OSIMple
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
OSIMple (legal name BigBridge Technologies Inc.) was a Y Combinator W18 startup building mobile-first software for bridge inspectors. Co-founders Amanda Chan and Mike Miller had seen, through contacts in their university's civil engineering department, that inspectors used pen, paper and cameras on site and typed up reports back at the office. OSIMple replaced the paper stacks with tablets and generated completed inspection forms as PDFs, claiming to save inspectors nearly half their inspection time; it was used on over 400 bridges and later expanded to home inspectors.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
OSIMple was founded in Kitchener, Canada, by Amanda Chan and Mike Miller; its iOS app launched in July 2017.
- YC and accelerator round
OSIMple went through Y Combinator's W18 batch and raised a roughly $125K accelerator round in March 2018; its HN launch noted the software was in use on over 400 bridges.
- Database status
PitchBook marks OSIMple as 'Out of Business' as of October 2023. No public announcement of a shutdown or wind-down details was found.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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