Application YC di Shotput

Summer 2015Inactive

Shotput ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Summer 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: Summer 2015
Settore: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Dimensione team: 2
Stato: Inactive
Lanciata: 2015

Founder

Praful MathurFounder/CEO
James SteinbergFounder

Cosa fa Shotput

Carefully engineered software to get products to your customers across the world faster and on time. We're trusted to simplify e-commerce and logistics by building the necessary tools for companies to improve their operations. These include determining key shipping routes, understanding customer demand, or reducing shipping and material costs. We built Shotput so that people can use new technologies to manage work across companies which will allow them to precisely calculate costs & time. We'll enter a world where people no longer have to work on boring tasks of calling each other to find statuses or putting things into a box all day. Instead we can be free to think strategically about what we're building, who's the customer, and how to best serve their needs.

Application YC di Shotput, ricostruita

Domanda per Y Combinator

Shotput, batch Summer 2015. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Shotput

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI and robotics that automate logistics tasks

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

Shotput builds software that automates logistics operations for e-commerce companies. Our product uses AI and robotics to optimize shipping routes, predict customer demand, and reduce shipping and material costs to get products delivered faster and on time.

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

We live in Oakland, CA, and the company is based there, with some remote contributors.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Oakland gives us access to the Bay Area tech community and logistics companies nearby, which helps us build relationships and iterate quickly. Remote work lets us stay flexible.

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Domande Frequenti

Questa è l'application YC reale di Shotput?

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