Octopart

Inscrição YC de Octopart

Winter 2007Acquired

Octopart passou pela Y Combinator no batch Winter 2007 como uma empresa Industrials. 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 2007
Indústria
IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
Tamanho da equipe
11
Status
Acquired
Lançada
2012

Fundadores

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

O que Octopart faz

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.

Inscrição YC de Octopart, reconstruída

Inscrição Y Combinator

Octopart, lote Winter 2007. As verdadeiras perguntas do formulário, respondidas com dados públicos.

  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 respostas a mais na inscrição completa

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference estão na versão completa. Crie uma conta gratuita para abri-la no YC Insights, ao lado de todos os outros batches da YC.

Perguntas Frequentes

Esta é a inscrição real da YC de Octopart?

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 Octopart (notas de lançamento, históricos de fundadores, descrição do produto). Mostra como uma empresa como Octopart se apresentaria à YC, não o texto que eles submeteram.

Em qual batch da YC Octopart esteve?

Octopart fez parte do batch Winter 2007 da Y Combinator.

Quem fundou o Octopart?

O Octopart foi fundado por Sam Wurzel, Harish Agarwal, Andres Morey.

O que o Octopart faz?

Octopart is a search engine for electronic components

Como eu leio o application completo reconstruído?

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

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