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Bonfire

Bonfire is reimagining RFPs & bidding for gov procurement teams

AcquiredChecked 24h ago

Batch: W15
Status, per YC: Acquired
Team size: 95
HQ: ON, Canada

In W15110 companies, 24% AI

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AlpasW21Software for procurement departments to find suppliers 10x fasterShared: procurementActive

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Also from W15

Batchmates in Winter 2015.

About Bonfire

Bonfire is the leading next-generation eSourcing / competitive bidding and RFx platform. Bonfire goes beyond the basic automation of eProcurement suites and older simple bidding tools, helping you to make better, faster decisions. It’s a collaborative, powerful, and insightful cloud-based platform for today’s procurement needs. We're focused on government procurement teams (which control ~18% of GDP) and enabling them to thrive in a world of crushing compliance requirements and very high workloads. Bonfire streamlines the entire RFx and bidding process, helping to run projects >50% faster. Bonfire empowers users with unparalleled evaluation features for deeper analysis, delivered through our distinctly intuitive and easy-to-use platform. Bonfire is trusted with over a billion dollars of supplier selection decisions per month, and is one of the fastest growing new procurement technologies.

ON, Canada

Bonfire: questions

Which YC batch was Bonfire in?

Bonfire was in Y Combinator's Winter 2015 batch (W15).

Is Bonfire still active?

Y Combinator lists Bonfire as acquired.

Where is Bonfire based?

Bonfire lists ON, Canada as its location on YC's directory.

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