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Yami made home a little closer
A two-hour grocery trip gave Alex Zhou an idea. Yami turned that inconvenience into an Asian shopping destination - and a route into America for the brands on its shelves.
The Bag That Stayed Put
Bounce began with two founders pedaling luggage across New York. The useful discovery was that travelers would happily come to a neighborhood shop instead - and, years later, that the company should keep its attention on bags.
Lyte Promised to Make Tickets Returnable. Then the Money Stopped Moving.
The ticketing startup began with a humane idea: let fans return what they could not use. Eleven years, at least $53 million and one risky expansion later, its sudden collapse exposed how much trust had been riding on the plumbing.
EquityZen Built a Waiting Room for the IPO - Then Morgan Stanley Bought the Door
For 13 years, EquityZen has turned startup stock - awkward, restricted and stubbornly illiquid - into something more people can transact. Its new owner, Morgan Stanley, is betting that the private market needs plumbing as much as it needs picks.
The Saskatoon Company Quietly Selling Software to the People Who Sell Software
Vendasta doesn't sell to small businesses. It sells to the roughly 60,000 companies that already do - handing them a rebrandable marketplace, a CRM and, now, a payroll of AI employees to put their own logo on.
The Turkish Word for Owner Became a Verb
Turkey's biggest marketplace started with 2,700 classified ads in 2000. A quarter century later, 'sahibinden' is how the country buys a house, sells a car, and rents an apartment - so much so that the name stopped being a website and started being a habit.
The Tool Seller That Put Brazil's Workshop Aisle Online
Loja do Mecânico found a business in the gap between the tool a professional needs and the place that actually stocks it. Now the Brazilian retailer is turning a pioneering e-commerce operation into a network of stores, local hubs and services built around the people who make and repair things.
When Brazil's Two Premium Fashion Rivals Decided to Share a Closet
Icomm Group merged OQVestir and Shop2gether into one company - then kept them competing on the same runway. Here is how Brazil's leading premium fashion e-commerce operator runs two storefronts, one warehouse, and a marketplace for the brands nobody else stocks.
How a Stanford Class Project Became the Way America Gets Dinner
It started as a phone number taped to a flyer on a Palo Alto campus. A decade later, DoorDash carries more than $100 billion in orders a year and is quietly rebuilding itself into the plumbing for local commerce.
Derek Jeter Wants to Keep Your Cards Out of the Shoebox
The Hall of Fame shortstop and the founder of LegalZoom built a company around a simple frustration: card collecting is a great hobby wrapped in a bad logistics problem. Arena Club grades, vaults, and trades the cards so collectors do not have to.
Borong
The Procurement Platform Built for Enterprises and Suppliers Across Malaysia
Amazon
From a garage bookstore in 1994 to a $200 billion quarter: how Amazon turned customer obsession into the operating system of modern commerce, computing, and now AI.
99 Group (99.co | Rumah123 | SRX)
99 Group is a Southeast Asian real estate technology company that runs property marketplaces in Singapore and Indonesia. Founded in 2014 by Darius Cheung, it operates 99.co and SRX.com.sg in Singapore and 99.co/id and Rumah123.com in Indonesia, connecting home seekers, agents, and developers through map-based search, price analytics, and the X-Value automated valuation tool. After absorbing REA Group's iProperty and Rumah123 and acquiring SRX, it became one of the two dominant property portal groups in the region, positioned against PropertyGuru.
Tagvenue
Tagvenue is a free-to-use online marketplace for booking event venues, connecting event planners, companies and private hosts with more than 20,000 verified spaces across the UK, US, Canada, Australia, Singapore and Ireland. Founded in London in 2015 by Lancaster University friends Maksims Kondratjuks and Artur Stepaniak, it lets people search, compare and enquire about everything from meeting rooms and restaurants to boats, galleries and converted churches - and only charges venues a commission when a booking is confirmed.
foodspot (PT Klik-eat Indonesia)
foodspot (PT Klik-eat Indonesia) is a Jakarta-based B2B catering and corporate food-service marketplace that connects companies with a network of 2,000+ vetted caterers and restaurants. It handles corporate daily meals, lunch boxes (nasi kotak), buffets (prasmanan), snack boxes and event catering through a single ordering platform, with dedicated menu consultants and consolidated payment. Founded from the earlier Klik-eat venture, the company positions itself as Indonesia's largest corporate catering portal serving Greater Jakarta and Surabaya.
Mbiz
Mbiz is an Indonesian business-to-business e-procurement platform, founded in 2015 by the Lippo Group, that digitizes how companies and government institutions buy goods and services. It connects enterprise buyers with a network of certified vendors across categories such as office supplies, IT equipment, electronics and services, while bundling free e-procurement tools including online approval, e-tendering, e-invoicing and inventory tracking. Its sister platform, Mbizmarket, extends the same total-procurement approach to micro, small and medium enterprises.
Novelship
Novelship is a Singapore-based online marketplace for buying and selling authentic sneakers, streetwear, apparel and collectibles across Asia-Pacific. Founded in 2018, it connects buyers and sellers through a bid-and-ask model, verifies every item in-house before it ships, and has grown into one of the region's largest platforms for limited-edition drops from brands like Nike, Jordan, Adidas, New Balance and ASICS.
OpenAgent
OpenAgent is a Sydney-based proptech company that helps Australians choose the right real estate agent to sell their home. Founded in 2013 by former McKinsey consultants Zoe Pointon and Marta Higuera, it analyses every property sale in Australia and pairs that data with human consultants to give sellers a free, personalised shortlist of local agents. The service is free for homeowners and monetises through referral fees paid by agents on successful sales, and it also runs free consumer tools such as OpenEstimates, property reports and suburb profiles used by more than two million visitors a year.
Telgani | Rent a car
Telgani is a Riyadh-based digital car-rental marketplace that lets people in Saudi Arabia book a vehicle from their phone and have it delivered to their door - or waiting at the airport - in about an hour. Founded in 2018, the platform aggregates 75+ rental brands and tens of thousands of cars into a single app, offering daily, monthly and yearly plans plus flexible subscriptions. Backed by strategic investors including Toyota distributor Hala Auto and Elm Company, Telgani has raised more than $9 million to modernize a fragmented car-rental sector across the Kingdom.
Downstream
Downstream is a Dallas-based online marketplace that lets construction contractors rent equipment, book waste hauling, and order jobsite services - dumpsters, porta potties, scissor lifts, forklifts, fencing, mobile offices - from a nationwide network of vetted suppliers. The platform delivers real-time pricing, multiple competing quotes per job, consolidated billing, Net 30 payment terms, and AI agents that read a contractor's rollout sheets or invoices to procure automatically. Founded in 2022 (originally as Trash Gurus), the company raised an $8M Series A in November 2025 co-led by Brick & Mortar Ventures and Moneta Ventures.
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.
Headway
Headway is a New York-based healthtech company building a software-enabled network that makes it easier to find a therapist and to pay for one with insurance. Its three-sided marketplace connects patients, mental health clinicians, and insurance plans: patients search for in-network providers with transparent copays, clinicians offload credentialing, billing, scheduling, and claims to Headway, and insurers gain a larger accessible network. Founded in 2019 by Andrew Adams and co-founders, Headway operates in all 50 states with roughly 34,000 clinicians and, after a $100M Series D in 2024, is valued at about $2.3 billion.
SkyFi
SkyFi is an Austin, Texas-based Earth intelligence company that runs a self-service marketplace for satellite imagery and analytics. Through a single web platform, mobile app and API, customers can search archives, task satellites and buy optical, SAR, hyperspectral and aerial imagery from more than 50 commercial providers - then run built-in AI analytics on it. Founded in 2021 by Luke Fischer and Bill Perkins, SkyFi aims to make geospatial data as easy to order as a rideshare, serving defense, government, finance, energy, agriculture, insurance and infrastructure customers worldwide.
AirGarage
AirGarage is a San Francisco-based, full-stack parking management company that helps real estate owners turn parking lots and garages into higher-yielding assets. It combines software - dynamic pricing, license plate recognition cameras, mobile payments and a real-time owner dashboard - with on-the-ground operations like enforcement, maintenance and marketing, all under a revenue-share model. Founded in 2017 by three Arizona State University students, the company manages 400+ parking locations across 40+ states and has served more than 11 million drivers.
Codi
Codi is a San Francisco startup rethinking the office for hybrid work. It began by offering private, fully serviced, turnkey offices on short leases - a flexible alternative to WeWork-style co-working and traditional multi-year commercial leases - and has since expanded into an AI-powered platform that automates office management tasks like cleaning, pantry restocking, and vendor coordination. Founded in 2018 by Christelle Rohaut and Dave Schuman, Codi has raised roughly $23 million, including a $16 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Houzz
Houzz is an online platform for home remodeling and design that connects homeowners with millions of design photos, products, and vetted professionals - and sells business-management software (Houzz Pro) to the contractors, architects and designers on the other side of the marketplace. Founded in 2009 by Adi Tatarko and Alon Cohen after their own frustrating remodel, it grew into a two-sided business spanning inspiration, e-commerce, and AI-powered tools for running a renovation business.
Trell
Trell was an India-founded lifestyle social commerce platform where users shared roughly three-minute vertical videos about their interests - travel, beauty, food, fashion and wellness - across eight regional languages. Started in 2016 by four IIT-Bombay friends, it grew a large community skewed toward Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities, then pivoted in 2020 into in-app shopping through 'Trell Shop.' It raised about $66 million from investors including Sequoia/Peak XV, KTB Network, Samsung Ventures, Mirae Asset and H&M, before a 2022 governance probe and cash crunch triggered mass layoffs and a steep revenue collapse.
Autumn
Autumn is a New York-based deathcare startup that built what it called the world's first deathcare marketplace: a free platform that walks bereaved Americans through the tangle of tasks that follow a death - funerals, estates, probate, moving, grief - with step-by-step guides and a directory of more than 500,000 local providers like funeral homes, estate attorneys, financial planners and grief specialists. Launched in July 2022 with a $600,000 pre-seed round led by Bullish, the company made the process free for grieving families and earned revenue from providers who paid to be listed.
BAXUS
BAXUS is a New York-based peer-to-peer marketplace for fine and rare wines and spirits, built on the Solana blockchain. It authenticates physical bottles, stores them in climate-controlled vaults, and issues digital tokens representing direct ownership - giving collectors and institutions real-time pricing, instant trade settlement, and the ability to use bottles as loan collateral. The platform has facilitated over $20 million in whiskey trades and raised a $5M seed round led by Multicoin Capital in 2024.
Pavilion
Pavilion (formerly CoProcure) is a San Francisco-based govtech company building the marketplace for public procurement. It lets state, local, and education agencies find and reuse contracts that other public entities have already competitively bid and awarded - a practice called cooperative purchasing or 'piggybacking' - so buyers skip months of paperwork and vendors sell more using contracts they already won. The platform is free for governments, and layers vendor search, smart intake routing, compliance guidance, and an AI Contract Hub on top of a repository of tens of thousands of shareable public contracts.