Say hello to our Q1 New Joiners 👋🏼 Dori Chbib joins our team as Senior Sales & Relationships Manager (Demand), where he will drive business development and sales initiatives while building strong, long-term client relationships. 📈 With over 10 years of experience in sales within the clothing and footwear industry, Dori brings a relationship-driven approach and a proven track record of delivering sustainable growth for our agentic B2B marketplace. 🌱 Outside of work, Dori enjoys cycling and skiing, meeting new people, and has a soft spot for chocolate and cheesecake. 🍰 Johannes Reiner joins our team as a Business Building Intern, supporting across Operations, Sales Enablement, and day-to-day business activities. ⚡️ With a background from LMU Munich and experience in fast-paced startups like Enpal, Johannes brings a strong hands-on mindset to help scale our agentic B2B marketplace for excess inventory. 🌱 In his free time, he enjoys DJing, football, and a good coffee. ☕️ Felix Sattler joins our team as a Business Building Intern, supporting across Finance, Accounting & Automation. 🏦 With a background from the University of Mannheim and experience across BASF, high-growth startups, and consulting, he contributes a strong economic and data-driven mindset to help optimise and streamline processes for our agentic B2B marketplace . 🌱 In his free time, Felix stays active with workouts and tennis, and enjoys listening to podcasts. 🎧 We’re excited to work together with you to reshape how global excess inventory is handled, unlock new value from unsold goods, and make trade more sustainable, efficient, and connected. 🚀🌍 #NewJoiners #WeAreHiring #Sustainability #smatch
smatch
Internet Marketplace Platforms
smatch supports brands and retailers to thrive, building tailored solutions for inventory trade.
About us
smatch builds technology to make retail trade more effective. You would like to sell your inventory? Pick your selling preferences and discreetly sell to a global network of verified buyers for best prices. Brand reputation under full control. You would like to source inventory? smatch is your sourcing superpower, providing access to the most attractive brand deals at great trading terms. If you are interested to learn more, visit us at smatch.com - we are hiring!
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https://www.smatch.com
External link for smatch
- Industry
- Internet Marketplace Platforms
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Hamburg
- Type
- Privately Held
- Specialties
- Discreet offprice , Inventory management, Excess stock, and Retail
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Hamburg, 20354, DE
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You can't build real team bonds in a hybrid company - or can you? 🤨 Here’s what happens every time we bring the whole smatch team together in the Hamburg office for our quarterly onsites: Entering the office feels different these days. For longtime employees, it’s always like a class reunion with friends you haven’t seen in way too long. For our new joiners, Slack names finally become real people 👥. And the moment we all sit down to kick things off, remote work feels very far away. What remains is one team and a shared sense that what we're building actually matters 🌱. Of course, there’s more. Good chats, intense games, shared dinners, and nights that have their own agenda 🌟. Everything that makes an onsite feel like an onsite. And in the end, that's exactly what fuels us! 🔋 And we saw it all again during our Q1 2026 onsite: conversations sparked fresh ideas, and 19 (!) focused sessions across Growth, Tech, Ops, Finance, and People turned that energy into real momentum 📈. Oh, and did we mention the slushie machine or the karaoke night that turned colleagues into rockstars? 🎸 When our remote smatchies left the office on Friday afternoon, the distance between us felt smaller and the future we’re building at smatch a whole lot closer. Because hybrid isn't a trade-off. It's a choice to work deeply from anywhere and come together with purpose when it counts 💥. This was one of those moments. Already counting down to the Q2 onsite 🚀 Q1 onsite | March 4–6, Hamburg #smatch #Hamburg #fashion #marketplace #WeAreHiring #Europe #b2b #startup #hybrid #onsite #sustainability #Entrepreneurship
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#Overstock is not an exception. It’s structural. Our data confirms what many brands experience every season: fashion inventory is perishable. After two years, discounted items retain on average ~17% of their original retail value, often requiring markdowns of 74–83% to clear. This is exactly why transparency and speed matter in #offprice. At smatch, we help brands act earlier, access real demand, and recover more value from unsold inventory - discreetly and globally. Thanks to Achim Berg and FashionSIGHTS for highlighting why the off-price market is not a fallback, but a core part of modern inventory strategy. We are passionate to building the foundational layer for this. How are you managing aging inventory today? #overstock #offprice #fashionindustry #futureoffashion #b2b #supplychain
Fashion #overstock is like fresh produce: if it doesn’t sell quickly, it loses value fast. There’s a prevailing belief in the industry that #digitization and #AI will finally solve the overstock problem. But off-price retail isn’t just a temporary fix - it’s a structural feature of the system, acting as a release valve for persistent oversupply. In challenging times like these, wholesale often plans too optimistically and relies on discounting and off-price channels as a fallback. The two-year value curve tells the story clearly. Products launched at full price with short shelf lives rapidly depreciate. Proprietary data from the team at smatch shows that after two years, discounted items typically retain only around 17% of their original retail value. In practice, that means clearing older inventory often requires markdowns of 74–83% off the original price. The takeaway? Fashion - beyond just fast fashion - is inherently perishable. That’s why discounting remains the industry’s primary clearing mechanism. And while off-price retail may pose challenges for brands, it’s not going away anytime soon. #Overstock is here to #stay. That’s why I’m actively collaborating with Dr. Max Groberg, Dr. Hans-Martin Vetter, and the team at smatch. Their work brings crucial transparency to the often opaque off-price market and helps brands recover as much value as possible from unsold inventory: a challenge that’s only growing in importance for the #futureoffashion. How are you addressing this in your strategy? #fashionindustry #offprice #futureoffashion FashionSIGHTS
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We are excited to share that smatch has raised €7.3m in Seed funding. The round was co-led by Transition Ventures, 42CAP and 10x Founders, with the support of outstanding industry leaders including Noel Kinder (lululemon, former Nike CSO), Nigel Griffiths (former adidas SVP Global Sales) and Dr. Achim Berg (FashionSIGHTS, former McKinsey & Company global fashion leader). Why this matters: The fashion industry faces a structural problem: Fashion is often manufactured many months before the items hit the sales floor. But as consumer demand is hard to predict, this time gap causes uncertainty for brands and retailers. Their simple answer and safe bet? Overproduce. In Europe alone, this results in €300bn worth of fashion inventory being sold only at significant discounts or remaining entirely unsold. These goods are a critical challenge to brands’ and retailers’ profit margins, their brand equity, and sustainability goals. At smatch, we are building the AI-powered B2B marketplace for trading this inventory. Operating globally, we find the best buyer for each item. Sellers turn excess into an opportunity, regaining control over their distribution and margin. Buyers achieve higher flexibility, accessing a broad range of verified stock in real time. Transactions remain discreet, fast, and data-driven. Since launching in 2023, over €15bn of inventory and 190m items have been offered to smatch. We are truly thankful for our partners' trust and opportunity. The additional funding enables us to scale our technology, deepen our capabilities, and expand our global network - with one clear goal: turning inventory from a hidden liability into a strategic asset. A big thank you to our customers, investors, partners, and the growing smatch team. We are just getting started! #fashion #marketplace #inventory #ecodesign #AI #smatch #Hamburg #Europe #b2b #startup
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We are proud to share that we've been awarded TW100 by Textilwirtschaft - recognising 100 movers and shakers shaping the future of the textile and fashion industry 🎉. This recognition reinforces our mission to connect global inventories and make global B2B trade more efficient, transparent, and sustainable. A big thank you to TextilWirtschaft, our partners, and the entire smatch team for the trust and collaboration along the way. We are just getting started. #TW100 #Textilwirtschaft #B2B #FashionIndustry #Sustainability #Entrepreneurship
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