Candidature YC de Assembly

Summer 2015Active

Assembly a été sélectionné par Y Combinator dans le cadre du batch Summer 2015 en tant qu'entreprise B2B. Ci-dessous : ce que fait l'entreprise, qui l'a fondée, et sa candidature à YC, reconstruite question par question dans le vrai formulaire YC.

Batch YC: Summer 2015
Secteur d'activité: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Taille de l'équipe: 12
Statut: Active
Lancé: 2015

Fondateurs

Jonathan FriedmanFounder/CEO

Ce que fait 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.

Candidature YC de Assembly, reconstruite

Candidature Y Combinator

Assembly, promotion Summer 2015. Les vraies questions de candidature, répondues à partir de données publiques.

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Company7
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Idea4
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Batch Preference1

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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Questions fréquemment posées

Est-ce la vraie candidature YC de Assembly ?

Non. Y Combinator garde les candidatures soumises privées. Ceci est une reconstruction : les vraies questions du formulaire YC, répondues à partir des données publiques de Assembly (notes de lancement, parcours des fondateurs, description du produit). Cela montre comment une entreprise comme Assembly se présenterait à YC, pas le texte qu'ils ont soumis.

À quel batch YC Assembly appartenait-il ?

Assembly faisait partie du batch Summer 2015 de Y Combinator.

Qui a fondé Assembly ?

Assembly a été fondé par Jonathan Friedman.

Que fait Assembly ?

Advanced manufacturing and distribution solutions (for China-based…

Comment lire la candidature complète reconstruite ?

Créez un compte Round Funded gratuit. La version complète de la candidature de Assembly en 26 réponses, et de chaque autre promotion YC, se trouve dans YC Insights.