Materee
E-commerce platform for construction materials in Indonesia
Materee is an e-commerce platform for construction materials in Indonesia. Construction is one of the most important industries in Indonesia. Despite its importance, procuring raw materials for construction work involves many phone calls, text messages, as well as back and forth communications. Materee aims to transform and simplify construction material procurement process while assisting contractors to focus on the most important activity, completing their projects.
Active Founders
Hansel Hansel
Hansel was a Senior VP of Strategy & Revenue at GudangAda (Sequoia-funded B2B e-commerce startup in Indonesia that has raised more than $130m) and a BCG consultant focusing on construction value chain. He completed his MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
Steven Walentino
Steven Walentino is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Materee. He spent 7 years as a software engineer in Silicon Valley companies like Google, Yahoo, and Zillow Group. He also led engineering team at Kargo Tech, a Sequoia-funded logistics company in Indonesia. Born and raised in Indonesia, he earned his Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
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Problem & Target Customer
Construction industry is one of largest industry in Indonesia. Despite its importance, purchasing construction materials is challenging:
- Price seeking & stock availability check still happens manually; typically buyers spend hours or days to compare price & check for stock availability
- Much-needed credit is expensive because buyers could not reliably provide their credit information
- Lack of visibility on delivery time; Buyers/contractors need to prepare workers/documents to unload products. This results in lengthy waiting time during delivery
- Product OOS due to fragmentation and disconnection in the value chain; manufacturers could not accurately produce the right product at the right time and at the right quantity
Our customers are contractors & construction material stores.
How Materee can help
We create an E2E technology solution that integrate & streamline operations throughout the value chain, with e-commerce as our core
- e-commerce; buyers can easily look for & buy construction material products, with real-time pricing & stock availability information
- Digital supply chain to ensure that delivery is on-time and to provide delivery visibility in real-time
- Financial services to provide personalized credit offerings based on buyers’ information, for example, buyers’ transactions & payment history
- Cloud manufacturing to strategically connect us with manufacturers and provide more accurate demand planning.
Who we are
- Hansel (CEO); B2B industry & commercial expert with 10+ years of experience in Strategy (BCG), Sales, and Operations, including in Construction and Manufacturing industries.
- Steven Walentino (CTO); Software engineer with 8+ years of experience in Cloud Technology and Data Analytics from global tech companies such as Google. He also led engineering team in Kargo, leading tech logistic company in Indonesia.
How you can help
Know any Manufacturer that produces Construction Material products that are interested to expand to or is operating in Indonesia? Please help introduce us through info@materee.id!