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Kahani is a mobile-first storytelling platform founded in 2021 and based in Saint Louis, Missouri. It aims to enhance e-commerce websites by providing mobile engagement features that facilitate customer interaction. The platform allows users to organize social media posts, generate content, and integrate various site assets to create engaging narratives. This approach helps clients connect with customers more effectively, ultimately encouraging product purchases and driving revenue growth. By focusing on immersive storytelling, Kahani enables businesses to streamline the shopping experience for visitors, making it easier for them to discover and buy products.

Fondue operates a mobile application that transforms refunds into a strategic growth channel for e-commerce and retail businesses. By streamlining refund processing, the application replaces traditional discount codes, allowing shoppers to select incentives that best resonate with them. This approach not only enhances customer engagement but also fosters long-term loyalty. Fondue's model promotes higher average order values, improves profitability on initial purchases, and helps businesses effectively reconnect with their customers. The innovative design of the CashBack feature ensures that discounts cannot be disseminated through discount aggregation sites, further protecting the value proposition for both businesses and consumers.

Bounty assists TikTok creators in making money off of brand endorsements and recommendations.

Developer of an online platform designed to connect top retail associates with retailers when they need staffing help. The company allows retailers to fulfill their staffing needs for callouts, no-shows, holidays, omnichannel support, and hiring challenges and allows workers to find nearby retail shifts with clothing brands they prefer, enabling retailers with staffing needs on demand in a flexible manner.

Split is an application for iPhone and Android users that pay cashback evenly to those who share and shop them. Through the Split’s Chrome Extension, users of the app can earn automatically as they share and shop online. Once they've earned enough, they can cash it all out to the PayPal account of their choice. Split was launched in 2015 by Alex Stone.

Novel is a low-code platform focused on non-fungible token (NFT) commerce, providing tools that enable brands and creators to create and sell NFTs easily. Its flagship product is a Shopify App that integrates seamlessly with existing stores or new setups, simplifying the process of entering the Web3 space and making it as straightforward as traditional online shopping. Additionally, Novel's platform allows users to create and manage branded wallet passes for Apple and Google devices, facilitating the storage of loyalty cards, coupons, and promotional materials. This functionality also enables businesses to send targeted push notifications, enhancing customer engagement and improving conversion rates.

Novel is a low-code platform focused on non-fungible token (NFT) commerce, providing tools that enable brands and creators to create and sell NFTs easily. Its flagship product is a Shopify App that integrates seamlessly with existing stores or new setups, simplifying the process of entering the Web3 space and making it as straightforward as traditional online shopping. Additionally, Novel's platform allows users to create and manage branded wallet passes for Apple and Google devices, facilitating the storage of loyalty cards, coupons, and promotional materials. This functionality also enables businesses to send targeted push notifications, enhancing customer engagement and improving conversion rates.

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Cogsy is an Austin-based startup that aims to enhance the operations of direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands by simplifying inventory management. The platform automates the ordering process, helping businesses eliminate the reliance on manual spreadsheets and guesswork to maintain optimal inventory levels. This allows brands to focus on growth while ensuring they have the right products available at the right time. Additionally, Cogsy offers tools for building custom websites, enabling users to create a tailored online presence effortlessly. With a user-friendly interface, brands can easily upload their logos, customize their designs, and scale their sites to accommodate high traffic. The service includes a built-in code editor for those who wish to incorporate HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, providing flexibility for more technical users. Cogsy’s offerings are designed to support DTC brands in streamlining their operations and enhancing their online capabilities.

Dent Reality develops an augmented reality platform that helps users find their favorite products on the market. Andrew Hart launched it in 2017, with its headquarters in London in the United Kingdom.

Archive automates e-commerce digital marketing workflows with two products: (1) Archive App (AA) is a digital asset manager built for modern digital marketers. App automates the collection and metadata labeling of all your brand's social content (including ephemeral stories) and automates the workflow to convert and distribute this content as optimized advertising creative across your favorite retention marketing and media platforms. (2) Archive Communities (AC) automates a brand's influencer seeding program to drive impressions and generate affiliates.

Violet.io, Inc. designs and develops an application programming (API) interface for e-commerce sector. Its platform Commerce Graph provides products API, carts API and orders API. Violet connects merchants looking for new distribution channels with the developers who are building them and integrates with other platforms. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Developer of a memorialization platform designed to create lasting legacies for the ones they love and for their stories to inspire generations to come. The company features the ability to let users hand-pick personality traits and interests, and send questionnaires to family and friends so they can contribute their memories, enabling individuals to tell stories about their special ones and memorialize every part of their world.

Hello Cake offers tailor-made products for the bedroom, inspired by real couples, and designed for specific types of play. Each product is made from the highest quality ingredients, produced with love in California, and delivered directly to doorsteps across the U.S. We hope everything we make will help our customers feel good, connect to their partner(s), and have fun.

House Of Wise is a CBD brand that enables women to take control of their sleep, sex, stress, and wealth by earning money selling trusted CBD products. House Of Wise makes sex Gummies, sleep Gummies, sleep Drops, stress gummies, and stress drops that contain certified organic CBD.

House Of Wise is a CBD brand that enables women to take control of their sleep, sex, stress, and wealth by earning money selling trusted CBD products. House Of Wise makes sex Gummies, sleep Gummies, sleep Drops, stress gummies, and stress drops that contain certified organic CBD.

Manufacturer of personal care products intended to treat scalp discomforts like dandruff, dry scalp, redness, irritation, and scaling. The company's products are sulfate-free, paraben-free, phthalate-free, and safe for color-treated and chemically-treated hair, and they address the needs of the consumer experiencing flaking or scalp discomfort, enabling consumers to get rid of the itchy scalp and live a healthy life.

Violet.io, Inc. designs and develops an application programming (API) interface for e-commerce sector. Its platform Commerce Graph provides products API, carts API and orders API. Violet connects merchants looking for new distribution channels with the developers who are building them and integrates with other platforms. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

EcoCart is on a mission to make fighting climate change simple, cost-effective, and accessible for everyone. Every time you shop at one of our 10,000+ partner stores with the EcoCart browser extension and click "Make My Order Carbon Neutral," we’ll offset the environmental impact of your order—all at no additional cost to you. EcoCart donates to carefully vetted, ethically proven, and scientifically verified carbon offsetting projects that comply with the world’s major carbon standards. Visit ecocart.io to start shopping sustainably today. Own a Shopify store? EcoCart integrates with Shopify to give merchants the ability to offer carbon neutral shipping to their customers. From plug-and-play designs to fully customizable themes, EcoCart allows you to seamlessly bring sustainable shopping to your customers. Get started at ecocart.io/app.

Fast's mission is to make buying online faster, safer and easier for everyone. Its Fast Login and Fast Checkout products enable a one-click sign-in and purchasing experience that makes it easier for people to buy and merchants to sell. The company's products work on any browser, device or platform to deliver a consistent, stress-free purchasing experience. Fast is entirely consumer-focused and invests heavily in its users' privacy and data security. Headquartered in San Francisco, Fast is a privately held company funded by Stripe, Index Ventures, Susa Ventures, Global Founders Capital and Brian Sugar – who also serves on the board. To learn more, visit fast.co.

Builder.io, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in a visual headless content management system (CMS) designed to enhance the management and optimization of digital content for websites and applications. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, Builder.io offers a unique platform that features a drag-and-drop visual editor, allowing users to create and optimize digital experiences swiftly and with flexibility. The platform is particularly beneficial for teams focused on composable commerce, modern marketing sites, and multi-brand digital experiences, as it streamlines content development workflows and eliminates dependency on traditional development cycles. This enables both business users and developers to improve visual elements, measure conversions, and gain insights into visitor behavior and performance.

ShoppingGives exists to create social impact with every purchase, having built a community of retailers and nonprofits that give back to one another through their customers and supporters. The community is created through two unique technologies, an intuitive online fundraising platform and ShoppingGives’ technology, Change Commerce. This technology enables retailers to donate a percentage of each purchase to a nonprofit that the customer selects during checkout, building customer loyalty and trust through charitable giving. ShoppingGives was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.