Application YC di Bonfire

Winter 2015Acquired

Bonfire ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Winter 2015 come azienda B2B. Sotto: cosa fa l'azienda, chi l'ha fondata e la sua application a YC, ricostruita domanda per domanda nel form reale di YC.

Batch YC: Winter 2015
Settore: B2BFinance and Accounting
Dimensione team: 95
Stato: Acquired
Lanciata: 2014

Founder

Corry FlattFounder/CEO
Alex MillarFounder/CTO

Cosa fa Bonfire

Bonfire is the leading next-generation eSourcing / competitive bidding and RFx platform. Bonfire goes beyond the basic automation of eProcurement suites and older simple bidding tools, helping you to make better, faster decisions. It’s a collaborative, powerful, and insightful cloud-based platform for today’s procurement needs. We're focused on government procurement teams (which control ~18% of GDP) and enabling them to thrive in a world of crushing compliance requirements and very high workloads. Bonfire streamlines the entire RFx and bidding process, helping to run projects >50% faster. Bonfire empowers users with unparalleled evaluation features for deeper analysis, delivered through our distinctly intuitive and easy-to-use platform. Bonfire is trusted with over a billion dollars of supplier selection decisions per month, and is one of the fastest growing new procurement technologies.

Application YC di Bonfire, ricostruita

Domanda per Y Combinator

Bonfire, batch Winter 2015. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Bonfire

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

RFPs and bidding platform for government procurement

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

We have built a cloud-based platform that simplifies and speeds up competitive bidding, RFx, and supplier evaluation for government procurement teams. It replaces manual, complex, and slow processes with a collaborative tool that makes running and analyzing bids faster and clearer.

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

We live and operate in Ontario, Canada, and would base the company there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Ontario is where we are based and have built our core network of customers. Staying here keeps us close to our users and government procurement teams.

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Domande Frequenti

Questa è l'application YC reale di Bonfire?

No. Y Combinator mantiene private le application inviate. Questa è una ricostruzione: le domande del form YC reale, a cui si è risposto usando i dati pubblici di Bonfire (note di lancio, background dei founder, descrizione del prodotto). Mostra come un'azienda come Bonfire si presenterebbe a YC, non il testo che hanno inviato.