EP 102 — Vendra's Shan Mohta On Going From 200 Investor Rejections To Parts Orbiting Earth
At Vendra, three operations engineers manage over 250 U.S. suppliers. A top competitor worth $5 billion needs one ops engineer for every two to three suppliers. The difference is a software layer that reads CAD files, matches parts to qualified shops, and orchestrates the full supply chain from quote to delivered hardware.
Shan Mohta, Co-Founder and CEO of Vendra (YC S24), designed hardware at Microsoft, Apple, and Skydio before building the platform. Vendra now ships flight hardware for aerospace and defense customers, with parts in orbit and on upcoming launch vehicles.
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