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What is AllSpice.io, and why was it made? Our founding story

For Engineers. By Engineers.

Our inspiration

One of our founders, Kyle, was working at a 3D printing company two years ago when he first noticed the lack of tools for hardware developers. He was building the electrical and software engineering teams. As the company grew bigger, he looked for tools to help manage the development process and allow his teams to collaborate.

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October 6, 2025

Kyle soon learned that while there were some great options for software, there wasn’t anything comparable for hardware. He discovered that tools would only work with one or two other software programs in his workflow, but not with the entire suite he needed. This meant he and his hardware team had to spend hours manually re-entering information, almost counterbalancing the benefits of adding a new system.

How we started

AllSpice co-founders, Valentina Ratner and Kyle Dumont, first met in the fall of 2018 in the first class of Harvard’s MS/MBA dual degree program.

Prior to graduate school, Valentina worked at Amazon where she got involved with internal productivity and project management software tools. From this experience, she brought an interest in helping teams design, develop, and adopt digital tools to make their everyday work better.

We spent a semester talking about the challenges in the hardware development space and brainstorming ways to address them. We kept coming back to this notion of making the development process smooth, with fast iterations and data that would empower engineers to design incredible products.

Because we couldn’t find a solution to do this, we decided to build one.

Where we are going

Our goal is to build the hardware development ecosystem of the future through data transparency and automation to enable agile design.

How do you think our physical world would look if you could develop hardware with the ease and speed of software?

We think it would look pretty cool.

Curious about some of the other ways AllSpice can improve your hardware development? Let us know below so we can tackle them in a future post, or send us an email at info@allspice.io.

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Kyle Dumont

Co-Founder & CTO

Kyle Dumont is an Electrical Engineer, the Co-Founder and CTO of AllSpice.io. He has a background in electrical engineering product design, having taken products from concept to mass-manufacturing at iRobot and Voxel8. He specialized in hardware system integration and sensor design, holding 5 patents in these areas. Kyle received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, as well as an MS in Engineering with a focus on Computer Engineering and Machine Learning and an MBA from Harvard.

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Valentina Ratner

Co-Founder & CEO

Valentina Ratner is Co-Founder and CEO of AllSpice.io, a collaboration platform for teams developing hardware. Prior to launching AllSpice out of graduate school, she worked at Amazon as a PM, managing infrastructure projects and internal productivity tools.Valentina holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University, an M.S. in Engineering (Computer Science), and an MBA from Harvard. Born and raised in Argentina, she now lives in San Francisco with both her husband and miniature schnauzer Fritz.