Meet Partao: The Luxembourg Startup Taking On The $51.3b Machinery Parts Market

Founded by two former Amazon execs, this early-stage startup is already making noise—raising €3 million just months after launch.

Not many startups can say they raised millions before even hitting their half-birthday. But Partao, a new e-commerce platform based in Luxembourg, has done just that.

Launched earlier this year by a team of four, including Alex Ootes and Virginia Strong—both veterans of Amazon’s European expansion—Partao is taking aim at a huge but largely overlooked corner of the online marketplace: spare parts for…