End-To-End

Physical Product

Development for

Startups and 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, London, Toronto, and soon Florida), 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

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 last...

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...

MAKO Named to Inc 5000 List as Fastest Growing Company!

MAKO has always strived to be a leader. It’s our mission to be leaders in manufacturing, product development, prototyping, and design. Now, we have been officially recognized as a major leader in North America, placing #1270 on the annual and much anticipated Inc....

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 own...

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SOME OF OUR CLIENTS

Festken

Moonlite

Retractable Cell Phone Case

Broom Comb

Blume Cigar Humidifier

Vape Lite

Jewelry Loom

ViFi Speaker

Garmin GPS Concept

Club Clips

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