Mudita Venture Partners is excited to announce an investment in Cableteque, a cloud-based platform that helps wire harness manufacturers quote faster, reduce errors, and win more business by turning OEM (original equipment manufacturers) designs into production-ready data. Mudita joined 11Tribes Ventures and others in a $3 million SAFE round at a $22.5M post-money cap.
Why This Matters
Cableteque is tackling a mission-critical workflow for wire harness manufacturers that directly impacts speed, margin, and reliability. Wire harnesses are essential to aerospace, automotive, and industrial systems, yet the handoff from OEMs to suppliers still runs on PDFs, spreadsheets, and email. Cableteque starts with quoting automation, then compounds advantage through a growing data layer built from real manufacturing decisions.
The Problem
Wire harness manufacturers are slowed by a broken handoff between OEM design and supplier execution. Designs created in engineering tools often arrive as incomplete PDFs, forcing teams to manually rebuild bills of materials, check compatibility, source parts, and estimate labor. The result is slow quoting—often 40–60 hours per quote—along with errors, rework, delays, and margin loss.
The Solution
Cableteque provides an AI-powered execution-layer platform that ingests real-world design inputs (including incomplete PDFs and native ECAD files), reconstructs BOMs , validates component choices, enriches the design with sourcing + labor intelligence, and replaces spreadsheet-driven quoting with a single system of record.
The outcome is simple and powerful:
- Quoting time collapses from days/weeks to minutes
- Fewer errors + less rework
- Higher throughput + higher win rates
- A compounding data flywheel that improves accuracy and defensibility over time
The Team
Arik Vrobel (Founder & CEO) is a second-time founder and wire harness industry expert with a prior successful exit. He built and scaled Elcom Systems into a leading aerospace and defense harness supplier before selling the company in 2021. Today, he’s applying that operator experience to modernize the software layer between OEMs and manufacturers.
The broader team pairs deep industry expertise with experienced product and data leaders, purpose-built for a data-intensive, workflow-driven platform.
Traction
Cableteque is showing early product-market fit with strong usage-driven traction:
- ~$662K ARR ramped in ~7 months post-launch
- ~39 paying customers, primarily SMB manufacturers
- Usage-based pricing driving natural expansion
- Early enterprise validation with ECI, including expansion to a ~$160K ARR deployment and a credible path to larger rollouts
- Customers report quoting time dropping from 60 hours to minutes
Why We’re Excited
- Founder–market fit. Arik built and sold a leading aerospace and defense wire harness supplier and is now solving the problem he lived firsthand.
- Hidden but critical pain. This workflow controls timelines, compliance, and margins—yet still runs on PDFs and spreadsheets.
- Clear ROI, sharp entry point. Quoting automation delivers fast payback and quickly becomes part of daily operations.
- Defensible data advantage. A proprietary data layer built from real manufacturing decisions, not static specs.
- Category leadership potential. The market is small today but underpenetrated and likely to consolidate around a few trusted platforms.
Cableteque is fixing a critical, under-digitized workflow that shapes speed, cost, and reliability across complex physical systems. With early traction and a compounding data advantage, the company is on a clear path to becoming the system of record for wire harness quoting and execution.
