What Excess Materials Exchange does

Excess Materials Exchange (EME) is an Amsterdam-based private company founded in 2017 that operates a cloud-based B2B marketplace enabling businesses to exchange surplus materials, industrial byproducts, and excess inventory. The platform targets companies across a horizontal set of industries that generate waste or surplus streams and need efficient channels to trade, repurpose, or sell these materials to other businesses. EME's primary functional benefit is reducing the manual processing overhead traditionally associated with surplus materials transactions by automating matching and transaction workflows.

The company's core technology stack is built on Salesforce's Agentforce AI platform, which powers AI-driven transaction processing and automated supply matching for surplus materials. This integration delivers a documented 90% reduction in manual processing time per transaction, representing the company's key technical differentiator and value proposition. The marketplace architecture allows participants to list, discover, and transact on excess materials in a structured digital environment, with AI handling the matching logic that previously required manual coordination.

EME's business model is consistent with a marketplace operator, though pricing mechanics and revenue model details are not publicly disclosed. The company has raised approximately $5 million in a December 2024 funding round led by Wa'ed Ventures, with earlier non-dilutive participation from the PortXL accelerator and the YES!Delft incubator. Founder Christian van Maaren leads the company, which operates with a headcount of 11-50 employees and currently serves markets in Western Europe, with the Netherlands as its primary geography.

Name

Excess Materials Exchange

Website

https://excessmaterialsexchange.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Excess Materials Exchange is an Amsterdam-based B2B cloud marketplace where businesses trade surplus materials and industrial byproducts. Founded in 2017, it uses Salesforce's Agentforce AI platform to automate transaction matching and reduce manual processing time.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Materials Marketplace

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

B2B Marketplaces & Wholesale Platforms (BPAMAGAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

B2B Liquidation Auctions & Asset Disposition Retail (CRAEAFAG), B2B/EDI & Supply Chain Process Automation Platforms (HDAEAHAK)

Keywords

• Excess materials trading
• B2B materials marketplace
• Surplus inventory exchange
• Circular economy platform
• Industrial materials trading

Headquarters

HQ city

Amsterdam

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Cloud-based B2B marketplace that uses AI (built on Salesforce Agentforce) to connect companies holding excess industrial materials with companies that can reuse them. The platform automates matching and transaction workflows, reportedly reducing manual processing time by 90%, and serves firms seeking to monetize surplus materials and source secondary inputs.

Product overview

Excess Materials Exchange operates as a surplus materials trading platform. The company facilitates the trading of excess materials between businesses, helping to reduce waste and enable secondary market transactions. No specific named product modules or sub-products are detailed in the available sources.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Excess Materials Exchange Platform Cloud-based B2B marketplace that uses AI (built on Salesforce Agentforce) to automate matching and transactions between companies holding surplus industrial materials and companies that can reuse them, reportedly reducing manual processing time by 90%.

Quantifiable outcome

• 90% reduction in manual processing time per transaction

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability1 record

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Salesforce (Agentforce)coreTechnology or IntegrationExcess Materials Exchange utilizes Salesforce's Agentforce AI platform to power their surplus materials trading operations. The integration enables automated matching and processing of material transactions, resulting in significant efficiency gains. This partnership demonstrates the versatility of Agentforce across industries, particularly in sustainable commerce applications.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Cirplus: Cirplus operates a B2B marketplace for recycled and surplus plastics in Europe, enabling industrial buyers and sellers to trade secondary materials. Closest direct peer to EME by vertical (industrial surplus), geography (EU), and business model (B2B matchmaking).
• Recovo: Recovo runs a B2B marketplace for surplus textile fabrics and deadstock between fashion brands and buyers. Highly comparable as a specialized B2B excess-materials exchange targeting industrial supply chains.
• Phenix: Phenix is a French B2B marketplace that helps food retailers and manufacturers redirect unsold inventory to charities and secondary channels. Comparable two-sided marketplace model for surplus business inventory, though specialized in food rather than industrial materials.
• MaterialTrader: MaterialTrader operates an online marketplace for buying and selling surplus and obsolete industrial materials and components. Closely comparable B2B materials exchange model to EME, particularly in metals and manufacturing surplus.

Broad incumbents

• Rubicon Technologies: Rubicon is a large, established digital marketplace and SaaS provider for waste and recycling hauler management in North America. Comparable as a technology-enabled platform intermediating materials between businesses, though operating at much larger scale and in waste rather than industrial surplus.
• Reconomy: Reconomy is a large UK-based circular-economy services provider offering waste and resource management for businesses. Comparable as an established circular-economy platform serving industrial customers, though broader in scope than EME's marketplace focus.

Regional players

• Waste4Change: Waste4Change provides waste management and materials exchange services across Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Comparable as a B2B materials exchange and circular-economy platform, though focused on waste streams and Southeast Asian markets.

Emerging players

• Too Good To Go: Too Good To Go operates a marketplace connecting businesses with surplus food to consumer buyers. Comparable business model - marketplace intermediating excess business inventory - though focused on B2C surplus food rather than B2B industrial materials.
• OLIO: OLIO operates a sharing/marketplace app for surplus food and consumer goods between businesses and consumers. Comparable marketplace model for excess inventory, though consumer-facing and food-focused rather than B2B industrial surplus.
• EnviroBuild: EnviroBuild is a UK-based retailer of sustainable building materials, partly sourcing recycled and surplus inputs. Comparable in the circular-materials commercial theme, though primarily a retailer rather than a marketplace operator.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors3 records

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M&A

Investments

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