Material Bank

materialbank.com

HQ: Miami, Florida, United States

500

Technology

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 16, 2026

Overview

Material Bank is a privately held design-technology and logistics company founded by Adam I. Sandow. Its platform lets architects, interior designers, and other design professionals search, compare, organize, and order physical samples from hundreds of architectural, construction, and design-material brands. Samples ordered by midnight ET are consolidated into one carbon-neutral shipment for next-morning delivery in the United States and Canada.

Primary product

Material Bank marketplace and sampling platform for architectural, construction, and design materials.

Founded

2019

Headquarters

Boca Raton, Florida, United States

Team size

100-250 publicly reported; third-party estimates vary materially, from approximately 136 to 218+

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Design Services / Design Technology

Sub-industry

Architecture and design materials marketplace; B2B e-commerce; logistics and product-information technology

Offices

Boca Raton, Florida, United States

Miami, Florida, United States

Olive Branch, Mississippi, United States — logistics hub

Paris, France

New York, United States — office planned/coming soon

Business model

Two-sided B2B marketplace

Brand-partner subscriptions, services, and marketing programs

Sample fulfillment and logistics

Product-information management and data services

Consumer e-commerce through related businesses

Funding

Stage

Late-stage private / Series D; unicorn valuation reported in 2022

Total raised

$325M

Latest round

Series D · May 2022

Latest amount

$175M

Series D

May 2022 · Brookfield Growth / Brookfield Asset Management

$175M

Series C

May 2021 · General Catalyst

$100M

Series B

Apr 2020 · Bain Capital Ventures

$28.6M

Series A

Mar 2019

People & investors

Leadership

Adam I. Sandow

Founder, Chairman and CEO

Stephen H. Smith

Chief Logistics Officer

Andrew Dent

Chief Material Scientist

Farshid Tafazzoli

Chief Business Officer

Kamal Farah

Executive Vice President, Special Projects; EVP, Brand Central

Liz Margles

EVP and Head, Community

Rebecca Elie Best

EVP, Sustainability

Robert Thiemann

EVP, Content Strategy

Investors

9Yards Capital

Annox Capital

Bain Capital Ventures

Barry Sternlicht

BOND Capital

Brookfield Growth / Brookfield Asset Management

Durable Capital Partners

SoftBank Vision Fund 2

The Raine Group / Raine Ventures

Work & culture

The company describes itself as remote-friendly with a global presence. Its stated leadership principles emphasize growth, care, ideation, speed, ownership, urgency, trust, knowledge sharing, and customer focus. Public job postings indicate a distributed engineering and commercial workforce alongside physical logistics operations.

Work style

Flexible

Compensation

Public careers pages describe benefits but do not provide a consistent company-wide salary framework. Some third-party and job-posting sources provide role-specific compensation, but no reliable broad compensation range was established from primary sources.

Benefits

Flexible PTO

Federal holidays off

Company-wide break during the last week of December

Medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance

401(k) with 100% company match up to 4%

Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave at 100%

FSA and HSA

Employee referral bonuses

LifeMart discounts

Monthly remote stipend for qualified employees

Product & market

Pricing

Free for approved design professionals to search and order samples. Material brands pay for participation, marketplace access, marketing, lead generation, fulfillment, and related services; public standard pricing was not found.

Differentiators

—Searches and consolidates material catalogs from hundreds of brands in one marketplace
—Free sample ordering for approved design professionals
—Overnight delivery in the United States and Canada for orders placed by midnight ET
—Single-box consolidation reduces packaging and shipping waste
—Carbon-neutral shipping program
—Large proprietary material and product database
—Unbiased search ranking; the company says brands do not pay for ranking or placement
—Robotic fulfillment operation near the FedEx Memphis hub
—Boards, collaboration, mood-board, data-export, and visual-search tools
—Integration of product data, brand-representative engagement, sampling, and logistics

Technology

Adobe Commerce / Magento

AWS

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

GraphQL

Python

PostgreSQL / Amazon RDS

Snowflake

dbt

Apache Airflow

Kafka

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD / GitLab tools are publicly detected or referenced in hiring data; exact production usage may vary by system

Customers

100,000+ vetted design professionals according to Material Bank's FAQ

Architects and interior designers

Architecture and design firms

Corporate and Fortune 500 design teams

Hospitality, workplace, retail, healthcare, education, government, real-estate, and residential project teams

Hundreds of architectural and material brands / manufacturers

Competitors

Architonic

Archiproducts

Clippings

BuildDirect

Ferguson Enterprises

Designconnected

Pinterest and other visual-discovery tools — adjacent rather than direct competitors

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately $50M-$100M annually; third-party estimates include $55M estimated 2024 ARR and approximately $68.6M-$76.5M annual revenue. These are estimates, not company-reported financials.

Estimated monthly visits

280.1K

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026

Signals & risks

Layoff

Jul 2025

The South Florida Business Journal reported that Material Bank planned to lay off 77 jobs in Boca Raton. This is a material workforce-reduction signal; the article did not establish that the company was shutting down.

Source

Acquisition

Aug 2021

Material Bank acquired Clippings, a UK-based interior-design procurement platform, according to contemporary reporting.

Source

Acquisition

Mar 2022

Material Bank acquired Amber Engine, a product-information-management software company, to expand product-data services for brand partners.

Source

Acquisition

Jun 2022

Material Bank acquired Architizer, an architecture-media and project-database platform. Architizer was expected to continue operating as a subsidiary led by David Weber.

Source

Latest news

Material Bank Appoints Robert Thiemann as EVP, Content Strategy

Material Bank / GlobeNewswire · Feb 2026

Material Bank announced the appointment of design-media executive Robert Thiemann as EVP, Content Strategy, reflecting continued investment in content, editorial authority, and global design-industry reach.

Sandow's acquisition of Architonic signals global ambitions

Business of Home · Jan 2026

Adam Sandow described global expansion across the broader Sandow portfolio and said Material Bank operated in 37 countries. The article also reported that Sandow had returned to the CEO role at Material Bank after Sebastian Gunningham's tenure.

Material Bank to lay off 77 jobs in Boca Raton

South Florida Business Journal · Jul 2025

The company reportedly planned a 77-position reduction in Boca Raton, a significant workforce and operating-risk signal.

Material Bank's new CEO is thinking beyond samples

Business of Home · May 2024

The interview covered Sebastian Gunningham's appointment as CEO in late 2023, Adam Sandow's move toward chairman responsibilities at that time, and the company's plans for European, Japanese, fulfillment, and category expansion.

Material Bank Announces $175M Series D Raise Led by Brookfield

Material Bank / GlobeNewswire · May 2022

Material Bank announced a $175M Series D led by Brookfield Growth, with participation from Fifth Wall, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, RXR, and existing investors. The company said the raise brought total funding to more than $325M.

Jobs and careers at Material Bank

15 jobs at Material Bank

Integrated Marketing Manager

Remote

Marketing

Boston, Massachusetts; Remote

3d ago

Remote

Full-time