Editing Mecanicus

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Mecanicus drives a revolution in the classic car market to ensure its transmission to future generations. They offer a tech-driven marketplace, own most of the stock to ensure quality & leverage double-digit million social media outreach to sell the cars. With €1.75m rev in Y1, they aim to grow in France & launch in the UK.

* Fragmented market worth $18bn globally; +400% growth over the last 15 years.
* €1.75m revenue in year 1 (€140k gross margin, €-236k EBITDA).
* Double-digit million social media outreach & clients incl. Fiat, Peugeot, Retromobile, Citroen.
* AI-driven pricing tool to scout opportunities & create B2B offering.

==Idea==

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We founded Mecanicus out of a passion for classic cars. We believe that the classic car market is archaic, highly fragmented and intermediary-driven, putting the transmission of this passion to future generations at risk.

We provide a tech-driven classic car marketplace based on three key elements:

# We mainly own the cars to ensure our own quality & reliability standards, providing a different client experience as the relationship is based on car ownership and not acting as a broker.
# We leverage our double-digit million outreach built through our social media in-house content to sell fast (less than 3 weeks).
# We provide an AI-driven pricing and scouting tool to challenge the current market opacity and create a modern deal-flow source.

Since launching operational activities in 2020 we have sold 43 cars in less than a year, achieving €1.75m in revenues, and have worked with key clients incl. Fiat, Peugeot, Retromobile, Citroen.

We estimate a 50bn$ global market (France at $1.5bn, UK at $4bn), growing each year by 2-digit % in value. Using our tech-led model, we aim to take advantage of that growth and increase the size of the market via existing buyers/sellers, but also bring new people into the collecting world with easier and more transparent practices.

We raise funds to recruit mechanics, create a place to stock and refurbish, hire tech engineers, & launch into the UK market.

==Team==

Quentin Leblond, CEO: After a career as a stock trader (Cheuvreux, Kepler) and hedge fund associate (Eiffel Investments), Quentin created his first venture. He scrutinized the classic car market for decades, as a classic car addict and entrepreneur, willing to disrupt this market and push it towards the 21st century.

Antoine Jimenez, Content Director: He is the automotive bible, running both the editorial line as well as some high-value car deals (€150k+).

Gregoire Callens, Marketing Director: He runs the whole digital marketing, helping Mecanicus aim to disrupt current selling methods with 21st-century tools.

Theo Masurel, Sales Director: He is running the sales department, together with PierreGuibart, he pushed the growth from 0 to 45 cars so far.

Antoine Cartier, Artistic/Vidéo Director: with flexibility, creativity and talent, his video creation helped us to reach millions of views and work with clients like Peugeot Group or Total Energies.

Aymeric Guillochet, Data Scientist: He is fond of cars, but even more of big data problems and machine learning optimization. He has structured the whole AI/ML we use.

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