Problem

Materee addresses the fragmented, manual process of procuring construction materials in Indonesia. Buyers typically rely on phone calls, text messages, and repeated back-and-forth to compare prices and check stock, often spending hours or days on the process. The resulting pain is economically meaningful: credit can be expensive when buyers cannot demonstrate reliable credit information, delivery timing is unclear and creates worker and unloading delays, and disconnected supply chains produce stockouts. The core use case is a contractor sourcing materials for an active project who needs dependable price, availability, financing, and delivery information quickly enough to keep work moving.

Product / Service

Materee is an end-to-end technology platform with e-commerce at its core. Buyers can search for and purchase construction materials using real-time pricing and stock information, while Materee’s digital supply-chain tools provide delivery visibility and aim to improve on-time fulfillment. Its broader model also includes personalized credit offers based on transaction and payment history, plus cloud-manufacturing connections intended to improve demand planning and product availability.

The website supports both catalog purchasing and custom-product requests. A buyer describes the required product and quantity, Materee confirms availability, and the team sends the product after the product and price are confirmed. This combines a self-service marketplace with assisted procurement for harder-to-source items, with the intended benefits of reducing sourcing effort, improving delivery predictability, expanding access to credit, and helping contractors focus on completing projects.

Market

Materee competes in Indonesia’s construction-technology and B2B e-commerce market for building materials, spanning products such as cement, wood, structural steel profiles, roofing, plumbing, granite, ceramic, and related supplies. Identified competitors include Infra Bazaar, Juragan Material, and GoCement, with broader comparisons also listing Infra.Market and Moglix. The overlap is substantial: Juragan Material is described as a B2B marketplace connecting contractors and project owners with curated suppliers, while GoCement focuses on digitizing construction-material distribution and procurement.

Materee was founded in 2022, joined Y Combinator’s Summer 2022 batch, and its YC profile lists it as active with a team size of 20 in Jakarta. A third-party company profile records a June 2023 report of $3 million in funding, but another 2026 database profile reports only $500,000 over one 2022 seed round, so the total should be treated as unverified. The available evidence does not provide reliable GMV, customer counts, or audited revenue; therefore Materee shows meaningful startup and funding traction but cannot confidently be classified as either demonstrably scaled or pre-revenue.