Colare is a San Francisco company building a simulation-based technical screening platform for hardware-intensive industries such as aerospace, defense, energy and advanced manufacturing. Its software turns a job description into hands-on engineering assessments, spanning CAD, PCB design, thermal analysis and FEA, that candidates complete in browser-based professional tools under proctoring, scoring both process and output against rubrics built by senior engineers. Founded by co-CEOs Esther Thomas and Nain Abdi, it serves clients from seed-stage startups to multibillion-dollar manufacturers, with roughly half of its customers in aerospace and defense.
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