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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
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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.
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.
FEATURED MAKO POSTS
MAKO Named Top 100 of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies!
Over the past couple of months, we’ve been delighted to hear that Mako Design + Invent has been awarded for numerous exceptional awards and recognitions. In recent company news, one of the most infamous company ranking lists – Growth 500 – has listed Mako Design +...
Catch MAKO on Season 3 of Make48 Airing Nationally!
Mako Design + Invent on the Third Season of Make48 Back in 2018, we were excited to hear that Mako Design + Invent received the opportunity to appear on National TV! As one of the leading and top product development firms in North America, it is extremely important...
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...
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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.
Recent News Articles about MAKO Design + Invent
⋅ Entrepreneur Magazine: MAKO earns Top 100 Entrepreneurial Firms!
⋅ Venture Beat: Robert Herjavec, Google, & MAKO
⋅ Ryerson University: MAKO boosts
⋅ Google Official Blog: How MAKO discovered lean growth
⋅ BII2: Kevin Mako appointed as Fellow at Brookfield Institute for Entrepreneurship
⋅ Globe and Mail: each office abroad means a new set of rules
⋅ SAGE: Kevin Mako keynotes at SAGE Nationals
⋅ Ryerson University: Kevin Mako keynotes Ryerson DFZ Launch
MEET THE MAKO TEAM!
Kevin Mako
President
Ryan Davidson
Senior Product Strategist
Tim Uys
Director of Design
Justin Bui
Electrical Engineering Manager
Joe Brod
Senior Product Strategy
Rick Stockton
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Leona Lyons
Project Management Director
Bruce Lee
Senior Industrial Designer
Robert Colgan
Senior Industrial Designer
Luther Yap
Senior Mechanical Designer
Magnus Skold
Senior Industrial Designer
Demsey Kirkwood
Mechanical Engineer
Hossein Kazemi
Mechanical Designer
Joe Shim
Director of Finance
Jesse Waldin
Technical Research Analysist
Paul Davis
Industrial Designer
Amy Rogers
Project Manager
Cameron Navarre
Mechanical Designer
Justin Tyra
Mechanical Engineer
Sergio Martinez
Industrial Designer
Leighann Roden
Hiring Manager
Helen Dworaczek
Office Coordinator
Navdeep Singh
Electronics Designer
Ready for MAKO to make YOUR product the next success story?