20 Trending Two Sided Marketplace Businesses [2024]

Updated: January 18th, 2023
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1. WyzAnt

Find affordable, top-rated private tutors in 250+ subjects and test prep on Wyzant.com. Quick online scheduling for in-person and online tutoring help.

Where they're located: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Website traffic: 5.09M/month

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2. Storenvy

Where they're located: San Jose, California, USA

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4. Afluencer

Are you a social influencer who needs help finding the best influencer programs? Afluencer is a leading marketing resource platform online for merchants and influencers!

How much they make: $24K/year
Where they're located: Sacramento, CA, USA
How much did it cost to start: $500K
Current team size: 0
Website traffic: 40K/month

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I Created A Two-Sided Marketplace That Helps Brands Find Influencers

Afluencer is a two-sided marketplace that connects brands with influencers and helps influencers, creators, and ambassadors find paid gigs, with 6,500+ active influencer users and 1,000+ brand users yielding 100% YoY revenue growth.

About
Brett started Afluencer about 3 years ago
Revenue
Brett grew the business to $2K/month
Costs
It cost Brett $500000 to start the business
Read by 3,236 founders

5. Wonderschool

Wonderschool is an end to end solution for family child care providers and centers. Wonderschool helps providers, families and state leaders to increase the health of the child care landscape on the ground.

Where they're located: San Francisco, CA, USA
Current team size: 50

6. Mangtas

We are a global outsourcing company composed of highly skilled teams in digital marketing, graphic design, business development, and IT-related services.

Where they're located: Singapore
How much did it cost to start: $0
Current team size: 5

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7. Access Steel Pipe Suppliers with Bryzos Marketplace

Bryzos was founded and developed by steel industry veterans. Bryzos is the culmination of years of sales and operational experience transposed to an online environment.

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8. MarketPlaceKit

MarketPlaceKit is a platform for building different types of online marketplaces. It's easy to customize, change the design and supports multiple languages. Go ahead and make it your own.

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9. ADS Marketplace

Largest online signage products supplier across UAE. Get all your signage supplies under one roof at adsmarketplace.store.

10. NOWwhere

NOWwhere is two-sided blockchain-backed NFT marketplace with a Netflix-style’ recommend engine – indexing / scoring and ranking

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11. Becfaye.com

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12. Hannah Li

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13. Tips For Building A Two-Sided Online Marketplace

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14. Digital Health Marketplace

Digital Health Marketplace provides up to $250,000 in funding to innovative projects that pilot new technologies in New York City healthcare settings.

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15. Closing Credits

Education and community built for Creators

How much they make: $600K/year
Where they're located: London, UK
How much did it cost to start: $0
Current team size: 0

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How I Left My $500M Company To Start A $50K/Month Education Marketplace

Closing Credits is an education marketplace for creators, generating $500k in revenue within 11 months and launched to Buford Taylor's active audience of 600k people.

About
Buford started Closing Credits over 2 years ago
Revenue
Buford grew the business to $50K/month
Read by 3,665 founders

16. Merrative

Join our community of avid readers to discuss ideas from books & articles. Meet like-minded readers, expand perspectives, discover curated reads on any topic.

How much they make: $24K/year
Where they're located: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
How much did it cost to start: $100
Current team size: 0

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How I Bootstrapped A $2K/Month Online Community To Discuss Literature

Merrative, a community-driven marketplace for publishing talent, generates an average of $1,500 per month in marketplace transactions from their 5,000+ strong community of readers, writers, journalists, and scholars.

About
Harshala started Merrative over 3 years ago
Revenue
Harshala grew the business to $2K/month
Costs
It cost Harshala $100 to start the business
Read by 3,220 founders

17. Vettted

Digital Marketing Marketplace for businesses and agencies to outsource their marketing efforts.

How much they make: $1.2K/year
Where they're located: Lisbon, Portugal
How much did it cost to start: $20K
Current team size: 0

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We Launched & Validated Our Startup With Only $20K

Vettted, a marketplace for pre-vetted marketers to outsource digital marketing efforts, has launched and has over 65 sellers and 287 users so far, with the goal of providing a platform for talent to keep 100% of their earnings.

About
Vasco started Vettted about 3 years ago
Revenue
Vasco grew the business to $100/month
Costs
It cost Vasco $20000 to start the business
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18. Atelier App

Atelier is the interior design platform for the DIY home designer -- an approachable app with all the necessary tools to put together a home design project integrated with a marketplace for makers/artisans.

Where they're located: Carbondale, CO, USA
How much did it cost to start: $45K
Current team size: 4

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19. Cook Eat

Where they're located: Zurich
How much did it cost to start: $20K
Current team size: 2

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