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

Celebrity Cobie Smulders Partners with MAKO for Dreamvention 2019

Everyone at one point in their life was a child, with a dream to create. That is why MAKO was so thrilled to be invited on by Frito-Lay to work with these young inventors on the Dreamvention competition. Families are given the chance to work together using their...

Mako’s Client Moonlite Gets Major Celebrity Endorsements

When the children's toy home inventor Natalie Rebot came to us in back in 2016, we knew her product idea was brilliant and had huge potential. Her innovative idea was to create a more magical way of telling bedtime stories that would keep young children engaged by...

MAKO Client Backed With $100,000 Deal on Dragons’ Den

We're so excited to share that our client, Jonathan Schloo, a Toronto inventor, was just backed on CBC's Dragon's Den with a whopping $100,000 deal! His ingenious invention is something we should all have in our homes, and with the plan to sell the product in stores...

MAKO Named to the Prestigious Growth 500 Award

Recently Canadian Business named industrial design studio, MAKO as one of the prestigious 2018 Growth 500 list. Companies found themselves a spot on this list by growing their revenues by 799% between 2012 and 2017. Collectively these companies have employed 41,492...

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 Nominated For Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies

Each year Fast Company (FastCo) selects a handful of companies that are ranked as the world’s Most Innovative Companies of that year. This award honours leading enterprises and rising newcomers the exemplify the best in business and innovation. MAKO was nominated...

New Innovation: the Mako Student Innovation Award at Ryerson Sandbox DMZ

In the glow of the floor-to-ceiling ballistic blue foam pyramid at the Ryerson Sandbox DMZ, the Mako Student Innovation Award contestants excitedly discuss each other’s presentations. They await the decision of the eight judges who have been sequestered behind an...

MAKO Partners with Robert Herjevac & Frito-Lay for Dreamvention!

(AUSTIN, Texas) March 14, 2017 – MAKO Design + Invent is proud to announce their partnership with Robert Herjevac of ABC’s Shark Tank and PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay division to bring to life the Dreamvention contest, which is inspiring young minds to dream up their...

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SOME OF OUR CLIENTS

Comfy Cup

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

Z-Clip

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