HowFactory

HowFactory makes it easy for industrial companies to create, use, and manage processes and training, at scale. Desktop to to mobile.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Software
  • Location Cedar Falls, IA, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded January 2015
  • Employees 6
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website howfactory.com

Company Summary

HowFactory's mobile and online SaaS platform makes it simple to create, update, and collaborate on visual training, work instructions, and standard operating procedures. Your industrial training, services, and production teams transform old school processes into know-how, at scale.

From the engineer’s desk to the technician’s phone, from the trainer’s laptop to the shop floor monitor, with HowFactory, tribal knowledge belongs to the tribe.

Team

  • Trace Steffen
    CEO

    Co-founder of HowFactory Trace is an educator and technologist. Trace has trained hundreds of workers at companies like Honda of America, Case New Holland, and more. He successfully commercialized a VR industrial training system and is a certified Agile Product Owner and Scrum Master. A finalist for the Prometheus: Chief Innovation Officer of the Year, Trace keeps his edge sharp by mentoring startups and speaking on product development.

  • Alyx Sandbothe
    UX/UI Designer

    Design lead at HowFactory Alyx's skills have grown into user experience and user interface design from a background in graphic design. She graduated with a bachelors from University of Northern Iowa in graphic technology and a minor in marketing. Persistent in learning since graduation she now excels in user experience and front end development.

  • Andrew Vick
    Growth Hacker

Advisors

Previous Investors

  • Adam Ingersoll
    Co-Founder & Principal, Compass Education Group
    Eric Engelmann
    CEO Geonetric
    Unconfirmed
    Ravi Patel
    President at Hawkeye Hotels
    Unconfirmed
  • Shaun Linderbaum

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