Octopart

Application YC di Octopart

Winter 2007Acquired

Octopart ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Winter 2007 come azienda Industrials. 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 2007
Settore
IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
Dimensione team
11
Stato
Acquired
Lanciata
2012

Founder

  • Sam Wurzel
    Sam WurzelFounder/CEO
  • Harish Agarwal
    Harish AgarwalFounder/CTO
  • Andres Morey
    Andres MoreyFounder

Cosa fa Octopart

Engineering tools should be as streamlined and smart as everything else in your life: as your phone, as your email, as all the apps that help you manage your day-to-day. Your work should be as efficient as possible so you can generate innovative ideas, design elegant technology, and manufacture at scale, all because you can focus on the right things. There should not be any distractions caused by poorly designed websites, unreliable data, or unwieldy spreadsheets of haphazard electronic component information. You should be able to compare components, find important technical information, and easily grasp the spectrum of parts that will be a match for your design. This is what Octopart strives for. Finding electronic component information should not be holding engineers back from bringing ideas to life quickly and efficiently. We believe that pricing, availability, technical specifications, and reference designs should be transparent, fast to find, and easy to understand. That’s why we create powerful, intelligent tools that streamline the engineering workflow and enable fast decision making. Octopart provides accurate and complete data for millions of electronic components in a way that makes it easy to find and compare parts. Focus on the important stuff: building the technology of the future.

Application YC di Octopart, ricostruita

Domanda per Y Combinator

Octopart, batch Winter 2007. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Octopart

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Search engine for electronic components

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

We built Octopart to solve the problem of finding accurate and complete data on electronic components. Our product indexes millions of parts with up-to-date pricing, availability, and specs, enabling engineers to quickly compare and select components for design and manufacturing.

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

We live and work in New York, NY, USA and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in New York puts us close to both hardware startups and manufacturing hubs. It's where we found our initial users and it fits our team size and culture.

21 risposte in più nell'application completa

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference sono nella versione completa. Crea un account gratuito per aprirla in YC Insights, accanto a ogni altro batch YC.

Domande Frequenti

Questa è l'application YC reale di Octopart?

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 Octopart (note di lancio, background dei founder, descrizione del prodotto). Mostra come un'azienda come Octopart si presenterebbe a YC, non il testo che hanno inviato.

A quale batch YC apparteneva Octopart?

Octopart apparteneva al batch Winter 2007 di Y Combinator.

Chi ha fondato Octopart?

Octopart è stato fondato da Sam Wurzel, Harish Agarwal, Andres Morey.

Cosa fa Octopart?

Octopart is a search engine for electronic components

Come leggo la ricostruzione completa della application?

Crea un account Round Funded gratuito. La versione completa di 26 risposte della application di Octopart, e di ogni altro batch YC, è in YC Insights.

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