ecommerce-logistics
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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.
Pango
Pango is an agentic operating system for e-commerce back-office operations. Founded in Stockholm in 2025 by Steve Rahimi and Lukasz Reszczynski, it connects a merchant's store, warehouse and carriers, then runs deliveries, tracking, returns, refunds and claims on autopilot. The company says it automates roughly 99% of returns and shipping operations and cuts operating costs by about 20%, and is part of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch.
Torod | طرود
Torod (طرود) is a Riyadh-based e-commerce logistics platform that acts as a shipping aggregator, letting online merchants connect to a wide network of local and international couriers through a single dashboard. Founded in 2022 by Faisal Almaklas and Ammar Almaatouq, it handles carrier selection, order tracking, cash-on-collection settlement, and returns, and plugs into store builders like Salla, Zid, Shopify and WooCommerce. The company has raised roughly $12.7M to date, including a ~$11.2M (42M SAR) pre-Series A round in February 2025 led by Wa'ed Ventures and Elm.
MasonHub
MasonHub is a Los Angeles-based third-party logistics (3PL) and order-fulfillment company built for fast-growing beauty, fashion, and wellness brands. Founded in 2018 by retail-operations veteran Donny Salazar, it pairs its own order-management and warehouse-management software with hands-on fulfillment services out of bicoastal distribution centers, aiming to give digital-first brands the shipping speed, accuracy, and real-time supply-chain visibility usually reserved for retail giants.
Donny Salazar
Donny Salazar is the founder and CEO of MasonHub, a software-led fulfillment and logistics company he started in 2018 to give fast-scaling beauty, wellness, and fashion brands the kind of order management and warehousing technology he wished he had earlier in his career. Before MasonHub he spent roughly two decades inside high-growth retail operations - COO of sneaker marketplace Flight Club, SVP of Operations at jewelry brand Chloe+Isabel, and a four-year run at Gilt Groupe where his supply-chain team helped scale revenue from $10M to over $500M. A Stanford MBA who once ran marketing at Revlon, Salazar built MasonHub around a headless, API-driven architecture and a bicoastal warehouse footprint, raising seed funding led by Canvas Ventures.
Gaurav Khandelwal
Gaurav Khandelwal is the founder and CEO of Velostics, a Houston-based logistics SaaS company that automates appointment scheduling, dock and yard management, and the gate in/out process for shippers and carriers. The son of a tea blender from India, he came to the US for college at tiny Goshen College in Indiana, built the behavioral-science software studio ChaiOne into a multi-million-dollar firm starting in 2009, then turned his attention to the friction-filled 'middle mile' of commerce. He launched Velostics to digitize the antiquated handoffs between warehouses and trucks, raised a $2.5M seed round led by Flyover Capital, and is a fixture of Houston's startup ecosystem as the founder of START co-working space and a Houston Exponential board member.
Auctane
Auctane is the Austin-based software company behind a family of shipping and mailing brands - ShipStation, Stamps.com, ShippingEasy, ShipEngine, ShipWorks, Endicia, Metapack, GlobalPost and Packlink - that help merchants of every size print labels, compare carrier rates, automate order fulfillment and track parcels worldwide. Formerly known as Stamps.com, it rebranded to Auctane in 2021 under Thoma Bravo ownership, and in June 2026 merged with freight broker WWEX Group to form ShipStation Global, a combined logistics platform serving more than 3 million customers and moving over 3 billion shipments a year.