Inscrição YC de Shotput

Summer 2015Inactive

Shotput passou pela Y Combinator no batch Summer 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: Summer 2015
Indústria: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Tamanho da equipe: 2
Status: Inactive
Lançada: 2015

Fundadores

Praful MathurFounder/CEO
James SteinbergFounder

O que Shotput faz

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.

Inscrição YC de Shotput, reconstruída

Inscrição Y Combinator

Shotput, lote Summer 2015. As verdadeiras perguntas do formulário, respondidas com dados públicos.

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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Perguntas Frequentes

Esta é a inscrição real da YC de Shotput?

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

Em qual batch da YC Shotput esteve?

Shotput fez parte do batch Summer 2015 da Y Combinator.

Quem fundou o Shotput?

O Shotput foi fundado por Praful Mathur, James Steinberg.

O que o Shotput faz?

Shotput (S15) develops AI and robotics to completely automate…

Como eu leio o application completo reconstruído?

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