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David Harutyunyan Built Globbing for the Checkout's Most Expensive Word: Unavailable
He started with a stubborn e-commerce gap: shoppers wanted the product, but the parcel had no route home. A decade later, his company is turning foreign addresses, warehouses and lockers into regional infrastructure.
The $80,000 Side Hustle That Became Stock4Less - and the Inventory Bet Small Sellers Can Copy
Gentille Gohoho started with a few marine parts, 300 listings and two hours a day. The catalog grew because he followed the buyers - but a broad, global inventory also makes delivery discipline the whole game.
For Shoppers the Checkout Abandons, Globbing Built the Missing Mile
Globbing took a stubborn e-commerce error - “we don’t ship to your country” - and turned it into addresses, aircraft, customs software and lockers. A decade later, its most useful lesson is that the missing feature in global shopping was never another storefront; it was a dependable way home.
The Checkout Button That Smuggles Simplicity Across Borders
Tiendamia built a storefront around the least glamorous parts of global shopping: duties, documents, freight and the anxious wait for a parcel. Its real product is not the billion-item catalog - it is the feeling that the border has disappeared.
In 1998, Three Engineers Bet the World Wanted India's Gods Delivered
Long before Amazon reached India, three brothers in Delhi were mailing hand-cast bronzes and out-of-print Sanskrit texts to strangers overseas. Twenty-five years on, Exotic India still pays its 10,000 artisans upfront - and ships to roughly 160 countries.
The K-Beauty Cart That Became a $347 Million Export Machine
YesStyle turned the messy business of finding, explaining and shipping Asian beauty worldwide into a repeatable retail system. Its sharpest advantage is not a single serum or skirt - it is the loop connecting 400-plus Korean brands, half a million creators and shoppers across more than 200 countries and territories.
Anchanto
Anchanto is a Singapore-based B2B SaaS company that helps brands, retailers, and third-party logistics providers run their entire e-commerce operation from one platform. Its cloud products handle order management, warehouse operations, inventory, marketplace integrations, and parcel tracking across marketplaces, webstores, and D2C channels. Founded in 2011, it serves 360+ enterprise customers across more than a dozen countries and processes hundreds of millions of orders a year.
Jet Commerce
Jet Commerce is a Southeast Asia-focused e-commerce enabler founded in Indonesia in 2017 that provides brands with end-to-end online growth services - strategic consulting, marketplace store operations, integrated digital marketing, customer service, live commerce, and warehousing and fulfillment. Operating across Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Singapore, China, and Brazil, it helps global and local brands such as OPPO, DJI, L'Oreal, and Panasonic sell on platforms including Shopee, Lazada, Tokopedia, and TikTok Shop. The company raised over $60 million in Series B financing in August 2022.
Return Helper
Return Helper is a Singapore-based, AI-driven cross-border ecommerce returns and reverse-logistics platform. It pairs branded return-portal software with a network of 20+ overseas warehouses that receive, inspect and process returned goods locally, then recover value through recommerce - refurbishing, grading, reselling and recycling. Founded by Roy Wan and Paco Wong, the company helps online sellers on Amazon, Shopify, eBay and TikTok turn returns from a cost center into a source of recovered revenue.
Salasa | سلاسة
Salasa is a Riyadh-based end-to-end e-commerce fulfillment and logistics platform. Founded in 2017, it gives online merchants a single stack for warehousing, order fulfillment, domestic and cross-border shipping, bonded zones, returns, and dark-store-powered two-hour delivery, connected through an OMS and API integrations with platforms like Salla, Zid, Shopify and Amazon and more than 40 carriers. The company has fulfilled tens of millions of orders for over 1,000 merchants and raised roughly $40 million to build a tech-first logistics network across Saudi Arabia and the GCC.
MarketLeap
MarketLeap is an AI-driven ecommerce accelerator that helps consumer brands launch and scale on global marketplaces such as Amazon, Walmart, eBay, OTTO, BOL and TikTok Shop. Founded in 2022 by former Amazon and Jumia executives Mamoun Benkirane and Mekki Mouaddeb, the platform combines automation, analytics and hands-on operations - including listing optimization, dynamic pricing, marketing, inventory forecasting and VAT/tax compliance - under a 'skin in the game' model that absorbs marketing costs and runs on 30-day rolling contracts. The company raised an $8M Series A in February 2025, bringing total funding to about $10.7M.
nocnoc
nocnoc is a Montevideo-based cross-border eCommerce platform that lets global brands and retailers sell across Latin America's largest online marketplaces - Mercado Libre, Amazon, Walmart, Magalu, Coppel, Falabella and more - through a single integration, often going live in under 48 hours. Sellers ship to a US or China warehouse and nocnoc handles listings, marketing, customs, taxes, payments, customer service and returns, so brands reach roughly 650 million Latin American consumers without setting up local entities in each country.
Ilan Bajarlia
Ilan Bajarlia is the CEO and co-founder of nocnoc, a Montevideo-based cross-border e-commerce facilitator that connects more than 2,500 global brands and sellers from the U.S. and China with shoppers across Latin America's fragmented marketplaces. A former dLocal and AstroPay business developer, he built nocnoc from a $300,000 friends-and-family seed into a company that has raised roughly $22 million, led by PayPal Ventures, and operates the largest cross-border stores in the region across Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Argentina.