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CoLab (YC S19) — Human and AI design review for hardware

CoLab is on a mission to accelerate the pace of innovation by helping engineering teams deliver better products faster. CoLab’s Design Engagement System (DES) enables engineering teams to have more effective design conversations, design reviews and ultimately make better engineering decisions.

CoLab is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2019 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Human and AI design review for hardware. The founders listed are Jeremy Andrews (Founder), Adam Keating (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, May 3, 2019).

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CoLab

New accelerator entry · 2019-05-03 · the record

Summer 2019
batch
150
people
Growth
stage
Canada
region
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BatchSummer 2019
Announced2019-05-03
StageGrowth
StatusActive
Team size150
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
SectorsHardware, SaaS, Collaboration
RegionsCanada, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedSt. John's, NL, Canada
HiringNo
Sitehttp://colabsoftware.com
Previously known asCoLab Software

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CoLab is on a mission to accelerate the pace of innovation by helping engineering teams deliver better products faster. CoLab’s Design Engagement System (DES) enables engineering teams to have more effective design conversations, design reviews and ultimately make better engineering decisions. CoLab launched AutoReview in 2025 - an AI peer checker that marks up 2D and 3D files. CoLab is trusted by Fortune 500 organizations like Ford, Komatsu, Johnson Controls, GE Appliances and Lockheed Martin.

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