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Outerport

Design automation for industrial electrical controls

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.
Active Founders
Towaki Takikawa
Towaki Takikawa
Founder/CEO
Ex-Research Scientist at NVIDIA, working on R&D for simulation (neural fields, 3D computer vision, 3D generative models). Previously worked in robotics (systems engineering / electro-mechanical design) and manufacturing (operating various CNC machines 😎).
Jobs at Outerport
San Francisco, CA, US / Tokyo, JP
$100K - $200K
0.50% - 3.00%
Any (new grads ok)
San Francisco, CA, US / Tokyo, JP / Remote (US; JP; CA)
$60K - $200K
0.50% - 3.00%
3+ years
San Francisco, CA, US / Tokyo, JP / Remote (US)
$60K - $200K
0.50% - 3.00%
3+ years
Tokyo, JP
$60K - $200K
0.10% - 3.00%
1+ years
San Francisco, CA, US / Tokyo, JP / Remote (US; JP; CA)
$100K - $300K
1.00% - 5.00%
6+ years
Outerport
Founded:2024
Batch:Summer 2024
Team Size:4
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Brad Flora