What is Maker's Row? Maker's Row Review

Founder

Founder Matthew Burnett was a former watch designer who had worked for brands such as Marc Jacobs and Izod . He was often troubled by communication problems with overseas manufacturers. "Every time I deal with a new manufacturer, it's like a gamble."

After he founded his own brand The Brooklyn Bakery, he met Tanya Menendez , who worked on Goldman Sachs' bank automation project during the day and helped Burnett build a new brand at night. When they were looking for suitable production partners, they thought of creating a website like Maker 's Row to simplify and optimize the outsourced production and procurement process. Later, Scott Weiner joined the founding team as a technical director.

Basic Introduction

Unlike ordinary yellow pages directories of enterprises/factories, Maker's Row has done a good job in design interaction, and can filter out the foundries that can complete that part of the work according to the different stages of the project. Whether it is from design draft to sample making, or from initial sample to customization and modification of production line and finally large-scale production, designers can view the information of various factories and get in touch with them. Before, designers may have to ask around to see if there are suitable foundries. Maker's Row can reduce many communication barriers between designers and foundries.

Package Fee

Suppliers can sign up for a basic account for free, and all buyers must sign up and pay a $35 per month basic account fee.

Financing

In 2013 , Maker 's Row received a $ 1 million seed investment from two well-known venture capital firms, Index Ventures and Comcast Ventures , and Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian and Joanne Wilson (wife of famous venture capitalist Fred Wilson ) participated in the $ 1 million seed investment.

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