Tradepost is a mobile‑first marketplace that lets individuals and small businesses upload inventory and receive instant, firm purchase offers from vetted market makers. The platform uses a real‑time demand‑matching engine to generate fee‑free quotes, secures transactions with tokenized escrow, and provides a dashboard that tracks portfolio value and pricing trends. Sellers can complete sales without public listings, reducing friction and preserving margins.
Funding
$4.6M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Individuals and small businesses that want to liquidate inventory must create public listings, negotiate manually, and contend with platform fees and potential fraud, which slows sales cycles and erodes margins.
Solution
Tradepost delivers a mobile‑first marketplace that bypasses traditional listings by allowing sellers to upload items and instantly receive purchase offers from vetted market makers. The app leverages a real‑time matching engine to evaluate inventory against demand signals, generating firm quotes within seconds. Offers are presented in a secure, fee‑free interface, and accepted deals are settled through integrated payment rails that escrow funds until delivery confirmation. Sellers can monitor the aggregate value of their holdings via a unified dashboard that aggregates offer history and market‑price trends. By eliminating public exposure and intermediary commissions, Tradepost streamlines the secondary‑sale process while preserving transaction integrity.
Target Audience
Primary users are individual resellers, hobbyist collectors, and small‑scale merchants who need a fast, low‑risk channel to monetize surplus inventory without public listings.
Features
- Native iOS and Android applications with drag‑and‑drop inventory upload and barcode scanning for rapid item entry
- Real‑time offer generation powered by a demand‑matching algorithm that scores inventory against market‑maker buying criteria
- Secure, fee‑free transaction flow using tokenized escrow and automated settlement via integrated payment gateways
- Consolidated asset‑valuation dashboard that aggregates offer amounts, historical pricing, and portfolio performance metrics
- Push‑notification engine that alerts sellers to new offers, price changes, and settlement status in real time
- API endpoints for third‑party catalog integration, enabling bulk inventory sync for power sellers
- Compliance‑ready data handling with end‑to‑end encryption and role‑based access controls for user privacy