We’re Martin Hunt and Alaz Sengul, founders of Garage.

How it started

In 2015, I joined my local fire department as a volunteer (young, but not as young as I was in this picture). In the years that followed, I completed 1500+ hours of training, got certified as an EMT, and started working as a paid firefighter at neighboring departments.

When my department bought new equipment or a new truck, we would turn to Facebook groups and word of mouth to sell our used equipment to other departments in need. For perspective, a new fire truck costs $1.5 to $2.5 million, with used trucks ranging in cost from $50,000 to $1 million.

It was a super frustrating process for us:

• Countless hours spent trying to find buyers in-need
• Navigating and losing money to scammers
• Coordinating independent logistics and financing providers

Garage’s Solution

Garage helps fire departments buy and sell used equipment in seconds rather than days. Our marketplace handles payments, freight, and financing – making buying and selling equipment easy.

We're starting with fire departments because of my personal background, but the same problem of selling used equipment exists in many other verticals including construction, agriculture, and government surplus equipment.

Meet the team

We met while both studying at Columbia and have been friends for 6+ years. Before starting Garage, Alaz worked at Twitter and MemAI as a software engineer, and I worked as a private equity investor at Goldman Sachs.

Email us at founders@withgarage.com.