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D-Tools Built the Operating System Behind the Walls - Then It Plugged In a Rival
For 28 years, D-Tools has sold an unglamorous but valuable promise: quote the right parts, hand the plan to the field, and keep the margin from disappearing. Its 2026 merger with Portal.io turns that old discipline into a three-product bet on the entire integration trade.
The 128-Year-Old Search Engine Manufacturers Still Use to Find Each Other
Thomas survived the death of its 34-volume directory by keeping the hard part - trusted industrial data - and changing the container. Its second act offers a practical lesson for any niche marketplace: own the taxonomy, earn buyer intent, then sell suppliers the tools to be chosen.
Inriver Is Quietly Rewriting the Internet's Product Labels
Every online product carries a small mountain of invisible data. Inriver gives large companies one place to clean it, enrich it, send it everywhere, and find out where it broke.
eko
eko is a New York-based media-technology company that turns product footage and data into interactive, shoppable video experiences for online retail. Founded in 2010 as Interlude to pioneer 'choose-your-own-adventure' interactive entertainment, the company rebranded to eko in 2016 and later pivoted toward ecommerce, using AI-driven tools to build interactive product pages, 360-degree product views and verified product data that help brands and retailers - most notably its long-time partner Walmart - lift engagement and conversion.
Neuralk-AI
Neuralk-AI is a Paris-based deeptech startup building foundation models for tabular, structured data - the spreadsheets, SQL tables and product catalogs that run retail and commerce but that large language models handle poorly. Its in-house model, NICL (Neuralk In-Context-Learning), delivers predictions via API for tasks like product classification, deduplication, catalog cleaning, demand forecasting and personalization, and the company maintains TabBench, an open benchmark for evaluating tabular models on real industrial use cases. Founded in 2023 by Antoine Moissenot and Alexandre Pasquiou, Neuralk-AI raised a $4M seed round in February 2025 led by Fly Ventures, with angels including Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf and Alan's Charles Gorintin.
Parspec
Parspec is an AI-native software platform that automates product selection, quoting, and submittal preparation for distributors and sales agents in the construction supply chain. Founded in 2021 by Stanford researchers Forest Flager and Pratyush Havelia, the company indexes millions of manufacturer product documents and turns hours of manual paperwork into minutes. It has raised $31.5M to date and counts four of the five largest U.S. electrical distributors among its customers.