Inscrição YC de Bonfire

Winter 2015Acquired

Bonfire passou pela Y Combinator no batch Winter 2015 como uma empresa B2B. Abaixo: o que a empresa faz, quem a fundou e sua inscrição para a YC, reconstruída pergunta por pergunta no formulário real da YC.

Batch YC: Winter 2015
Indústria: B2BFinance and Accounting
Tamanho da equipe: 95
Status: Acquired
Lançada: 2014

Fundadores

Corry FlattFounder/CEO
Alex MillarFounder/CTO

O que Bonfire faz

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.

Inscrição YC de Bonfire, reconstruída

Inscrição Y Combinator

Bonfire, lote Winter 2015. As verdadeiras perguntas do formulário, respondidas com dados públicos.

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.

21 respostas a mais na inscrição completa

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Perguntas Frequentes

Esta é a inscrição real da YC de Bonfire?

Não. A Y Combinator mantém as inscrições submetidas em privado. Esta é uma reconstrução: as perguntas reais do formulário da YC, respondidas a partir dos dados públicos de Bonfire (notas de lançamento, históricos de fundadores, descrição do produto). Mostra como uma empresa como Bonfire se apresentaria à YC, não o texto que eles submeteram.

Em qual batch da YC Bonfire esteve?

Bonfire fez parte do batch Winter 2015 da Y Combinator.

Quem fundou o Bonfire?

O Bonfire foi fundado por Corry Flatt, Alex Millar.

O que o Bonfire faz?

Bonfire is reimagining RFPs & bidding for gov procurement teams

Como eu leio o application completo reconstruído?

Crie uma conta gratuita no Round Funded. A versão completa de 26 respostas do application do Bonfire, e de todos os outros lotes do YC, está no YC Insights.