Octopart YC 申请

Winter 2007Acquired

Octopart 在 Winter 2007 批次的 Y Combinator 中作为一家 Industrials 公司进行过。以下是：公司做什么、谁创立了它，以及其 YC 申请，按照真实 YC 表格逐题重建。

YC 批次: Winter 2007
行业: IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
团队规模: 11
状态: Acquired
已发布: 2012

创始人

Sam WurzelFounder/CEO
Harish AgarwalFounder/CTO
Andres MoreyFounder

Octopart 做什么

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.

Octopart 的 YC 申请，重建版

Y Combinator 申请

Octopart，Winter 2007 期。来自公开数据的真实申请问题解答。

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
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 更多回答在完整申请中

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference 包含在完整版中。创建免费账户即可在 YC Insights 中打开，紧邻每个其他 YC 批次。

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常见问题解答

这是 Octopart 的真实 YC 申请吗？

不是。Y Combinator 对提交的申请保密。这是重建版：使用 Octopart 的公开数据（发布笔记、创始人背景、产品描述）回答真实的 YC 表格问题。它展示了像 Octopart 这样的公司会如何向 YC 自我介绍，而不是他们提交的文本。

Octopart 是哪个 YC 批次的？

Octopart 是 Y Combinator Winter 2007 批次的成员。

谁创立了 Octopart？

Octopart 由 Sam Wurzel, Harish Agarwal, Andres Morey 创立。

Octopart 做什么？

Octopart is a search engine for electronic components

如何阅读完整的重建申请？

创建免费的 Round Funded 账户。YC Insights 中包含 Octopart 的完整 26 个问题的版本，以及其他所有 YC 批次的公司信息。