Arrow Electronics is the $31 billion company hiding inside the things other companies build. Its advantage is not a single chip or cloud product, but the difficult work between a promising design and a dependable, scalable business.
It is one of the largest companies most people have never heard of - the connector and sensor maker behind your car, your factory floor, and the AI data centers everyone else is busy hyping.
Z2Data is a Santa Clara, California supply chain risk management (SCRM) company that turns a normalized database of over a billion electronic components, a million-plus suppliers, and hundreds of thousands of global manufacturing sites into a single platform for mapping, monitoring, and de-risking the technology supply chain. Founded in 2016 by a team with two decades of supply chain experience, it blends human-curated data with AI and machine learning so engineers, procurement teams, compliance officers, and ESG strategists can see part-to-site risk, regulatory exposure, obsolescence, and geopolitical disruption before it reaches the production line.
Cofactr is a New York-based software and logistics company that automates electronics procurement and supply chain operations for hardware manufacturers. Its cloud platform takes a team from bill of materials (BOM) to build by combining AI agents with ITAR-registered warehouses to handle sourcing, ordering, traceability, storage, kitting, and delivery. Cofactr is built for high-compliance, fast-moving industries such as aerospace, defense, robotics, and medical devices.