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Avensia fixes the parts of shopping you never see
Behind the storefront, the Swedish commerce specialist untangles product data, connects unruly systems and tests whether better search actually sells more. Its customer results are a lesson in execution; its own accounts show the price of selling expertise.
Neem fixes the big systems. And the tiny pictures.
The UK consultancy works on both sides of the shopping basket: the data that moves products and the images that help people choose them. Its most revealing work makes complicated things easier to see.
The Pebble Group Put Software Behind the Swag
One half ships the objects global brands put their names on. The other half gives independent distributors the software, buying power and community to run the same complicated trade.
The 3 A.M. Retail Problems ZakApps Wants to Make Boring
From product keys locked in a digital vault to stock checks that spare retailers another spreadsheet, this Chennai-built company works in the unglamorous layer where commerce either moves - or jams.
Digistore24 Built a $3 Billion Checkout by Doing the Work Creators Hate
The German-born platform bundles payments, tax, refunds, affiliate payouts and funnel tools into one transaction fee. For online sellers, the promise is simple: give up a slice of every sale to get your back office - and a distribution network - in return.
Tychons Spent 28 Years Learning the Unsexy Plumbing Behind the Buy Button
The Atlanta-headquartered, Chennai-built services firm does not sell the glamorous part of ecommerce. It connects the storefront to the ERP, warehouse, payments and reporting systems that have to work after the campaign ends.
The Boston Agency That Spent 27 Years Building Trust - Then Bought Five Companies in Two Years
For 27 years Verndale sold one thing: the platform build nobody else wanted to own. Then a Dallas buyout firm handed it a checkbook - and a Boston services shop turned into a roll-up.
DFS Is Betting Africa’s Next Tech Boom Won’t Look Like Silicon Valley
The firm once known as DFS Lab spent a decade studying how money and commerce move across frontier markets. Now it is turning that fieldwork into an investment thesis for AI, industry and the infrastructure in between.
The Company That Turned the Checkout Line Into a Media Channel
Mars United Commerce spent 50 years learning how people actually shop. In 2024, Publicis paid a reported $600 million to own that knowledge.
The Ad Agency That Refuses to Choose Between Fame and the Checkout Line
Blue Chip built its reputation in the overlooked territory between the big brand idea and the moment somebody buys. Four decades later, that middle ground has become the center of modern marketing.
Black Dragon Capital Wants to Be the Operator in the Deal Room
The Boca Raton private equity firm buys technology businesses where software is rewriting an old industry - then sends operators, not just spreadsheets, into the work of rebuilding them.
EETech Is Building the Operating System Behind the Electronics Aisle
A Boise media company spent a decade earning engineers’ attention. Now it is turning that trust, and the data around it, into search, commerce and AI tools for the electronics supply chain.
Inriver Is Quietly Rewriting the Internet's Product Labels
Every online product carries a small mountain of invisible data. Inriver gives large companies one place to clean it, enrich it, send it everywhere, and find out where it broke.
The Company Running the Store Behind the Store
Baozun built its name doing the unglamorous work behind online retail. Now it is testing whether the machinery that runs a brand can become a brand business of its own.
Pow* Wants to Be the Operating System Behind Latin American Fashion’s Online Cart
The Buenos Aires company does not merely build online stores. It connects the messy machinery behind them - stock, orders, returns, marketing and all - for fashion brands trying to sell across Latin America.
WooCommerce Gives Away the Store - Then Sells Everything Around It
The open-source plugin turned WordPress into a shop floor for more than four million brands. Its real product is not a rented storefront - it is the right to keep rearranging the store.
Tata Built an App for Everything. Now It Has to Make Everything Feel Like One Thing
Tata Digital put groceries, medicine, electronics, travel, payments and rewards behind one blue icon. The next act is less about adding doors - and more about giving 140 million NeuPass members a reason to keep walking through them.
Spryker Built a Shop for Things That Don’t Fit in a Shopping Cart
The Berlin software company treats commerce less like a storefront and more like industrial infrastructure - modular, programmable and built for the strange rules of B2B buying.
The Checkout Is the Product: Inside Pine Labs' Quiet Commerce Machine
Pine Labs began at the petrol pump and grew into the machinery behind a purchase - the terminal, the installment, the gift card, the gateway and, increasingly, the banking rails beneath them all.
The Company Behind the Shelf Is Building Retail's Operating System
Most shoppers never see Acosta Group. They see the shelf it reset, the sample it served, the product page it repaired and the promotion its data helped price.
The Company Behind the Buy Button
Techies Infotech makes its living in the hard, hidden layer of Gulf commerce - where a polished storefront must still speak to warehouses, payments, tax systems and customers in two languages.
FastSpring Sells the Software So Its Makers Don’t Have To
A checkout is the visible inch of a global sale. FastSpring takes responsibility for the tax filings, payment routes, subscription logic and buyer support underneath it - becoming the seller on paper so digital companies can keep building.
The Checkout Knows More Than Your Card Number
Forter built a business around the split second between clicking Buy and seeing confirmation. Its wager is that a shared map of online identity can stop fraud without making good customers prove themselves over and over.
Experlogix
Experlogix helps you accelerate growth by removing bottlenecks in quoting and document generation.
mx51
mx51 is a Sydney-based fintech that provides a bank-grade, cloud-native Payment-as-a-Service platform. Spun out of Assembly Payments in 2020, it gives banks, acquirers and payment providers white-label, multi-channel payment infrastructure - in-store terminal software, merchant and support dashboards, analytics and 150+ point-of-sale integrations - so they can serve merchants without building the technology themselves. Its customers include Commonwealth Bank and Westpac, and the platform has processed billions of dollars in transactions across the Asia-Pacific region.
Catalyst
Catalyst is a Jakarta-based holding company that builds and operates luxury lifestyle e-commerce platforms in Indonesia. It is the company behind Jamtangan.com, the country's leading online-and-offline watch retailer launched in 2014, and voila.id, an Indonesian luxury multibrand fashion destination. Catalyst pairs these consumer brands with an in-house Growth & Tech team that engineers the storefronts, apps, logistics and marketing systems behind them, blending online retail with a growing network of physical flagship and offline stores.
Agilis
Agilis (Agilis Chemicals Inc., dba Agilis Commerce) is a Newark, New Jersey SaaS company that helps chemical, plastics and ingredients producers and distributors digitize their commercial product data and launch branded digital commerce portals in weeks rather than years. Founded in 2016 by former BASF and Shell executive Jay Bhatia, its platform - spanning product information management, digital catalogs, customer self-service hubs and the Alchemist AI suite - gives suppliers an AI-ready data foundation and a modern buyer experience. Customers include BASF, Evonik, Westlake and Wanhua, and in 2025 Agilis partnered with supply-chain network Elemica to build the chemical industry's first end-to-end digital commerce and execution platform.
Pierce Washington
Pierce Washington is an enterprise consulting firm that untangles the messiest part of B2B selling - the journey from quote to cash. Since 2005 it has implemented CPQ, eCommerce, and subscription billing on Salesforce and Oracle platforms, then wired those systems into the ERP backbone so deals price correctly, ship cleanly, and bill accurately. With 100-plus complex CPQ projects behind it and a 'Total Commerce' maturity model guiding clients, the firm helps manufacturers, hi-tech, and life-sciences companies turn slow, error-prone sales processes into self-service revenue engines.
Flywheel
Flywheel is a Baltimore-born digital commerce company that helps brands grow on Amazon, Walmart, Instacart and 400-plus other online marketplaces. Born in 2014 as one of the first specialists in the messy mechanics of selling through Amazon, it pairs cloud software (the Flywheel Commerce Cloud) with managed services across retail media, retail operations and market intelligence. After being bought by Ascential and then by Omnicom for roughly $835 million in 2024, Flywheel now serves more than 4,500 brands - including over half of 2022's top 100 publicly listed CPG companies - with about 2,600 colleagues across the Americas, Europe, APAC and China.