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Ecentria Built a Million-Product Gear Machine. Most Shoppers Never See Its Name.
Behind OpticsPlanet, CampSaver and a shelf of specialist brands sits a Chicago-area company that treats retail like a software-and-logistics problem. Its bet is simple: expertise still matters when the catalog passes one million products.
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.
Zbooni
Zbooni is a Dubai-based conversational commerce platform that lets businesses capture orders, send invoices, and accept payments directly inside messaging and social apps like WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger. Founded in 2016 by Ramy Assaf and Ashraf Atia, the company champions what it calls cCommerce - selling through the chat window customers already use - and provides merchants a mobile business dashboard, payment links, and its own payment gateway across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt.
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.
Commerce
Commerce (Commerce.com, Inc., Nasdaq: CMRC) is the parent brand of BigCommerce, Feedonomics and Makeswift, formed when BigCommerce rebranded on July 31, 2025. It positions itself as an open, AI-driven commerce ecosystem that combines an enterprise ecommerce operating system (BigCommerce), AI-powered product-data optimization and syndication (Feedonomics), and a visual, composable storefront builder (Makeswift). The company targets complex B2B and B2C brands that need to manage owned sites, marketplaces, wholesale and social channels, and is orienting its roadmap toward 'agentic commerce' where AI answer engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity drive product discovery.
Homesome
Homesome is an AI-first grocery commerce (g-commerce) platform that helps independent and regional grocers compete online. It packages a branded website, a unified mobile app, AI-driven personalization and search, a pick-and-pack fulfillment app, and a headless API suite into one system that plugs into a store's existing POS and loyalty programs. Founded by former Microsoft engineer Rahul Chabukswar, the company pivoted from running its own grocery-delivery service to powering the digital storefronts of chains like Strack & Van Til, Erewhon, Caputo's and Berkot's Super Foods.
LeafLink
LeafLink is a B2B wholesale platform for the legal cannabis industry - often called 'the Salesforce of bud.' It connects thousands of cannabis brands, distributors and retailers through a single marketplace that handles ordering, payments, banking, logistics and market data. Founded in 2016, LeafLink processes roughly $5 billion in annual gross merchandise value (about $9 billion including its acquired Leaf Trade platform), representing a large share of U.S. wholesale cannabis commerce across roughly 30 markets.
Offset
Offset is a Napa Valley company that pairs a direct-to-consumer ecommerce platform built specifically for fine wine with a brand design studio. Formed in 2015 from the merger of Byron Hoffman's design firm Hoffman & Co. and the development shop 750 Group, Offset gives wineries and fine-wine merchants both the software to sell - allocations, clubs, open cart and point of sale - and the identity, packaging, and storytelling to stand out. Clients range from legacy estates like Frog's Leap, Grace Family Vineyards, and Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant to new producers such as RAEN.