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Woodrow Levin
Woodrow 'Woody' Levin is the founder and CEO of Extend, a San Francisco company that built an API-first platform letting online merchants offer extended warranties, product protection, shipping protection and post-purchase solutions. Often described as 'AppleCare for everything else,' Extend raised a $260M Series C led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 in 2021 at a valuation above $1.6 billion. A serial entrepreneur, Levin previously founded BringIt (acquired by International Game Technology), Estate Assist (acquired by DocuSign, where he became VP of Growth), and the crypto asset fund 3.0 Capital. He also sits on the board of DraftKings.
AfterShip
AfterShip is a post-purchase software company that helps online retailers manage everything that happens after the buy button. Its platform tracks shipments across more than 1,100 carriers, powers branded tracking pages and delivery notifications, automates returns and exchanges, predicts estimated delivery dates, and syncs catalogs to marketplaces like TikTok Shop. Founded in Hong Kong in 2011 and now headquartered in Singapore, AfterShip serves tens of thousands of merchants, including brands such as Microsoft, Dell, HP, and marketplaces like eBay and Etsy, and has processed billions of tracked shipments.
Arta
Arta is a New York-based commerce technology company that helps the art, luxury, and collectibles market ship, insure, and track high-value and oversized items. Through an API, hosted checkout tools, and a Shopify app, Arta turns a traditionally manual, quote-by-quote logistics process into instant, automated fulfillment - covering everything from parcel to white-glove service across 65+ countries. Its customers include Sotheby's, Bonhams, Phillips, David Zwirner, Artsy, and 1stDibs.
CSC Generation
CSC Generation is an AI-native retail holding company that acquires struggling store- and catalog-based brands and rebuilds them as profitable, digital-first businesses using its proprietary technology platform, Genesis. Founded in 2016 by Justin Yoshimura, the company operates a portfolio of more than a dozen consumer brands - including Sur La Table, One Kings Lane, Backcountry and Steep & Cheap - that together generate over $1 billion in combined revenue. Rather than liquidating distressed retailers, CSC folds them into a shared operating system of data, automation and AI operators, aiming to lift profitability quickly after each acquisition.
Duel Tech
Duel is a London-founded B2B SaaS company that runs a Brand Advocacy Platform, helping consumer retail brands recruit, activate and scale tens of thousands of customers, creators, fans, employees and ambassadors into a measurable word-of-mouth growth channel. Founded in 2017 by adventurer-turned-entrepreneur Paul Archer and games developer Naio Tsarouchis, and certified as a B Corp, Duel powers advocacy programs for brands including Charlotte Tilbury, Lush, ELEMIS, Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch and Pandora, and raised a $16M Series A in September 2025.
eko
eko is a New York-based media-technology company that turns product footage and data into interactive, shoppable video experiences for online retail. Founded in 2010 as Interlude to pioneer 'choose-your-own-adventure' interactive entertainment, the company rebranded to eko in 2016 and later pivoted toward ecommerce, using AI-driven tools to build interactive product pages, 360-degree product views and verified product data that help brands and retailers - most notably its long-time partner Walmart - lift engagement and conversion.
Gembah
Gembah is an Austin-based product development platform and marketplace that helps entrepreneurs, e-commerce sellers, and small-to-midsize businesses take physical products from idea to shelf. It connects creators with a global network of vetted designers, engineers, and supply chain specialists, and manages design, prototyping, factory sourcing, and production across regions including China, Vietnam, India, Mexico, and Eastern Europe - aiming to demystify and democratize the process of bringing new consumer products to market.
Hang
Hang is a New York-based software company building an AI-powered marketing and loyalty platform for consumer brands. Marketed as 'the autonomous marketing system,' Hang replaces static points programs with personalized, gamified rewards - branded minigames, dynamic quests and 1:1 offers - alongside self-cleaning customer data, smart segments and AI-driven campaigns. It launched in 2022 as an NFT-powered membership platform backed by a $16M Series A from Paradigm, then repositioned around AI and now serves restaurant, beauty, apparel and e-commerce brands such as Just Salad, Jeni's, Boba Guys and Hattie B's.
David Schofman
David Schofman is the CEO and co-founder of Coro Health, an Austin-based company that builds therapeutic music and multi-faith spiritual streaming programs for senior living communities, hospitals and hospices. A serial entrepreneur who built one of the first online golf retail businesses in the 1990s and later ran global ecommerce for Callaway Golf, Schofman turned to health technology in 2008, translating research on music and the brain into a subscription platform now used across thousands of care communities in the US and Canada.
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.
Ocula Technologies
Ocula Technologies is a UK-based B2B SaaS company that uses agentic AI to generate, enrich and optimize ecommerce product content at scale. Founded in 2021, its platform sits alongside a retailer's PIM and turns structured product data into brand-aligned, search-optimized copy and metadata that stays discoverable across search engines, marketplaces and emerging AI shopping engines. Ocula works with brands and retailers including AO, Boots, Coty, Hornby Hobbies and the Kansas City Chiefs, and raised a £4 million Series A in October 2024.
Parabola
Parabola is a San Francisco-based no-code data automation platform that lets operations and finance teams turn messy, recurring, spreadsheet-driven processes into transparent, auditable AI-powered workflows. Users describe a process in plain language or drag-and-drop building blocks, and Parabola builds a documented agent that pulls data from PDFs, emails, spreadsheets and APIs, cleans and transforms it, and runs on a schedule. Founded by Alex Yaseen and backed by OpenView, Matrix, and Thrive Capital, the company focuses on ecommerce, retail, CPG, freight and logistics teams that need to automate work that traditionally required an engineer.
Prescient AI
Prescient AI is a marketing measurement and optimization platform that uses machine learning and Bayesian statistics to show brands how much revenue each advertising channel actually drives. Its marketing mix model (MMM) captures full-funnel impact - including the indirect halo effects campaigns have on organic lift and downstream revenue - then forecasts future performance and recommends budget allocation across DTC ecommerce, Amazon, and retail. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Miami, the company serves 100+ omnichannel and DTC brands and positions itself as an independent, privacy-safe alternative to last-click attribution.
Product Genius
Product Genius is a Cambridge, Massachusetts AI company that builds a personalized, TikTok-style shopping feed for Shopify stores. Its platform, powered by what the company calls Large Interaction Models (LIMs), learns from each shopper's swipes, clicks and scrolls to assemble an individualized homepage of products, videos, reviews and Q&A. Founded by MIT PhD and deep-learning hardware pioneer Ben Vigoda, the company grew out of roughly $35 million in DARPA research and reports a median +20% lift in revenue per session, with controlled A/B tests showing a 36% average revenue lift across 25 brands including Betsey Johnson.
Proxima
Proxima is a New York-based predictive data intelligence platform that helps consumer and DTC brands find high-value customers and scale paid media efficiently. It turns billions of anonymized ecommerce transactions from a proprietary network of tens of millions of shoppers into AI-powered audiences, conversion attribution, creative guidance, and industry benchmarks across Meta, TikTok, and Google. Founded in 2022 by Alex Song, the company raised a $12M Series A in April 2024 led by Mucker Capital.
SamCart
SamCart is a SaaS checkout and direct-to-consumer selling platform built for digital creators, course sellers, coaches, and online entrepreneurs. Founded in 2014 by brothers Brian and Scott Moran, it turns a high-converting one-page checkout into a revenue engine with one-click upsells, order bumps, subscription recovery, and course hosting. Now repositioned as an AI-first 'digital business platform,' SamCart says it has helped 75,000+ sellers process billions in sales - focused on maximizing revenue per customer rather than simply driving more traffic.
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.
Stylitics
Stylitics is a New York-based retail AI company that helps brands and retailers turn their product catalogs into inspiring, shoppable styling experiences. Its platform combines algorithms, trend data, and human stylist expertise to generate personalized outfit recommendations, bundles, and generative on-model imagery across e-commerce, email, advertising, and stores. Founded in 2011 by Rohan Deuskar and Zach Davis, Stylitics powers styling for more than 100 retailers - including Macy's, Walmart, Kohl's, Puma, and Revolve - reaching over 100 million shoppers.
The Backflip Group
The Backflip Group is a boutique strategy consulting firm in New York that helps lean technology teams turn great products into scalable businesses. Founded by Ceylan Conger and Madeleine Ormond, both former in-house operators and consultants at companies including Meta, Etsy and Spotify, the firm specializes in bridging the gap between strategy and execution across SaaS, eCommerce, AI, digital media and D2C. Services span go-to-market strategy, pricing and packaging, upmarket expansion, new product incubation, financial modeling and fundraising materials, delivered by a small core team backed by a network of specialist experts.
Upfluence
Upfluence is an all-in-one influencer and creator marketing platform that helps ecommerce and D2C brands find, contact, manage, and pay content creators while tying campaigns directly to sales. Built around a searchable database of millions of creator profiles across seven social networks and deep integrations with platforms like Shopify, Upfluence positions influencer marketing as a measurable revenue channel rather than a branding expense. Its distinctive Live Capture technology surfaces influential creators from a brand's own customer base, and its Jaice AI co-pilot automates campaign briefs, creator matching, and outreach.
Wizard
Wizard is an AI-native shopping agent that turns online buying into a single conversation. It interprets natural-language requests, searches across websites, customer reviews, editorial and social content, and returns a tightly curated set of products - usually a top five - then lets shoppers complete the purchase through native checkout without leaving the app. Cofounded by CEO Melissa Bridgeford and chairman Marc Lore, the New York company launched publicly in February 2026, beginning with electronics and a native checkout integration with Best Buy.
Ed Stevens
Ed Stevens is the founder and CEO of Scoot, a Dallas-based platform that positions itself as an AI sales environment where buyers, sellers, and live AI agents meet in real time. A serial entrepreneur with more than 25 years in retail and software, he previously founded and led the ecommerce fulfillment company Shopatron (acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2015) and served as COO of Kibo Commerce. Scoot began life as Preciate, an appreciation and relationship platform, before rebranding and raising a $12M Series A in early 2023. Stevens is also an author, board member, and investor.
Gary Garofalo
Gary Garofalo is the CEO and co-founder of LoudCrowd, an Austin-based software company that turns brand creators and influencers into measurable revenue channels. His platform builds native creator storefronts on a brand's own e-commerce site, aiming to make social commerce as mainstream as third-party tools like LTK or TikTok Shop. A former Deloitte consultant with an economics degree from Wesleyan, Garofalo has led LoudCrowd to work with brands including Gymshark, Boohoo, Kyte Baby and Dolce Vita.
Gina Perrelli
Gina Perrelli is the co-founder and CEO of Stay AI, a subscription and retention platform for Shopify brands that treats subscriptions as a performance channel rather than a payment mechanism. A self-described 'retention girlie' with over a decade in lifecycle marketing, she previously co-founded the ecommerce agency Lunar Solar Group and now leads a company that helps hundreds of DTC brands - including Olipop, Vita Coco, and Momofuku - reduce churn and grow subscriber revenue. Stay AI raised $15.1M in Series A funding and has expanded through acquisitions of RetentionEngine and Bellwethr.
Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure company that lets businesses accept payments and run their money operations through a set of developer-friendly APIs. Founded in 2010 by Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison, it powers everything from indie side projects to Fortune 500 checkouts, processing more than $1.9 trillion in payments in 2025. Beyond core card processing, Stripe offers billing, fraud protection, business incorporation, card issuing, tax automation, and banking-as-a-service, positioning itself as the economic layer of the internet.
Jared Yaman
Jared Yaman is the CEO and a co-founder of Spresso, a New York-based AI company that builds pricing intelligence and price-optimization software for retail, CPG, and ecommerce businesses. A three-time founder with a University of Michigan law and economics background, he previously co-founded and served as COO of Boxed, the online wholesale retailer that competed with Walmart, Costco, and Amazon, weathered the pandemic, and went public before winding down. At Spresso he is turning the pricing engine built inside Boxed into a standalone product, arguing that AI should supplement rather than replace human judgment.
Joe Ariel
Joe Ariel is the founder and CEO of Goldbelly, the e-commerce marketplace that ships iconic regional dishes from more than 1,000 restaurants and food makers to doorsteps across the United States. A serial entrepreneur who previously led Eats.com and Delivery.com, Ariel built Goldbelly out of a simple frustration - the best food in America rarely leaves the town where it is made. In 2026 he was named Official Food Curator of America's 250th anniversary, leading the 'Taste of America250' program and a national storytelling project to define the canon of American cuisine.
Justin Smith
Justin Smith is the CEO of SamCart, an Austin, Texas based e-commerce and checkout platform that has helped more than 75,000 creators and entrepreneurs sell over $3.5 billion in products and services online. He rose through the company from Head of Product to Chief Operating Officer before stepping into the CEO role, and he has become a frequent voice on the future of the creator economy, the shift from awareness to conversion in online selling, and how AI is reshaping how small businesses sell. Before SamCart he worked in marketing and business development at high-growth SaaS companies including Curalate and LivePerson.
Justin Yoshimura
Justin Yoshimura is the founder, chairman, and CEO of CSC Generation, an AI-native retail holding company that acquires and modernizes established brands such as Sur La Table, Z Gallerie, and One Kings Lane. A high-school dropout who built a million-dollar cell-phone marketplace as a teenager, he went on to found the Y Combinator-backed loyalty platform 500friends (acquired by Merkle in 2014) and made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Today he runs CSC Generation as a Constellation Software-style roll-up, buying distressed retailers and rebuilding them on data, automation, and CSC's proprietary Genesis platform.
Kevin Creusy
Kevin Creusy is the co-founder and co-CEO of Upfluence, an influencer marketing software company he built with Vivien Garnes starting in 2012. What began as an agency that sent products to bloggers for reviews grew into a SaaS platform serving more than 1,600 brands, blending influencer discovery, campaign management, payments and eCommerce tools. A serial entrepreneur who launched his first company at 20, Creusy leads product and eCommerce strategy at Upfluence and has pushed the company toward AI-assisted creator outreach and revenue-driven influencer marketing.