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.
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.
Location: United States, New York
Employees: 11-50
Phone: (646) 580-6286
Total raised: $360K
Founded date: 2007
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Y Combinat... | ycombinato... |
| - | Olima Vent... | olima.vc |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 12.05.2008 | Seed | $360K | - |
Mentions in press and media 16
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| 24.05.2011 | ThriftDB Wants To Be The Amazon Web Services Of Search | TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington recently wrote a post praising the fighting spirit of a little startup called Octopart. The New York City-based startup is a search engine for electronic parts that enables users to find esoteric doodads and d... |
| 18.05.2011 | Octopart, The Little Startup That Hung In There | Looking for a transistor or a relay? Or possibly an oscilloscope? More than likely you’ll end up at Octopart, a vintage Y Combinator startup that launched in 2007. The company is a search engine for electronic parts, allowing users to navig... |
| 08.12.2009 | Octopart (W07) Powers Product Search for EETimes | EE Times New Product Center Includes Robust Vertical Search Powered by Octopart Appoints Allan Yogasingam to Newly Created Product Editor Position SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ — EE Times Group [formerly TechInsights], a division of U... |
| 13.08.2009 | Octopart (YC W07) launches Company Tools, allows part suppliers to easily upload data | via octopart.com |
| 17.03.2009 | Y Combinator set to fund more startups | Seed-stage investment fund is going to Party like it's 2009 Y Combinator, a seed-stage investment fund, announced this week that it raised $2 million from Sequoia Capital, and angel investors. The fund, which has invested in 40 startups per... |
| 15.03.2009 | Holy Cats! There is a DRM chip inside the iPod Shuffle earbuds! [Update] | J&R over at BBG dissected the iPod Shuffle’s tiny headphone control system and found an unidentified chip, marked 8A83E3, that appears to be some sort of proprietary digital control that prevents unauthorized transmission of commands to... |
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