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Touch of Modern sells the pleasure of not knowing what you want
A tiny television, a better-looking tool, a watch you never meant to buy. Touch of Modern turned browsing into a business - and learned that delight still has to survive delivery.
The Jewelry Brand That Built a Factory Without Walls
SOKO began as a marketplace for Kenyan makers. The founders found that beautiful one-offs were hard to sell at scale, so they built repeatable jewelry collections and a mobile system that lets independent workshops act like one factory.
The Store Clerk in Your Pocket
Operator promised a simple luxury: tell someone what you need, then let an expert find it. The clever part was turning that conversation into a shopping network.
Jackpocket Turned a Gas-Station Errand Into a $750 Million Checkout - Then the Rules Bit Back
Peter Sullivan wrapped software, payments and a locked safe around the least digital object in American commerce: a paper lottery ticket. The result became a national consumer habit - and a case study in why regulation is both moat and trap door.
Shortboxed Launched Into a Lockdown - Then Turned Comic-Book Friction Into Its Product
Two lifelong collectors built the comic marketplace they wanted to use, launched it as conventions vanished, and learned that trust is not a slogan - it is a stack of small operational choices.
Courtyard Put the Card Shop in a Vault - Then Added a Buyback Button
The collectible is real. The pack is digital. Courtyard's bet is that the card-shop thrill becomes a much bigger business when storage, resale and even buyer's remorse happen in seconds.
InMobi
InMobi is a global mobile advertising and marketing technology company founded in 2007 in Bangalore, India. It became India's first unicorn in 2011 and runs a stack of mobile-first products - the InMobi DSP, InMobi Exchange, and the consumer lockscreen and AI commerce platform Glance - reaching billions of devices and processing over a trillion ad requests monthly. In 2025 it doubled down on artificial intelligence, launching its Helix AI layer and Glance AI commerce, while preparing for a planned domestic IPO in India.
PatPat
PatPat is a global direct-to-consumer children's and family apparel brand founded in 2014 by two engineer-fathers, Albert Wang and Ken (Can) Gao. It uses a data-driven, mobile-first model to deliver affordable, trend-forward kids' clothing, family matching outfits, and proprietary innovations like the stain-resistant Go-Neat fabric and the light-up Go-Glow line to more than 23 million customers across 140+ countries.
Button
Button is the leading mobile commerce enablement platform that uses AI-powered deep-linking technology to intelligently route mobile users to high-converting app destinations. Founded in 2014, Button has driven over $25 billion in cumulative commerce by connecting retailers, publishers, and creators in a performance-driven ecosystem - turning every mobile tap into a measurable, revenue-generating action.