Aplicación YC de Assembly

Summer 2015Active

Assembly pasó por Y Combinator en el batch Summer 2015 como una empresa de B2B. Abajo: qué hace la empresa, quién la fundó y su aplicación a YC, reconstruida pregunta por pregunta en el formulario real de YC.

Batch YC: Summer 2015
Industria: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Tamaño del equipo: 12
Estado: Active
Lanzado: 2015

Fundadores

Jonathan FriedmanFounder/CEO

Lo que hace Assembly

Crowdfunding has fueled an increase in innovative product companies turning to Chinese factories for production. Yet, Chinese factories seem undifferentiated because they all make the same, unverifiable claims of excellence. This results in competition centered on price. Factories are forced to under-bid contracts to win business, but often, they later surprise the customer with quality problems and delays. This process is broken. We install cameras and remote monitoring software on the assembly line, and this ensures compliance with test protocol, improves quality, reduces liability, and helps fight warranty fraud. We charge a nominal per-unit fee to the OEM and revenue share with the factory when they demonstrate compliance with quality standards (whether units pass or fail). It encourages better behavior from factories and rewards those who perform with an audit trail of good performance that helps them win new foreign business. On average, defect rate will fall 75% within 5 months of deploying Assembly at a factory.

Aplicación YC de Assembly, reconstruida

Solicitud de Y Combinator

Assembly, batch Summer 2015. Las preguntas reales del formulario, respondidas con datos públicos.

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Company

Company name

Assembly

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Advanced manufacturing monitoring for Chinese factories

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built a remote monitoring system that installs cameras and software on Chinese assembly lines to track compliance with test protocols. The system reduces quality issues and warranty fraud by providing an audit trail factories can't fake. Customers are overseas OEMs who want verified quality from their Chinese manufacturers.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in South San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

South San Francisco is near our current network and key partners. It's a strong base for dealing with US-based OEMs while managing remote manufacturing in China.

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Preguntas Frecuentes

¿Es esta la aplicación YC real de Assembly?

No. Y Combinator mantiene privadas las aplicaciones enviadas. Esta es una reconstrucción: las preguntas reales del formulario de YC, respondidas a partir de los datos públicos de Assembly (notas de lanzamiento, antecedentes de fundadores, descripción del producto). Muestra cómo una empresa como Assembly se presentaría a YC, no el texto que enviaron.

¿En qué batch de YC estuvo Assembly?

Assembly formó parte del batch Summer 2015 de Y Combinator.

¿Quién fundó Assembly?

Assembly fue fundado por Jonathan Friedman.

¿A qué se dedica Assembly?

Advanced manufacturing and distribution solutions (for China-based…

¿Cómo leo la aplicación completa reconstruida?

Crea una cuenta gratuita de Round Funded. La versión completa de 26 respuestas de la aplicación de Assembly, y de cada otro batch de YC, está en YC Insights.