Violet Labs
"Connective tissue for hardware engineering"
Violet Labs builds a cloud-based digital thread platform that integrates engineering data across the hardware development lifecycle for robotics and aerospace.
Violet Labs is a software technology company founded in 2021 by Caitlin Curtis and Lucy Hoag, engineers with backgrounds building spacecraft, drones, and self-driving vehicles for DARPA, Google, Lyft, and Amazon. The company is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and develops a cloud-based digital thread integration platform purpose-built for complex hardware engineering programs in sectors such as robotics, aerospace, and defense.
The Violet platform serves as a centralized engineering source of truth that connects disparate software tools used across the hardware development lifecycle—requirements management (Jama, Flow, Valispace), CAD, PLM (Teamcenter, Arena), modeling and simulation, MES, and ERP systems—into a unified live digital thread without requiring custom code. No-code connectors ingest data from all these tools, automating data synchronization, status tracking, and requirements verification and validation (V&V) workflows.
Key features include AI-powered workflow automation, data-driven requirements management with support for formal Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) practices including SysML and OML, and automated part syncs between PLM systems and downstream procurement and manufacturing targets such as Boltline, Cofactr, Ion, and Manufacturo. The platform also supports custom data visualization via Metabase integration and Violet Scripts for advanced automation, which have been made FIPS-compliant to serve government and defense contractors.
In 2025, Violet achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance and delivered dozens of new features focused on giving engineering teams a single dashboard to manage product development. The company has raised $4 million in funding from investors including AWS Startups, Felicis, Inverted Ventures, MaC Venture Capital, and Space Capital.
Violet Labs targets engineering teams building rockets, robots, autonomous vehicles, and other complex hardware systems where fragmented tooling and manual data management create costly delays and quality risks. Its platform reduces reliance on expensive systems integration consultants by enabling non-programmers to configure sophisticated data orchestration pipelines entirely within a no-code environment.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Violet Digital Thread Platform
- Model: Violet
- Launch Year: 2021
No-code cloud platform integrating requirements, CAD, PLM, MES, and ERP data into a live digital thread for hardware engineering teams.
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2021
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