industrial parts headquartered in new york ny . it aggregates parts from distributors and manufacturers online making them easy to search for and purchase . 1 it is free for users and as of august 2014 over 700 000 unique visitors search the database of 30 million electronic components per month . 2 octopart s mission is to open up access to part data for design sourcing and manufacturing . 2 octopart was created by three physics grad school dropouts andres morey sam wurzel and harish agarwal in 2007 . 3 after coming up with the idea for the site and leaving graduate school morey and wurzel worked with paul graham and jessica livingston s y combinator . 4 the company has been profitable since 2010 . 2 octopart currently works with some of the largest distributors in the industry . 5 in august 2015 octopart announced that they had become a wholly owned subsidiary of altium limited but will operate independently from their new york city headquarters . 6 references edit http www.newsweek.com boot camp next tech billionaires 100977 a b c about . octopart . retrieved 2014 06 04 . octopart the little startup that hung in there . techcrunch . 2011 05 18 . retrieved 2014 06 04 . http latimesblogs.latimes.com technology 2008 05 which part of o.html octopart helps nearly a half a million people find the part they need every month . ee times . retrieved 2014 06 04 . wurzel sam 2015 08 13 . octopart is joining altium . octopart . retrieved 2015 08 13 . v t e y combinator companies 7 cups of tea 80 000 hours 9gag airbnb algolia buttercoin canopy labs cleartax codecademy cofactor genomics coinbase creative market cymmetria disqus dropbox easypost fullstack academy futureadvisor gigster gocardless goldbely gusto heroku hipmunk homejoy icracked instacart justin.tv kickback lendup loopt lumi meadow newsblur octopart omgpop one month optimizely ownlocal pebble podium.co product hunt quartzy reddit renthop scribd smartasset songkick standard treasury streak strikingly stripe survata swiftype true link upverter urx voat watsi webflow weebly wepay workflowy wufoo xobni zenefits zerocater category full list this internet related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title octopart & oldid 719985241 categories y combinator companiesinternet stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 may 2016 at 00 56 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view