move from first build to full production with the speed, reliability, and transparency your investors expect.
You’ve Raised the Money. Now You Have to Ship.
Let’s Get it Right Together
The pressure after a funding round is real. Investors are watching, your launch window is tight, and your product has to work — first time, every time.
Most contract manufacturers are built for established companies with stable designs and predictable volumes. They’re not built for the reality of a hardware startup: designs that iterate, volumes that ramp fast, and timelines that don’t move.
We are.
Amtech has spent 30+ years manufacturing electronics for companies at every stage. We understand what it takes to get a funded hardware company from prototype to production — and we’ve built a process specifically for that journey.
The Amtech Startup Journey
We meet you where you are and move with you as you grow
| Step | Description | What We Do |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pre-Production & Design Validation Before you spend money building boards, we validate your design is ready to manufacture. | – DFM — Design for Manufacturability: Can your design be built efficiently and reliably at scale? – DFA — Design for Assembly: Are component placements and orientations optimized for assembly? – DFV — Design for Supply Chain Viability: Are your components available, fairly priced, and not single-sourced? We flag tariff exposure and long lead time parts before they become a crisis. |
| 2 | Pilot Build A controlled first production run designed to surface every issue before you commit to volume. | – Full build documentation and traceability – Real-time communication — you know exactly what’s happening on the floor – Honest DFM feedback based on what we actually saw during the build – A clear path to production with no surprises |
| 3 | Production Launch Quick-turn production built for hardware startups with tight launch windows. | – Fast turnaround without sacrificing quality – Flexible volumes — we’re built for the ramp, not just the run – Responsive communication — we pick up the phone – A manufacturing partner who is as invested in your launch as you are |
| 4 | Iteration & Scaling We grow with you through every revision, ECO, and volume increase. | – Engineering change order (ECO) management – Component lifecycle and supply chain monitoring via bomsense.com – Volume flexibility as you scale from hundreds to thousands of units – A long-term manufacturing partner who knows your product as well as you do |
FROM INBOUND TO IMPACT
A CASE STUDY
A venture-backed logistics and fulfillment IoT company found Amtech the same way a lot of our best customers do — they filled out a form on our website. What started as a single inquiry became one of our most valued partnerships, scaling to $3-5M in annual production.
They needed a CM that could move fast, communicate clearly, and handle multiple part numbers without dropping the ball. That’s exactly what we built Amtech to do.
Before coming to Amtech they had tried two other contract manufacturers. The results spoke for themselves:
Other CM #1 Other CM #2 Amtech 30% yield 70% yield 100% yield — first try We took their design exactly as it was — no delays, no redesign requests, no excuses. We expedited materials through our global supply chain network to hit their timeline and delivered a 100% yield on the first production run in just 8 weeks from design to shipment.
Once we proved we could deliver, we got to work making things better. In the next production iteration we performed a full DFM and DFA analysis on their design — identifying opportunities to reduce manufacturing complexity, simplify assembly, and eliminate failure modes that were adding labor and cost. The result is a product that is easier to build, cheaper to produce, and more consistent at scale with every run that follows.