boitas.com
Winter 2021InactiveLargest B2B eCommerce platform for SMBs in Latin America.
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If you only have a few minutes to spare, here’s what investors, operators, and founders should know about boitas.com (W21).
Boitas started in Monterrey in 2020 as a wholesale marketplace for returned and slow-moving inventory. It then concentrated on restaurant, hotel, and cafeteria supplies, joined Y Combinator's Winter 2021 batch, and described a WhatsApp-based sales tool for small businesses. By late 2022, a Boitas fundraising page pitched a third product: turning one Excel file into a digital storefront.[1][2][3]
The team reached a recorded size of 35, but the public record contains no revenue, gross merchandise value, repeat-order, supplier, or margin data. A February 2023 episode with CEO Raul Maldonado explicitly covered the company's closure. Investor Magma Partners labels Boitas a 2022 seed exit, though no buyer or acquisition announcement was found.[2][4][5]
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Raul Maldonado brought a decade of operating experience in China. He had developed and imported products across categories including auto parts, furniture, electronics, and industrial goods. Returned merchandise gave him the first Boitas problem: importers and retailers held obsolete or out-of-season stock with little digital visibility and cash tied up in warehouses.[6][7]
Maldonado and Marcelo Galvan launched Boitas on July 1, 2020. Sellers gave Boitas their excess lots; the company uploaded, promoted, collected, and delivered those goods to merchants and entrepreneurs. Maldonado described the service plainly: “Lo que hacemos es ayudarlos a subir sus productos, publicarlos y promocionarlos en nuestra plataforma de oportunidades.”[1]
The initial catalog was deliberately broad. “Tenemos productos muy variados, desde una liga hasta un avión diría yo,” Maldonado told PRO Network. The ambition was national as well as commercial. When announcing YC, he thanked the people who backed him and Galvan when they had only an idea, then wrote: “Nuestra misión es crear oportunidades comerciales para todos en Mexico!!”[1][8]
Magma names Argenis Leon alongside Maldonado and Galvan on the founding team. YC lists Maldonado and Galvan as former founders and records Boitas as founded in 2020.[2][5]
The first Boitas connected holders of excess inventory with small merchants seeking discounted wholesale goods. Sellers submitted lots. Boitas created listings, promoted them, collected goods, and arranged delivery. The catalog crossed product categories, which let almost any overstock supplier participate.[1]
The second version narrowed the vertical to food service. Restaurants, hotels, and cafeterias could order supplies from a phone or computer. Galvan's YC biography describes technology that automated SMB sales through WhatsApp commerce. An August 2022 podcast framed the buyer benefit as saving restaurant owners time and money on raw materials.[2][10]
The last documented version served a broader set of entrepreneurs, commission sellers, and SMBs. A merchant uploaded one Excel file and received a website with a digital catalog. The Inixar page sought simulated investment reservations from MXN 1 million to MXN 2 million and stated a goal of helping more than 13 million Latin American SMBs.[3]
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