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DAILYLOOK puts the fitting room in your living room.
The Los Angeles styling service learned that selling an outfit and helping someone get dressed are different businesses. Its turning point came in a box.
Mars Men built a repeat order before it raised a round
A testosterone-support subscription became a business with a reported $100 million revenue run rate. Now Mars Men is taking its formula for repeat purchases into retail and cognitive performance.
Ohi put the warehouse next door. That was the shortcut.
A tiny Manhattan warehouse held a large idea: give independent brands rapid delivery by moving their inventory into the neighborhood. Ohi’s experiment shows why the shortest journey can require the most careful planning.
Smalls built a big business by thinking only of cats
Fresh food was the opening move. Smalls turned the overlooked cat owner into a customer worth courting - then took its subscription-born brand onto pet-store shelves.
Bespoke Post sells discovery. The box was only the beginning.
A failed advertising idea became a monthly introduction to small brands. Now Bespoke Post is following its customers beyond the box, into a store with a taste of its own.
Spot & Tango made four months of dog food. It lasted four days.
UnKibble turned a freezer-space complaint into a pantry-friendly subscription. Then Spot & Tango had to learn how to make enough of it.
CaaStle rented the wardrobe. Then it lost the trust.
CaaStle gave fashion brands a way to rent their own clothes without running the laundry. Its collapse reveals how a useful retail idea became entangled with a financial fiction.
Wonderful makes the pretty part work
Behind the jewelry, supplements, and nonalcoholic beer is an agency doing the unglamorous work of digital commerce: fixing subscriptions, taming catalogs, and making a brand easier to buy.
Madison Reed Gave Away 7,000 Boxes - Then Built a Hair-Color Habit People Would Pay For
Amy Errett spent heavily to make salon-grade color feel safe at home, discovered that free customers rarely return, and turned the lesson into an omnichannel beauty business built around guidance, repetition and trust.
Because Built a DTC Brand for Bladder Leaks. Then Its Customers Sent It Back to the Drugstore.
The founders used family experience, phone calls and repeat orders to redesign an awkward category. The clever part was not staying online - it was knowing exactly when to put the product back on a shelf.
The Company Betting Your Next Purchase Is Already Yours
Ordergroove sells brands a simple, expensive idea: the cheapest customer to acquire is the one who already bought. Here is how a company started in a Manhattan apartment built the plumbing behind the subscribe-and-save button.
Kogan Built a Checkout Aisle That Never Ends
The Melbourne retailer began by cutting the middlemen out of television sales. Twenty years later, its more revealing product is the customer relationship itself - reused across a marketplace, membership and a shelf of everyday services.
HelloFresh Put Dinner on Autopilot. Now It Wants the Rest of the Kitchen
The lime-green box solved the 6 p.m. question with portioned ingredients and a recipe card. Fifteen years later, HelloFresh is trying to turn that weekly habit into an operating system for what households eat.
AG1
AG1 built a reported $600 million business by turning a scoop of green powder into a morning ritual. Now the company that preached one product, one channel and one flavor is testing how far that ritual can stretch.
Prado
Prado is an Austin-based Food-as-Medicine platform that lets clinicians prescribe medically tailored meals and lets patients pay for them with pre-tax HSA/FSA dollars. It stitches together the parts that usually don't talk to each other - a compliant Letter of Medical Necessity, HIPAA- and IRS-approved checkout, white-label storefronts, and fulfillment - so healthy prepared food becomes both prescribable and reimbursable. Founded in 2020 by former Snap Kitchen CEO Jon Carter, Prado has supported the sale of more than 25 million meals and connects food operators to a network of 70M+ tax-advantaged account holders.
Sticky.io
Sticky.io is a San Francisco-based revenue optimization platform for high-volume subscription and ecommerce brands. Built on an intelligent payments engine, it pairs a headless CRM, a conversion-focused checkout and funnel builder, AI-driven payment recovery, and orchestration across 160+ gateways. The platform supports roughly 72 million subscriptions and processes more than $12 billion in transactions annually, helping merchants reduce silent churn and recoup failed payments.
AppDirect
AppDirect is a San Francisco-based B2B subscription commerce platform that connects technology providers, advisors, and businesses so they can buy, sell, and manage software, hardware, connectivity, AI, and energy services in one place. Founded in 2009, it powers white-label marketplaces for telecom giants and enterprises, and is assembling an 'Everything Store' for B2B technology through a rapid string of acquisitions.