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Cart.com Wants To Be The Operating System Behind Everything You Buy Online
Founded in 2020, the Houston company stitched together software and a warehouse network to sell brands one thing they rarely get: their orders, inventory and shipping in a single place.
The Checkout Terminal Is Becoming a Cloud Platform
Ingenico built its name on the machine beside the cash register. Now it is turning tens of millions of payment devices into a managed network for software, services and new ways to pay.
Maropost Wants to Be the Operating System Behind the Shopping Cart
The Toronto software company started with email. Three acquisitions and a rebuilt commerce platform later, it is betting that mid-market retailers would rather run one coordinated system than referee a crowded stack of apps.
The 38-Year-Old Company Trying to Give Retail One Memory
Every click, return and last item on a shelf creates data. ETP Group has spent nearly four decades trying to make sure a retailer remembers all of it at once.
Shift4 Wants to Own the Moment Before You Tap 'Pay'
The Pennsylvania payments company built its edge by hiding complexity behind the checkout. Now a global acquisition spree is testing whether one platform can follow customers from dinner to the ballpark to a tax-free shopping counter abroad.
The Software Behind the Sale You Never Think About
Aptos wants a store associate to find the item, know the customer and finish the sale from one screen - even when the network blinks. Its quiet advantage is decades of retail plumbing rebuilt for the cloud.
Manhattan Associates
The software behind a delivery promise has to reconcile a shelf, a warehouse, a truck and a customer in seconds. Manhattan Associates has spent 35 years turning that hidden choreography into an enterprise platform - and now it is teaching AI agents to help run it.
Global Payments Inc.
The Atlanta payments veteran has rebuilt itself around one job: making commerce work for merchants. After the Worldpay deal, its reach runs from a food-truck handheld to the checkout systems behind global enterprises.
Grubtech
Grubtech is a Dubai-based restaurant technology company that builds a unified operating system for food and beverage and quick-commerce businesses. Its middleware platform, gOnline, connects fragmented software touchpoints - POS systems, ERP, delivery aggregators like Talabat, Deliveroo, Careem and Uber Eats, kitchen displays, dispatch and analytics - into a single dashboard so restaurants, cloud kitchens, grocers and pharmacies can run online and in-store operations without juggling multiple screens. Founded in 2019, the company has raised $33.4M and operates across roughly 18 markets.
Melissa Haynes
Melissa Haynes is the Chief Marketing Officer of Glik's, one of the oldest family-owned fashion retailers in the United States, founded in 1897. A digital commerce and merchandising leader who cut her teeth as a shoe buyer at Zappos and later ran merchandising at eBags, Shane Co. and Scrubs & Beyond, she now steers marketing and customer experience for the roughly 70-store Midwest chain. Her calling card is hyper-local: she believes Glik's wins by tailoring each store's assortment to the community around it, backed by modern unified-commerce technology.
NewStore
NewStore is a Boston-based retail technology company that gives brands a mobile-first, cloud platform to run their physical stores. Its modular Omnichannel-as-a-Service bundles an order management system, iPhone-based point of sale, inventory, store fulfillment, clienteling, and native consumer apps into one system, letting store associates check out shoppers, look up inventory, and fulfill online orders from a single device. Founded in 2015 by e-commerce pioneer Stephan Schambach, NewStore serves brands such as Burton, Marine Layer, Vince, Clarks, and G-Star Raw across more than 40 countries.
Adyen
Adyen is a Dutch financial technology company that provides a single, end-to-end platform for accepting payments online, in apps, and in stores. Founded in Amsterdam in 2006, it operates as a licensed acquiring bank and connects merchants directly to card networks and local payment methods across the globe. Adyen powers checkout and embedded financial products for enterprises such as Uber, Spotify, eBay, Booking.com, McDonald's, and Microsoft, and is publicly listed on Euronext Amsterdam.
Michael DeSimone
Michael DeSimone is the Chief Executive Officer of NewStore, the Boston-based unified commerce platform for global retail brands. He took the role in April 2024 after a career leading commerce-technology companies through IPOs, acquisitions, and scale-ups, including Borderfree (IPO on NASDAQ, sold to Pitney Bowes), ShopKeep (acquired by Lightspeed for a reported $750 million), and SmartRecruiters, where he was CEO.