Bryzos
Saint Louis, US · Founded 2017 · 8 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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Bryzos operates an online marketplace for buying and selling metals, built around its "Gone In 60 Seconds" platform for pricing and procuring metal products. It serves buyers and sellers in the metals industry.
Also known as Gone In 60 Seconds
Founders & leadership
Bryzos was founded in 2017 by Shep Hickey and Lee Letourneau.
Investors · 1
Reported raises · per SEC filings
Form D private placements$200K disclosed across 1 round · 2019
▶$200KraisedApr 2019 · 1 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Justin Shepard HickeyExecutive Officer
- Offering amount
- $1M
- Amount sold
- $200K
- First sale
- Apr 2019
- Incorporated
- Limited Liability Company, Delaware, 2017
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Bryzos operates a business-to-business online marketplace for metals, connecting buyers with a network of suppliers across the continental United States. Its platform, branded Gone In 60 Seconds™, provides real-time delivered pricing and self-serve purchasing of carbon steel, stainless steel and aluminum products, including beam, angle, channel, HSS tubing, pipe, bar, coil, sheet and plate. The company positions the product as a substitute for the phone calls, emails and quote cycles traditionally required to price and procure metal, and states that a purchase can be completed in under 60 seconds and that pricing and ordering are available 24 hours a day.
Platform features include volume pricing brackets that update as an order is built, a standardized price search, vendor chat with the supplier fulfilling an order, a mobile app, and "Upload BOM," which ingests a bill of materials as a PDF or Excel file and automatically extracts, prices and organizes line items into purchase-ready orders. Bryzos also publishes a Metals Pricing Index for carbon, stainless and aluminum that it says is derived from marketplace activity and intended as a benchmark and a link between quoted market prices and executable transactions. Access is currently through a desktop and mobile app; a web login is described as in development.
Order flow is described as analogous to ride-hailing: a buyer enters requirements and delivery location, sees a price and checks out, and the order is broadcast to the supplier network, with the first supplier to accept fulfilling it. Bryzos layers proprietary fintech on top of this, offering Net 30 terms to approved buyers, invoicing the buyer directly after the supplier confirms delivery, and paying suppliers itself, so buyers do not maintain separate accounts with each vendor.
Founding story
Shep Hickey founded Bryzos in 2017 after leaving an executive role in steel distribution, with the aim of digitizing metals procurement. Co-founder and COO Lee Letourneau, a longtime metals industry figure with pricing, product and sales experience, helped build the initial platform from Hickey's basement and shaped the scope and pricing of the Gone In 60 Seconds™ product.
Business model
Bryzos intermediates metals transactions between buyers and a nationwide supplier network on its own platform. It takes the buyer-facing commercial relationship — presenting delivered prices, invoicing buyers directly under Net 30 terms for approved accounts, and paying suppliers directly — while aggregating demand across buyers, which the company says allows it to obtain better pricing for buyers of all sizes.
Traction
Company-reported indicators include use by thousands of buyers, a claim that over 70% of peer buyers use the platform regularly, purchases completed in under 60 seconds, and named customer testimonials from fabricators and manufacturers. No independently reported revenue, order volume or headcount figures are available in the sources.
Latest developments
Bryzos is promoting its Upload BOM tool for automated bill-of-materials pricing and its Bryzos-powered Metals Pricing Index, and states that web access to Gone In 60 Seconds is in development while full access remains through the desktop app. It is also producing the "Cracking the Code" docuseries and the "Irregardless" podcast.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Bryzos presents itself as a digital alternative to traditional, relationship- and phone-based metals procurement, describing itself as "Uber for metals" and its pricing index as a "NASDAQ of Metals" benchmark. The company claims it is used by thousands of buyers and asserts that over 70% of peer buyers rely on it regularly; these figures are company-stated and not independently verified in the available sources.
Stated points of difference are transaction speed (purchases in under 60 seconds), transparent real-time delivered pricing backed by actual transaction data, automated bill-of-materials ingestion, a single relationship covering many suppliers with consolidated Net 30 invoicing, and a proprietary pricing index derived from marketplace activity. The company also emphasizes that its team consists of metals industry veterans and that it was built in the Mississippi Valley rather than Silicon Valley.
Technology
The Gone In 60 Seconds™ platform combines a standardized, fast search over metals products, real-time delivered pricing, volume-based price brackets, order broadcasting to suppliers, in-app vendor chat, and a proprietary fintech layer handling payments, credit terms, aggregated payments and invoicing. The Upload BOM tool parses bills of materials submitted as PDF or Excel and converts them into priced, purchasable orders. Products are delivered via desktop and mobile applications, with a web interface under development. Engineering has been led since 2017 by CTO Prathamesh Kulkarni, who the company credits with the platform architecture, Upload BOM and the search implementation.
Go-to-market
Distribution is direct and self-serve: buyers download the Bryzos desktop or mobile app and transact without sales intermediaries, while suppliers receive purchase orders pushed to them. The company builds on existing supplier relationships buyers already have, adding vetted new suppliers, and markets through content including a five-part docuseries ("Cracking the Code") and a podcast ("Irregardless") distributed on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other platforms, plus customer testimonials and a downloadable line card.
Industrial buyers and sellers of metal products in the continental United States, including fabricators, manufacturers and estimators. Named users referenced on the site include O & I Fabrication, Woods Tank, Jack's Ornamental Iron, Trident Maritime Systems, Silo Steel, Limestone Manufacturing, Morgan Truck Body and Three Rivers Corp. Use cases span bidding new projects, stocking inventory and purchasing for awarded jobs. Suppliers range from local distributors to national ones.
Geography
Operations are limited to the continental United States, served by a nationwide network of local suppliers and national distributors.
History
Founded in 2017, Bryzos built its marketplace and subsequently launched the Gone In 60 Seconds™ pricing and purchasing platform, later adding features such as Upload BOM, volume pricing, standardized search, vendor chat and a mobile app. Prathamesh Kulkarni has led engineering since 2017. The company has also introduced a Bryzos-powered metals pricing index, a podcast and a docuseries, and is extending platform access from its desktop and mobile apps to the web.
Risks & controversies
Key quantitative claims — adoption by thousands of buyers, 70%+ regular usage among peer buyers, and time savings of about six years over a buyer's career — originate from the company's own marketing and are not corroborated elsewhere in the available sources. Offering Net 30 terms and paying suppliers directly exposes Bryzos to buyer credit and working-capital risk, and the business is concentrated in a single geography (continental US) and a cyclical commodity category.
Compiled by commissioned research from 5 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Competitors · 1
by search overlapCompanies competing with Bryzos for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsBryzos states that web login is "coming soon" and that full access to Gone In 60 Seconds is currently available via its desktop app.
Bryzos publishes a proprietary pricing index for carbon, stainless and aluminum metals, based on daily marketplace activity and positioned as an industry benchmark.
Bryzos promotes Upload BOM, which ingests a bill of materials as a PDF or Excel file and automatically extracts, prices and organizes line items into ready-to-purchase orders; the site describes it as "a new tool to expedite your bids & purchases."
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 5
primary sources listed
- Bryzosbryzos.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Bryzos do?
- Bryzos runs a US B2B marketplace app for instantly pricing and buying carbon steel, stainless steel and aluminum.
- Who founded Bryzos?
- Bryzos was founded by Shep Hickey, Lee Letourneau in 2017.
- Who are Bryzos's investors?
- Bryzos's investors include Forerunner Ventures.
- How much funding has Bryzos raised?
- Bryzos has disclosed $200K raised across 1 round.
- Where is Bryzos headquartered?
- Bryzos is headquartered in Saint Louis, US.