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Myntra wants to dress you before you know what to wear
The Indian fashion marketplace once shut its website to force a mobile future. Now it is chasing a more human problem: finding the right outfit, then getting it to you while the occasion still matters.
Lemlist Wants Your Cold Email to Feel Less Cold
The French sales platform has spent eight years turning a personalization trick into an outbound control room. Here is who should use it, what the credits really buy, and where the charm meets the spreadsheet.
AdvantageClub.ai Turned the Office Perk Into a Global Operating System
The company started with coupons and a chicken-and-egg problem. A decade later, it is betting that the messy business of appreciation - points, perks, pulse checks and payouts - belongs in one system.
Kris Rudeegraap Put a Dog Toy Where Another Sales Email Would Have Been
A bark on a sales call became a dog toy, then a product, then a company. Sendoso's co-founder has spent a decade turning small observations into a system for earning attention.
Rob McGovern Keeps Teaching Messy Markets to Match
CareerBuilder matched people with work. Jobfox tried to make the match smarter. At PreciseTarget, Rob McGovern is applying the same stubborn idea to retail: better decisions begin when the data understands taste.
SmartPath Bet Against the Money Pitch - and Built a Financial-Wellness Business for Everyone Else
Most financial companies teach in order to sell. SmartPath sells the teaching itself - a mix of live classes, dedicated coaches and software now reaching more than one million users through the institutions they already trust.
The Finnish startup that reads 120 things in your selfie so beauty brands don't have to guess
It began with a founder's own unexplained skin problem. It turned into an AI advisor now embedded in roughly 120 beauty brands and retailers - and, lately, inside ChatGPT.
The Cincinnati Company Betting That Your Employee Newsletter Should Read Like a Feed, Not a Blast
Cerkl Broadcast turns the corporate all-staff email into a personalized feed - one AI-curated digest per employee. Here's how a self-taught coder from Cincinnati built it, who's buying it, and where the whole bet could break.
The Company Keeping 1.9 Billion Shoppers From Becoming Strangers
Every purchase leaves a clue. Capillary Technologies turns billions of those scattered signals into loyalty programs that can recognize a shopper, choose a reward and act before the relationship goes cold.
The Dealer Website That Quietly Became the Whole Dealership
Dealer eProcess started with a dealer's frustration over websites that looked finished but did not sell. Its answer is Everest - one connected system that remembers shoppers, merchandises inventory and follows the deal from search box to showroom.
Stay AI
Stay AI is a Shopify-native subscription and retention platform that helps direct-to-consumer brands turn subscriptions into a growth channel rather than a simple billing tool. Founded in 2021 by ecommerce operators Gina Perrelli, Pierson Krass, and Taylor Cawiezell, the platform pairs a no-code, marketer-friendly customer portal with AI-driven churn prediction, smart dunning, cancellation surveys, and A/B testing. More than 500 brands - including OLIPOP, Magic Spoon, Momofuku, Lemme, and ARMRA - use Stay AI to reduce churn, lift recurring revenue, and increase customer lifetime value.
TULU
TULU is a proptech company that turns underused lobby and common space in apartment and student-housing buildings into 24/7 on-demand rental hubs. Through IoT-based units and a mobile app, residents can rent or buy brand-name products - from vacuums and e-scooters to VR headsets and household consumables - without owning them. Founded out of MIT's DesignX by Yishai Lehavi and Yael Shemer, the company pairs physical smart units with an AI layer that personalizes inventory per building, and it has served more than 500,000 residents across dozens of cities in North America and Europe.
Firsthand
Firsthand is a New York based AI company building the Brand Agent Platform, a system that lets marketers and publishers deploy their own AI-powered brand representatives to engage consumers in real time across owned sites and paid media. Founded in 2023 by digital advertising veterans behind FreeWheel and AppNexus, Firsthand treats AI as a new communication medium rather than a tool for automating existing marketing. Its Lakebed data and knowledge rights management system lets brands retain ownership and control of their content and data while cooperating with AI. The company raised a $26M Series A in March 2025 led by Radical Ventures.
Prose
Prose is a New York-based beauty-tech company that makes custom haircare and skincare to order. An online consultation feeds a proprietary AI engine that blends from a library of natural ingredients into formulas tailored to each customer's hair, scalp, skin, lifestyle, and even local climate. Founded in 2017 by ex-L'Oreal and Phyto executives, Prose is a Certified B Corporation, a Public Benefit Corporation, and a carbon-neutral brand that has produced millions of bespoke products and reached profitability while expanding into skincare and licensing its technology stack, Singular.
Contentful
Contentful is an API-first, cloud-native content platform - the company that popularized the 'headless CMS.' Founded in Berlin in 2013, it separates content from presentation so teams can store structured content once and deliver it anywhere: websites, mobile apps, kiosks, smart watches, or AI agents. It serves more than 4,800 brands, including roughly 30% of the Fortune 500, and in June 2026 entered an agreement to be acquired by Salesforce to power the content layer behind Agentforce.
Sam Wong
Sam Wong is Chief Business Officer at ChatLabs - the LVMH Innovation Award-winning AI social commerce platform serving luxury and consumer brands - and CEO of FundableStartups.com, a startup training academy. A five-time startup executive with 30+ years in the trenches and three successful exits under his belt, Wong has turned serial entrepreneurship into a second act: coaching founders and investing through Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest angel group. He's also the author of '21 Secrets of Successful Startups' and a regular fixture at TechCrunch Disrupt, Fortune, and the startup conference circuit.