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mHUB - No. 29 

Leading U.S. innovation center for hardtech and manufacturing, mHUB, makes No. 29 on the Fast Company 2025 Best Workplaces for Innovators list.

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1 80,000SF facility on Chicago's Near West Side.
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2 Inside one of mHUB's 11 labs for prototyping and micro-factory production.
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3 mHUB members, ZenBlen, iterate on autonomous smoothy vending machine. 
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4 Neuraura founder pitches biowearable platform for PCOS at the 2025 Med Tech Demo Day of the mHUB Accelerator.
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5 Hundreds gather for the 2024 Energy Tech Demo Day of the mHUB Accelerator backed by industry partners Constellation and Invenergy. 
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6 Members working in a private office space at mHUB.
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7 YouTube founder, Steven Chen, speaks at mHUB during the 2024 DNC in Chicago
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8 Visitors gather during the mHUB Women in Manufacturing and Engineering event. 
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9 The mHUB Product Showcase and member wall, honoring the startups, partners, and funders that make mHUB tick.
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10 Startup founder demoing physical product solution during an mHUB product showcase.
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11 One of mHUB's many shared workspaces, which include hot desks, reserved desks, privates offices, and corporate suites.

Connecting minds to solve meaningful problems

Today, manufacturing-based innovation is about more than building a rocket or weapons arsenal. It’s about prioritizing progress in every-day hardware, manufacturing, and infrastructure solutions that enable emerging technologies, improve lives, grow economies and wealth, and help the U.S. stay competitive.

At mHUB, brilliant minds, advanced prototyping tools, capital, and industry come together to lower the cost and risk of commercializing the technologies that fuel US industry, workforce, and economy. From over 1,200 startup founders and engineers to strategic funders and partners, diverse perspectives and disciplines converge at mHUB to overcome challenges and accelerate innovation.

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The future runs on hardware

Innovators at mHUB are building what the world needs next, from cooling and storage solutions that protect critical resources to medical devices and wearables that improve lives - mHUB understands the advancements that matter are hardware dependent.

 

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Where progress is engineered, not imagined

mHUB does more than develop products that shape physical reality. It supports business and job growth, wealth creation, and the strengthening of U.S.-based manufacturers and supply chains - all through an unyielding focus on innovation.

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A better way to build

Innovation happens fastest when the people who know how to build are in the same room as the people who need it built. Industry, startups, and institutions tap into mHUB's large talent pool to turn visionary ideas into tomorrow's reality.

Impact of the mHUB Startup Community

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$2.02B

Capital Raised

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1,702

Products Launched

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565

Patents Awarded

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6,809

Employees Hired

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$76M

Spent with U.S. Manufacturers

Ways to get involved

Become a Member

Whether you are a startup, entrepreneur, business, or university, there is a membership option built for you. To learn about individual, university, or small team membership, email: membership@mhubchicago.com.

To get a general overview of the benefits of membership, visit the Become a Member page.

Form a Strategic Corporate Partnership

Corporate innovation teams partner with mHUB to optimize existing business lines, create new products, solve complex changes through R&D, and support brand goals. 

There are many reasons why businesses partner with mHUB and each partnership is uniquely tailored.

To learn about corporate partnerships, email: brennan@mhub.org

Visit the Corporate Innovation page for initial information.

 

 

 

Explore Philanthropic Giving

From climate to workforce to economic development, funders partner with mHUB to support tailored program and resources or provide general operating support - all with the intention of addressing societal challenges and improving lives through solutions for the physical world.

To learn about accelerating the impact of the mHUB ecosystem, email: elizabeth@mhub.org

Learn more about the mHUB's impact: https://www.mhubchicago.com/impact

Invest in mHUB Startups

mHUB Ventures invests in seed and early-stage physical product and hardware startups, closing the funding gap and reducing barriers to commercialization through the mHUB accelerator. 

To learn more about mHUB's investment strategy and how to join the next fund, email: alex@mhub.org or visit the mHUB Ventures page.

 

 

Rent Commercial Space

To learn about large industry studio space for corporate teams, email membership@mhub.org

 

Host an Event

To learn about hosting your networking event, cocktail reception, panel conversation, corporate meetings, or other events in the mHUB venue, submit your request to rent event space.