From connected medical wearables to surgical tools, we have contributed to projects that combine performance, miniaturization and integration.
Our History
From selling evaluation boards under the name Microsystèmes Optimal in 2005 to the official founding of Motsai in 2010, our story is that of a company that has grown alongside its customers and innovations.
Each milestone—research partnerships, international expansion, expertise in AI and IoT—has brought us closer to our mission: helping businesses transform their ideas into reliable and high-performing electronic products.
Our DNA
Optimal Microsystems: online sales of electronic development boards.
Doctoral thesis submitted, first client projects in telecom and aeronautics.
Hiring and moving to a first location in St-Bruno.
Local exhibitions, beginnings in MedTech, launch of the Neblina project (miniature sensors).
New premises, first participation in CES in Las Vegas, projects in virtual reality and haptics.
Deployment of IoT technologies, predictive maintenance projects, founding of Soralink.
Connected MedTech projects, IT vision, continuation of activities despite the supply crisis.
Settled in Brossard, started at Hannover Messe, generative AI development.
Presence at Hannover Messe and VivaTech Paris, collaboration on AI and cybersecurity.
Development towards Asia and Europe (Germany, France).
But with us, it's different.
Whether you are a startup, SME, or R&D team, we are here to accelerate your market launch. We help you demystify every step of the process.
By Your Side
Ready to bring your idea to life?
Your medical ideas transformed into reliable, compliant devices.
Your wearable concepts turned into connected, ready-to-use products.
Your smart home ideas converted into secure, reliable products.
From idea to factory: your industrial project executed with rigor and expertise.
Innovation never stops — and neither does Motsai.
Motsai helps companies turn ideas into reliable electronic products. We design system architectures, embedded hardware, and software solutions, and we support clients through the full journey from concept to industrialization. Electronics is where we live, from choosing the right integrated circuits through board design and enclosure integration. We draw from a broad landscape of components and technologies to find the combination that genuinely best meets your performance, cost, and integration requirements, not just what is convenient or familiar.
If you are looking to develop or improve an electronic product or system, you are likely a good fit. We work with early-stage startups, growing technology companies, and established R&D organizations. We generally engage with companies that have some corporate structure in place, though we understand the startup world well and have helped many early-stage teams build novel products through fundraising rounds and beyond. We do not take on consumer repair mandates or direct-to-consumer work.
One of the most meaningful differences is that we have no stake in how your product gets manufactured. Many design firms are tied to component distributors or sit inside manufacturing services companies, which quietly steers designs toward expensive or franchised component lines and locks future production into workflows that serve the manufacturer more than the client. That can look affordable at first, but the long-term hit to your bill of materials and your manufacturing flexibility adds up.
We also bring a pragmatic view to the build-versus-license question. If an ODM approach makes more sense for your product, we will tell you rather than insist on designing everything from scratch. When a full end-to-end engagement is the right path, we can deliver it, covering industrial design, hardware, firmware, embedded intelligence, and integration strategy. We work with trusted partners across those disciplines and stay focused on the electronic core that drives your business objectives.
We can engage at any stage. Whether you are stress-testing an idea, building a first prototype, or preparing for industrial production, there is a way we can help. Early involvement is often where we add the most value, since that is when risks are cheapest to address. We are practiced at structuring focused R&D efforts to clear technical uncertainties upfront, then shifting into detailed engineering once performance has been vetted in a structured and methodical way.
Yes, and we treat them as a single discipline rather than two parallel tracks. Our team designs embedded hardware, electronic boards, and firmware together, validating everything against the system requirements agreed upon at the start. That integrated approach, refined across hundreds of projects, is what lets us manage risk, avoid late-stage surprises, and deliver systems that actually perform as specified once they are in the field.
