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Mishra built Raft from a small consultancy into a scaled, AI-enabled software platform serving the Pentagon, DHS, and intelligence agencies — a woman-founded challenger disrupting legacy federal IT contractors poorly equipped for cloud-native modernization.
Shubhi Mishra founded Raft, a defense and government technology company providing AI-enabled software platforms to the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and intelligence community customers.
The company has grown from a small consultancy into a product-focused federal business at scale. Mishra was named a 2025 EY Entrepreneur of the Year National Technology Award finalist.
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