Flow Engineering wants to modernize the hardware engineering design process

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They are stuck with a bunch of tech that doesnt communicate well with each other, leaving them to build Excel spreadsheets to organize their work, a method that is prone to errors due to its manual nature.Flow Engineering wants to fix that system and give hardware engineers, the folks who build complex systems like rockets and race cars, the same kinds of tools their software counterparts have.Pari Singh, the founder and CEO at Flow, says they are replacing spreadsheets and helping bring automation, integration and collaboration to the hardware engineering process, which he says hasnt evolved much over the last 30 years. So what Flow does is it glues all these models into one place, and helps engineering teams know if theyre meeting their core requirements or not, Singh told TechCrunch.He says that most large companies try to roll their own, but the problem his startup is trying to solve requires a level of focus that large companies typically lack in spite of their vast resources. He says that what these companies typically do is roll their own automations, but he believes they are missing the real solution.And what these engineering teams need isnt automation, but abstraction, and thats a very subtle, very important shift in how we look at that problem space, but which completely changes the solution you build, he said.The product is currently in private beta, so they are in very early days of the company, but the plan is to use the money to continue building and refining the solution before they deliver a generally available solution next year.The goal is to replace the spreadsheet for starters, and then layer on more features over time. And over time, as we build out more and more integrations, were going to be able to provide more value in a fairly productized manner, Singh said.The startup has around a dozen employees and plans to round out at around 20 next year. And we want to be able to do that in tool and in product and how we communicate to customers, but also who we are, he said.The $8.5 million seed investment was led by EQT Ventures with participation from Backed VC and several prominent industry angels.

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