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Bonfire (YC W15) — Bonfire is reimagining RFPs & bidding for gov procurement teams

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.

Bonfire is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2015 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Bonfire is reimagining RFPs & bidding for gov procurement teams. The founders listed are Corry Flatt (Founder/CEO), Alex Millar (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, November 18, 2014).

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Bonfire

New accelerator entry · 2014-11-18 · the record

Winter 2015
batch
95
people
Growth
stage
Canada
region
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BatchWinter 2015
Announced2014-11-18
StageGrowth
StatusAcquired
Team size95
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Finance and Accounting
SectorsSaaS, GovTech, Procurement
RegionsCanada, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedON, Canada
HiringNo
Sitehttp://GoBonfire.com

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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.

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