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The Checkbox That Became a Business
Dataships began with a privacy tool that customers barely noticed. It found its market when the founders asked a more pointed question: what happens to a paying customer after the checkout box is ticked - or missed?
The Picture That Was Missing
Nfinite made a business out of putting products into pictures. Its more interesting move is finding the picture a retailer forgot to make.
Michael Kulczyckyj Built the Back Office He Couldn't Buy
Before Dashboard OSM was a SaaS product, it was Michael Kulczyckyj's practical answer to a retailer's daily mess. His career is a study in turning operational friction into software - patiently, locally, and one useful feature at a time.
Ian Brodie Built the Software Only After the Service Taught Him What to Build
Before Levanta became a funded creator-commerce platform, Ian Brodie learned the expensive difference between software people admire and software they will actually use. His second company grew from that scar tissue.
The Seattle Startup Turning Amazon's Own Bonus Into a Creator Paycheck
Levanta connects Amazon sellers with vetted creators, tracks every sale through Amazon's own API, and lets brands pay commissions instead of bidding on ads. In roughly 20 months it went from a services idea to $286 million in annualized tracked sales - and a $20 million Series A.
Allan Grant and the Long Way Back to First Principles
Before Talkable and Hired, Allan Grant built a 50-person company, watched it collapse, and spent six years paying the bill. His second act began with a simpler habit: build the smallest thing that can reveal the truth.
Bazaarvoice Built the Plumbing Beneath the Five-Star Economy
Every star rating looks tiny. Bazaarvoice turned billions of them into retail infrastructure - then began teaching that infrastructure to speak to creators, social platforms, and AI shopping agents.
Nuvemshop Is Building the Operating System Behind Latin America’s Online Stores
The São Paulo-based commerce company is betting that Latin America’s merchants need more than a website. They need payments, parcels, marketing and WhatsApp sales to behave like one system.
Parcel Perform
Parcel Perform is a Singapore-headquartered SaaS company that runs an AI-powered delivery experience platform for e-commerce brands, marketplaces and retailers. By standardizing shipment data across more than 1,100 carriers worldwide, it lets merchants track parcels in real time, predict delivery dates, send branded notifications, automate returns and optimize carrier costs - turning fragmented post-purchase logistics into a single, actionable data foundation now used to improve visibility on AI shopping assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini.
Instant
Instant is a Sydney-founded, AI-powered retention marketing platform for ecommerce brands. It identifies anonymous shoppers, recovers abandoned carts and sends AI-generated email and SMS at the moment of highest purchase intent. After starting life as a one-click checkout tool in 2021, Instant pivoted to retention marketing and grew fast - more than 1,500 direct-to-consumer brands now use it, and the company says its AI-driven flows have generated over $1 billion in incremental revenue.
Teikametrics
Teikametrics is a Boston-based AI marketplace optimization platform that helps brands, retailers, and agencies grow profitably on Amazon, Walmart, and TikTok Shop. Its Flywheel platform unifies advertising, organic ranking, and inventory data into one AI engine, and the company says it has optimized billions in marketplace GMV for thousands of sellers worldwide.