Shoptalk 2018: Selected Company Profiles 319-2018

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Shoptalk 2018
Selected Companies

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Agenda
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Introduction to ComCap (pg. 3)1
AI / Analytics profiles (pg. 22)
B2C profiles (pg. 41)
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Ecommerce SaaS profiles (pg. 44)
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Fintech profiles (pg. 52)
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Logistics profiles (pg. 58)
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Marketing profiles (pg. 66)
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Mobile profiles (pg. 82)9
Personalization profiles (pg. 85)10
Retail in-store technology profiles (pg. 92)11
Top digital retail investor profiles (pg. 10)

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Introduction to ComCap

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An introduction to ComCap
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 ComCap LLC appreciates the opportunity to present our firm’s capabilities
 ComCap is a premier boutique investment bank focused on the intersection of commerce and capital, with key focus
on B2B SaaS, B2C ecommerce (DNVBs, beauty, health, and wellness), B2B services for retail technologies (IT and
marketing services, in-store, fulfillment, logistics, call center, analytics, personalization), payments, mobile
commerce and marketplaces
 Headquartered in San Francisco with an office in Singapore, our firm works with mid-cap public companies on
buyside initiatives and public and private growth companies on financing and strategic M&A
 In addition to being the only boutique focused on disruptive commerce models, we differentiate by:
‒ Bringing bulge bracket techniques to emerging models;
‒ A strong and uncommon buyside/strategy practice;
‒ Deep understanding of industry drivers and synergy analyses;
‒ Deep relationships across the sector; and
‒ Worldwide coverage with closed transactions in the United States, Japan, China, the ASEAN region, Western
and Eastern Europe and Latin America
 Our team:
Aron Bohlig
Managing Partner
M: +1 415-235-8270
E: aron@comcapllc.com
Steve Terry
Managing Director
M: +1 415-971-3794
E: steve@comcapllc.com
Fermin Caro
Director
M: +1 650-743-7825
E: fermin@comcapllc.com
Swetha Vijay
Director
M: +65 9326-4726
E: swetha@comcapllc.com
Collin Rice
Associate
M: +1-612-578-7512
E: collin@comcapllc.com
Peter Creech
Analyst
M: +1-508-685-1620
E: peter@comcapllc.com
Carlos Gonzalez
Director
M: +7 915-413-1911
E: carlos@comcapllc.com
Chris Nealey
Analyst
M: +1-949-887-3846
E: chrisn@comcapllc.com

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ComCap – Active in 14 countries, including 8 of the top 10 global
ecommerce markets
1Source: Statista
$1,208.3
$431.8
$121.4 $111.3 $76.5 $49.7 $46.6 $35.1 $24.7 $22.3
China US UK Japan Germany France South
Korea
Canada Brazil Australia
Retail Ecommerce Sales Worldwide – 2017 ($US bn)1

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Theme Description Select companies
IoT
The internetworking of physical devices, vehicles, buildings, and other items – embedded with
electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity that enable these objects to
collect and exchange data
Artificial Intelligence /
Analytics
Focus on disruptors in the artificial intelligence space focused on ecommerce, logistics, retail,
predictive, payment, risk and marketing
B2C and Vertical
Brands (DNVBs)
Digitally native D2C brands harnessing modern technology and business models to reach the
end consumer, covering clothing, accessories, personal care, home and kitchen, furniture, and
other consumer-focused products
Ecommerce SaaS Emerging and disruptive SaaS businesses in the ecommerce sector
Fintech
Retail and commerce-related disruptors in the fintech universe. Current focus areas include
payments, risk analytics, false declines and retail point-of-sale, especially mobile (mPOS)
Logistics
Emerging platforms and providers innovating and optimizing the many facets of the supply
chain ecosystem
Marketing Suites
Emerging platforms in digital marketing, who focus on optimization in digital marketing and
content delivery
Mobile
Focused on mobile solution providers optimizing the mobile experience from desktop-to-mobile
website conversions, targeted mobile marketing, to simplifying the mobile checkout experience
Personalization Emerging players in the ecommerce personalization space
Retail In-store
technology
Platforms and solutions that enable retailers improve customer experience, productivity, and
operational inefficiencies
System Integrators
Systems Integrators implementing retail focused technology spanning the above sectors,
including large SIs covering multiple platforms, as well as smaller SIs covering just one or a
handful of platforms
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ComCap’s current thematic focus areas

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The Shoptalk 2018 landscape – selected operating companies
AI/Analytics B2C
MajorPlayers
LogisticsEcommerce
SaaS
Fintech Marketing
Tech Companies Retailers/Brands
Welcome AG i.G.
Mobile Personalization Retail
In-store
technology
AmountRaised
>$200m
$25m
$100m
$75m
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$50m

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ComCap strategic partner landscape
Software and
Service Leaders
Payments
& Fintech
End to end
Players
Global Logistics
Leaders
Agencies and
Systems
Integrators
Retailers and
Corporate VCs
eCommerce
Leaders

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US
Stage
agnostic
Buyout /
Alternate
Early
stage
Late
stage
Corp.
VC
International
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Selected financial investors with interest in digital retail

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Top digital retail investor profiles

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Accel-KKR
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 2000 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Menlo Park, CA
Company Overview: Accel-KKR is an affiliate of Accel Partners and
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. that specialises in growth and middle
market investments
The firm commits a wide range of capital, from less than $10m to
over $100m, and typically invests in companies with annual
revenues between $10-$200m. It prefers to acquire majority
ownership position, control investments, and minority growth
investments. The company has brought capital, expertise and a
network of relationships to its portfolio companies, that enables them
to grow faster and more profitably. It has invested capital across its
buyout and growth capital funds, providing for flexibility depending on
the requirement of its portfolio companies. It has offices in the US
and the UK
Target Geographies Globally
Target Sectors Mid-market software and technology
enabled services firms
Fund Accel-KKR I & III; Accel-KKR Capital
Partners II, IV & V; Accel-KKR Mezzanine I;
Accel-KKR Structured Capital Partners I & II
Company Stages Middle market and growth
Investment Size $10-100m
Funds Raised $4.0bn
No. of recent retail
software deals
na
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Tom Barnds
Managing
Director and
Founding
Partner
• Currently, he sits on the board
of Blackhawk Network,
EPiServer, I-Med, Kerridge
Commercial Systems, Motor
Vehicle Software & others
• Previously, he served as
Managing Director at Nassau
Capital
Park Durrett
Managing
Director
• Currently, he sits on the board
of Banker’s Toolbox, ESG,
HighWire Press, Reapit and
Vyne Corporation
Principal at The CapStreet
Group

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Activant Capital Group
Employees: 1-10 HQ: Greenwich, CT
Company Overview: Activant Capital invests in growth stage
technology businesses, globally.
The company specializes in software and tech enabled services. Its
team of growth experts is composed of both technology investors
and operating executives with experience scaling technology
companies. After investing, the company work closely with
management teams on anything from sales strategies, and product
management, to recruiting.
It look look for companies nearing an inflection point. The company’s
main aim is to selectively invest in market leading Commerce and
IoT companies, and then help those companies create unique
advantages for long-term success
Target Geographies Global
Target Sectors Software, IOT, data services and internet
Fund Activant Ventures I ($74.6m), Activant
Ventures II ($129.1m) and Activant Holdings
V ($3.6m)
Company Stages Growth stage
Investment Size Invest min $3m or over $100m in each
company, along with co-investors
Funds Raised $207.3m
software deals
na
Steve Sarracino
Founder and Partner
• Steve has invested more
than $2bn of equity across
a broad range of technology
companies
Trent Herron,
investment team and
senior member of
the operations team
• Mr. Herron works with
Activant portfolio
companies to drive
transformation and
operational improvements
Peter McCoy • McCoy previously founded
and served as President at
Alluring Logic

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Commerce Ventures
Employees: 2-10 HQ: San Francisco, CA
Company Overview: Commerce Ventures is an early stage venture
capital firm focused on investing and empowering the next
generation of technology innovators in the retail and financial
services industries.
In addition to providing capital, the company is committed to help
their portfolio companies succeed in scaling their commerce-related
innovations
Its strategy is typically not to lead investment rounds, but instead we
participate alongside top notch, lead investors such as VCs, seed
funds and strategic investors. It invest in companies which have
recruited a core team, developed a flagship product and
demonstrated at least early product-market fit.
Target Geographies US, Europe and Asia-Pacific
Target Sectors Commerce, digital marketing and fintech
Fund Commerce Ventures fund ($20m);
Commerce Ventures fund II ($25.5m)
Company Stages Early
Investment Size $5-25m
Funds Raised $45.6m
software deals
na
Dan Rosen
Partner
Principal at Highland Capital
Partners
• He has been investing in tech
startups for 15 years
Matt Nichols
Partner
• Previously he served at CEO of
Gemvara
• He has been an investor in and
operator of early stage
technology companies
Ysbrant Marcelis
Development
Partner
• Previously he led enterprise
strategy and business
development at Vantiv

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e.ventures
Company Overview: e.ventures is a global venture capital platform
with an investment focus on early-stage consumer internet and
mobile companies.
The firm usual acts as a first institutional investor and first venture
investor and does not require a board seat. It prefers taking a
minority stake in its portfolio companies. It has the flexibility to make
small investments, does not have predisposed fixed equity
ownership needs, and is open to partnering with investors. It has
additional offices across Asia and Europe.
It prefers to make equity investment between $0.05m and $30.0m in
its portfolio companies. The firm invests between $1.4m and $6.9m
in Series A investments.
Target Geographies US, Asia, Europe, CEE, Brazil
Target Sectors Adtech, commerce, fintech, media, mobile,
and software
Fund BV Capital I, II and III; eVentures Growth II,
e.ventures US V,e.ventures Europe V,
eVenture Partners-Fonds
Company Stages All stages
Investment Size $500k - $30m
Funds Raised $420m
software deals
na
Mathias Schilling
General Partner
• Mathias is co-founder and
Managing Partner of e.ventures.
He currently oversees the firms’
investments in Groupon, Yume,
Angie’s List, Sonos, AppFolio,
Eucalyptus and many others.
Thomas
Gieselmann
General Partner
• Currently serves on the board of
NGINX, Playhaven, Pulse News
(Alphonsolabs) and
Gamersfirst.
Christian
Leybold
General Partner
• Currently, he is working out of
the Hamburg and Berlin offices,
leading European Internet
Consumer investments.

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Fung Capital
Key Facts
Company Overview: Fung Capital is the investment arm of the
Fung family in Hong Kong which separately controls the Fung Group
that sources, distributes, and retails consumer products globally. It
invest in companies that aim to transform the global retailing
The Fung Group of companies include Li & Fung, Global Brands
Group, and Fung Retailing, with over US$22bn in total revenues and
45,000 employees in over 40 countries.
It provides equity capital to companies that have valuable and
sustainable franchises on a regional or global basis. It invests in B2B
technology companies that enable omni-channel retailing and
improve supply chain efficiency. Focuses on in-store technology, e-
commerce enablement, data analytics, supply chain and logistics.
Target Geographies Europe, the US and Asia
Target Sectors Brick-n-mortar, eCommerce, omni-channel
and supply chain
Fund na
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, and Growth
Stage
Investment Size $2m - $10m
Funds Raised $20bn
software deals
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Michael Hsieh
President
• Mike started Fung Capital 25
years ago. He was formerly with
R.H. Chappell Co., Merrill
Lynch's Corporate Finance and
at Sun Hung Kai Securities, a
Hong Kong brokerage firm.
John Seung
Partner
• Seung has held various positions
within Li & Fung Group including
CIO of the Americas and COO of
the E-commerce division.
Janie Yu
Partner
• Janie focuses on sourcing deals
and conducting due diligence on
prospective investments. Prior
to joining Fung Capital, she was
with Burt’s Bees
Portfolio Companies

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General Catalyst Partners
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Cambridge, MA
Company Overview: General Catalyst Partners is a venture capital
firm that makes early-stage and transformational investments.
It has offices in Cambridge, MA; San Francisco, CA; Palo Alto, CA
and New York City. The General Catalyst partnership leverages its
broad experience to help founders build market-leading businesses.
It seeks to make minority and majority growth equity investments
between 10% and 90% in the portfolio companies.
The firm seeks to invest in profitable growth companies with $3-
$30m in EBITDA and minimum revenue of $10m. It backs
exceptional entrepreneurs who are building innovative technology
companies and market leading businesses. It leverages its broad
experience to help founders build extraordinary companies
Target Geographies North America and Australia
Target Sectors Consumer and Enterprise Software
Fund General Catalyst Group Fund I, II, III, IV, V,
Vi, VII, VIII; General Catalyst Entrepreneurs
Fund II, III & IV, and others
Company Stages All stages
Investment Size Makes seed investment of $0.05m -$0.25m
and equity investment of $10m to $50m
Funds Raised $4.7bn
software deals
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Hemant Taneja
Managing
Director
• Currently, he serves as Director
at ClassDojo, Fractyl, Gridco
Systems, Gusto, Highfive,
Livongo, SnapChat, Stripe,
TuneIn, and Virtual Instruments
Joel Cutler
Managing
Director
• Currently, he serves as Director
at Airbnb, Cadre, Chloe +
Isabel, GoButler, Handy, Jet,
M.Gemi, Oscar Insurance,
Warby Parker and Wildcard
Larry Bohn
Managing
Director
• Currently he serves as Director
at Altiscale, Bigcommerce,
Black Duck Software,
Clarabridge, Demandware

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Goodwater Capital
Employees: 2-10 HQ: San Mateo, CA
Company Overview: Goodwater Capital is a venture capital firm
specializing in start-ups, early stage and growth capital
It has an additional office in Palo Alto, CA. The company mainly
invests in Series A and B rounds of consumer-facing start-ups. The
consumer technology companies mean mainly e-commerce and
consumer audience businesses
In 2017, the company raised a fund for $250m which allowed them to
do follow-on investments in its best companies, investing up to $40m
in their portfolio companies over time. The company previously
raised a $130m fund and invested in 16 fast-growing companies.
The firm has not announced any exits to date but expects some in
the next few quarters.
Target Geographies Global
Target Sectors Consumer products and platform
Fund Goodwater Capital I ($130.0m); Goodwater
Capital II ($250.0m)
Company Stages Series A and B rounds
Investment Size na
Funds Raised $633.5m
software deals
na
Chi-Hua Chien
Co-founder and
Managing
Partner
• Chien serves on the board of
Amino, Care/of, Dosh, Monzo,
Stash, Weee! and Zumper
• Previously he served as
General Partner at KPCB
• Prior, he was an early
employee or co-founder of four
startups
Eric J. Kim
Co-founder and
Managing
Partner
• Previously he served as
Managing Director at Maverick
Capital
• He currently serves on the
Board of Directors of Coupang,
Memebox, Frank & Oak, Viva
Republica, Pager, and Retrica

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Georgian Partners
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Toronto, Canada
Company Overview: Georgian Partners is a venture capital firm
specializing in growth equity, early stage, late stage, and expansion
stage investments.
The firm typically invests in companies earning $500,000 or more in
monthly recurring revenues or CAD6 million ($5.37 million) of annual
revenue and considers investment of CAD15 million ($12.03 million).
It also co-invests with other venture capital firms. Georgian Partners
was founded in January 2008 and is based in Toronto, Canada with
an additional office in New Zealand.
John Berton,
Managing
Partner
• John’s areas of focus include all
legal and financial activities. Prior
to Georgian Partners, John spent
11 years at VRG Capital.
Simon Chong,
Managing
Partner
• Prior to Georgian Partners,
Simon was Worldwide Director of
Sales, Information Solutions
within the IBM Software Group,
via the acquisition of DWL Inc.,
Justin
LaFayette,
Managing
Partner
• Justin leads Georgian Partner’s
investments in Bluecore,
Integrate.ai, Kinnser, Kony,
Polar, Signpost, Tealium etc.
Target Geographies US and Canada
Target Sectors High-growth enterprise software companies
including marketing automation, information
retrieval services, healthcare technology
Fund Georgian Partners Growth Fund
(International) III, LP
Georgian Partners Growth Fund II
Georgian Partners Growth Fund I
Company Stages Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Investment Size $15 and $30 million
Funds Raised $597.9mn

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Intel Capital
Key Facts
Founded: 1991 Status: Public
Employees: 201-500 HQ: Santa Clara, CA
Company Overview: Intel Capital focuses on mergers, acquisitions,
and equity investments related to tech startups.
The company invests in a range of technology startups and
companies offering hardware, software, and services targeting
enterprise, mobility, consumer Internet, digital media and
semiconductor manufacturing.
Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested US $12.2 billion in 1,500
companies worldwide, and more than 640 portfolio companies have
gone public or been acquired. Intel Capital curates thousands of
business development introductions each year between its portfolio
companies and the Global 2000.
Target Geographies Globally with a focus on Asia, Europe,
United States, Middle East, and Africa.
Target Sectors Tech startup. Companies run by women and
underrepresented minorities.
Fund AppUpSM Fund, Intel Capital Digital Home
Fund, Intel Capital India Technology Fund,
Intel Capital Diversity Fund, Ultrabook Fund
and other
Company Stages seed / startup, early, late venture and
emerging growth
Investment Size $300m to $500m per year
Funds Raised $1.3bn
Ameet Bhansali,
Vice President,
Managing
Director
• Ameet is Vice President of Intel
Capital, Managing Director of
the New Technologies Sector
and is a voting member of Intel
Capital's investment committee
Mark Lydon,
Managing
Director
• Mark is a voting member of Intel
Capital’s investment committee.
Prior to Intel Capital, he held a
variety of management
positions.
Dave Johnson,
Investment
Director
• Dave joined Intel Capital in
2003. Before joining Intel, Dave
held management positions with
P&G and Chevron Corporation.
Portfolio Companies0

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JMI Equity
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Baltimore, MD
Company Overview: JMI Equity is a private equity and venture
capital firm specializing in investments in growth equity,
management buyouts, acquisitions, shareholder liquidity, and
recapitalizations.
JMI Equity have completed more than 130 investments, 85 exits, and
19 IPOs. JMI is based in Baltimore, Maryland with an additional
office in La Jolla, California.
JMI Equity provides capital for growth, recapitalizations, acquisitions
and buyouts. Representative investments include Blackbaud,
DoubleClick, Eloqua, Navicure, Nimsoft and Service-now.com.
Target Geographies US and Europe
Target Sectors Technology-enabled business services,
Software, Enterprise Software, Cloud
Computing
Fund JMI Equity Fund VII
JMI Equity Fund VIII
Company Stages Seed to late stage
Investment Size $15m to $100m
Funds Raised $3.0bn
Peter Arrowsmith
General Partner
• Two decades of experience
building software companies
Paul Barber
Managing
General Partner
• 25 years working with software
companies
• Served on over 20 private,
public, and nonprofit boards
Harry Gruner,
Managing
General Partner
• 30 years working with software
companies, having served on
the boards of over 35 software
and information businesses
Andy Knox,
Analyst
• Prior to JMI, Andrew spent
time at Chelsea Partners, and
Merrill Lynch

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Salesforce Ventures
Key Facts
Employees: 10,001+ HQ: San Francisco, CA
Company Overview: Salesforce Ventures is the venture capital
arm of Salesforce.com, specializing in startups, co-investments, and
late venture investments in companies that are raising an
institutional round of financing.
The firm seeks to invest in artificial Intelligence, cloud computing,
enterprise technology, mobile technology and mobile enterprise
companies creating apps for mobile phones. Since 2009, the firm
formed partnerships and helped accelerate the growth of over 250
technology startups.
It prefers not to lead deals.
Matt Garratt
SVP, Managing
Partner
• Previously, Matt was an early
stage investor at Battery
Ventures with expertise in
Software, SaaS, Consumer
Internet, GreenIT and Industrial
Tech companies.
John Somorjai,
EVP, Corporate
Development
and Strategy
• Since 2005, John has been
leading the evaluation, deal
execution and integration of
M&A and investments.
Chris Hecht
SVP; Head of
M&A
• Chris also works with
Salesforce Ventures, investing
in leading enterprise companies
and Salesforce partners.
Target Geographies United States and Canada
Target Sectors Enterprise Software, Hardware, Cloud
Computing, Software
Fund Impact Fund, AI Innovation Fund, SI
Trailblazer Fund, Platform Fund, EMEA
Fund, Lightning Fund, Salesforce1 Fund
Company Stages Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture,
Seed
Investment Size -
Funds Raised $500m
Portfolio Companies

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Select Shoptalk Attendee Profiles: AI / Analytics
Company Profile Capabilities
ActionIQ
An enterprise Customer Data Platform solving the
biggest problem marketers face: the flow and scale of
data, analytics, and campaigns
Founded: 2014
actioniq.com
Employees: 40+
Revenue: N/A
HQ: New York, NY
Funds Raised: $45.0m
Latest Financing Round: $30.0m
Latest Financing Valuation: N/A
CEO: Tasso Argyros
Services offered:
 Solves the data problem by connecting all sources such as online and offline,
email, CRM, and clickstream
 Provides an interface that is highly flexible, incredibly fast, and entirely self-
service for clients marketing and analytics
 The platform unifies and accelerates the work of marketers, analysts and
technologists to turn big data into smart data
Customers include: Gilt Groupe and Blue Apron
Key facts:
 It wants to help marketing employees navigate big data without having to write
code. Provides SaaS to connect a business’ multiple data sources, such as
email, CRM, and clickstream, and centralize them onto one single analytics
dashboard
 The raised fund will help to expand sales and marketing and to further business
development
Amplitude
Provides product analytics to help companies
understand user behavior
Founded: 2012
amplitude.com
Employees: 101-250
Revenue: N/A
HQ: San Francisco, CA
CEO: Sena Zorlu
Services offered:
 Behavioral analytics: Assist clients in understanding user behavior to grow their
product metrics. Track the impact of every release in real time and double down
on the right features to keep shipping a better experience to the users
 Others include taxonomy, insight, scale and accounts
Customers include: okcupid, Twitter, change.org, Blue Apron, Microsoft,
HubSpot, LogMeIn, Autodesk, Cisco, Acquia, Shopstyle, Booking.com, SAKS Fifth
Avenue, Lilly Pulitzer, Adidas
Key Facts:
 Serves clients across various sectors such as consumer tech, B2B SaaS,
ecommerce, media, and finance
 Product, marketing, and growth teams use Amplitude to discover and share
insights about user engagement, retention, and revenue
 It is the analytics solution of choice for companies who want to understand their
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Boomerang Commerce
Powers competitive pricing and assortment decisions
for retailers
Founded: 2009
www.boomerangcommerce.com
Employees: 101-250
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Mountain View, CA
Latest Financing Valuation: $54.3m
CEO: Guru Hariharan
Services offered:
 Retail Performance Management product suite designed to help make faster
merchandising decisions and drive better business performance
 Price Performance Management: Leverage pricing to grow market share and
profitability, and streamline the clients pricing operations
Customers include: Staples, Office Depot, Groupon
Key facts:
 Boomerang’s clients average $40m in incremental revenue and $9m in
incremental margins for every $1bn in revenue they run through the platform
 Improves revenue and margin performance of the clients’ businesses by
making better, faster merchandising decisions
 Customers span across a broad array of categories, from office supplies and
apparel to home improvement, auto parts and more
 The technology platform empowers profitable growth through data driven
merchandising decisions
Celect
A cloud-based predictive analytics SaaS platform that
helps retailers optimize overall inventory portfolios
Founded: 2013
www.celect.com
Employees: 51-100
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Boston, MA
CEO: John Andrews
Services offered:
 Celect Inventory Optimization Suite provides analytics and recommendations,
giving the client the ability to filter, analyze and make sense of an overwhelming
amount of data from disparate sources
 Celect Federal Intelligence Suite was developed to specifically address the
challenges facing the federal intelligence community
 Celect Predictive Analytics Platform is deployed as an on-premises or cloud-
based SaaS solution, leveraging numerous open-source technologies, with
enterprise-class flexibility and scale to support high-volume compute and
massive amounts of data
Key facts:
 Helps retailers manage their inventory using machine learning
 Solutions work in physical stores, online, and across the supply chain
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Clarifai
Provides advanced image recognition systems for
customers to detect near-duplicates and visual
searches
Founded: 2013
actioniq.com
Employees: 11-50
Revenue: N/A
HQ: New York, NY
CEO: Matthew Zeiler
Services offered:
 Clarifai Explorer allows the clients to preview all the inputs that customers add,
perform searches and train new models
 Clarifai Create allows the client to create a model using their own custom
concepts
 Clarifai models will return a list of concepts, each with a probability score of
how likely it is the concept is visible in the image
 Clarifai Search can then return image results, ranked by how similar they are to
the image provided in the query
Customers include: Vevo, OpenTable, Staples, photobucket, West elm,
StyleMePretty.com, Foap, Photobucket, MRM / McCann, i-Nside, Asset Bank
Key facts:
 Its solutions create efficiencies in customers business by sorting through
content and allowing your human workforce to fulfil different roles
 Its powerful image and video recognition solutions are built on the most
advanced machine learning platform, and made easily accessible
Coherent Path
Provides personalization and predictive analytics
solutions that enable retailers to focus engagement
around strategic goals
Founded: 2012
coherentpath.com
Employees: 11-50
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Boston, MA
Funds Raised: $7.0m
CEO: James Glover
Services offered:
 Coherent Path that uses advanced mathematical concepts from hyperbolic
geometry and dynamics to better understand a retailer’s product space and
customer behavior.
 The company’s machine learning solution empowers retailers with the relevant
themes and categories they should feature in campaigns
Customers include: Neiman Marcus, L.L.Bean, Staples, Gardner’s Supply
Company, Miles Kimball, Walter Drake, autotrader.ca
Key facts:
 It serves various sectors such as banking & financial services, healthcare,
insurance, media & communications, retail, technology, and travel & hospitality
 Has an additional office in Toronto, Canada
 It integrates with email service providers such as IBM Watson, Salesforce
Marketing Cloud, Oracle Responsys, SendGrid and Cheetah Digital
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Commerce Signals
Develops an ecommerce search and discovery
technology by using data science, machine learning,
and natural language processing
Founded: 2014
www.commercesignals.com
Employees: 11-50
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
CEO: Thomas Noyes
Services offered:
 Allows businesses to optimize and monetize their data assets through a real
time exchange platform that provides a marketplace for buyers and sellers
based upon relevance and use
 Added location and payment panel data to its solution, which gives advertisers
a holistic picture of the consumer journey – from the time an ad is seen to the
time a purchase is made
Key facts:
 Provides advertisers and agencies unique access to over 70% of US Card
based transactions
 Measures and optimizes sales lift, and grows sales & traffic for marketers,
agencies and publishers
 In March 2017, the company announced a partnership with LiveRamp that
enables advertisers to measure the online and in-store sales impact of their
advertising across digital publishers and individual devices
CrowdANALYTIX
Scalable AI solutions for enterprises
Founded: 2012
www.crowdanalytix.com
Employees: 11-50
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Sunnyvale, CA
Funds Raised: $3.0m
CEO: Divyabh Mishra
Services offered:
 dataX.ai, an AI driven platform for auto-creating context-aware product
attributes and meta-tags for retail product catalogs
 CrowdANALYTIX, a crowdsourcing platform for building customized AI
solutions built by a global community of 19,132 data scientists
Customers include: Marsh, AT&T, Flipkart, Ford, Genpact, Honeywell, KPMG
Key facts:
 A global community of data scientists builds hundreds of bots every month for
various use cases and deploys them into dataX for future use
 The data scientists compete & collaborate on the company’s crowdsourcing
community to build optimized algorithms. These algorithms are then deployed &
maintained on dataX.ai (the machine layer) for reliability and scale
 The precision of Bots in the dataX library are continuously monitored for
degradation
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Drawbridge
A people-based identity management company,
enabling brands to create personalized experiences
for their customers
Founded: 2010
www.drawbridge.com
Employees: 101-250
Revenue: $100m
HQ: San Mateo, CA
Latest Financing Valuation: $175m
CEO: Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan
Services offered:
 Connected Consumer Graph for digital advertising and other applications
 Manage cross-device campaigns in real-time
 Execute cross-device media campaigns on an I/O basis optimized
Customers include: Del Monte Foods, Seat Geek, Groupon, Core Digital Media
Key Facts:
 Uses patented large-scale AI and machine learning technologies to build
democratized data solutions that are driving the intersection between mar-tech
and other categories with applications including advertising, personalization,
content management, product recommendations, authentication, and risk
detection
 The latest funding round will allow Drawbridge to “double down” on its
expansion beyond ad-tech
 It was one of the first to work on creating a cross-device graph that allowed
advertisers to use data to target consumers across laptops, mobile phones,
tablets and others
Dynamic Yield
Provides personalization, recommendations, 1:1
messaging, and yield optimization across web, mobile,
and email
Founded: 2011
www.dynamicyield.com
Employees: 101-250
Revenue: N/A
HQ: New York, NY
CEO: Liad Agmon
Services offered:
 The Omnichannel Personalization Stack helps marketers increase revenue by
automatically personalizing each customer interaction across web, mobile apps
and email
 Has complete suite of personalization & engagement solutions to drive revenue
and engagement
Customers include: Zalora, Urban Outfitters, Ocado, Hallmark Channel, Jumia,
Daraz.pk, Pacsun, William Hill, Hello Fresh, Lamoda, Food Panda, Cabela’s
Key facts:
 Its advanced segmentation engine uses machine learning to build actionable
segments in real time, enabling marketers to take instant action via
personalization, product/content recommendations, behavioral messaging, a/b
testing and automated optimization
 Serves across various segments such as ecommerce, media & publishing,
B2B, travel & hospitality, listings & classifieds and others
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DynamicAction
Provider of analytics solutions specifically built for
retail merchandising teams
Founded: 2007
www.dynamicaction.com
Employees: 51-200
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Silicon Valley, CA
CEO: John Squire
Services offered:
 Offers cloud based predictive analytic services to the retail industry. It connects
data from every part of a retail organization such as marketing, inventory,
merchandising, operations, customers, returns and finance
Customers include: Brooks Brothers, Sur la Table, El Corte Ingles, Tesco, Jaege
& Lakela, Men’s Warehouse, Neiman Marcus, Abcam, Mulberry, Express, Nine
West and Cole Haan
Key facts:
 The company uses more than 600 proprietary algorithms to pinpoint margin-
eating disconnects in the business, prescribe the precise actions to take and
accurately rank those actions by financial impact
 The platform enables profitable action-taking using data comprising more than
$19bn of consumer transactions each year
 Key investors include West Coast Capital, Frog Capital, WPP, Dawn Capital
and ePlanet Capital
 Has offices in London, Sofia and Dallas
Euclid Analytics
Euclid Analytics is the world leader in location
analytics.
Founded: 2010
http://euclidanalytics.com
Employees: 11-50
Revenue: N/A
CEO: Brent Franson
Services offered:
 The company installs sensors to measure the traffic for helping retailers,
advertisers, and mall and property owners to understand customer behavior in
their stores and also helps to optimize performance of retail space investments.
 It works with more than 500 brands in retail, banks, quick service restaurants,
airports and shopping malls to help them optimize marketing, operations, and
staffing in their physical locations
Key facts:
 The company has raised funds to improve its in-store tracking technology
 The technology analyses more than 10 billion daily events and 300 million
shopping sessions yearly
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Fract
Demand forecasting and planning with geospatial AI
Founded: 2014
www.fract.com
Employees: 1-10
Revenue: N/A
Funds Raised: N/A
Latest Financing Round: N/A
CEO: Mike Mack
Services offered:
 The company offers tools to analyse data using AI which lead to actionable
insights that allow a company to outsmart its competitors
Key facts:
 Helps businesses increase market share with a geospatial artificial intelligence
platform that integrates various business data points, runs a continuous
prediction loop to find hidden data patterns, and presents actionable insights
with specific ROI to the end user
 It works with fortune 1,000 enterprise companies, usually in demand
forecasting or supply chain, that have products that move at some locations,
but not in few locations as well as they do not the reason for not expanding in a
particular region.
Gladly
Develops a communication interface that allows
agents and customers to converse across voice,
email, SMS, and social media
Founded: 2014
www.gladly.com
Employees: 50
Revenue: N/A
CEO: Joseph Ansanelli
Services offered:
 Provides software to help businesses deliver better customer service
Customers include: Tadashi Shoji, Axtro Sports, First Aid & Safety Online,
Country Club Prep, 1st in Coffee
Key Facts:
 The company raised funds to simplify customer service across calls, social
media, and emails
 The new money will be used to bring the product to market and add new
customers
 With Gladly, agents are empowered to be naturally productive, with a modern
messaging interface that gives them the ability to communicate across
channels
 It wants to centralize all communications onto one messaging interface.
 It is currently working with consumer brands in retail, travel, and hospitality
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Mist Systems
Built the first wireless platform for the Smart Device
era
Founded: 2014
www.mist.com
Employees: 101-250
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Cupertino, CA
CEO: Sujai Hajela
Services offered:
 Virtual assistant network, Wi-Fi assurance, Buetooth LE engagement and
Bluetooth LE Asset Visibility
 It takes unique advantage of user location and behavior to deliver a superior
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE experience to wireless users
 Enables enterprises to provide amazing user experiences not possible before,
and, proactively manage networks at any scale
Key facts:
 The first intelligent wireless network products that leverage machine learning
 It will grow sales and marketing resources globally and continue to invest in
engineering, especially in the area of AI
 The company will continue to develop a robust channel of MSPs and
collaborate with leading ecosystem & OEM partners
Optimizely
An experience optimization platform enabling A/B and
multivariate testing for users to enhance their websites
& mobile apps
Founded: 2009
www.optimizely.com
Employees: 251-500
Revenue: $63.7m
CEO: Jay Larson
Services offered:
 Offers customer-experience optimization software for companies
 Offering includes Optimizely X Web Experimentation, Optimizely X Web
Personalization, Optimizely X Full Stack, Optimizely X Program Management,
Optimizely X Recommendations, Optimizely X Mobile, and Optimizely X OTT
Customers include: Fox, Clorox, CBS, The Walt Disney Company, ABC, Yelp,
The Guardian, Demand Media, SONY, OpenTable, Zendesk, charity: water,
Microsoft
Key facts:
• To date, marketers, developers and product managers have delivered over 700
billion experiences tailored to the needs of their customers.
• It serves customers across B2B, media, retail, travel, non-profit, government,
real-estate and financial services
• Its ease of use and speed of deployment empower organizations to create and
run bold experiments that help them make data-driven decisions and grow
faster
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OrderGroove
Provider of a subscription commerce SaaS platform.
Founded: 2008
www.ordergroove.com
Employees: 51-200
Revenue: N/A
HQ: New York, NY
CEO: Greg Alvo
Services offered:
 Relationship Commerce Cloud offers a comprehensive suite of capabilities that
simplifies the consumer ordering and reordering experience by enabling
omnichannel retailers and brands to practice and achieve Relationship
Commerce
 Other features include Predictive reordering, Frictionless discovery & ordering
and Product subscriptions
Customer include: CVS Pharmacy, Dollar General, Grainger, L’Oreal, Jockey,
Lot18, Wal-Mart, Balance Bar, Brady, P&G, eBay, Burts Bees, Gillette, Krups
Key facts:
 With the company’s combination of technology, data science and people, you
can transform your business from one-and-done transactions to ongoing
customer relationships that deliver increased revenue, predictability and
profitability
 It levers exponentially more data than any single retailer or brand to accurately
anticipate the “when” of consumers’ requirements
Personali
Personali helps top-tier retailers increase sales and
profitability – online and offline – by capitalizing on the
power of behavioral
economics
Founded: 2011
www.personali.com
Employees: 11-50
Revenue: N/A
HQ: New York, NY
CEO: Dan Baruchi
Services offered:
 The Intelligent Incentive platform uses machine learning to offer its customers
the ability to elicit, capture and harness shoppers’ emotional responses, to
achieve the highest engagement and encourage increased spend
Customers include: Coleman, Cdiscount, Dafiti, Cnova, Matelsom, Orange,
Quidco, Showroomprive.com, Pontforio atacado, Interior’s, Casas Bahia,
extra.com.br
Key facts:
 It helps top-tier retailers increase sales and profitability – online and offline – by
capitalizing on the power of behavioral economics
 Key benefits are conversion uplift, profit optimization, loyalty & retention,
product lifecycle management, user spend increase and full omni-channel
support
 The firm has over 150 customers across North America, Latin America and
Europe
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Profitect
Provider of prescriptive analytics software
Founded: 2007
www.profitect.com
Employees: 51-100
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Waltham, MA
CEO: Guy Yehiav
Services offered:
 Profit Amplification software, a pattern-seeking solution, enables retailers to
quickly realize increased revenue and reduced costs across the entire retail
supply chain
 Its proprietary transformation engine intelligently transforms data
 It takes clients’ data, identifies opportunities, prescribes easy-to-understand
actions, and levers workflows and tasks to ensure the right actions are taken
when needed
Customers include: Abercrombie & Fitch, Ahold USA, Delek, King Kullen, Sally
Beauty, Weis Markets, Factory 54, Woolworths, Suitsupply
Key facts:
 It serves various sectors such as grocery, apparel, home improvement, health
& beauty, and department stores
 In January 2017, the company reported a 250% increase in its 2016 revenue as
compared to 2015 as well as twofold increase in customer portfolio
Profitero
A next-generation pricing intelligence service for
retailers and manufacturers
Founded: 2010
www.profitero.com
Employees: 51-100
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Dublin, Ireland
Funds Raised: $9.0m
CEO: Volodymyr Pigrukh
Services offered:
 Digital Shelf 360 is a unique ecommerce analytics suite that features actionable
reporting and alerts for brands
 It delivers an interconnected view of product content, pricing availability,
assortment, retailer search ranking, ratings and reviews, and retailer-specific
sales and share to produce competitive benchmarking and comprehensive
insights to help brands grow sales across all channels
Customers include: Tyson, Sam’s Club, Ocado, Bissell, Boots, Delhaize, L’Oreal,
General Mills, Coop, Beiersdorf, Lavazza, Ritter Sport, Waitrose, Coty, Maxxium,
Heinken, Affinity, Morrisons, Waitrose, Nebraska Furniture Mart, Sam’s Club
Key facts:
 Key partners include Nielsen, Brandbank and Revionics
 Tracks 450 million products across more than 5,000 retail websites in 45+
countries for retailers and consumer brands
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Quantifi
A marketing experiments platform
Founded: 2016
quantifi.ai
Employees: 11-50
Revenue: $5.5m
HQ: Indianapolis, IN
Funds Raised: $2.3m
CEO: R. J. Taylor
Services offered:
 It is a marketing experiments platform for optimizing digital ad budgets
 Makes experimentation possible by making it faster and cheaper to try new
channels, target niche audiences and discover new strategies
 Helps clients find what works with scientific precision
 The company’s Constellation Data Co-op, a growing, proprietary data set,
learns over time to continually test and recommend new channels, audiences,
and creative options
 The platform discovers, automates, and adapts the clients digital marketing
spend across multiple platforms
 It has a portfolio of nearly 20 management and optimization products spanning
pricing, promotions, markdowns and space
 It also offers price modeling, optimization on-demand, scenario forecasting, and
advanced category analytics services
Customers include: LIDS Sports Group, Menguin, DiscountFilters.com, The
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Revionics
Revionics offers lifecycle price, promotion and
markdown optimization solutions for the retail industry.
Founded: 2002
www.revionics.com
Employees: 101-250
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Roseville, CA
CEO: Marc Hafner
Services offered:
 Key solutions include pricing, promotion, markdown, space, dynamic pricing,
competitive insights and advanced analytics
Customers include: Farmacorp, The Home Depot, eBags, OXXO, Apotek, Shop
Direct, Family Dolllar, Ozon.ru, Sally Beauty, Pet Smart, Dick’s Sporting Goods,
Tractor Supply Co., Null, Apotek
Key facts:
 Retailers in all segments across the world adopt its self-funding model to
improve top-line sales, demand and margin
 Serves various segments, channels and formats such as food & drug, fashion,
sporting goods, wholesale, health & beauty, home & garden, convenience, DIY,
speciality, consumer electronics, discount and general merchandise
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Segment
Segment is one place to collect customer data and
send it to your tools for analytics, marketing
automation, and raw data access with SQL
Founded: 2011
https://segment.com
Employees: 101-250
Revenue: N/A
CEO: Peter Reinhardt
Services offered:
 Collect data once with the company’s software. Integrate a best-in-class
marketing and analytics stack.
 Collect clickstream data from their mobile apps, websites, and servers with one
API
 Test the clients implementation, weed out bad data, and set granular rules for
where data flows with tools for debugging and data governance
 Personalize every customer interaction with security & privacy built in
Customers include: Glossier, Tradesy, LogMeIn, DigitalOcean, Breather, New
Relic, inVision, Contentful, Trunk Club, edx, Prosper, Instacart, Xo Group
Key facts:
 Serves various segments such as retail, B2B, mobile and marketplaces
 Over 15,000 companies have selected the company to empower their teams
and streamline workflows. Businesses use Segment's API to unlock 200+ tools
Sentient Technologies
The world’s leading artificial intelligence company
specializing in evolutionary intelligence
Founded: 2007
www.sentient.ai
Employees: 51-200
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Evanston, IL
CEO: Babak Hodjat
Services offered:
 Sentient Aware uses deep learning to deliver image-based, real-time
personalization through a visual conversation
 Sentient Ascend leverages evolutionary algorithms to test and find the best
performing design for the clients website from among thousands or even
millions of potential combinations, more quickly than you would think is possible
 Sentient Investment Management is developing and applying quantitative
trading and investment strategies built using Sentient Technologies’ proprietary
artificial intelligence platform
Key facts:
 Operates distributed AI on an unprecedented scale, routinely running multiple
distributed AI jobs, on millions of AI processing nodes, producing actionable
results validated on large and complex data sets
 In 2017, the company raised funds to further expand its distributed artificial
intelligence products and services. It will also allow to expand its team, further
scale its partner infrastructure, and accelerate the commercialization of its
distributed AI technologies
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SmartAssistant
A leading omni-channel digital advice technology
Founded: 2006
www.smartassistant.com
Employees: 101-250
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Wien, Austria
Funds Raised: $8.9m
CEO: Markus Linder
Services offered:
 Digital advisers engage users in a personalised dialogue and recommend
products, services, and content based on their needs, thereby reducing choice
overload, confusion, and indecision
Customers include: West Marine, Very, OBI, Canon, Advisor Syndication, Newell
Brands, OTTO Fashion, Luna Sandals,
Key facts:
 In 2017, the company raised funds to make Digital Advice ubiquitous and help
people make smarter decisions
 It is now actively expanding its US-based sales team in New York City. It will
continue to strengthen its freemium offering zuvoo.com and its global solution
partner network
 Serves various sectors such as retail, brand & manufacturing, fashion &
lifestyle, telecommunications, B2B commerce and banking & finance
Snaps
A conversational marketing platform that powers the
chatbots, voice skills and social messaging
experiences for the Fortune 500
Founded: 2014
www.makesnaps.com
Employees: 11-50
Revenue: N/A
HQ: New York, NY
Latest Financing Valuation: NA
CEO: Christian Brucculeri
Services offered:
 Helps brands find new customers and increase lifetime value through chatbots,
voice skills and social messaging - all from a single, intelligent platform
Customers include: Nike, Marriott Rewards, VICE, Bud Light, Simon
Key Facts:
 It powers the most innovative chatbot, voice and social messaging experiences
for major consumer brands
 It built the first technology and the content management system for emoji
messaging
 The platform has evolved to help brands find new customers and increase
lifetime value through chatbots, voice skills and social messaging - all from a
single, intelligent platform called the Conversational Marketing Cloud
 Empowers brands to provide personalized ecommerce, proactive support and
engagement, creating a wholly unique brand experience for each customer
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Springbot
Delivers data-driven marketing recommendations,
marketing automation and analytics in one dynamic
platform for SMB merchants
Founded: 2012
www.springbot.com
Employees: 51-100
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Atlanta, GA
Latest Financing Valuation: NA
CEO: Brooks Robinson
Services offered:
 The SpringBot Platform provides advanced ecommerce marketing technology
for small to medium- size retailers
 Others include SpringBot email, campaign services and activation services
 Its integration with Big Commerce, Magento and Shopify delivers the power of
data management, marketing automation and analytics across multiple
platforms
Customers include: Tadashi Shoji, Axtro Sports, First Aid & Safety Online,
Country Club Prep, 1st in Coffee
Key Facts:
 It enables small- to medium-size retailers to take full advantage of even the
most complex marketing data
Sutherland Global Services
A BPO company that provides business process and
technology management services
Founded: 1986
https://www.sutherlandglobal.com
Employees: 7,400+
Revenue: $1.6bn
HQ: Pittsford, NY
CEO: Dilip Vellodi
Services offered:
 Design research, design strategy, digital design, creative services, consulting,
project management, technology strategy, solution implementation, customer
behavior analytics and process engineering & improvement
 Key services include digital services, business process services and customer
engagement services
Customers include: Guardian Group, Petco, Mount Sinai, Touchette Regional
Hospital
Key facts:
 It serves various sectors such as banking & financial services, healthcare,
insurance, media & communications, retail, technology, and travel & hospitality
 The company has completed 43 million transactions in a month on a digital
backbone that spans 19 countries around the world for more than 120 clients
 It rethinks and rebuilds processes for the digital age
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Syte.ai
A visual search platform only for fashion
Founded: 2015
https://www.syte.ai
Employees: 11-50
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel
CEO: Ofer Fryman
Services offered:
 Combines object recognition, artificial intelligence and machine learning that
provides accuracy and speed
Key Facts:
 It encompasses many verticals, providing solutions for retailers, publishers,
influencers and consumers
 Takes customer inspiration and automatically transforms it into new shopping
opportunities, with proven results to increase brand loyalty, searchability and
conversions for retailers and brands
 It will be used for marketing and growth in the U.S., where it hopes to sign up
large fashion publishers and retailers
 Its deep learning-based search engine focuses only on fashion products, even
though there are other verticals, such as home decor, where visual search is
also in demand
Tiny Clues
An AI-driven campaign marketing solution provider
that helps B2C marketers drive revenue and
engagement from their customers
Founded: 2010
www.tinyclues.com
Employees: 11-50
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Paris, France
CEO: David Bessis
Services offered:
 Uses a unique Deep AI technology that captures the latent business and
customer insights contained in first-party data
 It then predicts the future buyers for any product or service campaign with
incredible accuracy, allowing brands to present highly relevant product offers to
highly qualified audiences
Customers include: Oui.sncf, PrimeMinister, Lacoste, ClubMed, Fnac,Thomas
Cook, SHOP, Brand Alley, CruiseLine, King Jouet, Cyrillus Paris
Key facts:
 The company raised funds to further accelerate its already impressive growth in
North America and Europe; in 2017, the company more than doubled its annual
recurring revenue
 The investment will also support an aggressive AI-first product development
timetable, further empowering brands to win new sources of revenue from
intelligent marketing campaigns
 Optimize and orchestrate more than 600 million messages per month across
channels
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TrueFit
Discovery platform which helps consumers, brands
and retailers find the proper size on online stores
Founded: 2010
www.truefit.com
Employees: 51-100
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Boston, MA
CEO: William R. Adler
Services offered:
 Genome is the largest set of connected fit and style data
 Confidence Engine generates size guidance for all its visitors, without them
having to do anything
 Discovery Engine, which allows retailers to curate highly personalized
collections to each consumer through personal style rankings that leverage its
deep understanding of both users and garments
 Others include True OMNI and True Insight
Customers include: Macy’s, Hudson’s Bay, House of Fraser, Nordstorm, Next,
Aldo, Ralph Lauren, Dillard’s, Designer Shoe Warehouse, Kate Spade, GUESS
Key facts:
 It has organized the largest platform of apparel and footwear data through its
partnerships with thousands of top brands, leading retailers, and various
consumers
TruRating
Offers businesses with a POS rating system that
analyses customer satisfaction
Founded: 2013
www.trurating.com
Employees: 51-100
Revenue: N/A
HQ: London, UK
Funds Raised: £13.7m
Latest Financing Round: £9.5m
CEO: Georgina Nelson
Services offered:
 The company offers a point-of-pale rating system that enables customers to
rate products and services of businesses and earn rewards
 Its SaaS delivered at POS systems provides its restaurant and retailer users
with the ability to ask their customers different questions after they have paid
Customers include: Ping Pong, Franco Manca, Arco
Key facts:
 Has business across the UK, Australia and North America
 Plans to expand its presence into the US and Canada to scale the business
 Has generated a total of two million ratings, off of a customer base of around
200 users
 It also allows the customer to have their voice heard with a simple tap from 0-9
 Key customers include payment service providers, acquiring banks and
payment hardware manufacturers
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Twiggle
Develops an ecommerce search and discovery
technology by using the techniques of data science,
machine learning, and natural language processing
Founded: 2014
www.twiggle.com
Employees: 11-50
Revenue: N/A
CEO: Amir Konigsberg
Services offered:
 The Semantic API integrates into existing search engines and provides a
natural language layer that allows search engineers and data scientists to
enhance search logic and present better results to shoppers
Key facts:
 It uses the most advanced technologies in machine learning, artificial
intelligence, and natural language processing to power next generation
ecommerce experiences
 Raised funds to scale up its Semantic API, which allows companies to use its
technology without replacing their existing search engines, add new search-
related features, hire more executives, and grow its U.S.-based sales team
 The solutions are the only search technologies built on both human-like
understanding of linguistic structure and a deep retail awareness
 It has 16 patents and an additional office in New York
Verascape
Provides cloud-based IVR and SMS solutions that
engage the caller in a productive dialogue
Founded: 2000
www.verascape.com
Employees: 11-50
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Schaumburg, IL
Funds Raised: $6.6m
CEO: Scot Thomas
Services offered:
 Automated Customer Engagement solution that combines next-generation
speech recognition and two-way text messaging technologies with real-time
customer and/or external data integration
 Others include a suite of customer service self-service solutions; cloud-based,
voice, and/or SMS enabled self-service payment options; identifies and verifies
the customer and find their order information; provides outbound text
messaging services for payment reminders; and Pay-by-Phone or Pay-by-Text
applications; order processing solutions; Live Decision Call Routing and
outbound communications
Customers include: Wyer Roup, Figis, Orchard Brands, Colony Brands
Key facts:
 It serves clients in financial services, insurance, transportation and fleet
services, technology, pharma, healthcare, packaged goods, and government,
as well as omni-channel marketers
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Voysis
Voysis believes voice will soon be the first point of
contact between ‘man’ and machine
Founded: 2012
https://voysis.com
Employees: 11-50
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Dublin, Ireland
Funds Raised: $8.0m
CEO: Peter Cahill
Services offered:
 The platform provides the foundation to create an intelligent brand-specific
Voice AI for any company or industry
 It converts the client’s database to an artificial intelligence application users can
talk to – one that deeply understands the specifics of their products, services
and vocabulary
Key facts:
 It is an AI platform that can parse natural language input, and that works
effectively in specific domains including ecommerce, entertainment and others
 The company is focusing on building a platform for a few specific, high-value
domains with a deep working knowledge and strong reliability
 It uses proprietary speech recognition, natural language processing and
understanding, deep learning and text-to-speech to power the client’s intelligent
Voice AI
 It allows users to speak directly with individual brands in order to find the
products they’re looking for more easily
Yotpo
Operates a website that harnesses people's opinions
online
Founded: 2011
www.yotpo.com
Employees: 101-250
Revenue: N/A
CEO: Tomer Tagrin
Services offered:
 Offers a user-generated content marketing platform to build a stronger brand
and better customer experience with regards to content, on-site UX, search,
social, as well as analytics and insights
 It enables customers to collect content — like reviews, photos, and Q&As —
and then uses the data to build a better customer experience and brand
Customer include: GoPro, Staples, AdoreMe, Ensurance, Everlast, Leesa,
Burton, Puravida Bracelets
Key facts:
 Key platforms include Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce and WooCommerce
 Raised funds for its platform to help businesses improve their user engagement
through fan contributions, such as user-generated videos
 It will also invest in research on tech in such fields as artificial intelligence and
machine learning. It will use the money to meet demand from high-growth
commerce brands for an integrated user-generated content platform
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Mayvenn
Enables hair stylists to sell products directly to their
clients without the upfront costs and burdens of having
inventory
Founded: 2012
http://mayvenn.com
Employees: 51-200
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Oakland, CA
CEO: Diishan Imira
Services offered:
 It sells 100% natural hair extensions backed by a 30-day Quality Guarantee
 The platform enables stylists to sign up for a personalized website through the
company and refer their clients to the site to purchase hair extensions
 The company’s model sets each stylist up with marketing materials and a
webstore to sell what is promised to be reliable hair quality at a lower cost and
the opportunity to make a commission on every piece of hair purchased
 They also offer offline-to-online retail solution for the salon industry
Key facts:
 The company provides clients with the tools that are needed for the successful
start, and they take 15% of every sale
 Stylists using Mayvenn are increasing revenue per client by 42%.
 The platform has grown over 50,000+ stylists, hundreds of thousands of
customers, and millions of dollars invested back into salons across the US
 It lets stylists serve as the salespeople and distribution channels by selling the
extensions to their own customers
Perfect Corp.
Provider of an online platform for beauty lovers
Founded: 2014
www.perfectcorp.com
Employees: 51-200
Revenue: N/A
HQ: San Jose, CA
CEO: Alice Chang
Services offered:
 The platform is the premier online destination for all beauty lovers
 Its flagship app connects buyers and sellers around the world in real-time
auctions that are both fast and effective
 The platform processes millions of data points to personalize the retail
experience for every shopper
Key facts:
 With over 500 million downloads globally, the company is focused on
transforming how consumers, content creators and beauty brands interact
together
 It expects to achieve $350.0m of GMV in 2017, more than double the $160.0m
it recorded in 2016
 The company also shared that it has been profitable since 2015, demonstrating
it has been able to achieve impressive growth with a disciplined approach
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Poshmark
A social marketplace for fashion where anyone can
buy, sell and share their style with others
Founded: 2011
http://poshmark.com
Employees: 51-200
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Redwood City, CA
CEO: Manish Chandra
Services offered:
 Provides a platform designed for women to buy, share and sell their clothing
items that are new or gently used
Key facts:
 Currently, over 3 million people selling on the platform
 There are 2 billion social connections, 25 million items uploaded via mobile
phone and 5,000 brands forsale
 It is backed by various investment firms and venture capital institutions
including Mayfield, Menlo Ventures, GGV Capital, Temasek, Inventus Capital,
Uncork Capital, Union Grove Venture Partners, Shea Ventures and AngelList
 The company is launching voice integration with Amazon’s Alexa platform, that
will allow users to describe what they want and then receive outfits tailored to
their requirements
 The company is also expanding across men and children’s categories
Tophatter
Revolutionizing the ecommerce landscape with a
discovery shopping app that’s truly one-of-a-kind
Founded: 2009
http://tophatter.com
Employees: 51-200
Revenue: N/A
CEO: Ashvin Kumar
Services offered:
 Operates a virtual auction house that conducts live online auctions every day
where buyers and sellers can interact, chat, and transact in various categories
 The company also offers its services through a mobile application
 Allows users to compete in fleeting, 90-second auctions and win deals on
jewelry, electronics, beauty, and fashion
 The platform processes millions of data points to personalize the retail
experience for every shopper
Key facts:
 The company was formerly known as Blippy and changed its name to
Tophatter in January 2013.
 It has offices in the US, Europe, and China
 It connects sellers to over 10 million shoppers across the globe
 It is funded by Silicon Valley venture capital firms, including Goodwater Capital,
August Capital and CRV
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Acquia
Provider of cloud-based, digital experience
management solutions
Founded: 2007
www.acquia.com
Employees: 501-1,000
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Boston, MA
CEO: Dries Buytaert
Services offered:
 Offers developer tools, cloud solutions and global expertise to drive success
the open source way
 Build and manage: including a cloud development platform, multisite
management, Drupal 8 starter kit, digital asset management and integrated
commerce & content
 Personalize & create content: include data driven personalization, and
customer journey orchestration
Customers include: Twitter, Mercedes Benz, Warner Music Group, Stanford
University, Princess Curies, Wilson Sporting Goods
Key facts:
 Develops cloud based, enterprise software solutions for customers in
government, consumer brands, higher education, high tech,
media/entertainment, life sciences, and financial services industries
 Key partners include Accenture, AKQA, BORN, Wunderman Production,
OgilveOne Worldwide, Accenture, DigitasLBi, Sapient
Acumatica Commerce Edition
Provider of cloud business management software that
empowers small and mid-size businesses to unlock
their potential
Founded: 2006
www.acumatica.com
Employees: 101-250
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Kirkland, WA
CEO: Jon Roskill
Services offered:
 Delivers a suite of fully integrated business management applications such as
Financials, Distribution, CRM and Project Accounting, powered by a robust and
flexible platform for small and medium size companies globally.
 Provides a cloud business management software that empowers small and
mid-size businesses to unlock their potential and drive growth.
 Acumatica ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system delivers adaptable
cloud and mobile technology with a unique all inclusive user licensing model
Customers include: Bell & company, Dakota Red Corporation, xByte
Technologies, Shoebacca, Exera, Soundcast, Devil’s Peak Brewing Company
Key facts:
 It serves various industries such as wholesale distribution, manufacturing, retail
& ecommerce, software & technology, service and others
 Serves various customers across such as Americas, APAC and EMEA
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Brickwork Software
A leading SaaS platform that enables retailers and
brands to drive qualified online traffic to unique in-store
experiences via geo-location features, online
appointment-booking and marketing
Founded: 2013
www.brickworksoftware.com
Employees: 11-50
Revenue: N/A
HQ: New York, NY
Funds Raised: $5.1m
CEO: David Munczinski
Services offered:
 Store data management, store content publisher, services & appointments,
events & promotions, reporting & customer analytics
 Local search marketing creates an elevated, search-optimized digital presence
for the clients local stores
 Online-to-Offline Conversion offers a solution for improving the clients digital-to-
store conversion rate and driving retail success. Others include store associate
empowerment and omnichannel customer intelligence
Customers include: Nike, Kate Spade, Urban Outfitters, J.Crew, Bonobos,
Key facts:
 The company’s SaaS platform delivers a better pre-visit experience, providing
their customers more accurate store information, more access to events and
promotions, more personal assistance when they arrive in-store, and more
confidence that products are available near them
Elastic Path
Develops the world’s most sophisticated API-based
enterprise commerce platform
Founded: 2000
www.elasticpath.com
Employees: 51-200
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Vancouver, BC
CEO: Philippe Corrot and Adrien Nussenbaum
Services offered:
 ElasticPath Commerce offers leading-edge omnichannel ecommerce --
persistent shopping cart across devices, powerful merchandising, product
discovery (faceted search, advanced filtering, and configurators), dynamic
pricing, promotions, customer care
 Commerce Engine, Cortex, and Subscriptions enable companies to unite
discovery, buying, and consumption into outstanding customer experiences that
drive more engagement and conversion
 The technology brings this functionality to websites, mobile apps, APIs, and
smart devices, while creating a single view of the customer
Customers include: Intuit, Swisscom, T-Mobile, Virgin Media, Tibco, Liberty
Global, Johnstone Supply, Lulu, Trimble, SaS, Benjamin Moore, The Lampo Group
Key facts:
 The company’s flagship product, Elastic Path Commerce, has helped the
world’s biggest brands generate $45 billion in over 170 countries.
 Its sales offices are based in the UK and US.
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Janrain
Develops and operates a software-as-a-service based
customer identity management platform.
Founded: 2002
www.janrain.com
Employees: 51-200
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Paris, France
CEO: Immad Akhund
Services offered:
 Real-time identity management solutions provide seamless and safe digital
experiences for clients customers across their digitally connected world
 Offerings include manage customer identities, secure customer identity data,
data & integrations, enterprise grade infrastructure and activate your customer
data
 Janrain Identity Cloud also integrates with a broad range of legacy software,
specialized identity providers, as well as security information and event
management systems
Key facts:
 Has offices in London, Paris, and Redwood City, CA
 It is also the inventor of social login and a founding member of the OpenID
Foundation, establishing many of the digital authentication protocols used
globally
 Offers solutions to various sectors such as consumer goods, healthcare, media
& publishing, omnichannel retail, sports & entertainment, travel & hospitality,
financial services and insurance
Mercatus
A cloud-based software company that is digitally
transforming the way global energy producers invest.
Founded: 2009
www.gomercatus.com
Employees: 11-50
Revenue: N/A
HQ: San Mateo, CA
CEO: Haresh Patel
Services offered:
 Investment LifeCycle Management: a software that enables energy producers
to fully digitize their asset investment and management process from the
origination of an asset through the end of its lifecycle
Customers include: Building Energy
Key facts:
 Built specifically for global energy producers, ILM is a single solution that
increases cross-functional team productivity, expedites the origination-to-
operation process and gives management real-time access to portfolio
performance and risk metrics across the lifecycle
 Since inception, Mercatus ILM has hosted over 110 GW of energy projects
across 75 countries and 8 different technologies
 Helps to achieve step-change improvements in investment compliance and risk
management
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Mirakl
Mirakl provides marketplace platform services
Founded: 2012
www.mirakl.com
Employees: 51-200
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Paris, France
CEO: Philippe Corrot and Adrien Nussenbaum
Services offered:
 The company specializes in the development of software as a service (SaaS)
marketplace platforms that integrate with ecommerce website properties
 Offers solutions including Mirakl Marketplace B2C and Mirakl Marketplace B2B
Customers include: Best Buy, Canada, Carrefour, Auchan, Darty, Galeries
Lafayette, VidaXL, Deco.fr, Conforama, Atlas for men, Liverpool, Game
Key facts:
 Mirakl gives retailers and brands the ability to quickly launch a new source of
revenue with their own online marketplace
 The Mirakl Marketplace Platform automates the hard things: seller onboarding,
service quality control, and order distribution; on an API-based solution that’s
modular and easy to integrate
 Over 130 customers operating marketplaces in 40 countries trust Mirakl’s
proven expertise and technology
 The company offers solutions for brick & mortar, department store & mall, e-
retailer, new business and media & publisher
Onestop Internet
A full-spectrum ecommerce partner backed by blue-
chip investors Bessemer Ventures and Fung Capital
USA (Li & Fung.)
Founded: 2003
www.onestop.com
Employees: 501-1000
Revenue: N/A
HQ: El Segundo, CA
CEO: Michael Wang
Services offered:
 Provides customized end-to-end digital commerce solutions for retail brands
both on an entirely outsourced basis and a-la-carte
 The company's integrated core services include an omnichannel commerce
technology platform, performance marketing, business intelligence,
merchandising and planning, brand-focused design, retail imaging and video,
full-scale warehousing and fulfillment, and customer care
Customers include: Hudson, C&C California, Parker, Kooba, Paige, Spy,
Splendid, Hobo International, and Paul Frank
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Salsify
Salsify is a provider of a cloud-based product-content
management software
Founded: 2012
www.salsify.com
Employees: 101-250
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Boston, MA
CEO: Jason Purcell
Services offered:
 The company develops an ecommerce product management platform that
allows businesses to more easily manage their online products
 Its cloud-based product content management and syndication solution helps
brands and retailers organize and share their content, driving discoverability,
sales and satisfaction
Customers include: Coca-Cola, Rawlings, Bosch, Red Bull, SMEAD, Fruit of the
Loom, WestPoint Home, Unique, Reckitt Benckiser, Boyd Technologies, Hamilton
Beach
Key facts:
 It transforms product content management from an administrative burden into a
driver of new revenue, increased productivity, and market share growth
 Its platform allows manufacturers and retailers to simply create rich product
content for online customers
Scalefast
A global ecommerce platform that simplifies and
streamlines ecommerce for lifestyle brands.
Founded: 2014
www.scalefast.com
Employees: 51-200
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Manhattan Beach, CA
CEO: Nicolas Stehle
Services offered:
 The company offers a hands-on management team to serve all ecommerce
needs
 It also offers social sign on, local currency and languages, checkout cross-sell
and up-sell, exclusive bundling, subscriptions, and loyalty programs
Customers include: Pico, Puori, BigBen, SEGA, Dovetail Games, Square Enix
Key facts:
 Scalefast takes the complexity out of digital commerce for brands in the
entertainment, consumer goods and fashion industries
 It serves various sectors including entertainment, consumer electronics,
fashion, consumer goods and healthcare.
 The company provides the infrastructure and full-service business operations
necessary to scale quickly and increase revenue, with everything needed under
one roof
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Signifyd
Provider of a standalone risk and fraud-prevention
platform for ecommerce stores
Founded: 2011
www.signifyd.com
Employees: 130
Revenue: N/A
HQ: San Jose, CA
CEO: Rajesh Ramanand
Services offered:
 It simplifies fraud detection through a financial guarantee, allowing businesses
to increase sales while reducing fraud losses
 The solution solves the challenges that growing ecommerce businesses
persistently face: billions of dollars lost in chargebacks, customer dissatisfaction
from mistaken declines, and operational costs due to tedious, manual
transaction investigations
Customers include: Jet.com, Lacoste, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Chili/Pad, Crown &
Caliber, Paul & Evans, Jet, Golden, Alligator Performance
Key facts:
 It uses big data, machine learning and human intelligence to protect more than
5,000 ecommerce merchants from fraud
 The company, which was founded by ex-PayPal risk and fraud experts,
partners with various retailers
 It is in use by multiple companies on the Fortune 1000 and Internet Retailer
Top 500 list
Uberall
An online presence management platform for stores,
restaurants, gas stations, hospitals, police stations and
other type of local business or public institution to
automatically optimize their online presence
Founded: 2012
www.uberall.com
Employees: 51-200
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Berlin, Germany
CEO: David Federhen
Services offered:
 Provides a location marketing cloud that offers a solution to localize all aspects
of online marketing  to increase local sales
 Location Control Center, a solution to collect, organize, enhance, and update
the clients stores’ address and contact data, opening hours, keywords, photos,
logos, product descriptions
Customers include: Google, Facebook, Apple, Foursquare, TomTom, Formica,
Gammon, Balzers, Aerlikon
Key facts:
 The company ensures companies are found across all popular directories,
mobile apps, maps, and GPS devices with consistent profile data, photos,
descriptions and a host of rich data
 More than 100 projects and 75 clients across the USA, Europe, Middle East
and the Indian subcontinent, to build products, applications and best in the
class solutions for their customers
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Yottaa
Yottaa is a provider of cloud-based platform for a
range of computing services
Founded: 2009
www.yottaa.com
Employees: 51-200
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Waltham, MA
CEO: Bob Buffone
Services offered:
 A SaaS platform that manages, secures, controls and optimizes end-user
experiences anywhere and on any device
 ecommerce Acceleration Platform enables online businesses to significantly
improve ecommerce website performance and speed up web pages across all
devices resulting in higher conversions
 Combining proprietary “InstantOn” technology with application sequencing and
extensive 3rd party content management capabilities, the company enables
ecommerce sites to significantly accelerate website loading and improve end
user experience resulting in dramatic online revenue increases
Customers include: Hallmark, eBags, Rockport, The Container Store, Mattress
Firm, Fathead, Joann, Jockey, Jelly Belly, RoadRunner Sports, Charming Charlie
Key facts:
 It is used by more than 85,000 websites
 The company has a based of 200 customers including members of the Fortune
500, Internet Retailer 500, and media and publishing companies
Zeekit
Allows users to try new looks using their own photo
Founded: 2013
https://zeekit.me/
Employees: 11-50
Revenue: N/A
Funds Raised: $9.0m
CEO: Yael Vizel
Services offered:
 The company develops and operates an online application that allows users to
view outfits
 The company’s patent-pending technology maps a user’s image into thousands
of segments to determine each segment’s behavior in 3D
Key facts:
 Zeekit brings image processing, big data, ecommerce and fun together to
revolutionize the shopping experience.
 It has patented virtual try-on technology seamlessly integrates an entire catalog
of products in a matter of hours
 With Zeekit people can upload own photo and virtually try on clothing while
shopping online
 It re-invents the shopping experience with the most advanced AR/VR/AI
technologies
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Affirm
A financial technology services company, offers
installment loans to consumers at the point of sale
Founded: 2012
www.affirm.com
Employees: 101-250
Revenue: N/A
CEO: Max Levchin
Services offered:
 Provides Buy with Affirm, a closed-end installment loan product through a
platform
 It help to increase AOV, conversion and customer loyalty
Key facts:
 Its product allows users to buy goods or services offered by online merchants
and pay off those purchase in fixed monthly payments
 The company lets shoppers pay for purchases over time with transparent,
simple-interest loans, as opposed to traditional credit products
 Reaches a broader population of consumers through advanced technology and
analytics that look beyond traditional FICO score
 The financing offered is simple, quick and transparent
CrowdTwist
An industry-leading provider of comprehensive
multichannel loyalty and analytics solutions
Founded: 2009
www.crowdtwist.com
Employees: 11-50
Revenue: N/A
HQ: New York, NY
CEO: Irving Fain
Services offered:
 The company provides tools and technology to connect brands and consumers
in various ways.
 The programs reward and track behavior for more than 100 different kinds of
engagement and spend behaviors, including: reading a blog post; writing a
product review; in-store, mobile or online purchase, scanning a receipt,
checking into a event, referring a friend, following your brand on Twitter and
others
 The platform features in enterprise-grade technology, seamless integrations,
out-of-the-box activities and mobile first technology
Customers include: TOMS, Pepsi, AMC, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Nestle, Steve
Madden, Carhartt
Key facts:
 The information gathered by CrowdTwist can be used and analyzed by
companies to create customer profiles on both an individual and macro level
 Key partners include Salesforce, Oracle, Ticketmaster, Experian, SavingStar,
TPG Rewards
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Forter
Provider of an online fraud prevention platform
Founded: 2013
www.forter.com
Employees: 110
Revenue: N/A
CEO: Alon Shemesh
Services offered:
 Provides a software to reduce frauds during transaction
 Also provides plug and play technology which allows clients to easily approve
and decline every transaction
 Forter Decision Dashboard provides a transparent view into each transaction.
Its feature include chargeback guarantee, viewing individual transactions and
customer support capabilities
Key facts:
 Approve or decline decisions for all online transactions in real time while
completely protecting merchants with a full chargeback guarantee
 The system eliminates the need for rules, scores or manual reviews, making
fraud prevention friction-free
 Forter's new era fraud solution helps retailers grow sales, lower costs &
improve the customer experience through its Decision as Service
 Partners include Magento, Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Baintree,
Stripe
Kount
Provider of an all-in-one fraud and risk management
solution for online businesses.
Founded: 2007
www.kount.com
Employees:51-200
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Boise, ID
CEO: Brad Wiskirchen
Services offered:
 Provides an online platform which offers fraud control services to the
ecommerce industry.
 Its platform helps to manage fraud in online/telephone channels that process
payments and onboard new customers.
Customers include: Pulse Commerce, Tradera, Liftopia, PayCertify, TickPick,
The Vitamin Shoppee, US Polo Assn. , Wasserstorm
Key facts:
 It has a strategic partnership with Magento
 Kount awarded best antifraud solution at the 2016 cnp awards
 Kount’s turnkey fraud platform is easy-to-implement and easy-to-use
 With Kount, merchants approve more orders, uncover new revenue streams,
and dramatically improve their bottom line all while minimizing fraud
management cost and losses
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MishiPay
An app allowing you to never have to stand in line to
pay at a store again
Founded: 2015
www.mishipay.com
Employees: 2-10
Revenue: N/A
HQ: London, UK
Funds Raised: £1.6m
Latest Financing Round: £1.6m
CEO: Mustafa Khanwala
Services offered:
 Provides a unified platform where shoppers and sellers can come together to
enjoy the benefits of online shopping in the physical store
 Provides a fully theft-proof scan, pay and leave solution that completely
eliminates queuing in retail and bridges ecommerce and bricks & mortar into a
Omni-channel experience
Key facts:
 The company's product provides retailers with customer buying insights
 By using RFID and cloud computing, MishiPay combines point of sale with
security and inventory management, while maximising user experience
 The company's application allows in-store shoppers to pick up a product, scan
the barcode with their phone, and pay with their phone
Riskified
An all-in-one ecommerce fraud prevention solution and
chargeback protection service for high volume and
enterprise merchant
Founded: 2012
www.riskified.com
Employees: 51-200
Revenue: N/A
CEO: Assaf Feldman
Services offered:
 Provides software as a service (SaaS) fraud and chargeback prevention
technology
 Pay-for-performance, guaranteed approval model provides a flexible,
economical solution that prevents chargebacks, drives online revenue, and
enables a frictionless shopping experience
 Solutions include chargeback protection, fraud detection technology, higher
approval rates and instnt decisions
Customers include: Macy’s, Burton, Giftcards.com, Farfetch, lastminute.com,
Digital River, Burton, Framesdirect.com, Vestaire Collective
Key facts:
 The company backs transactions approved by its technology with a chargeback
100% money-back guarantee in the event of fraud
 It is the world's leading ecommerce fraud prevention company trusted by large
numbers of global brands – from luxury fashion houses and retail chains, to gift
card and ticket marketplace
 Key partners include Demandware, Magento, Shopify, Spark Pay, Stripe,
Authorize.net, IATA, LyonSCG, Corra, Gorilla, DemandPK
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Sezzle
An industry-leading provider of comprehensive
multichannel loyalty and analytics solutions
Founded: 2016
www.sezzle.com
Employees: 11-50
Revenue: N/A
HQ: Minneapolis, MN
Funds Raised: $1.9m
CEO: Charlie Youakim
Services offered:
 Operates as a payment platform that enables bank-to-bank transfer of money
between consumers and businesses
 It processes automatic clearing house payment services to merchants for
online and mobile purchases
Customers include: 686.com, Freedystore.com
Key facts:
 It is leveraging new bank authentication technology to gather account
information and complete bank-to-bank transactions instantly
 The company incentivizes consumers through an enticing cash back rewards
program and mobile-based payment experience
 The company’s payment capabilities to accept digital debit payments, without
the transaction fees and pain of accepting traditional card-based payments
 The company increases sales and order values by enabling your customers to
buy now and pay later with interest-free instalment plans
 Partners include Magento, Shopify, NACHA, CarSatck, The Boutique Hub
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Thanx
An online platform that enables users to earn rewards
at their favorite merchants
Founded: 2011
www.thanx.com
Employees: 11-50
Revenue: N/A
CEO: Aaron Newton
Services offered:
 Provides a system of record for customer data, providing offline businesses
with an end-to-end view of their customers and a platform that allows for real-
time mobile engagement that is proven to drive results
Customers include: MIXT, Pacific Catch, Tomatina, Elephants Deli, Mike’s
Carwash, Pickleman’s, Shenaniganz
Key facts:
 With the company, businesses can access individual customer records to
explore spend, visit frequency, demographics and sentiment
 An advanced campaign tools allow businesses to launch automated campaigns
that are proven to win back lost customers, increase visit frequency and drive
spend
 Merchants analyze purchasing activity without additional hardware or point-of-
sale integration, allowing them to quickly launch retention marketing
customized for their business
Vyze
Provider of a financial technology platform with various
financing options that connects retailers with multiple
lenders
Founded: 2008
www.vyze.com
Employees: 51-200
Revenue: N/A
HQ: San Austin, TX
CEO: Keith Nealon
Services offered:
 Offers solutions that enable retailers to offer more payment options for their
customers
 Its platform works across POS, Web-portal, self-service kiosk, tablet, and
ecommerce solutions
Customers include: Adorama, NordicTrack, Build.com
Key facts:
 The company’s platform enables lenders to offer various retail consumer
financing products, including bankcards, revolving credit, loans, and lease
purchase products
 Vyze’s solutions can lead to 40-95% incremental sales and 60% higher order
value
 Vyze helps merchants launch and implement innovative lending programs that
provide more consumers with the financing options they want and need
 The company’s solutions deliver increased sales and a better consumer
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Ally Commerce
PEARL Unlimited Holdings, Inc., doing business as
Ally Commerce, provides ecommerce–as-a-service for
brand manufacturers.
Founded: 2007
www.allycommerce.com
Employees: 50-200
Revenue: NA
HQ: Atlanta, GA
Funds Raised: $9.7m
CEO: Jason Rubottom
Services offered:
 It offers store creation, sales and marketing, inventory management, fulfillment,
customer, returns management, and refurbishment services.
Customers include: NA
Key facts:
 The company was formerly known as Unique Squared, Inc. and changed its
name to PEARL Unlimited Holdings, Inc. in June 2012
 Its lead investor is UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund
Bringg
Develops a SaaS and mobile-based platform that
enables businesses to manage deliveries
Founded: 2013
www.bringg.com
Employees: 50-200
Revenue: N/A
Funds Raised: $31m
Latest Financing Round: $22m
CEO: Raanan Cohen
Services offered:
 Its platform enables users to order through the business system, track location
of driver in real-time, and rate service; dispatch orders to drivers, and locate
and communicate with drivers; and manage orders on the go, share location,
and communicate with customers
 The company’s platform also allows users to share the location of their driver
with their customer via email or text message. It allows restaurants, couriers,
movers, logistics and transportation companies, commercial companies,
retailers, product brands, and other service providers to manage their tasks and
drivers
Customers include: Coca-cola, Just Eat, Panera Bread, Hilti, Bringpro, One
Delivery
Key Facts:
 In January 2018, the Company raised $12 million under Series B, taking the
total to $22 million. The company plans to leverage the funding to address the
growing demand for its solution by increasing its international reach and
expanding teams across the company.
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