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Jiga wants your engineer to meet the machinist
A custom part can survive a thousand calculations and still be undone by one unanswered question. Jiga puts engineers and manufacturers in the same conversation, with software to keep the paperwork from taking over.
Bamboo Rose and the $28 hiding in an invoice
Retail loses money in the gaps between design, buying and delivery. Bamboo Rose builds software to close those gaps - and its most revealing success story begins with a very ordinary bill.
Arena by PTC and the expensive art of getting the parts right
A cheaper magnet, a corroded switch, and a familiar manufacturing headache. Arena by PTC has built a cloud software business around a deceptively simple question: which version are we actually making?
Elemica’s trillion-dollar translation business
Chemical companies built Elemica to get their incompatible systems talking. Twenty-six years later, the interesting part is what happens after the message arrives.
Walmart Data Ventures and the secret life of a shopping basket
Every receipt records a decision. Walmart Data Ventures sells suppliers a way to understand it - and, increasingly, a way to do something about it.
LightSource and the $30 Billion Spreadsheet
At Tesla, Spencer Penn watched car parts move through spreadsheets and email. LightSource is his attempt to give the people buying those parts a record that survives the next design change.
itim’s big bet: your next online order is already in the shop
The retail software company wants to turn local stock and store staff into an online advantage. Its work with Majestic Wine shows the idea in action; its own accounts show what it takes to sell the change.
SourceDay Built a Control Room for the 52% of Purchase Orders That Refuse to Sit Still
A purchase order looks final right up until a supplier changes the date, quantity or price. SourceDay built its business in that unruly gap between the ERP's plan and the factory floor - then started teaching software to resolve the safest changes on its own.
aPriori Technologies
aPriori Technologies is a Concord, Massachusetts software company that turns 3D CAD designs into instant manufacturing cost, manufacturability, and carbon-footprint insights. Founded in 2003 out of University of Illinois research, its cloud Manufacturing Insights Platform - aP Design, aP Pro, and aP Generate - lets engineers, sourcing teams, and cost analysts simulate how a part will be built, what it should cost across regions, and how much CO2e it will emit, before tooling is ever cut. Manufacturers such as GE Aerospace, Carrier, Alstom, Flex, and Whirlpool use it to catch cost and design problems early and negotiate with suppliers from data rather than guesswork.
Bild
Bild is a San Francisco cloud PDM/PLM platform that moves hardware design collaboration off email, spreadsheets, and shared drives and into the browser. Founded in 2021 by ex-Apple engineering program manager Pradyut Paul, it gives mechanical and hardware teams version control, check-in/check-out, bill-of-materials, change orders, and secure supplier sharing across multiple CAD formats, plus an AI suite for diffing and searching designs.
Specright
Specright is the first cloud-based, patented platform for Specification Data Management - the digital backbone that captures the DNA-level data of products, packaging, formulas, and bills of materials in a single source of truth. Founded in 2014 by packaging veteran Matthew Wright, it helps the world's largest brands and challenger startups cut costs, accelerate innovation, and reduce waste by replacing scattered spreadsheets with connected, auditable specification data. The platform now hosts more than 5 million products and is layering AI across formulation and spec-first PLM workflows.