For Sale:
Profitable Open Source Robotics Hardware and Kits E Commerce Brand | Institutional and Enterprise Customer Base | 100% Organic Growth
Asking Price: $700,000
Description
Business Overview
This is a profitable, U.S.-based e-commerce business supplying curated open-source robotics kits, pre-assembled robotic arms and mobile robots, replacement parts, and technical setup support. Its customers span more than 120 universities and research institutions (including Ivy League schools), corporate engineering and R&D teams at globally recognized technology companies, and a large base of individual technical builders and hobbyists.
The business solves a specific pain point in the open-source robotics market: buyers have traditionally been forced to self-source components from multiple overseas vendors with multi-week lead times and inconsistent quality. By curating known-good hardware bundles, fulfilling domestically in under a week, and calibrating and testing every unit before shipment, it has become the go-to domestic supplier in a fast-growing category. Reaching its one-year anniversary in 2026, the business generated roughly $412,000 in trailing-twelve-month total income and approximately $200,000 in net income, all without a single dollar of paid marketing!
Key Benefits
- ~$412K TTM total income and ~$200K net income (~49% net margin) achieved in the first twelve months of operation
- 55% blended gross margin with an average order value of approximately $300
- 1,269 customers and no customer concentration - no single customer exceeds 20% of revenue
- Marquee customer base: 120+ universities and research labs (including Ivy League), plus Fortune 500 technology companies such as Microsoft and Google
- 100% organic growth to date - $0 lifetime paid marketing spend
- Strong site economics: ~2.5% website conversion rate and a defect/return rate under 1%
- Official hardware-vendor positioning within a leading open-source robotics ecosystem, producing continuous inbound demand at zero customer-acquisition cost
- Clean books: no debt, no liens, no litigation, and no outstanding legal or tax matters
- Lean, transferable operation: one part-time owner and one contractor, backed by documented SOPs
- In-house production capability (12 owned 3D printers) plus an established domestic and overseas supply chain
Marketing
Growth has been driven entirely by organic demand. Primary channels include ecosystem-partnership positioning within a leading open-source robotics framework, organic word-of-mouth in the technical community, owner-led direct outreach to universities and corporate buyers, active community support presence, and customer referrals and repeat purchases. The business has never spent on paid advertising, leaving a large, proven, and un-activated paid-acquisition opportunity for a new owner. An email/SMS database of roughly 1,200 past customers also remains un-monetized.
Operations
The business runs a lean, well-documented operation from a small leased warehouse and assembly space in a major U.S. tech hub. In-house production is supported by 12 company-owned 3D printers for structural components, with a single contractor handling assembly and packaging. The supply chain is established, combining domestic suppliers with overseas component sourcing on Delivered-Duty-Paid terms that insulate margins from tariff volatility, and the business holds roughly one month of inventory as a buffer. The technology stack is modern and integrated - a Shopify storefront and payments, business banking, multi-carrier domestic shipping, and a full public documentation site and video channel. The owner contributes only ~25–30 hours per week alongside a separate role, underscoring the headroom available under full-time ownership.
Financial Strength
The business is profitable and debt-free. Trailing-twelve-month total income is approximately $412,000 with net income of approximately $200,000, a net margin near 49% on a 55% blended gross margin. There is no third-party debt, no liens, and no accounts payable outstanding. Working-capital needs are modest at roughly $10,000 per month, driven primarily by inventory replenishment. Because the owner treats net income as compensation (no salary is recorded), reported net income closely reflects seller's discretionary earnings.
Financial Overview
| Gross Revenue | $412,311 |
|---|---|
| Cash Flow | $200,406 |
| Year Established | 2025 |
| Employees | 1 |
| Inventory | Not Included in Asking Price |
Other Information
| Category | Ecommerce |
|---|---|
| Industry | Specialty Merchandise |
| Location | USA, California (San Francisco) |
| Home Based Business | No |
| Seller Finanacing Available | Yes |
| Income Sources | Products/Services |
Growth
- Activate paid customer acquisition into an already-proven ~2.5% conversion funnel that has never seen ad spend.
- Expand the product catalog (new SKUs and configurations) via an in-progress ODM relationship - reopening the funnel to the existing customer base
- Launch a recurring-revenue software layer for calibration, deployment, and workflow tooling
- Grow institutional and bulk sales into the existing base of 120+ universities and named corporate accounts through a dedicated sales effort
- Move up-market into higher-price humanoid and advanced platforms as the ecosystem expands
- Operationalize events, hackathons, and a showroom/retail presence - in-person product trials have converted at roughly 90%
- Continue disciplined price increases; pricing remains well below comparable closed-source hardware
Competition
The business occupies a rare position as the leading domestically-fulfilled, pre-tested, curated supplier in its category, competing chiefly against overseas manufacturers burdened by two-to-three-week lead times, inconsistent quality, and no English-language technical support or institutional purchasing workflows. Fast domestic fulfillment, calibration and QA on every unit, and established purchase-order and invoicing processes make it a viable supplier for U.S. universities and corporate research teams in a way overseas marketplace sellers structurally cannot match.