旧金山初创公司 Colare 宣布成立，并获得 Afore Capital、Garage Capital 和 Acadian Ventures 共计 250 万美元的种子前融资。该公司通过模拟真实工程任务来测试硬件工程候选人，旨在节省资深工程师的面试时间。其客户中有一半来自航空航天和国防领域。
San Francisco startup Colare has launched with $2.5M in pre-seed funding from Afore Capital, Garage Capital and Acadian Ventures. It tests hardware engineering candidates with simulations of real tasks, aiming to save senior engineers’ interview time. Half its clients are in aerospace and defence.
这家旧金山初创公司 Colare 专注于让求职者通过真实工程任务接受测试，公司于周一宣布获得 250 万美元早期融资。Afore Capital、Garage Capital 和 Acadian Ventures 参与了投资。
Colare, a San Francisco startup that tests job seekers on real engineering tasks, has launched with $2.5M in early funding, the company said on Monday. Afore Capital, Garage Capital and Acadian Ventures put in the money.
Colare 面向制造火箭、卫星、国防系统和工厂的企业。公司表示，招聘一名硬件工程师会耗费资深员工约 40 小时的时间，因为此前没有好的方法能在早期测试这些技能。
Colare is aimed at firms that build rockets, satellites, defence systems and factories. Hiring one hardware engineer can eat up about 40 hours of senior staff time, the company says. That is because there has been no good way to test those skills early.
其软件可将招聘广告转化为测试，例如设计零件或电路板。候选人在实际工作中会用到的工具里解决真实问题。Colare 随后对他们的工作方式和成果进行双重评分。
Its software turns a job ad into tests, such as designing a part or a circuit board. Candidates solve real problems in the tools they would use at work. Colare then scores both how they work and what they make.
Colare 联合创始人兼联合首席执行官 Esther Thomas 表示：“硬件企业‘仍在用替代指标来评估工程师是否真能胜任工作’。”
Hardware firms “are still evaluating engineers with proxies for whether someone can actually do the job,” said Esther Thomas, Colare’s co-founder and co-CEO.
对这类工程师的需求正在增长。美国劳工统计局预计，未来十年每年将有约 3800 个航空航天工程师职位空缺。投资者也在加大对硬件领域的支持，红杉资本已承诺投入 100 亿美元用于人工智能及国防、制造等行业。
Demand for these engineers is growing. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics expects about 3,800 openings for aerospace engineers a year for the next ten years. Investors are backing hardware too, and Sequoia has committed $10B to AI and industries such as defence and manufacturing.
人工智能也让简历和面试更难令人信服。招聘软件公司 Greenhouse 2026 年的一份报告显示，91% 的美国招聘经理表示曾见过或怀疑面试答案由 AI 生成。
AI is also making CVs and interviews harder to trust. In a 2026 report by hiring software firm Greenhouse, 91% of US hiring managers said they had seen or suspected AI-generated interview answers.
公司表示，Colare 一半客户从事航天、航空和国防业务，涵盖从新创企业到大型制造商。Thomas 与加拿大滑铁卢大学学生 Nain Abdi 共同创立了公司，后者曾在福特担任工程师。关于 Colare Colare 是首个专为硬科技打造的招聘平台。Colare 捕捉工程师筛选人才时所依赖的直觉，将其转化为可在整个候选人池中大规模应用的技术测评。它采用基于仿真的工程测评，在任何人进行通话交流前，便展示候选人实际如何思考、构建和解决问题。
Half of Colare’s clients work in space, aviation and defence, from new startups to big manufacturers, the company says. Thomas set it up with Nain Abdi, a student at Canada’s University of Waterloo who worked as an engineer at Ford. About Colare Colare is the first hiring platform built for hardtech. Colare has harnessed the intuition that engineers use to screen their hires and turned it into technical assessments that can be scaled across the entire candidate pool. It runs simulation-based engineering assessments that show how a candidate actually thinks, builds, and solves before anyone gets on a call.