Octopart
Octopart is a search engine for electronic components
Founders
Not read from YC yet; the weekly run fills these in.
Same space
Adjacent
Overlapping tags, a different niche.
ProvenMetalS26AI-native electronics manufacturing for the American industrial baseShared: electronicsActive
StillwindW25PCB component librarianShared: electronicsActive
SteinmetzW25Next-Generation Power ElectronicsShared: electronicsActive
Revise RoboticsW25Automating refurbishment of $1T in consumer electronicsShared: electronicsActive
Tenet IndustriesX26AI-automated PCB assembly factoriesShared: electronicsActive
Also from W07
Batchmates in Winter 2007.
About Octopart
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.
New York City, NY, USA; New York, NY, USA
Octopart: questions
Which YC batch was Octopart in?
Octopart was in Y Combinator's Winter 2007 batch (W07).
Is Octopart still active?
Y Combinator lists Octopart as acquired.
Where is Octopart based?
Octopart lists New York City, NY, USA; New York, NY, USA as its location on YC's directory.
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