Aplicación YC de Bountiful

Winter 2017Active

Bountiful pasó por Y Combinator en el batch Winter 2017 como una empresa de Industrials. 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: Winter 2017
Industria: IndustrialsAgriculture
Tamaño del equipo: 4
Estado: Active
Lanzado: 2016

Fundadores

Megan NunesFounder/CEO

Lo que hace Bountiful

We’re on a mission to optimize the agricultural industry. When we started Bountiful in 2015, the grape error rate for predicting production was 30 percent. Why? We found that many farmers in the specialty crops space were still using traditional pencil-and-paper techniques to predict yield. These low-fidelity forecasting methods weren’t giving them a clear enough understanding of their production until it was too late, leading to waste and inefficiency throughout the supply chain. We saw a problem we wanted to solve. Today, Bountiful is using advanced data science to help farmers forecast more accurately, so they can make better decisions. In the last three years, we’ve combined the latest in machine learning with weather, satellite, geographic, and historical data. The result is a user-friendly platform that transforms volumes of complex agricultural information into simple, actionable insights farmers can use to run more economically and environmentally sustainable farms. More recently, we’re working to open the dialogue between buyers and sellers, remove uncertainty, and provide clarity to the supply chain to meet global food demand. Our ultimate goal is to close the agricultural margin of error. Not only will this make individual farms more efficient, profitable, and sustainable, but it will help optimize the global food supply chain. That means healthier people and a healthier planet.

Aplicación YC de Bountiful, reconstruida

Solicitud de Y Combinator

Bountiful, batch Winter 2017. Las preguntas reales del formulario, respondidas con datos públicos.

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Company

Company name

Bountiful

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

An Operating System for agriculture.

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

We built a platform that helps specialty crop farmers forecast their yields more accurately. Our product combines machine learning with weather, satellite, geographic, and historical data to turn complex agricultural inputs into actionable insights. This lets farmers reduce waste and inefficiency by understanding their production earlier and more precisely.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco gives us access to top engineering talent and proximity to tech investors, which helps us build and scale a data-driven agriculture platform.

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Preguntas Frecuentes

¿Es esta la aplicación YC real de Bountiful?

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 Bountiful (notas de lanzamiento, antecedentes de fundadores, descripción del producto). Muestra cómo una empresa como Bountiful se presentaría a YC, no el texto que enviaron.

¿En qué batch de YC estuvo Bountiful?

Bountiful formó parte del batch Winter 2017 de Y Combinator.

¿Quién fundó Bountiful?

Bountiful fue fundado por Megan Nunes.

¿A qué se dedica Bountiful?

An Operating System for agriculture.

¿Cómo leo la aplicación completa reconstruida?

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