GTRACK Technologies
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
GTRACK Technologies, founded in San Francisco in 2015 by Teddy Guenin (CEO) and Ashwin Amurthur (CTO), was a Y Combinator Summer 2016 hard-tech company developing nanoparticle fluorescent tracers for reservoir characterization in geothermal and oilfield applications. Its mesoporous silica nanoparticles provided real-time, stage-specific fracturing statistics to help clients optimize recovery techniques and determine subterranean flow during hydraulic fracturing. The company held the patent application WO-2017136641-A1 for mesoporous silica nanoparticles as fluorescent tracers.
02 / GTRACK Technologies FAILURE REASONS
Failure reasons
No detailed public account of why GTRACK shut down was found. The company quietly wound down: PitchBook records its status as Out of Business as of September 1, 2018, and Y Combinator lists it as inactive. No postmortem or founder statement was identified.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
GTRACK Technologies was founded in San Francisco by Teddy Guenin and Ashwin Amurthur to develop nanoparticle tracers for reservoir characterization.
- YC and seed
GTRACK joined Y Combinator's Summer 2016 batch and received a $120,000 seed investment.
- Shut down
PitchBook recorded GTRACK Technologies as Out of Business on September 1, 2018; Y Combinator lists the company as inactive.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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