--- title: Colare launches with $2.5M to help hardtech hire the... description: Colare has launched with $2.5M in pre-seed funding to help hardtech companies hire engineers. Afore Capital, Garage Capital and Acadian Ventures backed the San... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/colare-launches-with-2-5m-to-help-hardtech-hire-the-right-engineers-zbx9cqvg1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Colare launches with $2.5M to help hardtech hire the right engineers | daily.dev og:description: Colare has launched with $2.5M in pre-seed funding to help hardtech companies hire engineers. Afore Capital, Garage Capital and Acadian Ventures backed the San... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/colare-launches-with-2-5m-to-help-hardtech-hire-the-right-engineers-zbx9cqvg1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zbX9cqVg1.png og:image:alt: Colare launches with $2.5M to help hardtech hire the right engineers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Colare launches with $2.5M to help hardtech hire the right engineers **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Colare has launched with $2.5M in pre-seed funding to help hardtech companies hire engineers. Afore Capital, Garage Capital and Acadian Ventures backed the San Francisco startup. Its software turns a job ad into simulation-based tests, like designing a part or circuit board, and scores both process and output. Hiring one hardware engineer can eat up about 40 hours of senior staff time, the company says. Half its clients work in aerospace and defence. Co-founder Esther Thomas built it with Nain Abdi, a University of Waterloo student who previously worked as an engineer at Ford. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How much funding did Colare raise and who are the investors? Colare raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding from Afore Capital, Garage Capital and Acadian Ventures. The San Francisco startup builds simulation-based hiring assessments for hardware engineers in aerospace, defense and manufacturing. Co-founders Esther Thomas and Nain Abdi, a University of Waterloo student who worked as an engineer at Ford, built the platform to replace proxy-based evaluation with task-based testing. _Teams evaluating hiring tools for hardware roles can follow funding and launch news like this on daily.dev._ ### How much senior engineering time does hiring a hardware engineer typically take? Hiring one hardware engineer can consume about 40 hours of senior staff time, according to Colare, a startup building simulation-based assessments for hardtech hiring. The company argues this happens because there has been no good way to test hardware engineering skills early, forcing firms to rely on lengthy interview processes instead. _Engineering leaders weighing hiring process overhauls can track this kind of hiring-cost data on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Altara secures $7M to bridge the data gap that’s slowing down physical sciences](https://daily.dev/posts/altara-secures-7m-to-bridge-the-data-gap-that-s-slowing-down-physical-sciences-7kywgbzka) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [HiringCafe lands $6.8M to fix the broken job hunt with AI talent agent](https://daily.dev/posts/hiringcafe-lands-6-8m-to-fix-the-broken-job-hunt-with-ai-talent-agent-jdajiseeq) · The Next Web · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [What devtools founders making $100M\+ ARR told me in San Francisco—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog](https://daily.dev/posts/what-devtools-founders-making-100m-arr-told-me-in-san-francisco-martian-chronicles-evil-martians--2ooh6wqce) · Martian Chronicles · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI chip startups soak up $1.1B in VC funding this week](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-chip-startups-soak-up-1-1b-in-vc-funding-this-week-sbcfggett) · The Register · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#startup](https://daily.dev/tags/startup) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/colare-launches-with-2-5m-to-help-hardtech-hire-the-right-engineers-zbx9cqvg1) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Colare launches with $2.5M to help hardtech hire the right engineers","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/colare-launches-with-2-5m-to-help-hardtech-hire-the-right-engineers-zbx9cqvg1","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/colare-launches-with-2-5m-to-help-hardtech-hire-the-right-engineers-zbx9cqvg1"},"datePublished":"2026-10-26T12:10:28.885Z","dateModified":"2026-10-27T01:37:47.258Z","description":"Colare has launched with $2.5M in pre-seed funding to help hardtech companies hire engineers. 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