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Evermos turns your neighbours into a sales network
In Indonesia, a familiar face can open a market that an app cannot reach alone. Evermos connects local brands to those faces - then teaches them how to sell.
Tiendanube puts the shopkeeper back in charge
A failed social marketplace became the plumbing for independent commerce in Latin America. The clever part was learning which problems a pretty storefront could never fix.
Shiprocket found its business in the last mile
The founders wanted to put small shops online. Then they discovered the harder job: getting the order to the doorstep, and the money back to the merchant.
Saahil Goel and the business hidden inside a parcel
He set out to help small merchants build online stores. The part they kept asking for was shipping - and that request changed the course of Shiprocket.
Route sells peace of mind after you click Buy
A missing parcel can cost a retailer more than the merchandise inside it. Route built a business around that awkward interval between taking the money and keeping the promise.
The Store Was the Easy Part
OpenCommerce Group learned that merchants could build a shop and still have no business. Its answer was to sell the plumbing behind a cross-border sale, from product sourcing to the parcel at the door.
SHOPLINE sells the shop behind the shop
A storefront gets the applause. SHOPLINE wants the inventory, payments and repeat orders to work together - and its best sales pitch is the work a merchant can stop doing.
Flowwow learned the hard way: a bouquet is a promise
Half the orders in an early holiday test went unfulfilled. Flowwow built a business by closing that gap - then took its local-shop model into cakes, gifts and an international operation now called Udora.
The Checkout Button That Wants to Move the World’s Crypto
COINPAYMENTS began by making altcoins spendable. Now it is trying to become the quiet infrastructure beneath global commerce - from a WooCommerce cart to a private jet purchase.
Shopify
Shopify is a Canadian commerce company that provides a unified software platform for businesses to start, run, and grow retail operations across online stores, physical locations, social channels, and marketplaces. Launched in 2006 by snowboard-shop founders frustrated with existing store software, it now powers millions of merchants in more than 175 countries and handled roughly $378 billion in gross merchandise volume in 2025. Beyond the storefront builder, Shopify sells payments, capital, shipping, point-of-sale hardware, and a growing set of AI tools, positioning itself as the commerce infrastructure behind a large share of independent and enterprise brands.
Spoqa
Spoqa is a Seoul-based software company that builds tools for the people who run shops and restaurants. It first became known for Dodo Point, a tablet-based loyalty service that replaced paper stamp cards across tens of thousands of Korean stores and signed up tens of millions of customers with nothing more than a phone number. After selling Dodo Point to Yanolja in 2022, Spoqa rebuilt around Kitchenboard (formerly Dodo Cart), a B2B platform that helps restaurant owners order, manage, and pay for their ingredients - matching them with vendors and using AI to turn messy supplier chats into structured orders. Along the way Spoqa also released Spoqa Han Sans, a free, open-source Korean typeface used widely across the Korean web.