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Founded by Akshay Chalana & Oscar Avatare who have built software for hardware and compliance at Twitter, Tesla, Amazon, and Hyperloop.
Building industrial machinery that can hurt someone, like robot arms and autonomous trucks? Your customers will mandate TÜV safety certification per particular ISO and IEC standards!
Building small appliances that plug into the grid? Many retailers won’t sell your product, and commercial buildings won’t install it unless you’re UL or CE certified!
Building a satellite or communication system? The FCC won’t allow it to operate without certification!
Building defense equipment for the government? They won’t buy it unless it’s compliant with the relevant MIL-STDs
Hardware products can’t get to market because teams don’t know how to navigate the certification process. Unlike SaaS, there are no tools like Vanta that tell you exactly what you need to test, change, and re-evaluate in your designs to pass audits. Every hardware company they talk to gets stuck in rework cycles with their consultants and auditors that they call “horrendous and intimidating” (real customer quote).
The team has seen this at Amazon and Tesla, where engineers don't know when a change breaks certification. Each iteration requires them to work with consultants to understand what broke, lengthening the time to launch.
They created Saphira to empower these innovators to rapidly build complex products that actually work, all while achieving and maintaining compliance with the evolving regulatory landscape.
Saphira tells you exactly what you need to account for in your design and testing to achieve and maintain hardware safety certification and compliance. It's a centralized data source for the requirements, tests, and standards that are relevant to your product, making it straightforward to identify and triage safety and compliance risks without wasting months of time and thousands of dollars on slow safety consultants.
Saphira automates traceability: regulatory reports by engineers that prove that requirements like “the robot arm won’t shock an attendant if touched while in motion” were implemented and validated. These reports are painful and tedious to produce. By maintaining references to all necessary source information, Saphira can automatically generate these reports, and even automatically identify which additional standard clauses are relevant to each requirement or design value.
Saphira is for engineers at hardware organizations of any scale and size:
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