$SENRA-SYSTEMS · Senra Systems' $65M Series B: Fixing Aerospace & Defense's Biggest Bottleneck

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Senra Systems' $65M Series B: Fixing Aerospace & Defense's Biggest Bottleneck

2026-07-15 · 2 company · 4 thematic

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jordan black

Former SpaceX manager of R&D electronics team; co-founded Senra Systems 3 years ago after experiencing wire harness bottlenecks firsthand. Started building harnesses in apartment, now operates two Southern California factories with 80,000 sq ft expansion. Obsessed with manufacturing efficiency and deleting 'horseshit' from processes.

ken venner

Legendary manufacturing IT executive: scaled Broadcom from 1,000 to 10,000 employees and $400M to $8.6B revenue over 11 years with 52 M&A deals; then CIO at SpaceX (reporting to Elon Musk and Gwynne Shotwell) where he built Warp Drive, scaling from 1,000 to 9,000 employees and 1 to 40 boosters/year. Joined Senra to replicate scaling playbook. Also owns Tour Wines winery in Sonoma since 2009.

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“People need more rockets. People need more missiles. People need more cars. Everything in the hardware space is booming right now. And the center of all of it wire harnessing. I saw this firsthand at SpaceX where wire harnessing was the ba…”

—jordan black

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