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Tesora

Summer 2025 · Active

Digital employees for manufacturing operations

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2025

Team size: 2

About

Tesora builds Digital Employees for manufacturers. Our sourcing analyst handles supplier discovery, qualification, and negotiations over voice and email, creating a net new function that was not possible before.

Founders

  • Vivek RaoFounder / CEO

    Co-founder and CEO of Tesora McKinsey, Sycamore Partners (~$14B AUM), UChicago / Booth Alum

  • Federico Reyes GomezFounder

    Federico Reyes Gómez, Co-founder & CTO | Stanford BS/MS in CS & Philosophy | Google Document AI alum who turned down Stripe to join his professor’s Sequoia-backed startup Kumo, deploying graph neural networks on relational data. AI researcher and forward-deployed engineer, side-project junkie, and indie music producer (PICO).