Case Studies & Articles

If you’re building electronics, you’re building a BOM. Let’s make sure it doesn’t blow up the minute you try to use it.

As global trade policies evolve, electronics manufacturers must adapt their compliance strategies—particularly during early product development.

So, you want to start a hardware company? Fantastic. Welcome to the most brutal, cash-hungry, patience-testing, logistics-nightmare industry you could have chosen. But also, if you get it right, one of the most rewarding. There's something uniquely satisfying about holding a physical product you built and seeing customers use it in the real world.

How did Cofactr (YC W22) raise $17.2 million in Series A? We answered 4 questions correctly. If you can answer them honestly, and act accordingly, you’ll be on the right path to your own Series A.

Tariffs can feel like a complex and ever-changing burden for manufacturers and importers, but understanding them is essential to maintaining a resilient supply chain. In a recent discussion, Cofactr’s CEO & Co-Founder, Matt Haber, sat down with Phil Haney, an expert in global trade compliance, to break down the key concepts surrounding tariffs, country of origin, and best practices for businesses navigating this landscape.

Scaling a hardware startup is hard. Unlike software, where scaling just means spinning up more cloud servers, you have to wrestle with factories, component shortages, global logistics, tariffs, the list goes on.

When it’s time to scale a hardware startup, chances are you’ll battle supply chain woes, manufacturing delays, and a maze of your own spreadsheets. It’s not just bad luck, too often it’s just outdated habits.

On-time delivery can be a challenge in electronics manufacturing, here's how working with a 3PL provider can help.

The idea of managing Supply Chain Resilience (SCR) is just that, for most of us, an idea. Probably should get around to that, maybe next quarter. But what if it was dead simple? Juggling a million priorities and wearing many hats, we’ve all been there. Cofactr makes simple SCR so ridiculously easy it’s practically already done.

From mitigating supply chain risks to maintaining airtight compliance, this guide explores AI’s transformative role in high-compliance industries with actionable insights and resources to implement it responsibly.

Is Supply Chain Resilience just another buzzword amongst the jargon of “best practices”? Someday things will go sideways. It’s just how it is, but in this case, an ounce of prevention is much better than a pound of cure. So buckle up: here’s a crash course in fixing supply chain risk without needing a PhD.

Are electronic component prices on the rise? The Federal Reserve’s Dec 2024 PPI suggests they are. Meanwhile, Stratis Research predicts a major boom in the North American electronics market, which could drive prices even higher. Maybe general prices are trending up, but the real question on your mind is probably: Am I paying too much? Maybe you just want to be good at procurement. Maybe your CFO handed down an arbitrary cost reduction target. Or maybe—let’s be real—you just have that nagging feeling that somewhere out there, someone else is getting a better deal than you. Let’s break it down and see if you have a problem.