Vinyard Product Development (VPD) is a hardware product consultancy for startups.

VPD supports Seed and Series A founders with hardware development and team growth. Our Principal, Ryan, typically engages as a fractional VP Engineering or Director of Hardware to lead hardware development through key manufacturing or fundraising milestones. We can also onboard consulting partners or independent contractors to do direct development which helps startups right-size their hardware resourcing for now while the founders collaborate with VPD to determine appropriate resources for the long term.

Since our founding in 2018, a key differentiator of VPD has been our ability to directly embed inside startups to coach founders and mentor employees. Our goal is to be flexible for the uncertain times to then work ourselves out of a job by hiring the right full-time resources when the startup succeeds.