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.
Jai Glazer is a Harvard junior in Pforzheimer House concentrating in Social Studies who has stacked an unusually deep venture and go-to-market resume before finishing his degree. He is Vice President of Strategy at the Harvard Undergraduate Venture Capital Group, a scout at Afore VC, and has worked on go-to-market teams at Rho and at Sana, a Forbes AI 50 startup, plus a summer as an analyst at Alinea Ventures. He also writes opinion pieces for the Harvard Independent and practices Muay Thai.
Arkestro is a San Francisco-based predictive procurement platform that uses machine learning, game theory and behavioral science to help enterprise buyers run faster, smarter sourcing events. Born as BidOps in 2016, it now serves Fortune 500 manufacturers, energy and logistics firms and claims roughly 18.8% savings per dollar of spend.
Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform that bundles applicant tracking, sourcing, scheduling, CRM, and analytics into a single AI-powered system used by companies like OpenAI, Shopify, Notion, Snowflake, and Ramp.
Edmund Zagorin is the founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Arkestro, the AI-powered Predictive Procurement Orchestration platform he co-founded in San Francisco in 2017. Drawing on a philosophy degree, championship-level policy debate experience, and years as a procurement consultant to Fortune 500 companies, Zagorin built Arkestro around a radical premise: that AI, game theory, and behavioral science could predict procurement outcomes before a sourcing cycle begins - cutting sourcing time by 60-90% and delivering average cost savings of 18.8% per million spent. The company has raised $104M in total funding, including a $36M Series B in 2025 led by Altira Group and Aramco Ventures. Away from procurement, he publishes fiction and poetry under the pen name Elizeya Quate.
Globality builds AI-powered autonomous sourcing software that helps Fortune 500 enterprises run procurement projects without the spreadsheets, RFPs, and consultants that have ruled the function for decades. Its AI agent, Glo, scopes projects, finds suppliers, analyzes proposals, and negotiates - all in natural language.
Zip is the AI platform for enterprise procurement, pioneering the intake-to-procure category and connecting the fragmented world of corporate spending into one orchestrated system. Founded in 2020 by Rujul Zaparde, Lu Cheng, and Felix Meng, Zip has processed over $500 billion in spend across 7.4 million suppliers, saved enterprise customers $6.8 billion, and raised $371 million at a $2.2 billion valuation - including the largest procurement tech investment in over two decades. With 50+ purpose-built AI agents, Zip is turning one of the most paper-heavy, approval-laden corners of corporate life into a fast, intelligent, and auditable process.