About smartport
smartport launched in 2024 as a B2C online store for smartphones, wearables and headphones. Today we're opening the infrastructure we built to other sellers — and becoming the marketplace for everything consumer electronics.
We're not generalists. Consumer electronics in depth — product pages, advice and selection that do the category justice.
Every marketplace seller goes through verification before going live — identity, business registration, service standards. You don't shop blind.
One point of contact for everything — us. With a money-back guarantee on every order, whether sold directly by smartport or by a marketplace seller.
smartport launched in mid-2024 as a pure B2C online store. Patrick had previously built and sold an earlier e-commerce business — the lesson: consumer electronics is a category where buyers need trust and depth, not breadth. Marketplaces that sell everything treat smartphones like phone cases. We wanted to do better than that.
For the first 18 months we did everything ourselves — sourcing, logistics, pricing, customer service. Over 140,000 customers later, it was clear that the infrastructure we'd built could do more. In early 2026 we transformed smartport into a marketplace. Vetted third-party sellers now sell on the same platform — with the same care and the same buyer protection our own orders have always had.
Our goal is straightforward: smartport should become the go-to destination for consumer electronics in Europe — new and refurbished, curated like a specialist store, with the selection of a marketplace.
Patrick Scherzinger
CEO & Co-Founder
Julian Prause
COO & Co-Founder
Robin Prause
CTO & Co-Founder
