End-To-End
Physical
Product
Development
for Startups
& Small
Businesses

MAKO Design + Invent is a full-service consumer product development firm servicing small product businesses and early-stage invention startups. With a 25-person team across 4 offices (Austin, Miami, Toronto, and soon Shanghai), MAKO has complete in-house industrial design, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, patent referral, prototyping, and manufacturing services. To assist our start-up inventor clients, in addition to above, we help with patenting, strategy, marketing, and sales/distribution for all consumer product categories.

New to inventing / product development? Get your free Invention Manual here:

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For Small Businesses & Manufacturers

Click below to find out more about our full suite of in-house industrial, mechanical, and electrical design, engineering, and development services tailored to established physical product development companies.

CORPORATIONS, click HERE for more info

For Inventors & Startups

Have an invention idea? We have developed hundreds of products for startups in addition to providing end-to-end solutions to get our inventor clients from Idea to Stores Shelves! We are here to help.

STARTUPS, click HERE for more info

FEATURED MAKO POSTS

MAKO Opens Third Location in Miami, Florida’s Design District

Big News for Our Product Development Firm! The MAKO team has officially opened our third office location in North America in the up and coming tech scene of sunny Miami, Florida. We are so thrilled to share this news about our product development firm....

How to Build A Successful Startup Business: Advice from MAKO’s Founder

Is your entrepreneurial spirit just itching to come out? Then maybe it’s time you stop working that mundane 9 to 5 and start a career in which you have more control over your hours and your pay. In this article, we will discuss the various methods that you can...

Make48: MAKO’s Director of Design Judges National Competition on PBS

Make48 - Spearheading Innovation in 48 Hours Just outside Baltimore, cameras descended on the state-of-the-art 4,500 square-foot, Stanley Black & Decker Makerspace for the filming of the third season of PBS’s Make48. When the sawdust had settled and the...

MAKO’s Top Level Designers to Appear on National TV Show Make 48

As inventors ourselves, we know what it’s like to tinker with every concept and tiny detail of an invention. Our industrial design company will help create products with both short and long timelines depending on the specifications. So, what happens when you add a...

From Helicopter Crash to Inventor: Veteran Partners With MAKO on Invention

It’s every pilots’ worst nightmare. You’re 30,000 feet high, soaring high above the clouds, with the sun beaming off your face - when the engine starts to stutter. Suddenly, it stops propelling the enormous metal contraption and you’re forced into a life-threatening...

MAKO Named Official Industrial Design Firm of Austin Design Week

This year’s Austin Design Week featured many diverse events for design aficionados to explore, including designing parenthood, playing with chalk, exploring the world of artificial intelligence design, designing your career, and so much more. With the Austin...

MAKO Hosts Design Workshop For Trend Hunters’ Future Festival

Known as one of the best innovation conferences in the world, Trend Hunter’s Future Festival is like Disneyland for any product development company, let alone any thought leaders in innovation. But, instead of hosting vendors who typically exhibit their brand or...

MAKO Awards 10K to Cricket Based Food Company for Innovation

When you think of crickets, what comes to mind? Do you think of cricket vanilla-bean ice cream? How about chili con cricket? Or cricket Bolognese? These are just a few of the first things that come to mind for our product design firm because we recently awarded the...

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SOME OF OUR CLIENTS

CarGenerator

Kharaband Battery-Extending Watch Band

GoFish Underwater Camera

Clasp Magic Jewelry Device

Performa Series Gym Lock

VOCA Eyewear

Festken

Moonlite

Retractable Cell Phone Case

Blume Cigar Humidifier

Vape Lite

Jewelry Loom

ViFi Speaker

Garmin GPS Concept

Club Clips

Broom Comb

Modular Outlet

Yip Yap

Petbot

Agnite

BMW Key Fob

It’s extremely exciting to be revolutionizing the incredible industry of industrial design and development. For each project we earn, we are given the responsibility of developing something amazing to disrupt and improve an entire product market segment for the client. Our goal, simply put, is to make our clients’ product businesses hugely successful.

Kevin Mako

President, MAKO Design + Invent