Alumni Ventures

Alumni Ventures Group, LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 and based in Manchester, New Hampshire, with additional offices in major cities across North America. The firm specializes in seed, early-stage, and late-stage pre-IPO investments, focusing on companies with an alumni connection and supported by established institutional lead investors. Alumni Ventures aims to provide accredited investors, particularly alumni from top entrepreneurial schools, with access to diversified venture portfolios that span various sectors and geographic regions. The firm typically invests between $0.01 million and $3 million and does not require board or observer seats in its portfolio companies. Through its managed fund families, Alumni Ventures enables investors to participate in a collaborative investment approach, fostering connections among alumni while facilitating investment opportunities in innovative ventures.

Rob Adams

Managing Partner

Gail Ball

Venture Scout

Andrew Baum

Vice President, Treasury and Capital Management

David Beazley

Executive Partner

Ali Byrd

Investor Advisory Council Member

Matt Caspari

Managing Partner, Strawberry Creek and amp; Deep Tech

Matt Castellini

Senior Associate

Helen Chen

CEO Services Analyst

Cainon Coates

Managing Partner

Michael Collins

CEO

Thomas Edwards

Associate

Yev Gelfand

Investor

Mason Hale

Senior Associate, Chestnut Street and Triphammer Ven

Jin Kim

Senior Vice President, Office of Investments

Lucas Kirshenbaum

VC Investor

Ron Levin

Managing Partner, AV Seed Fund and Doctors Innovate Fund

Jess Liu-Brown

Principal

Michael Madden

Co-Founder and Investment Professionals

Jonathan Meltzer

Managing Partner

Tom Meyer

Managing Partner, Nassau Street

Keith Murphy

Director, Video Programs

David Muson

CFO

Aisha Robinson

Comms Team VP of Strategic Communications

Saad Shaheen

Investor Operations Manager

Stephen Stolzenberg

Senior Associate

Justin Strausbaugh

Managing Partner, Lakeshore

Brittney Wade

Senior Associate, Seed Fund

Sarah Worden

Venture Scout

Wesley Yiu

Partner

Henri Yuan

Investor

Michael Yuann

Director of Investment Operations

Past deals in E-commerce

Smartrr

Series A in 2023
Developer of a checkout and customer account management platform intended to assist in managing subscription businesses. The company's platform uses artificial intelligence and provides a membership experience along with living analytics and reporting, enabling clients to focus on growing their business and not on spreadsheets.

Drip

Series A in 2022
Drip is a company that specializes in live commerce, focusing on the collectible industry, including both NFTs and physical collectibles. It operates a streaming and live-streaming network that facilitates various activities related to collectibles, such as trading cards, live breaks, and auctions. Through its live shopping platform, Drip allows users to engage in live streams and play trading card games, creating opportunities for interaction and commerce within the collectibles market. The platform aims to enhance the experience of collectors and enthusiasts, enabling them to connect and potentially build careers around their passion for collectibles.

Dianthus

Seed Round in 2022
Dianthus is the only AI-first E-commerce company – built from the ground up to help small to medium E-commerce brands.

Duplo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Duplo enables businesses across Africa to reduce their reliance on cash payments through the use of virtual accounts, digital wallets and cards.

Maisonette

Series C in 2022
Maisonette Inc. operates an online marketplace specializing in baby and child products. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, the company curates a selection of high-quality children's items sourced from renowned designer brands and unique boutiques worldwide. By focusing on an expertly curated shopping experience, Maisonette aims to provide a superior platform for both consumers seeking premium children's products and smaller retailers looking to reach a broader audience.

Trendsi

Series A in 2022
Developer of an e-commerce application designed to offer a tool to facilitate the online buying and selling of goods. The company utilizes its supply chain capability to build a reliable backbone to help anyone start and grow their fashion business at minimum risk without any upfront inventory or subscription cost, providing users with one-stop access to quality merchandise at affordable prices.

ZZ Driggs

Seed Round in 2022
Operator of an online furniture marketplace intended to offer a wide selection of contemporary and collectible furniture and home merchandise. The company manufactures and sells well-crafted sustainable furniture using ethical and environmentally sound practices, enabling clients to buy or rent a range of living room furniture, dining room, bedroom, and workspace to a variety of home decor.

Deliverr

Series E in 2021
Deliverr, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in order fulfillment services for e-commerce retailers. Founded in 2017, it offers a technology-driven platform that facilitates affordable and efficient fulfillment solutions for multi-marketplace sellers. Deliverr's services include storage, shipping, and order management, allowing online businesses to meet shipping standards and avoid penalties for late shipments. The company leverages machine learning and predictive intelligence to provide various shipping options and enhance the overall fulfillment process. By enabling sellers of all sizes to deliver fast and cost-effective services, Deliverr aims to improve customer satisfaction and support the growth of e-commerce businesses.

Maad

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Maad is a rapidly growing B2B marketplace located in Dakar, Senegal, focused on serving small retailers and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) brands in Francophone Africa. The company offers a technology-driven platform that facilitates mobile ordering and ensures reliable product delivery. Its services include providing data on product availability and market share, as well as targeted promotional offerings to help businesses enhance their sales. Additionally, Maad supports retailers by offering working capital loans, creating a comprehensive solution for their operational needs.

Printify

Series A in 2021
Printify is a platform that connects e-commerce merchants with print-on-demand dropshipping producers. It enables merchants to create and sell custom products, including apparel, wall art, home decor, and accessories, using their own designs. The service operates on a fully automated model, where print-on-demand producers print individual items and ship them directly to customers on behalf of the merchants. This streamlined process is designed to save time for entrepreneurs, allowing them to focus on growing their businesses while maximizing profitability. Through its user-friendly interface, Printify aims to enhance the experience of online selling for its users.

Enable

Series B in 2021
Enable International Limited specializes in rebate management software and serves as a collaboration platform aimed at enhancing the performance of B2B deals. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom, the company provides tools that facilitate the negotiation of deals, central management of trade agreements, and oversight of receivables. By promoting financial transparency and operational efficiency, Enable seeks to transform how B2B deals are structured, managed, and evaluated, ultimately fostering mutually beneficial growth for all parties involved in trading relationships.

RocketCart

Seed Round in 2021
RocketCart is a grocery delivery service specializing in a diverse range of Korean products, offering customers free next-morning delivery directly to their homes. The service is currently available throughout Los Angeles and Orange County, California, as well as select areas in Riverside, Ventura, and San Bernardino Counties. RocketCart aims to enhance convenience for consumers by providing easy access to ethnic groceries online. The company plans to expand its delivery service nationwide in the near future.

Singuli

Venture Round in 2021
Singuli is an optimization platform for modern retail for retailers who are hindered in managing merchandise-planning with spreadsheets, reports, and legacy tools. This SaaS platform uses real-time data-sets and advanced machine learning to provide demand forecasting and inventory optimization tools that yield dramatic improvements in margins and working capital utilization.

Paloma

Seed Round in 2021
Paloma is a developer of a direct message-commerce platform that empowers brands to enhance their e-commerce capabilities through messaging channels. By facilitating sales via social media direct messages, Paloma enables businesses to manage inventory, create seamless shopping experiences, and streamline the checkout process. The platform is designed to drive higher conversion rates—ranging from 2 to 10 times those of traditional websites—by leveraging customer data to provide valuable insights back to brands. This comprehensive commerce software as a service (SaaS) solution not only helps clients transform customer interactions into sales but also supports sustainable growth by integrating catalog management and performance tracking.

Mayan

Seed Round in 2021
An analytics platform as a service to help facilitate the discovery, analysis, purchase/sale, and operations of Amazon-FBA brands. One-stop shop for Amazon brand owners to understand everything related to their amazon business.

Tundra

Series B in 2021
Tundra Inc. operates an online marketplace designed for businesses to buy and sell products efficiently and without fees or markups. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Tundra utilizes proprietary technology to streamline wholesale processes, significantly reducing the time and effort required for transactions. The platform enables direct sales and delivery from U.S. and Canadian brands to a diverse community of over 10,000 businesses across the globe. Tundra offers a wide variety of products in categories such as kids, home, beauty, apparel, and general merchandise, facilitating instant online transactions with freight included. The company is also venture-backed and maintains an office in Zurich.

Flexe

Series C in 2021
FLEXE, Inc. operates a cloud-based warehousing services marketplace that connects organizations needing additional storage and fulfillment capacity with those that have surplus space. Founded in 2013 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company provides a platform that facilitates efficient warehouse sourcing and setup, streamlining material handling operations for clients including retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, and logistics firms. By addressing inventory overflow and fulfillment challenges, FLEXE enhances the logistics industry and enables businesses to achieve greater structural flexibility in their operations. The company aims to optimize the global delivery of goods and improve access to affordable warehousing solutions, ultimately helping enterprises strengthen their distribution networks and maximize revenue potential.

Vitrina

Seed Round in 2021
Vitrina is a pioneering mobile and social fashion marketplace based in Brazil, designed to facilitate the buying, selling, and sharing of fashion products with an emphasis on user experience and security. The platform combines elements of social media and gamification to create an engaging environment for users, allowing them to interact seamlessly while exploring a diverse range of handmade fashion items, including accessories and mobile cases. Vitrina aims to establish itself as the most social marketplace in the region, catering to the growing trend of mobile commerce. The service is currently accessible through its website and Apple's App Store, with plans to expand to Android in the near future.

Markable Creators

Convertible Note in 2020
BCG reported that 70% of Gen Z discover products through content platforms, not directly on a retailer website. Social commerce is NOW. The global fashion E-commerce digital advertising allocation is $200 billion. Mai is making social visual discovery shopping a reality on every photo and video across any social platforms or devices. Viewers can click and shop the clothing they see while watching videos, such as TV shows, movies, and other digital media. Mai bridges the gap between social content and e-commerce, through a fully-automated AI computer vision technology, a sophisticated e-commerce bidding system, and a user personalization system. At Mai, we have spent three years working with top computer vision AI scientists, AI engineers, and fashion experts that created the world’s 1st fully automated video fashion shopping solution. We are connected with numerous top global e-commerce platforms, with total 200M SKUs available, daily updated with an out-of-stock rate <3%. Moreover, Mai is already live with two of the biggest social content platforms in Asia, with more to come. Mai has won the No.1 winner of MIT AI Idol contest in Jul 2020, and also won the title of “Most fundable company by investment value” at the biggest Asia Internet Conference in Nov 2020.

Trendsi

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of an e-commerce application designed to offer a tool to facilitate the online buying and selling of goods. The company utilizes its supply chain capability to build a reliable backbone to help anyone start and grow their fashion business at minimum risk without any upfront inventory or subscription cost, providing users with one-stop access to quality merchandise at affordable prices.

Perch

Venture Round in 2020
Perch is a technology-driven commerce company that specializes in acquiring and operating successful Amazon FBA (fulfillment by Amazon) businesses. The firm focuses on products that have a strong track record of positive customer reviews and consistently rank among the top three in their respective categories on Amazon. Its portfolio includes a diverse range of brands, such as those producing exfoliating brushes, slime-making kits, leggings, and reusable straws. Perch employs its platform for sales analytics, pricing, advertising and marketing strategies, and inventory management. Founded in 2019 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Perch aims to leverage technology to enhance the performance and growth of its acquired brands.

Anycart

Seed Round in 2020
Anycart is a meal discovery and grocery shopping platform based in Mountain View, California. The application enables users to search for meals they wish to prepare, surfacing relevant recipes that incorporate the necessary ingredients, which can be added to their preferred grocery delivery cart. It offers step-by-step video cooking instructions to guide users through the cooking process, making meal planning accessible and affordable. Additionally, Anycart suggests other recipes that utilize any excess ingredients, helping users minimize waste while enhancing their cooking experience.

Picnic

Venture Round in 2020
Picnic B.V. is an online grocery store based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, which was founded in 2015. The company operates a platform that allows users to order groceries at competitive prices, with a focus on providing cost-effective services. Customers can place orders through the application for next-day delivery, with the company coordinating with local bakers, greengrocers, and other suppliers to fulfill these orders. Picnic distinguishes itself by utilizing electric vehicles for delivery, ensuring a sustainable approach to grocery shopping. The founders of the company are Frederik Nieuwenhuys, Joris Beckers, and Michiel Muller.

Enable

Venture Round in 2020
Enable International Limited specializes in rebate management software and serves as a collaboration platform aimed at enhancing the performance of B2B deals. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom, the company provides tools that facilitate the negotiation of deals, central management of trade agreements, and oversight of receivables. By promoting financial transparency and operational efficiency, Enable seeks to transform how B2B deals are structured, managed, and evaluated, ultimately fostering mutually beneficial growth for all parties involved in trading relationships.

Zero Grocery

Seed Round in 2020
Zero Grocery Inc. is an online grocery retailer based in Redwood City, California, that specializes in a subscription-based delivery service focused on sustainability. Founded in 2019, the company aims to eliminate single-use plastics from the food supply chain by offering groceries in reusable packaging. This approach not only provides convenience for customers but also promotes a zero-waste lifestyle, aligning with growing consumer demand for environmentally friendly practices in grocery shopping.

Emissary

Venture Round in 2020
Emissary, Inc. operates an online platform that connects sales professionals with former executives from targeted companies, facilitating the exchange of advice and introductions. This hybrid SaaS marketplace enables sales teams to access valuable insights from individuals, known as emissaries, who possess firsthand knowledge of the organization's dynamics, decision-making processes, and internal politics. By leveraging the expertise of these former executives, Emissary helps clients navigate the sales process more effectively and close opportunities more swiftly. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, Emissary was previously known as Leroy Technologies, Inc., a name it adopted in February 2017.

Zycada

Series B in 2020
Zycada Networks, Inc. offers an innovative eCommerce acceleration platform designed to enhance the online shopping experience for retailers. Founded in 2014 and based in Campbell, California, Zycada utilizes bot-driven technology to pre-assemble content for users, significantly improving the speed and personalization of digital shopping. As online shoppers increasingly demand rapid and tailored experiences, Zycada addresses this need by enabling retailers to compute and deliver dynamic content more efficiently. The platform adapts to real-time network conditions, ensuring a consistent quality of experience. Retailers leveraging Zycada's technology have reported revenue gains exceeding 5%, highlighting the effectiveness of the platform in boosting customer engagement and overall sales.

Emissary

Venture Round in 2020
Emissary, Inc. operates an online platform that connects sales professionals with former executives from targeted companies, facilitating the exchange of advice and introductions. This hybrid SaaS marketplace enables sales teams to access valuable insights from individuals, known as emissaries, who possess firsthand knowledge of the organization's dynamics, decision-making processes, and internal politics. By leveraging the expertise of these former executives, Emissary helps clients navigate the sales process more effectively and close opportunities more swiftly. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, Emissary was previously known as Leroy Technologies, Inc., a name it adopted in February 2017.

Lentesplus

Series D in 2020
Lentesplus.com is a prominent e-commerce platform that specializes in the sale of contact lenses, transforming the Latin American market by offering competitive prices that are typically 20% to 30% lower than industry standards. The company operates in Colombia, Mexico, Chile, and Argentina, focusing on delivering a seamless shopping experience. Customers can easily order contact lenses and, in many cases, receive their products on the same day. Lentesplus also emphasizes customer service by simplifying the reordering process to just two clicks. Additionally, the platform assists customers in obtaining accurate visual exams from specialists to ensure the correct fit and specifications of their lenses, thereby enhancing the overall shopping experience.

Verishop

Series B in 2020
Verishop is an online shopping portal based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2018. It positions itself as a premium lifestyle destination, offering a curated selection of elevated brands in fashion, beauty, home, and more. The platform connects independent brands and creators with consumers, facilitating the discovery of unique products alongside an efficient online purchasing process and fast delivery. Verishop aims to provide a quality-driven shopping experience, making it a go-to resource for customers seeking luxury and distinctive items.

Anycart

Venture Round in 2020
Anycart is a meal discovery and grocery shopping platform based in Mountain View, California. The application enables users to search for meals they wish to prepare, surfacing relevant recipes that incorporate the necessary ingredients, which can be added to their preferred grocery delivery cart. It offers step-by-step video cooking instructions to guide users through the cooking process, making meal planning accessible and affordable. Additionally, Anycart suggests other recipes that utilize any excess ingredients, helping users minimize waste while enhancing their cooking experience.

Commerce.js

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Chec/Commerce.js is a Vancouver-based company that offers an API-first e-commerce platform tailored for developers and designers. Founded in 2016, the platform enables users to create customized web and mobile solutions for selling both physical and digital goods. With its headless architecture, Chec allows businesses to sell directly to customers through various channels, including storefronts, links, and embedded solutions. The platform also provides a developer API, Commerce.js, which offers extensive customization options for users looking to build a unique e-commerce experience.

Lily AI

Series A in 2020
Lily AI is the leader in predictive psychographics for retail e-commerce. Consumer spending online for apparel now accounts for over 27% of all clothing sales. Retailers need to understand each consumer’s emotional context while they are actively shopping. Lily AI combines deep product tagging with deep, real-time psychographic analysis to determine the active state of mind of each shopper, and turns that into precise and timely recommendations. These recommendations are proven to lead to higher conversions and lower return rates. Lily AI (lilystyle.ai) was founded by two women who believe clothes to reflect how they feel about themselves. The company is venture-backed and headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Lily AI

Series A in 2020
Lily AI is the leader in predictive psychographics for retail e-commerce. Consumer spending online for apparel now accounts for over 27% of all clothing sales. Retailers need to understand each consumer’s emotional context while they are actively shopping. Lily AI combines deep product tagging with deep, real-time psychographic analysis to determine the active state of mind of each shopper, and turns that into precise and timely recommendations. These recommendations are proven to lead to higher conversions and lower return rates. Lily AI (lilystyle.ai) was founded by two women who believe clothes to reflect how they feel about themselves. The company is venture-backed and headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Verishop

Venture Round in 2019
Verishop is an online shopping portal based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2018. It positions itself as a premium lifestyle destination, offering a curated selection of elevated brands in fashion, beauty, home, and more. The platform connects independent brands and creators with consumers, facilitating the discovery of unique products alongside an efficient online purchasing process and fast delivery. Verishop aims to provide a quality-driven shopping experience, making it a go-to resource for customers seeking luxury and distinctive items.

Deliverr

Venture Round in 2019
Deliverr, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in order fulfillment services for e-commerce retailers. Founded in 2017, it offers a technology-driven platform that facilitates affordable and efficient fulfillment solutions for multi-marketplace sellers. Deliverr's services include storage, shipping, and order management, allowing online businesses to meet shipping standards and avoid penalties for late shipments. The company leverages machine learning and predictive intelligence to provide various shipping options and enhance the overall fulfillment process. By enabling sellers of all sizes to deliver fast and cost-effective services, Deliverr aims to improve customer satisfaction and support the growth of e-commerce businesses.

Commerce.js

Venture Round in 2019
Chec/Commerce.js is a Vancouver-based company that offers an API-first e-commerce platform tailored for developers and designers. Founded in 2016, the platform enables users to create customized web and mobile solutions for selling both physical and digital goods. With its headless architecture, Chec allows businesses to sell directly to customers through various channels, including storefronts, links, and embedded solutions. The platform also provides a developer API, Commerce.js, which offers extensive customization options for users looking to build a unique e-commerce experience.

Sidecar

Series C in 2019
Sidecar Interactive, Inc. is an e-commerce technology company that specializes in providing software solutions for retailers to enhance their online marketing efforts. The company's primary offering is the Sidecar Predictive Bid Engine, which optimizes advertising bids for intelligent product groupings based on real-time data analysis. This system ensures that products receive appropriate bids to maximize visibility and return on advertising spend, while also allowing high-performing products to be managed individually. Additionally, Sidecar's solutions include dynamic product advertisements on social media platforms, enabling retailers to showcase their entire product catalogs effectively. By leveraging machine learning and extensive data analytics, Sidecar assists online retailers in managing their product listing advertisement campaigns, ultimately improving business performance and efficiency. Founded in 2007 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sidecar was previously known as Snipi, Inc. until its name change in 2011.

Tundra

Series A in 2019
Tundra Inc. operates an online marketplace designed for businesses to buy and sell products efficiently and without fees or markups. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Tundra utilizes proprietary technology to streamline wholesale processes, significantly reducing the time and effort required for transactions. The platform enables direct sales and delivery from U.S. and Canadian brands to a diverse community of over 10,000 businesses across the globe. Tundra offers a wide variety of products in categories such as kids, home, beauty, apparel, and general merchandise, facilitating instant online transactions with freight included. The company is also venture-backed and maintains an office in Zurich.

Markable Creators

Series A in 2019
BCG reported that 70% of Gen Z discover products through content platforms, not directly on a retailer website. Social commerce is NOW. The global fashion E-commerce digital advertising allocation is $200 billion. Mai is making social visual discovery shopping a reality on every photo and video across any social platforms or devices. Viewers can click and shop the clothing they see while watching videos, such as TV shows, movies, and other digital media. Mai bridges the gap between social content and e-commerce, through a fully-automated AI computer vision technology, a sophisticated e-commerce bidding system, and a user personalization system. At Mai, we have spent three years working with top computer vision AI scientists, AI engineers, and fashion experts that created the world’s 1st fully automated video fashion shopping solution. We are connected with numerous top global e-commerce platforms, with total 200M SKUs available, daily updated with an out-of-stock rate <3%. Moreover, Mai is already live with two of the biggest social content platforms in Asia, with more to come. Mai has won the No.1 winner of MIT AI Idol contest in Jul 2020, and also won the title of “Most fundable company by investment value” at the biggest Asia Internet Conference in Nov 2020.

GrubMarket

Series C in 2019
GrubMarket, Inc. operates an online marketplace that connects sellers of food and related items with customers, offering a wide range of products at wholesale prices. The marketplace features organic, vegan, gluten-free foods, fresh produce, snacks, beverages, pantry items, home goods, health and beauty products, as well as items for babies, pets, and specialty diets like non-GMO and paleo. GrubMarket sources products from local farms, fisheries, commercial kitchens, certified home kitchens, and restaurants, ensuring a diverse selection for its customers. Additionally, the company provides a Software-as-a-Service platform for food delivery services and has developed GrubMarket FarmBox, a gaming application. Founded in 2014, GrubMarket is headquartered in Newark, California, with an additional office in San Francisco.

Friendshop

Seed Round in 2019
Friendshop is an online retailer specializing in beauty and skincare products. The company offers a wide range of makeup items for the eyes, face, and lips, including eyeliners, foundations, lipsticks, and various skincare essentials like face masks and sunscreens. Based in San Francisco, California, Friendshop innovates the shopping experience by enabling users to recruit friends to shop together, which allows them to unlock exclusive deals on popular brands such as Urban Decay, NARS, and Drunk Elephant. This approach to social shopping sets Friendshop apart in the beauty retail sector.

Downstream

Venture Round in 2019
Downstream Impact Inc. specializes in developing software designed to enhance brands' presence on Amazon. Founded in 2017 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company provides a comprehensive Amazon advertising suite that includes paid search services, analytics, automation, and catalog optimization. By leveraging machine learning, Downstream enables brands to effectively manage their advertising efforts, automating inputs and translating outputs to maximize market share and profitability in the competitive e-commerce landscape.

Lily AI

Funding Round in 2018
Lily AI is the leader in predictive psychographics for retail e-commerce. Consumer spending online for apparel now accounts for over 27% of all clothing sales. Retailers need to understand each consumer’s emotional context while they are actively shopping. Lily AI combines deep product tagging with deep, real-time psychographic analysis to determine the active state of mind of each shopper, and turns that into precise and timely recommendations. These recommendations are proven to lead to higher conversions and lower return rates. Lily AI (lilystyle.ai) was founded by two women who believe clothes to reflect how they feel about themselves. The company is venture-backed and headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Hingeto

Venture Round in 2018
Hingeto is a technology platform that specializes in crowdfunding stores for fashion brands, enabling them to test demand for new designs without upfront production costs. Founded in 2015, Hingeto develops and operates crowdfunding sites that facilitate direct sales of a variety of products, including caps, ties, dresses, jackets, hoodies, accessories, and pillows. The platform supports multiple payment options, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express, at checkout. Additionally, Hingeto provides services such as custom brand assortment strategies, vendor recruitment, onboarding, and daily support, which help clients manage their stores and drive sales effectively.

Paloma

Seed Round in 2018
Paloma is a developer of a direct message-commerce platform that empowers brands to enhance their e-commerce capabilities through messaging channels. By facilitating sales via social media direct messages, Paloma enables businesses to manage inventory, create seamless shopping experiences, and streamline the checkout process. The platform is designed to drive higher conversion rates—ranging from 2 to 10 times those of traditional websites—by leveraging customer data to provide valuable insights back to brands. This comprehensive commerce software as a service (SaaS) solution not only helps clients transform customer interactions into sales but also supports sustainable growth by integrating catalog management and performance tracking.

Trocafone

Venture Round in 2017
Trocafone is an online marketplace in Brazil that specializes in the buying and selling of used electronics, primarily smartphones. The platform enhances the experience for both buyers and sellers by acquiring devices from sellers, refurbishing them, and re-selling them as certified pre-owned. This model allows buyers to benefit from the affordability of a peer-to-peer marketplace while enjoying the service and security typically associated with retail stores. For sellers, Trocafone offers a streamlined process that simplifies the selling experience; items can be sold in seconds, and shipping is made easy with pre-addressed, pre-stamped mailers.

Trocafone

Series B in 2017
Trocafone is an online marketplace in Brazil that specializes in the buying and selling of used electronics, primarily smartphones. The platform enhances the experience for both buyers and sellers by acquiring devices from sellers, refurbishing them, and re-selling them as certified pre-owned. This model allows buyers to benefit from the affordability of a peer-to-peer marketplace while enjoying the service and security typically associated with retail stores. For sellers, Trocafone offers a streamlined process that simplifies the selling experience; items can be sold in seconds, and shipping is made easy with pre-addressed, pre-stamped mailers.

Markable Creators

Venture Round in 2017
BCG reported that 70% of Gen Z discover products through content platforms, not directly on a retailer website. Social commerce is NOW. The global fashion E-commerce digital advertising allocation is $200 billion. Mai is making social visual discovery shopping a reality on every photo and video across any social platforms or devices. Viewers can click and shop the clothing they see while watching videos, such as TV shows, movies, and other digital media. Mai bridges the gap between social content and e-commerce, through a fully-automated AI computer vision technology, a sophisticated e-commerce bidding system, and a user personalization system. At Mai, we have spent three years working with top computer vision AI scientists, AI engineers, and fashion experts that created the world’s 1st fully automated video fashion shopping solution. We are connected with numerous top global e-commerce platforms, with total 200M SKUs available, daily updated with an out-of-stock rate <3%. Moreover, Mai is already live with two of the biggest social content platforms in Asia, with more to come. Mai has won the No.1 winner of MIT AI Idol contest in Jul 2020, and also won the title of “Most fundable company by investment value” at the biggest Asia Internet Conference in Nov 2020.

Markable Creators

Venture Round in 2017
BCG reported that 70% of Gen Z discover products through content platforms, not directly on a retailer website. Social commerce is NOW. The global fashion E-commerce digital advertising allocation is $200 billion. Mai is making social visual discovery shopping a reality on every photo and video across any social platforms or devices. Viewers can click and shop the clothing they see while watching videos, such as TV shows, movies, and other digital media. Mai bridges the gap between social content and e-commerce, through a fully-automated AI computer vision technology, a sophisticated e-commerce bidding system, and a user personalization system. At Mai, we have spent three years working with top computer vision AI scientists, AI engineers, and fashion experts that created the world’s 1st fully automated video fashion shopping solution. We are connected with numerous top global e-commerce platforms, with total 200M SKUs available, daily updated with an out-of-stock rate <3%. Moreover, Mai is already live with two of the biggest social content platforms in Asia, with more to come. Mai has won the No.1 winner of MIT AI Idol contest in Jul 2020, and also won the title of “Most fundable company by investment value” at the biggest Asia Internet Conference in Nov 2020.

Sidecar

Series C in 2017
Sidecar Interactive, Inc. is an e-commerce technology company that specializes in providing software solutions for retailers to enhance their online marketing efforts. The company's primary offering is the Sidecar Predictive Bid Engine, which optimizes advertising bids for intelligent product groupings based on real-time data analysis. This system ensures that products receive appropriate bids to maximize visibility and return on advertising spend, while also allowing high-performing products to be managed individually. Additionally, Sidecar's solutions include dynamic product advertisements on social media platforms, enabling retailers to showcase their entire product catalogs effectively. By leveraging machine learning and extensive data analytics, Sidecar assists online retailers in managing their product listing advertisement campaigns, ultimately improving business performance and efficiency. Founded in 2007 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sidecar was previously known as Snipi, Inc. until its name change in 2011.
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