Startups Directory

Checkout.com is an enterprise-grade API-based payment platform that provides end-to-end payment processing, risk management, card issuing, and payment routing for global merchants. The platform supports multiple payment methods including cards, digital wallets (Apple Pay, Google Pay), and local payment networks (Alipay, SEPA, bank transfers). It serves exclusively enterprise customers, with 63 merchants processing over $1B annually on the platform, and differentiates through a lean sales operation (13% of headcount) while dedicating two-thirds of staff to product and engineering.

Klarna is a buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) platform that enables customers to split purchases into interest-free installments or pay within 30 days, while merchants get paid upfront. The platform serves e-commerce retailers globally and offers additional features like price comparison, cashback rewards, and price tracking. Klarna differentiates itself by not charging late fees on its popular 4-installment payment method and has integrated with 24 of the top 100 US retailers, more than any competitor.

Meesho is an online marketplace and social commerce platform enabling small sellers, homemakers, and entrepreneurs to start businesses without upfront investment. Operating with a zero-commission model across all product categories, Meesho focuses on Tier 2-3 cities and rural India, serving value-conscious customers with unbranded fashion, household goods, and regional products. The platform differentiates through its dual model—social reselling via WhatsApp/Facebook and direct seller-to-customer transactions—while remaining India's only scaled e-commerce platform allowing sellers to register without GST credentials.

Bolt is a cloud-based checkout and payment processing platform that uses AI and machine learning to streamline eCommerce transactions across web and mobile. The platform recognizes returning customers through its Universal Shopper Network (80M+ customers) to enable password-free checkout, while offering 100% fraud coverage through analysis of 200+ transaction variables. It charges 0% fees for first-time customers and 2% for repeat purchases, helping retailers increase checkout conversion rates by 10-20% while reducing fraud risk.

Balance is a B2B eCommerce payments platform that enables businesses to process payments via check, card, or bank transfer with flexible terms (net 30/60/90, payment plans). Founded by PayPal alums, it addresses the $2 trillion offline B2B payments market by offering an omni-channel checkout with real-time risk assessment and instant settlement. The platform combines B2B payments, trade credit, AR management, and marketplace capabilities in a modular stack tailored for digital commerce at scale.

Udaan is India's largest B2B e-commerce marketplace connecting manufacturers, wholesalers, traders, and retailers across 900+ cities. The platform serves over 3 million small businesses including kiranas, pharmacies, and retailers with products across FMCG, electronics, pharmaceuticals, and agriculture. It digitizes India's fragmented wholesale trade by eliminating middlemen, enabling direct ordering, price comparison, and access to credit through Udaan Capital's BNPL solutions.

ElasticRun is a B2B logistics and fulfillment SaaS platform that powers India's supply chain through an asset-light model leveraging existing transportation infrastructure. The platform serves FMCG brands, e-commerce companies, and retailers by connecting them to over 12 lakh kirana stores across 500+ locations and 28 states. Its AI-powered control tower automates logistics operations, transforming rural and Tier II-IV distribution networks into efficient growth engines. ElasticRun uniquely focuses on underserved rural markets rather than competing in crowded urban e-commerce logistics.

Inxeption is a cloud-based Industrial Commerce (I-commerce) platform that digitizes the B2B supply chain by combining marketplace, logistics, search, and payment services on a single integrated dashboard. The platform enables industrial suppliers and manufacturers to sell across B2B and B2C channels while managing multimodal shipments (parcel, LTL, FTL, ocean), accessing embedded financial services, and leveraging real-time network analytics. It serves industrial companies looking to accelerate digital transformation and reach new customers without building separate systems for e-commerce, fulfillment, and payments.

Sunbit is a B2B2C point-of-sale financing platform that embeds fast, transparent installment payment options into merchant checkout workflows, primarily in auto repair and healthcare. Using proprietary AI/ML, the platform approves 90% of applicants in under 30 seconds with just a driver's license, phone, and email. Merchants receive guaranteed upfront payment while Sunbit assumes credit risk, enabling 20-30% higher average order values and improved customer retention.

Deliverr is a distributed fulfillment platform that enables small and medium-sized e-commerce merchants to offer fast, 1-2 day delivery across major marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Shopify, and Target. The company uses predictive analytics and machine learning to position inventory across a network of third-party warehouses and cross-docks near anticipated demand. Deliverr provides end-to-end fulfillment services including receiving, picking, packing, packaging, and shipping, allowing SMB merchants to compete with Amazon Prime-like speed without building their own infrastructure.

Merama is a holding company that acquires majority stakes in high-growth, direct-to-consumer e-commerce brands across Latin America and the U.S., while allowing founders to retain ownership and operational control. The company provides acquired brands with working capital, e-commerce expertise, and proprietary technology tools to accelerate growth and expansion. Having evolved from an e-commerce aggregator model, Merama now operates as a more focused holding company managing a curated portfolio of six major brands rather than dozens. The company has raised over $430M in equity and debt financing since its December 2020 founding.

Pattern is an eCommerce growth platform that partners with brands to accelerate sales across 60+ online marketplaces without charging fees or commissions. The company buys inventory upfront, manages pricing, advertising, content, and fulfillment using proprietary AI and software, while brands keep all margin improvements. Pattern has scaled 100+ brands including Panasonic, Black Diamond, and SPANX, with typical first-year revenue growth of 40%.

Spreetail is a wholesale distributor and ecommerce acceleration platform specializing in big-and-bulky products. The company purchases inventory directly from brands and manufacturers, then handles multi-channel marketplace distribution, fulfillment, and logistics across 20+ platforms including Amazon, Walmart, and Target. Unlike traditional 3PLs charging service fees, Spreetail operates on wholesale margin capture, investing upfront in inventory and brand success while providing AI-powered tools for listing optimization, pricing strategy, and advertising incrementality.

Juni is a fintech platform built specifically for e-commerce and online marketing entrepreneurs, combining business banking, credit products, and financial analytics optimized for the unique cash flow patterns of digital businesses. The platform automates accounting workflows through 2,400+ integrations while offering credit cards, capital advances, and cash-back tailored to e-commerce operations. Juni differentiates by deeply understanding the irregular payment cycles and high transaction volumes typical of online sellers, positioning itself as a vertical-specific alternative to horizontal fintech platforms.

Kite is an 'every channel' commerce platform designed to help digital-first consumer product brands scale across e-commerce, social, retail, and direct-to-consumer channels. The platform uses predictive, assistive, and evaluative AI to optimize customer acquisition and supply chain management, while leveraging what the company calls the 'Kite Effect'—where the platform learns and adapts as more products utilize it. Founded by Rob Solomon (former CEO of GoFundMe) in 2022 and backed by $200M from Blackstone and Juxtapose, Kite positions itself as a modern commerce infrastructure provider, though some characterize it as an e-commerce aggregator model.

Salsify is a cloud-based product content management platform that helps brands, manufacturers, and retailers manage, optimize, and syndicate product information across e-commerce channels and digital shelves. The platform connects the retail supply chain by centralizing product content (descriptions, images, specs, digital assets) and enabling distribution to marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart, and Instagram. With AI-powered automation and digital shelf analytics, Salsify helps enterprises reduce time-to-market, unify cross-functional teams, and compete effectively in agentic commerce.

Olist is a comprehensive SMB commerce enabler ecosystem serving Latin American small and medium businesses. The platform integrates three core pillars: a marketplace aggregation tool (Olist Store) that lets merchants list on multiple marketplaces through a single interface, a logistics and fulfillment network (Olist Pax), and financial services (Olist Credit and Olist Pay). By consolidating reputation management, inventory control, order fulfillment, and working capital access, Olist addresses the core pain points preventing SMBs from scaling on digital marketplaces.

Bloomreach is an AI-powered commerce platform that unifies real-time customer and product data to personalize ecommerce experiences across all digital touchpoints. The platform combines intelligent search and merchandising, a headless CMS, customer data capabilities, and marketing automation—all powered by Loomi AI. It serves 1,400+ global brands including American Eagle, Pandora, and Albertsons, enabling them to deliver hyper-personalized shopping experiences that drive measurable conversion and revenue lifts.

Zoovu is an AI-powered product discovery and guided selling platform that transforms messy product data into semantically enriched information powering conversational buying experiences. It serves enterprise retailers and brands across e-commerce, B2B, and complex product categories by replacing generic keyword search with intelligent question-based navigation. The platform integrates search, guided selling, product configuration, and bundling from a single system, enabling customers to discover products through natural language interactions rather than static product listings. Zoovu's differentiation lies in its unified approach and advisor-model questioning sequences that match how buyers naturally navigate complex product categories.

Parker is a corporate credit card platform purpose-built for e-commerce brands, offering credit limits up to $10 million with cash flow-optimized underwriting based on business performance. Unlike traditional business credit cards, Parker provides flexible statement cycles (daily, weekly, or monthly) and credit limits 10-20x higher than competitors like Brex and American Express. The platform bundles cards, banking, bill pay, and financial intelligence at no additional cost, generating revenue through interchange and transaction fees.

Firework is an enterprise video commerce platform that enables brands to create interactive, shoppable video experiences embedded directly on their websites and apps. The platform combines in-video shopping, live streaming, and AI-powered content creation to drive customer engagement and conversion. Firework differentiates itself through seamless integration with 100+ commerce platforms, always-on virtual showrooms, and enterprise-grade features purpose-built for large-scale operations. Notable customers include Kraft Heinz, Unilever, Mattel, and American Express, with demonstrated conversion rate improvements of 7-13x industry averages.

Wayflyer is a revenue-based financing platform that provides e-commerce merchants with fast, non-dilutive capital ranging from $10,000 to $20 million. The platform uses data-driven underwriting by connecting to Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon, and ad accounts to assess merchant performance in real time, bypassing traditional credit scores. Merchants repay advances as a percentage of ongoing revenue (typically 5-10% fixed fee) with flexible terms aligned to business cycles, with no personal guarantees or equity dilution. Operating across the US, UK, Australia, and Europe, Wayflyer has funded over 5,000 businesses with $5 billion in total capital since 2019.

Deliverect is an AI-powered, API-first platform that integrates online orders from third-party delivery channels (Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Glovo, DoorDash) directly into restaurants' POS systems, eliminating manual order re-entry and reducing errors. The platform has expanded beyond restaurants to serve convenience stores, grocery retailers, and dark kitchens across 52 markets. With over 80,000 businesses using the platform and 1+ billion orders processed, Deliverect streamlines operations for everything from delivery and dine-in to take-out, drive-thru, and catering.

RenoRun was a construction tech platform that provided fast material delivery (2-hour service) to contractors and renovation professionals across Canada. The company operated an e-commerce platform integrated with a logistics network sourcing from local suppliers and owned warehouses to ensure rapid fulfillment of building materials. RenoRun shut down operations permanently on April 26, 2023, after filing for creditor protection in March 2023.

Logicbroker is a cloud-based commerce orchestration platform that automates dropship and marketplace operations by connecting retailers, brands, suppliers, and logistics providers. It enables businesses to expand product offerings without inventory investment through automated catalog management, order fulfillment, and inventory synchronization. The platform uniquely supports both B2B and B2C dropship and marketplace models at scale, with rapid vendor onboarding (under 1 hour) and AI-driven commerce discovery capabilities.

Akeneo is a Product Experience Management (PXM) platform that centralizes product data, content, and intelligence across all sales channels. It serves enterprise retailers and manufacturers who need to manage complex product catalogs at scale, with AI-driven capabilities that govern data in real-time from supplier to post-sale. The platform combines a free open-source community edition with enterprise SaaS editions, making it accessible to both SMBs and Fortune 500 companies. Akeneo's differentiation lies in its focus on making product data 'perform'—driving traffic, conversions, and AI discoverability—rather than just managing it.

Flexe operates a Logistics Cloud platform that converts static warehouse capacity into a flexible, pay-as-you-go network for enterprises. The company connects Fortune 500 retailers and brands to 2,000+ distributed fulfillment sites, enabling dynamic inventory placement without long-term leases or fixed capital. Flexe's 'single pane of glass' dashboard routes inventory for 1-2 day delivery to 98% of the U.S., delivering 20-30% reductions in logistics costs and enabling new network activation in ~30 days versus industry standard six months.

CommerceIQ is an AI-powered retail ecommerce management platform that helps consumer brands optimize sales across major online marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart, Target, and Instacart. It unifies digital shelf optimization, retail media advertising, and supply chain management through machine learning and automation to drive profitable market share growth. The platform serves over 2,200 brands globally, including Nestle, Colgate, and Whirlpool, delivering measurable results like 40% incremental sales increases and 32% reduction in out-of-stock rates.

GRIN is an end-to-end creator management platform that helps DTC brands find, engage, and manage relationships with influencers at scale. The platform streamlines influencer outreach, manages creator relationships through a private CRM, automates product seeding, tracks content rights, and provides revenue attribution through direct e-commerce integration with Shopify and Magento. Unlike transactional platforms, GRIN focuses on building authentic, relationship-based partnerships while eliminating traditional rev-share fees. The platform recently launched GIA, an agentic AI system to automate campaign workflows and optimize creator engagement.

TradeDepot is a B2B e-commerce and embedded finance platform connecting FMCG brands to over 100,000 small retailers across Nigeria. The platform offers digital commerce, buy-now-pay-later inventory financing, integrated logistics, and data analytics. It uniquely combines a hyper-local marketplace model with embedded credit to help micro-retailers expand purchasing power while reducing supplier delivery costs by up to 25%.

ConnexPay is a unified payment platform that combines merchant processing and virtual card issuance on a single contract with one API, eliminating the traditional 24-48 hour settlement delay. It serves intermediaries—companies like travel platforms and marketplaces that sit between consumers and service providers—enabling instant access to authorized funds for supplier payments. The platform reduces operational costs by 50%, automates reconciliation, and includes AI-powered fraud detection through Kount integration.

Klaviyo is an AI-powered email marketing and SMS platform that unifies customer data to drive personalized omnichannel experiences across email, SMS, WhatsApp, and ecommerce. It enables brands to build automated workflows triggered by customer behavior—like abandoned cart, welcome series, and replenishment reminders—that generate 30-50% of total email revenue without manual intervention. The platform serves ecommerce and direct-to-consumer brands by transforming raw customer data into actionable insights and revenue-driving automations.

Nfinite is an AI-powered SaaS e-merchandising platform that enables retailers to create, manage, and display unlimited photorealistic product visuals through 3D CGI technology. The platform allows brands to generate product imagery from any angle, distance, or lighting configuration without expensive traditional photoshoots—reducing costs by up to 7x while accelerating time to market. Nfinite serves major retailers like Lowe's, Staples, and Wayfair, driving significant improvements in conversion rates (up to 53% lift) and customer engagement.

Ordergroove is an AI-powered subscription commerce platform that enables enterprise and mid-market brands to convert one-time transactions into recurring revenue streams. The platform provides end-to-end subscription lifecycle management, including a customer-facing subscription manager, AI-driven churn prediction, retention incentives, and dynamic pricing tools. With 15+ years of expertise and 500+ customers including Walmart, Nestlé, and L'Oréal, Ordergroove positions itself as both software and strategic partner for subscription optimization.

OSF Digital is a enterprise digital transformation consultant specializing in Salesforce implementation, commerce platforms (CRM, CMS, OMS), and AI-driven agentic workflows. The company serves Fortune 500 brands across retail, cosmetics, banking, and hospitality sectors, having completed 1,907+ employees across 12 acquired agencies globally. They differentiate through 14+ years of Salesforce partnership expertise, exclusive expert distinction in four commerce categories, and a patent-pending AI platform (AllAi) for operationalizing enterprise workflows.

DealHub is an agentic Quote-to-Revenue platform that consolidates AI-powered CPQ, Contract Lifecycle Management, subscription and usage-based billing into a single system. It enables enterprises to design, launch, and scale modern monetization models—from Sales-Led to Product-Led Growth—without manual processes or developer intervention. The platform's no-code environment allows operations teams to adapt pricing and product configurations in real-time, while streamlining the entire revenue lifecycle from quoting through revenue recognition.

Shadowfax is a technology-driven logistics marketplace connecting businesses with a vast network of delivery partners to provide last-mile, hyperlocal, and express delivery services. The platform serves e-commerce companies, quick commerce platforms, SMEs, D2C brands, and individual customers with same-day, next-day, and instant delivery capabilities. Shadowfax differentiates through proprietary logistics software offering real-time tracking, route optimization, and a transparent flat-rate billing model (Shadowfax 360) that eliminates weight-based pricing disputes. The company has achieved significant scale with major customers including Flipkart, Amazon, Domino's, Big Basket, and Paytm.

Swap Commerce is an e-commerce operating system that unifies backend operations—shipping, returns, inventory, tax, compliance, and cross-border workflows—into a single platform. It serves rapidly scaling D2C and e-commerce brands that need to manage complex global logistics without maintaining multiple disconnected tools. The platform reduces operational costs by up to 30% and increases revenue by 8% through AI-driven inventory management and automated cross-border compliance. Swap has evolved from a returns-focused solution into a comprehensive commerce backbone that enables brands to expand internationally without manual overhead.

Clip is Mexico's leading mobile point-of-sale and digital payment platform that enables small businesses and independent merchants to accept card payments via smartphones and tablets. The platform eliminates traditional barriers to payment acceptance—monthly fees, minimum transaction requirements, and excessive paperwork—while addressing Mexico's cash-heavy economy where 80% of personal consumption expenditure occurs offline. Beyond card readers, Clip offers inventory management, online commerce solutions, payment links, and business financing services, serving over 1 million merchants.

Swiftly is a digital operating system for brick-and-mortar retail that unifies retail data, enables real-time shopper segmentation, and powers omnichannel campaigns. It helps independent and regional grocers compete with giants like Amazon and Walmart by providing mobile engagement, personalization, loyalty integration, and closed-loop retail media capabilities. The platform operates on a revenue-sharing model where Swiftly's success is directly tied to the retail media revenue generated by its clients. Swiftly shoppers spend 1.5x more than average customers and drive over 25% of product and payment volume for participating retailers.

Swiftly is a vertical SaaS platform and retail media marketplace that unifies first-party shopper data across POS, loyalty, ecommerce, and mobile to enable identity resolution, audience targeting, and closed-loop attribution. The platform serves both grocery retailers and CPG brands, allowing independent and regional grocers to compete with Amazon and Walmart through digital engagement tools, personalized loyalty programs, and high-margin media monetization. Major customers including PepsiCo, Red Bull, and Kraft Heinz use Swiftly to drive in-store sales across 33,000+ locations. Swiftly operates a two-sided marketplace where retailers gain digital surfaces and CPG brands access premium, retailer-owned inventory via a unified campaign engine.

Kushki is a regional payments infrastructure platform that standardizes Latin America's fragmented payment ecosystem by integrating credit/debit cards, bank transfers, and 300,000+ cash payment points through a single API. Operating as the first non-bank acquirer licensed in the region, it enables businesses across LatAm to accept payments globally, receive funds in local currency, and process transactions end-to-end with direct VISA/Mastercard connections. The platform provides omnichannel solutions spanning e-commerce, m-commerce, and physical retail through customizable integration options including APIs, SDKs, plugins, and payment buttons.

Shopware is an open-source, API-first eCommerce platform built on Symfony and Vue.js that serves both B2B and B2C merchants globally. The platform provides full code access and architectural flexibility, positioning itself as an alternative to closed platforms like Shopify by eliminating licensing lock-in. It includes no-code automation, content-commerce integration, and built-in AI capabilities through Copilot. Shopware powers approximately 100,000 e-commerce companies worldwide, generating €12 billion in combined revenue, and holds the #1 market position in Germany among top 1,000 e-commerce sites.