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Elsner builds the store behind the store.
A million products. A customer complaint. A stock count that will not sit still. Elsner Technologies works where online shopping meets the untidy business of running a company.
LUIPOS follows the sale beyond the till
A checkout is only the beginning. LUIPOS connects the sale to stock, accounts, and the next branch over - with a distinctly practical view of what retail software should do.
Anvar TK and the business hiding in a small request
A customer wanted cookie consent beyond WordPress. Anvar TK listened. His path from software services to Mozilor shows how a modest request can give a company somewhere new to go.
Cloudways sells the hours your server steals
The cloud made computing cheap. It left the chores to you. Cloudways built a business around taking those chores back - while letting customers choose whose servers do the work.
Omnisend and the profitable art of showing up on time
In Omnisend’s 2025 data, automated messages produced 30% of email revenue from just 2% of sends. The company has built its business around a small merchant’s large problem: knowing when to speak.
Helix Solutions wants your store to stop arguing with your stockroom
The company behind Ecomitize is connecting storefronts, stock counts and ad campaigns. Its most revealing work starts where a second sales channel becomes a second job.
Newfold Digital has plenty of brands. Now it needs fewer exits.
The company behind Bluehost, Network Solutions and Yoast made a business of putting small businesses online. Its next test is giving them enough reason to stay.
Mozilor makes a business of the web’s unfinished chores
Cookie banners, product imports, website audits: Mozilor builds tools for the jobs nobody opens a business to do. Its most revealing expansion began with customers asking to take a WordPress plugin somewhere else.
The Hosting Company That Refuses to Put a Robot Between You and a Human
A bootstrapped host from Chicago spent 13 years betting that real humans and owned hardware beat cheap resellers and chatbots. In 2023 private equity agreed - to the tune of roughly $19 million.
The Email Platform That Earns Its Premium
Mailchimp is the cheaper, friendlier default. Klaviyo makes its higher bill defensible when a store can turn live shopping behavior into timely, profitable messages.
Bluehost Wants to Make the Web Feel Like One Big Blue Button
The 23-year-old host built its name by making WordPress less intimidating. Now it is trying to turn domains, stores, support and AI agents into a single small-business operating panel.
The Company Making WordPress Behave Like Enterprise Infrastructure
rtCamp took the web’s familiar publishing tool and learned to make it survive procurement, compliance, newsroom deadlines and thousands of editors. Now the open-source specialist is applying the same anti-lock-in instinct to ERP software and AI.
WooCommerce Gives Away the Store - Then Sells Everything Around It
The open-source plugin turned WordPress into a shop floor for more than four million brands. Its real product is not a rented storefront - it is the right to keep rearranging the store.
The Dhaka Company Quietly Building WordPress’s Business Layer
From a rented house in Bangladesh to hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide, weDevs built a product company around one practical bet: small firms should be able to run serious operations without assembling an enterprise software stack.
Automattic
Automattic gives away the engine, then sells the calm: hosting, security, commerce and support for people who would rather publish than babysit servers. Two decades in, its bet on the open web has become a sprawling business - and a test of how much one company can steward without closing it off.
Torod | طرود
Torod (طرود) is a Riyadh-based e-commerce logistics platform that acts as a shipping aggregator, letting online merchants connect to a wide network of local and international couriers through a single dashboard. Founded in 2022 by Faisal Almaklas and Ammar Almaatouq, it handles carrier selection, order tracking, cash-on-collection settlement, and returns, and plugs into store builders like Salla, Zid, Shopify and WooCommerce. The company has raised roughly $12.7M to date, including a ~$11.2M (42M SAR) pre-Series A round in February 2025 led by Wa'ed Ventures and Elm.