ABOUT US

Unleash the potential of American manufacturing

At CADDi, we’re empowering American manufacturing by consolidating all fragmented engineering and supply chain data into one essential platform.

CADDi’s Founding Story

CADDi began on the shop floor quoting parts from drawings, coordinating with factories, and inspecting quality ourselves. In those early days, our founders saw the brilliance of manufacturing: the intuition of experienced engineers and the craftsmanship within every factory and supplier network. But they also saw how easily that knowledge could vanish. 

Founded in 2017 by Yushiro Kato (McKinsey, embedded in factories) and Aki Kobashi (Apple engineer), CADDi was built on a conviction: manufacturing cannot move forward if its expertise remains unutilized and scattered.  

Our mission is to unleash the potential of manufacturing by converting experience into shared intelligence. With a global team nearing 1,000 people, CADDi builds a Manufacturing AI Data Platform that preserves hard-earned know-how and elevates decision-making across engineering teams, factories, and suppliers. 

Manufacturing holds limitless potential. We’re here to make it compounding.

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Global Team Members

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Active Platform Users

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Our Founders

Yushiro Kato‬

Co-founder and CEO

Yushiro worked at McKinsey & Company, co-leading procurement for the manufacturing sector, spending significant time on the shop floor and helping expand the firm’s IoT and AI practice. He founded CADDi in 2017 to unleash the potential of manufacturing, and in 2023, he was named one of the top 10 entrepreneurs by Forbes.

Aki Kobashi

Co-founder and CEO

Aki completed his bachelors and masters in engineering at Stanford University. After four‬
‭years of building data processing systems at Lockheed Martin in coordination with NASA and‬ JAXA, Aki joined Apple to work on mobile products including the iPhone. Later on, he worked‬ as a senior engineer on the development of embedded products such as the Airpods.‬ Co-founded CADDi in late 2017. Selected as “30 under 30” by Forbes in 2019.

Our Leadership

Our leadership team brings decades of combined experience across manufacturing, technology, and business innovation driving CADDi’s mission to transform the global supply chain.