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Safi
Safi is a climate-tech company building software for the recycling industry. It launched in 2021 as TrueCircle and first operated the recycling sector's first digital B2B marketplace, matching international buyers and sellers of recyclable plastics, paper and metals with quality verification, logistics and embedded financing. The company reached more than $40M in annualized GMV within its first year. It has since sharpened its focus on AI-powered quality control - a computer-vision product that turns a phone photo of a bale into instant composition data for PET, HDPE and aluminium cans, helping recyclers price and plan material more accurately. Led by CEO Rishi Stocker, Safi raised a $19.5M Series A in 2023 and works with recyclers across dozens of countries.
The 102-Year-Old Furniture Company Is Learning to Carry Less
Hooker Furnishings began with a steam whistle and a community-funded factory. A century later, its next act depends on a smaller portfolio, faster logistics and turning a vacation state of mind into a whole-home business.
BeMyGuest - Tours & Activities
The Singapore company quietly wiring up Asia's tours and attractions - one booking system, one distribution network, and a decade spent digitising an industry that still ran on paper tickets.
Aruna
Aruna is Indonesia's largest integrated fisheries commerce platform, connecting small-scale coastal fishermen directly to domestic and global seafood buyers through a digital supply chain. Founded in 2016 by three Telkom University students, it removes layers of middlemen, uses local agents and mobile tools to onboard fishers, and pairs commerce with traceability, cold chain, and sustainability programs. The company operates across most of Indonesia's coastline and exports to dozens of countries under a 'People, Profit, Planet' mission.
Alephee
Alephee is an Argentine cloud platform that helps automotive aftermarket brands, wholesalers and distributors sell parts online across Latin America. It standardizes fragmented product catalogs, adds vehicle-fitment data, keeps prices and inventory in sync, and connects the entire distribution chain to marketplaces like Mercado Libre and Amazon so an offline reseller network can be replicated online.
Vendra
Vendra is a San Francisco-based, YC-backed (S24) manufacturing platform that connects hardware teams with US manufacturers for custom parts. Customers submit a single RFQ; Vendra reads the CAD and drawings, matches the job to domestic suppliers with the right equipment and open capacity, gathers competitive quotes, and manages production through delivery. It is ITAR-registered and focused on aerospace, defense, and hard-tech companies, positioning itself against legacy quoting platforms like Xometry and Protolabs with real-time capacity matching.
FoodByUs
FoodByUs is an Australian B2B food procurement platform that lets restaurants, cafes, pubs, caterers and aged-care venues order wholesale supplies, manage invoices, track prices and handle payments in one place. Founded in 2016 by the team behind Menulog, it connects thousands of hospitality venues with wholesale food and alcohol suppliers, layering software - digital ordering, an AI-powered Invoice Hub, menu costing and finance tools - over the traditionally phone-and-paper world of restaurant supply.
Glife Technologies Pte Ltd
Glife Technologies is a Singapore-based B2B food and agri-tech company that digitizes the food supply chain across Southeast Asia. It connects farmers and suppliers directly with restaurants, hotels, caterers and retailers through an app-based sourcing marketplace, its own cold-chain distribution network, and an in-house ERP platform called GlifeWare. By cutting out layers of middlemen and aggregating demand, Glife aims to lower costs for buyers, give farmers reliable access to end-buyers, and improve food safety and food security in the region.
Gokomodo
Gokomodo is Indonesia's leading agribusiness supply chain company, blending a digital B2B procurement and e-commerce platform with a physical distribution network to connect large agribusiness corporates, cooperatives, farm stores, and smallholder farmers. Founded in 2019, it sources and delivers agricultural inputs - fertilizers, agrochemicals, equipment and more - at competitive prices, handling roughly 2% of national fertilizer distribution and serving an ecosystem of over 3,000 companies across Indonesia.
GudangAda
GudangAda is an Indonesian B2B e-commerce marketplace founded in 2019 that connects manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers and retail stores across the country's fragmented fast-moving-consumer-goods supply chain. Alongside its marketplace it offers logistics, merchant tools and financing so small retailers can source, order, pay and receive goods in one app. After scaling to roughly half a million SMEs and about $6 billion in transaction value on more than $135 million of venture funding, the company retrenched from its capital-intensive FMCG model and pivoted toward beauty and personal-care retail under its Kaka Beauty brand.
HXE (Huixiaoer)
HXE (Huixiaoer) is a Beijing-based MICE technology platform that lets companies search, compare and book hotel conference rooms, meeting venues and event services online. Marketed globally as Eventbest, it aggregates 150,000+ hotels and event venues, has served more than 400,000 corporate clients, and partners with major hotel groups including Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Shangri-La, Wyndham and Langham. HXE turns a traditionally offline, quote-by-phone procurement process - meetings, conferences, incentive trips and group business travel - into a one-stop digital marketplace covering venue data, price comparison, catering, accommodation and logistics.
Open Mineral
Open Mineral is a Swiss-based, AI-driven metals trading firm and digital marketplace that connects miners, smelters, and traders to buy and sell physical metal raw materials - such as copper, zinc, lead, gold and silver concentrates - directly and transparently. Founded in 2017 by former Glencore traders, the company pairs a physical trading desk with proprietary data and pricing algorithms to digitize a historically opaque, relationship-driven industry, and has onboarded hundreds of mining and metals companies across dozens of countries.
penny.
penny. is a Saudi-based B2B SaaS company that digitizes the full source-to-pay procurement cycle on one cloud platform. It combines e-sourcing, RFQs, purchase orders, supplier management, spend analytics and AI-driven automation so enterprises can cut costs, tighten governance and speed up buying. The modular, customizable system is used by companies across 75+ countries and is layered with AI tools like the Bidly.ai sourcing assistant to make procurement faster and more transparent.
Ralali.com - B2B Marketplace
Ralali.com is Indonesia's pioneering online B2B marketplace, founded in 2013 by Joseph Aditya to help micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) source products and grow. What began as a marketplace for industrial and MRO supplies has expanded into the Ralali Group B2B ecosystem - connecting more than 1.5 million users to suppliers across multiple industries and layering on financing, agent sales, go-to-market, calibration and waste-management services. The company has raised roughly $35-37M across six rounds through Series D and reports over US$850 million in cumulative transaction value.
Watermelon Ecosystem
Watermelon Ecosystem is a Dubai-based B2B platform for the food and beverage industry that connects restaurants, hotels, cafes and caterers with local and global suppliers. Founded in 2020 by former restaurateur Omar AlShamsi, it bundles a supplier marketplace, cloud POS, analytics and embedded financing into one system so F&B operators can consolidate ordering, cut purchasing time and paperwork, manage inventory and access working capital. The company raised a $4 million Series A in 2024 at a $29 million post-money valuation.
Agro.Club
Agro.Club is a New York-based agri-tech company that runs a full-stack B2B grain marketplace connecting farmers, crop buyers, food companies and input suppliers on a single digital platform. Founded in 2018 by Egor Kirin, it pairs crop marketing, logistics and market data with embedded fintech tools such as invoice financing and factoring, aiming to make grain trade more efficient, transparent and secure across North America, Europe and South America.
Axial
Axial is a private deal network for the North American lower middle market, connecting business owners, M&A advisors, private equity firms, lenders and corporate acquirers to source, market and close transactions confidentially. Founded in 2010 by Peter Lehrman, the platform uses matching algorithms and CRM-style tools to privately introduce sell-side deals to relevant buyers, and its 20,000+ members have transacted more than $25 billion across 2,000+ closed deals.
INTURN
INTURN is a New York-based enterprise SaaS company that helps brands and retailers manage, price and sell their excess and end-of-season inventory. Founded in 2013, it built one of the first digital platforms to replace spreadsheets and email in the roughly $250 billion off-price apparel trade, connecting sellers with a global network of buyers in private, controlled online showrooms. The platform centralizes inventory data, automates offers and negotiations, and provides analytics to recover margin on stock that would otherwise be liquidated at a loss. INTURN raised $36 million in venture funding, including a $22.5 million Series B in 2017 led by B Capital Group, and was acquired by AI retail company Mad Street Den in November 2022.
Paro
Paro is a Chicago-based, AI-powered marketplace that connects businesses and accounting firms with vetted fractional finance and accounting experts - from bookkeepers and controllers to fractional CFOs. Founded in 2015, it pairs its proprietary matching algorithms across 60+ industries and 250+ skill sets with data tools and advisory insight, aiming to become the go-to resource for finance and accounting solutions as the profession faces a deepening talent shortage.
Full Harvest
Full Harvest built the first business-to-business online marketplace connecting farmers with commercial produce buyers to sell fruits and vegetables of every grade, including surplus and imperfect produce that would otherwise rot on the farm. Founded in San Francisco in 2015 by Christine Moseley, the company raised roughly $45 million to digitize a produce supply chain that had run largely offline, tackling the fact that more than a quarter of edible produce never leaves the farm. In its latest chapter, Full Harvest is repositioning around FullHarvest.ai, an agentic orchestration layer that applies a decade of produce data and network relationships to coordinate the volatile, fragmented food supply chain.
Mstack
Mstack is an AI-native chemical R&D and manufacturing company that helps enterprises source and produce custom specialty chemicals. It pairs a cross-border network of vetted suppliers across India, the Middle East and Asia with Chemstack AI, a closed-loop platform that designs and ranks synthetic routes to compress molecule development from roughly 18 months to days. Founded in 2022 by former Lightspeed investor Shreyans Chopra, the company serves 100+ enterprise customers and is backed by Lightspeed and Alpha Wave Global.
Factorem
Factorem is an AI-driven on-demand manufacturing platform based in Singapore. Founded in 2020 by Alexandra Zhang and Hardik Dobariya, it lets engineering and hardware teams upload a CAD file, get an instant quote, and order custom parts - CNC machining, 3D printing, sheet metal fabrication, injection molding and surface treatment - from a vetted network of Southeast Asian factories, with no minimum order quantity. The platform uses AI to scan designs, match them to the best-suited manufacturer, and manage end-to-end fulfilment, compressing prototyping timelines from months to days.
Oceanworks®
Oceanworks is a Los Angeles-based B2B platform that makes it easy for brands to buy verified recycled ocean and ocean-bound plastic and to fund the cleanup of plastic that has no resale value. It runs a global marketplace connecting collectors and recyclers with major consumer brands, backs every transaction with its Oceanworks Guaranteed traceability system, and sells IMPAC+ plastic offsets that work like carbon credits for plastic waste. The idea is simple: turn corporate demand into a paycheck for the people pulling plastic out of coastlines before it reaches the sea.
Trendsi
Trendsi is a San Francisco-based B2B fashion supply chain platform that lets anyone start and run a clothing business with no upfront inventory. Through a free Shopify app and mobile apps, sellers dropship, buy open-pack wholesale, or create private-label apparel while Trendsi handles sourcing, quality control, warehousing, and shipping. Often described as a 'B2B version of Shein,' it gives independent sellers, stay-at-home entrepreneurs, and TikTok creators access to manufacturer-grade supply chain capability at minimal risk.
Felux
Felux is a Cleveland-based software company building the operating system for the steel industry. Its AI-powered platform reads request-for-quote (RFQ) emails straight out of a sales team's inbox, structures them automatically, and turns fragmented steel sales workflows into a unified dashboard for demand analytics, pricing intelligence, and deal tracking. Paired with a B2B marketplace connecting buyers and suppliers, Felux helps steel service centers, mills, brokers, and manufacturers see the demand they have been missing and modernize a trade that still largely runs on phone calls and spreadsheets.
Green Tiger Markets
Green Tiger Markets is a B2B trading platform that built the Philippines' first forward market for electricity, letting generators, developers, retailers and investors lock in future power prices instead of riding the volatile wholesale spot market. Founded by veteran commodities traders, the company runs an exchange-style marketplace for financially settled forward contracts (Contracts for Difference) referenced to the wholesale electricity spot market, with the goal of bringing transparency, price discovery and liquidity to emerging-market power systems.
Tundra
Tundra was an online B2B wholesale marketplace that connected independent retailers with brands across the U.S. and Canada on a zero-commission model. Founded in 2017 by Arnold and Katie Engel, it pitched itself as the friction-free alternative to trade shows and middleman markups, letting buyers source millions of products at true wholesale prices with low minimums, free shipping, and net terms. After raising roughly $38M from investors including Emergence Capital and Redpoint, Tundra grew to a community of 30,000+ retailers before winding down its marketplace in 2023 amid intense competition from Faire.
Acelab | Material Hub
Acelab is a New York-based AEC technology company building an AI-powered Material Hub for the architecture and construction industry. The platform helps architects, designers, and building owners research, compare, specify, and document building products from a database of more than 250,000 products across 10,000+ brands, with native Revit integration and tools that keep a single material selection synced across every project document. Founded in 2019 by Harvard and MIT architecture graduates, Acelab is used by over 20,000 firms, including more than half of the top 100 global architecture practices.
ezCater
ezCater is the leading U.S. workplace food platform, connecting companies that need to feed teams, meetings and events with a network of more than 100,000 local restaurants and caterers. Founded in Boston in 2007, it turned the messy, phone-and-fax world of office catering into software - online ordering, delivery logistics, billing and analytics - serving everything from a 5-person lunch to a 2,000-person conference. Now a $1.6B company, it has expanded from a transactional marketplace into an enterprise food management platform.
Garage
Garage is an AI-powered nationwide marketplace for America's most essential vehicles and equipment - fire trucks, ambulances, rescue gear and government surplus. It lets fire departments, municipalities and small businesses buy and sell pricey, specialized assets in minutes instead of months by handling appraisals, payments, paperwork, freight, warranty and financing in one place. Founded in 2023 by Martin Hunt and Alaz Sengul, the Y Combinator-backed company operates in all 50 states and has raised $18M.