Shubhi Mishra.

Shubhi Mishra founded Raft, a defense and government technology company providing AI-enabled software platforms to U.S.

federal agencies including the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and intelligence community customers. Raft has grown rapidly as federal demand for modern software platforms, AI-enabled decision support, and secure cloud-native systems has accelerated. Under her leadership, the company has expanded from a small consultancy into a product-focused government technology business operating at scale across multiple federal customers. Mishra was named a 2025 EY Entrepreneur of the Year National Technology Award finalist. Raft represents the new generation of government technology companies - software-first, cloud-native, AI-enabled systems that contrast sharply with the legacy contractors historically dominating federal IT. Her leadership of Raft as a woman-founded, technology-first federal supplier makes the company one of the more interesting new entrants in government technology, particularly as federal agencies face pressure to modernize and as the legacy contractor base shows signs of struggling with cloud-native and AI-enabled requirements that were not part of their core operating models.