Cofactr Electronics Supply Chain Platform

Cofactr Inc. is a United States electronics supply chain company backed by Y Combinator and Bain Capital Ventures. It serves hardware companies in aerospace and defence, robotics, autonomous vehicles, medtech and consumer electronics, where engineers and buyers lose time sourcing parts from many distributors, tracking compliance data and managing component inventory for builds.

The platform covers procure-to-ship under the tagline From BOM to Build. Users upload a bill of materials and AI-powered component intelligence matches parts, compares suppliers and lets buyers order from every supplier in one cart. Compliance and traceability tools record supplier and inventory data, including country of origin, for regulated industries. Cofactr also provides ITAR-registered warehousing and kitting with real-time stock visibility, so components can be stored and shipped as kits to contract manufacturers. Integrations include Altium and ERP and PLM systems, and the 2025 Cogbase acquisition added a network of over 450,000 suppliers.

• BOM upload: start procurement directly from a bill of materials.
• Component intelligence: AI matching of parts, suppliers and alternates.
• One-cart purchasing: buy from multiple suppliers in a single order flow.
• Compliance and traceability: supplier, inventory and country-of-origin data.
• Storage and kitting: ITAR-registered warehousing with real-time stock visibility.
• Supplier network: over 450,000 suppliers added through the Cogbase acquisition.

A Vietnamese electronics company building products for US customers can document component origin and supplier data for compliance reviews. A hardware startup can consolidate purchasing for prototype builds across several distributors. An EMS partner can receive pre-kitted components for each production run.

Buyers order across many suppliers in one cart instead of managing separate distributor accounts. Cofactr cites more than 40% time savings in procurement tasks, 80% faster BOM procurement and an 85% reduction in production delays. Traceability and country-of-origin data support regulated programmes. Managed storage and kitting let teams scale builds without adding procurement staff.

Tariffs, export controls and country-of-origin rules have made electronics sourcing more complex, and hardware makers need traceable, multi-supplier procurement rather than ad hoc distributor orders. As supply chains shift towards Vietnam and Southeast Asia, manufacturers and their customers in the region face the same demands for documented component origin and resilient sourcing.

Cofactr Inc. raised a 17.2 million USD Series A in November 2024 led by Bain Capital Ventures, with Y Combinator, DNX and Floating Point. In May 2025 it acquired Cogbase. In 2024 it released DocAI, country-of-origin visibility and an Altium integration. Customers include Stoke Space, Neros Technologies, Salient Motion and PatchRx.