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

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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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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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Valentina Ratner

Co-Founder & CEO

At heart, I’m an engineer. I love building real world things and improving the way we build them. Early in my career, I watched capable teams build complex systems using archaic workflows that had not really evolved. AllSpice.io started as an effort to change that and bring modern software practices, and now AI, into hardware development. These days, I don’t build products hands-on anymore, but I get to see them come to live through the teams we support. Originally from Argentina, I moved to Boston for school and earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University followed by an M.S. in Engineering with a focus on Computer Science and an MBA from Harvard. I now live in San Francisco with my husband, young son, and very sassy miniature schnauzer.

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Kyle Dumont

Co-Founder & CTO

I've always been obsessed with building, innovating, and finding novel solutions for emerging technologies. Since early in my career, I've loved the synthesis between physical hardware and digital integration electrical engineering offered, and spent many years taking hardware products from concept to mass-manufacturing. I started AllSpice.io to ensure hardware engineers have all of the data they need to make impactful decisions at their fingertips. I live in the Boston area, and hold a BS in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, a MS in Engineering with a focus on Computer Engineering and Machine Learning and an MBA from Harvard, and 5 patents in hardware system integration and sensor design.

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Valentina Ratner

Co-Founder & CEO

At heart, I’m an engineer. I love building real world things and improving the way we build them. Early in my career at Amazon, I watched capable teams build complex systems using archaic workflows that had not really evolved. AllSpice.io started as an effort to change that and bring modern software practices, and now AI, into hardware development. These days, I don’t build products hands-on anymore, but I get to see them come to live through the teams we support. Originally from Argentina, I moved to Boston for school and earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University, an M.S. in Engineering (Computer Science), and an MBA from Harvard. I now live in San Francisco with my husband, young son, and very sassy miniature schnauzer.

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Kyle Dumont

Co-Founder & CTO

I've always been obsessed with building, innovating, and finding novel solutions for emerging technologies. Since early in my career, I've loved the synthesis between physical hardware and digital integration electrical engineering offered, and spent many years taking hardware products from concept to mass-manufacturing. I started AllSpice.io to ensure hardware engineers have all of the data they need to make impactful decisions at their fingertips. I live in the Boston area, and hold a BS in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, a MS in Engineering with a focus on Computer Engineering and Machine Learning and an MBA from Harvard, and 5 patents in hardware system integration and sensor design.

FAQs

Quick answers to common questions about this topic.

What is AllSpice?

A platform for hardware development collaboration and version control.

Why was AllSpice created?

To solve inefficiencies in hardware workflows.

What problems does it address?

Collaboration, version control, and design review challenges.

Who is it for?

Hardware engineers and development teams.

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