Exapro

I Bought A Dying Used Machinery Marketplace And Grew It To 1.7M$/Year

January 9th, 2022
Thomas Bordier
Founder, Exapro
$142K
revenue/mo
5
Founders
21
Employees
Exapro
from Prague, Tchéquie
started January 2004
$142,000
revenue/mo
5
Founders
21
Employees
market size
$2.1T
starting costs
$30.1K
gross margin
30%
time to build
720 days
growth channels
SEO
business model
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best tools
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time investment
Full time
pros & cons
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tips
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

Hello, my name is Thomas Bordier and with a few partners, we took over a dying B2B marketplace in 2003: Exapro. Today, our business is booming and we even acquired a competitor a couple of years back: Kitmondo.

We help buyers and sellers of used industrial machines worldwide to connect through our services similarly as a real estate agency, both promoting offers and supporting transactions.

The second part of our business is to efficiently promote industrial auctions throughout our network for all the main specialized auctioneers around the globe.

We have different types of clients, factories selling some assets, factories acquiring, specialized dealers, and auctioneers. Our customer-centric approach implies that we try creating added value for all stakeholders of the industrial equipment resale market.

In short, we promote over 300 auctions a year, assist buyers and sellers in about 600 transactions of machinery a year for a total asset value of over 25M$. Our turnover is over 1.7M$ a year.

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