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Octopart is a search engine for electronic components
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 is a search engine for electronic components that aggregates data from distributors and manufacturers to help users find parts, compare pricing, and view inventory and datasheets. It positions itself as the fastest way to access accurate part data across a wide category of components.
Users search for electronic components and Octopart returns results drawn from distributors and manufacturers, enabling comparison of pricing and visibility into inventory and datasheets. The site organizes parts by broad categories (e.g., ICs, capacitors, resistors, connectors, sensors, etc.) and provides access to component details, pricing, and stock information across suppliers. The Pulse API and BOM Tool are mentioned as available tools alongside the main search experience, suggesting programmatic access and BOM-related functionality beyond the web search.
Who it’s for: Electronics designers, engineers, procurement teams, and sourcing specialists looking to locate, compare, and source electronic components from multiple distributors.
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Cofounder & president Nori Health (F25); previously cofounder Chartable (acquired by Spotify); previously cofounder & CEO Octopart (W07)
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