Top 40 E-commerce startups

Updated: Dec 31, 2025
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These startups want to disrupt E-commerce with personalized shopping experiences, AI-driven inventory management and blockchain-enabled supply chain transparency.
1
Stripe
Country: USA | Funding: $9.4B
Stripe builds the most powerful and flexible tools for internet commerce. Whether you’re creating a subscription service, an on-demand marketplace, an e-commerce store, or a crowdfunding platform, Stripe’s meticulously designed APIs and unmatched functionality help you create the best possible product for your users.
2
Checkout.com
Country: UK | Funding: $1.8B
Accept more payments. Get access to a global acquiring network, benefit from real-time insights, centralized reconciliation tools and complete feature parity across multiple geographies. All through one unified API.
3
Content Square
Country: France | Funding: $1.4B
Content Square is a specialist for optimising Web and mobile sites. ContentSquare is the critical solution for mobile & web customer experience optimization. A single line of code can drive the day-to-day effectiveness of your e-commerce website.
4
Lightspeed
Country: Canada | Funding: $1.2B
Lightspeed provides point of sale and ecommerce solutions for retailers and restaurateurs to manage their businesses.
5
Automattic
Country: USA | Funding: $985.9M
Automattic is the company behind WordPress.com and WordPress.com VIP, the cloud version of WordPress. Automattic hosts and supports all WordPress.com sites ensuring that there is continuous and strategic development of the software available to its users.
6
Cart.com
Country: USA | Funding: $759.2M
Cart.com is an e-commerce-as-a-service platform designed to help brands accelerate online growth.
7
Square
Country: USA | Funding: $601.2M
Square is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
8
Squarespace
Country: USA | Funding: $578.5M
Squarespace creates SaaS-based content management system offering a website builder, blogging platform, and hosting service.
9
Yotpo
Country: Israel | Funding: $436M
Yotpo is a commerce marketing cloud with the most advanced solutions for customer reviews, visual marketing, loyalty, and referrals.
10
VTEX
Country: USA | Funding: $365M
VTEX focuses on e-commerce strategies for major retailers and consumer brands.
11
Coveo
Country: Canada | Funding: $354.6M
Coveo provides cloud-based AI-powered search and recommendations.
12
Fabric
Country: USA | Funding: $293.5M
Fabric offers a headless eCommerce platform that enables companies to grow their online presence via its API-driven modular system.
13
Shop Circle
Country: UK | Funding: $285M
Shop Circle is a technology company that acquires and grows e-commerce software.
14
Bluecore
Country: USA | Funding: $263.2M
Bluecore is building the future of ecommerce marketing through data and automation.
15
BigCommerce
Country: USA | Funding: $224.2M
BigCommerce is a SaaS provider for merchants running online businesses.
16
Wix
Country: Israel | Funding: $185M
Wix empowers businesses, organizations, professionals, and individuals to take their businesses, brands, and workflow online. Wix ADI – is the best AI website building tool the Wix website builder offers to ensure maximum convenience, ease-of-use and high speed of website development.
17
Loop Returns
Country: USA | Funding: $125.5M
Retain customers and revenue with the most advanced returns and exchanges app on Shopify.
18
Shopify
Country: Canada | Funding: $122.3M
Shopify is a cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses.
19
Shogun
Country: USA | Funding: $114.6M
Shogun is an E-commerce platform that helps brands create unique buying experiences and optimize their online stores.
20
Gorgias
Country: USA | Funding: $101.5M
Gorgias develops a customer support helpdesk specially designed for online stores. It uses AI and customer data to automate responses to basic questions.
21
AdRoll
Country: USA | Funding: $89.6M
AdRoll is the E-commerce Growth Platform for businesses to grow revenue using web, social, and email advertising.
22
Nacelle
Country: USA | Funding: $72.8M
Nacelle turns slow eCommerce sites into lightning fast PWAs which convert 25%+ better
23
Syte
Country: Israel | Funding: $71.6M
Syte develops a product discovery platform designed to transform the way people search and shop online.
24
Ecwid
Country: USA | Funding: $48.5M
Ecwid is a feature-rich eCommerce platform. Unlike Shopify, Ecwid can embed into any web site and supports white label
25
Chord
Country: USA | Funding: $40M
Chord offers a commerce-as-a-service software that provides businesses with technology and products to access meaningful data.
26
Parabola
Country: USA | Funding: $34.2M
Parabola is a drag-and-drop visual programming platform that lets everyone create custom reports, workflows, integrations, and more.
27
Zycada
Country: USA | Funding: $31.5M
Zycada enables the fastest digital shopping experience in the world by leveraging the power and scale of botnet technology.
28
Nautical Commerce
Country: USA | Funding: $30M
Nautical Commerce is a multi-vendor dropship and marketplace platform for retailers, brands, and B2B businesses.
29
Charles
Country: Germany | Funding: $28.8M
Charles develops software that helps companies integrate their existing e-commerce and chatbot tools into one interface.
30
Jimdo
Country: Germany | Funding: $28.9M
Jimdo enables users and companies to create a website on a computer, smart phone or tablet using a simple intuitive interface.
31
ikas
Country: Germany | Funding: $28M
Ikas is a next-generation e-commerce platform for small to medium-sized businesses.
32
Retail Rocket
Country: Netherlands | Funding: $24.5M
Marketing Automation Platform (Multi-Channel Campaign Management, AI, CDP, Customer Intelligence)
33
Commerce Layer
Country: Italy | Funding: $22M
Commerce Layer is a fast, flexible, and secure REST API that lets you add e-commerce to any website, and mobile applications.
34
Vue.ai
Country: USA | Funding: $17M
Using it's proprietary image and video recognition technologies, Vue.ai's product suite changes the way stores and brands build personalized experiences for their customers online and in-store; it redefines the way marketers instantly gratify, acquire and grow their customer base across multiple social channels; and automates key warehouse and factory floor workflows involving product tagging, photo shoots, catalog management and more.
35
Saleor
Country: Poland | Funding: $10.5M
The world’s fastest growing open-source ecommerce platform with billions of dollars transacted.
36
Skubana
Country: USA | Funding: $6.2M
Skubana is an enterprise-grade, ALL-IN-ONE Cloud SaaS back-end solution for e-commerce companies of all scales and sizes.
37
OneText
Country: USA | Funding: $5M
OneText provides text-based services to individuals and commercial entities in order to assist them in purchasing goods and services .
38
24TTL
Country: UAE | Funding: $1M
An international IT-company specializing in creating innovative solutions for brands and e-retailers, elevating online business standards to new heights.
39
SPACEGOATS
Country: Germany
SPACEGOATS has the mission to simplify e-commerce and global expansion for online sellers. Our platform provides global fulfillment for marketplaces like Amazon helping small online sellers get up to 50% higher profit margins while reducing time spent on admin and operations.
40
Meldeagle
Country: UK
Meldeagle allows to automate Shopify product management workflow. Stock levels update in real-time.
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Fernando Lopez
Editor: Fernando Lopez
Fernando Lopez is a senior editor for SaaStartups. He joined the company after having previously spent over three years at ReadWriteWeb. Prior to his work as a reporter, Fernando worked in I.T. across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software. Fernando graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (Computer Science). He is more-than-averagely interested in photography and can often be found with a camera slung over his shoulder. He wrote a book about pitching startups to investors. You can contact Fernando at fernandolopez(at)saastartups(dot)com