Stipple

Native advertising for the visual web
Stipple powers advertising and commerce inside images that actually contain the specific product being advertised. Our platform enables advertisers to manage the marketing information delivered inside images across the web & social platforms. Even as images are ...

Maker

Discover the stories and people behind products.
Every product has a maker and every maker has a story. We’re building the first network to discover and share the stories and people behind products. As consumers, we increasingly seek to know where our things come from and who makes our products. These authentic, ...

Twice

A secondhand clothing store for the web
Twice is the first hybrid marketplace for fashion. Sellers send in their clothing and Twice makes an upfront cash offer, then professionally photographs the garments and lists them for sale. By leveraging this model, Twice offers an incredibly easy experience to ...

Vango

Spotify for original, accessible art
Vango is a marketplace that connects independent artists and buyers focusing on original paintings at entry level prices (<$2000). Our mission is to make art accessible to those who want original art, but are intimidated by it. We do this in three ways: - Visualization: ...

Red Clay

A Platform for Designing Exceptional Products
Red Clay is driving the change for how physical products are designed and developed. Customers like Target, Walmart, and the latest technology startups leverage our technology solution to enable effective and efficient collaboration among all the right players ...

itembase

The Online Inventory for Everyone and Everything
Full investor presentation: http://investor.itembase.com itembase helps over 50,000 online shops and their 20 million customers to securely host, organize and access their purchase and product information. We have developed a standard format for eCommerce transactions ...

Instacart

Groceries and home essentials delivered from local stores in 1 hour.
Instacart (YC S12) is building the best way for people everywhere in the world to shop for groceries. Using your phone or the web, you can order groceries and have them delivered to your door in minutes. You can choose from a variety of local stores including Whole ...

Munchery

Wholesome Meals in a Snap
Munchery is reinventing the weeknight dinner, and making it ridiculously easy to put a high-quality dinner on the table. Dinner can be a boring and often dreaded experience. You’re too busy to cook, donʼt have time to shop, and you’re frankly out of ideas about ...

Storenvy

We bring unique, original, and authentic stores to life and introduce them to the world.
Storenvy is two products combined into a first-of-its-kind, e-commerce network. Storenvy is a lightweight, powerful social store builder powering 100K+ stores (ex: http://cl.ly/2q3d0O0G0v1b). Launch a store for free in < 5 min. And the Storenvy Marketplace (our ...

Zaarly

Zaarly helps you discover and hire the most amazing local service providers.
We're building the best place in the world for people to make money doing what they love. We're a two sided marketplace for local services that is fixing what is broken in one of the largest (and most difficult) markets in the world. We hope to redefine what ...

LE TOTE

Netflix for women's fashion.
LE TOTE is a women’s fashion rental service offering unlimited access to apparel and accessories. Our target market is females between the ages of 28-35.

Pakible

Custom packaging made simple
Pakible makes it easy for any business to create custom product packaging in minutes. Now, every company large and small can customize their packaging, shipping boxes, and containers. We're a marketplace that makes it easy, efficient, and inexpensive to connect ...

Brit + Co

An online platform for creativity. Get inspired, learn and shop all under one roof.
Brit + Co is an online media and e-commerce platform that provides tools to teach, inspire, and enable creativity among women and girls. From traditional crafts to high-tech manufacturing, Brit + Co connects millions of users with makers, designers, chefs, and ...

Boostable

Advertising for sellers on marketplaces (YC W14).
Advertising made easy for marketplace sellers. Boostable grows marketplaces by helping their sellers advertise online. - Sellers instantly sign up with their store URL and launch their ads. - Boostable automatically builds and runs the ads for them. - Sellers ...

Forage

Recreate Restaurant Dishes at Home in Under 20 Minutes
Forage helps you recreate restaurant dishes at home. Any restaurant can fire a dish in 20 min, we do the prep work so you can too. We get access to the best recipes from notable restaurants and deliver the whole and pre-prepped ingredients to your doorstep.

Pinterest

A Universal Social Catalog
Pinterest is a social catalog. Share your taste by pinning things you love and building your collection. Follow friends and tastemakers to discover new products. Take a look: http://pinterest.com/home; and an example pinboard: http://pinterest.com/christine.e.martinez/desirable-dresses/

500friends

Enabling retailers to increase customer LTV
500friends is the trusted provider of next generation loyalty marketing solutions to over 40 of the Internet Retailer 1,000 brands.

Wanelo

An online community for all of the world's shopping.
Wanelo (from Want, Need, Love) is an online community for all of the world's shopping. Get a feed of the latest products from the stores and people you like.

Foodzie

Marketplace for Artisan Food (Acquired 2012)
Foodzie is an online marketplace where food lovers delight in the discovery of new and interesting products from small-batch foodmakers.

Dealflicks

Priceline for movie tickets
Dealflicks is Priceline for movie tickets. $40 billion dollars are spent every year on movie tickets, popcorn, and soda, but 88% of movie theater seats are empty. Dealflicks partners with theaters to fill these empty seats by selling movie tickets and concessions ...

Shelf.com

Value your stuff.
Shelf is changing the way people think about ownership. The average US household has $7,000 worth of unused items sitting around. Imagine if interested people could offer you money for those items, without you lifting a finger. Shelf allows you to get offers ...

True & Co

Reinventing bra shopping. No fitting rooms, no measuring tape.
True&Co. is reinventing the way women buy intimates. We replace the uncomfortable fitting room experience with a 2-minute fit quiz online and risk-free home try on. Today, women loathe the bra shopping experience and the massive $14B intimate apparel industry ...

Schoola

School fundraising meets Kickstarter
Schoola is a self-service fundraising platform that schools, principals, PTAs and PTOs can use to raise significant funds for schools and other non-profits. Think Kickstarter meets school fundraising. Anyone from the school community can work with local businesses ...

PayByGroup

The PayPal button for groups.
PayByGroup is powering the social layer of commerce by enabling people to buy and rent things together online. Our client partners range from NBA teams to global, multi-billion dollar companies like HomeAway and VRBO. Consumers can start large purchases risk-free ...

Drive

End-to-end ecommerce for new cars
Drive Motors is the only place to directly buy a new car online, and get it delivered in 3 days or less.  A lot of places make it seem like you can buy a new car online, but in the end they merely connect you to a dealership or broker, failing to create significant ...

AgLocal

curated boxes of meat from trusted family farms
About AgLocal: AgLocal is the healthiest brand of meat available! AgLocal is using e-commerce, online community, and unique content to deliver the first internet first brand of meat. Now its so much easier for consumers to confidently buy protein products from ...

PlateJoy

healthy eating for busy people
PlateJoy is turning meal planning, grocery shopping, and recipe creation into an an incredibly simple, healthy, and personalized 60 second process. PlateJoy creates a uniquely personal experience for each user by curating delicious meal options for their weekly ...

PICT

Shoppable & Trackable Photos
Photos & Commerce, united at last.

BloomThat

Send a little something! Fresh Stems + Sweet Surprises
BloomThat is on a mission to make sending a little something a big movement. Founded in 2013 in San Francisco by friends David Bladow, Matthew Schwab and Chad Powell, the on-demand feel-good service celebrates life’s many milestones (and all the little moments ...

ZOZI

We help people live active lifestyles.
ZOZI enables discovery, develops passions, and helps fuel a more rewarding and active life, whether that'd be around the corner or around the world. We’ve been named one of the "Top 100 Brilliant Companies" by Entrepreneur Magazine, “America’s Most Promising Companies” ...

Carbon

Your personal valet, anytime, anywhere
We solve nationwide city parking/congestion once and for all with an on-demand valet service available anytime, anywhere. Despite being a $20billion consumer-driven business, no brand has yet to emerge that has won the hearts and minds of drivers across the country. The ...

Monogram

Tumblr for fashion with integrated commerce.
Monogram is bringing together editorial content with fashion commerce. Think Vogue + Nordstrom. Discover new brands or simply keep track of products you love, all in one amazing iPad experience.

OpenLabel

Twitter meets Yelp for billions of barcoded products.
OpenLabel is a consumer-facing mobile platform that puts a public comment space on the barcode of every product in the world. Consumers and organizations can now scan any product with their mobile device and instantly see and share all information we *wish* were ...

CircleUp

equity crowdfunding for high growth consumer companies
CircleUp is one of the world’s largest equity crowdfunding platforms. We believe in helping consumer/retail companies by giving them the access to the capital and resources they need to grow their business. We also work with investors by matching them with companies ...

blissmo

Whole Foods (minus produce) meets Push Commerce
Shoppers in all 50 states discover premium, no/low toxin, organic and eco products via our flash-sales, monthly theme boxes, and office snack boxes. We're building a lifestyle brand that actively introduces consumers to better products. We've already worked with ...

Everlane

LabDoor

The trusted online drugstore. (YC W15)
LabDoor is a marketplace where consumers research, find, and buy the best supplements. To verify the purity and potency of these products, LabDoor first buys and tests actual dietary supplement samples: • We send each product to an FDA-registered laboratory for ...

Wholeshare

Group-based marketplace for sustainable food
Wholeshare helps people access good quality, affordable food by organizing group purchases. By shopping as a group, members increase their purchasing power, making it worthwhile for local farmers and distributors to deliver directly to them. Dealing directly with ...

Philz Coffee

A handcrafted cup of love
Philz Coffee focuses on making the best drip coffee. Each cup is handcrafted and made one cup at a time at our retail stores served by friendly Baristas dedicated to customizing your cup of love. We don't do espresso, lattes, cappuccinos... We believe in being ...

SNAPCARD

The easiest way to use your digital currency.
SNAPCARD offers a suite of products and services which are designed to make it easy for the average consumer or business to use Bitcoin and alternative decentralized digital currencies. Founded in 2013, SNAPCARD is focused to help bring liquidity to the digital ...

Giftly

Reinventing gift cards so they are thoughtful, interactive and fun gifts to give & receive
Giftly has created a new type of gift card. Through Giftly, consumers can easily give a gift card for any item or experience - like dinner at a favorite restaurant, a sweater at a boutique, or a night at the movies. No up-front merchant sales work is required, ...

Soldsie

Social Shopping Platform
Soldsie, backed by investors like First Round, 500 Startups and Lerer Ventures, is the first-ever social shopping service to help merchants and enterprise clients monetize social media through consumer comments in a new and unique way. The company, which is already ...

Talkable

Ecommerce Marketing Platform (YC W11)
Talkable is a platform for ecommerce marketers to build, test, and analyze Refer a Friend programs. Companies use the platform to acquire new customers and to increase sales. Talkable approaches the Refer a Friend channel like any other marketing channel. Ecommerce ...

Feastly

A marketplace connecting cooks and eaters over meals in a cook’s home.
Feastly is an online p2p marketplace that empowers any cook to turn their kitchen into a restaurant. Through the Feastly platform hungry eaters find delicious meals offered and served in cook’s home (or other locations). We are doing to kitchens, what Airbnb did ...

BeautyArmy

Product Recommendations Based On Your Unique Attributes
BeautyArmy is a San Francisco based technology and e-commerce company that has helped over 200,000 people find the best beauty and personal care products through a unique, personalized online e-commerce experience. BeautyArmy uses proprietary algorithms to match ...

Strut

Where Style and Friends Meet
Strut is a platform to discover and share new styles. We show you a curated batch of items every morning. Swipe right to skip an item, swipe left to pass. The most fun feature in Strut is the ability to make outfits. When you find a really cool item, swipe ...

TouchOfModern

Ecommerce for the modern lifestyle
TouchOfModern (ToMo) is an eCommerce website that caters to the modern lifestyle. From furniture to fashion, TouchOfModern is redefining the online shopping experience - every product is curated by in-house design experts and offered at unbeatable prices for ...

Doorman

Package delivery reimagined for e-commerce
Doorman has reimagined package delivery for e-commerce by perfecting the most important moment of shopping: when you actually get your stuff. Schedule home delivery of your online purchases until midnight, 7 days a week, same day or weeks away. We give customers ...

Manpacks

Concierge for essential men's gear.
Manpacks has built a shopping experience to help guys buy things they hate to shop for in a simple, fast, and fun way. Like if Netflix and iTunes had a baby that sold underwear and condoms. Manpacks features a customer dashboard to hold favorite products, queued ...

Beautylish

Discover, share and talk beauty.
Beautylish is re-imagining the beauty makeup counter experience. It has become a dynamic beauty resource of beauty inspiration, tutorials, tips and tricks, and product reviews all tying back into actual products. It reflects the accelerating trend of women acquiring ...

Coffee & Power

Making work social
Coffee & Power offers an online marketplace where people can buy and sell small jobs. Co-founded by Philip Rosedale, former CEO and founder of Second Life, C&P enables a new breed of mobile workers to connect in a way that’s fast, low-friction, and fun. The innovative ...

Semantics3

Product and Pricing Data for E-Commerce
Semantics3 is building the world's largest database of products and prices. We currently track 46MM products and have over 4 billion prices. All of this data is available in realtime through our Products API. Our customers include developers building data-driven ...

Teespring

We crowdfund awesome custom apparel
Teespring allows you to crowdfund custom apparel with no upfront costs, no risks, and no hassle. Design the perfect tee, choose a goal (tipping point) and set a sale price to launch a campaign (e.g., www.teespring.com/twit or www.teespring.com/botwana). Once ...

ThirdLove

Smarter bra design
ThirdLove is a chic and innovative brand that designs perfect-fitting lingerie. We offer signature half sizes to provide the best fit and we've developed mobile sizing technology that empowers a woman to measure herself from home. Crafted from the highest quality ...

Swiftype

Search as a service — for websites and mobile
Search makes the Internet work. Google’s most valuable product (Web search) drives the majority of their revenue. Today each percentage of Web query volume is worth between $500M (1% of bing @ 30% market share) and $5B (1% Google @ 60% market share). Naturally ...

Symphony Commerce

Commerce as a Service
Symphony is democratizing the commerce industry by providing tools previously unattainable for small and medium sized businesses. Our platform empowers brands to focus on what they love: creating beautiful products. Brands become free to design more, build more, ...

Swapbox

Send and receive packages from our automated kiosks.
Send and receive packages with Swapbox # Receive packages with Swapbox # Prevent missed deliveries with Swapbox. We give you control over your packages — no more missed delivery notices or stolen packages. Shop online and ship packages to a Swapbox. We'll notify ...

HeartThis

All your favorite stores in one place
HeartThis shop across all of your favorite stores in one place. Our mission is to create the ideal online shopping experience by letting you shop all of your favorite stores in one place. Products from your favorite stores and categories are presented in a personalized ...

Bigcommerce

The leader in e-commerce for SMBs. $75M in VC, 300 employees, $3BN in orders processed.
Bigcommerce helps fast-growing brands launch beautiful online stores backed with deep analytical insight around visitor and shopper behavior, purchase segmentation, AOV and more. The Bigcommerce platform has a full RESTful API and integrates with more than 250 ...

SocialWire

Product Ads for eCommerce and Retail
Socialwire provides marketing automation software to online retailers. We select the products out of a merchant's catalog that will sell the best and merchandize them through advertising on Facebook, Twitter and other channels. As Google's PLA results are proving, ...

CivicSolar

Online Marketplace for Solar Products. Multi-million revenues in yr 1. Cash-flow positive.
CivicSolar is an online marketplace for PV solar energy equipment. Our mission is to transform the way solar equipment distribution is done for the long tail of solar installers while creating an industry platform that also serves as the top go-to resource for ...

Greentoe

Name your price for products (YC S14)
Greentoe is a website that allows consumers to name their "all in" price for a product, including tax and shipping. Retailers then bid for their business. The first retailer to meet the customer's price wins, and every retailer is certified to ensure quality.

TalkToChef

Skype + Uber for cooking advice
You are on the middle of cooking something good and got a question about the recipe? You can search answers online and burn your dish, call your family or friends who are busy, or post on a cooking forum or blog and get your answer… mb tomorrow! Here comes TalkToChef! It ...

Airseed

Customer & Loyalty Intelligence
Developer platform powering single sign-on authentication, rich consumer data, and interactive analytics for web & mobile. Backed by Google Ventures, Great Oaks, and top Silicon Valley angel investors. Acquired April 2015.

simplehoney

Wish List Commerce - Where Amazon meets Pinterest
Everyone has a wish list, whether it is places you want to go or things you want to buy. Lists are personal & meaningful to their creators. But none of our lists ever help make our dreams come true. We change that. Our goal is to make your wish lists help you. ...

Tastemaker

Interior design marketplace
Tastemaker is an interior design marketplace & e-commerce site. Get your own home makeover for a reasonable price, and let us handle all the details.

Flaviar

Warby Parker for fine spirits. Tasting is believing.
We help people discover new and exciting drinks. Our aim is to become the largest Flavor Curation and Discovery Service in all verticals where flavor and personal taste is an important driver of sales. We want to give Flavor to the People. Our curators prepare ...

Floqq

Online Education
Floqq is the biggest marketplace for online video courses in Spain and Latin America. Floqq is a free service that offers the highest number of online video courses in order of you to learn whatever you wish, guided by experts in the field. Speak a different ...

Argoz

IDEO for Fashion + Subscription Apparel
Argoz has already sold 10k pairs of argyle socks ONLINE in just 12 mo! Fashion forward brand selling quality unique products. We design our own products -- Creating brand loyalty & maximizing profits. Using our proprietary algorithm, we are able to predict fashion ...

Soma Water

Sustainable water filters sold on a subscription
Soma is a subscription business in the beverage industry. Our first product is a sustainable glass water filter ($59). Replacement filters are shipped to our customers every two months for $12.99. We launched in September 2013 going direct to consumer online selling ...

Goldbely

Etsy for Food
Goldbely is a marketplace that enables consumers to buy food directly from the country's best independent food makers. Our vision is an online marketplace that connects curious eaters with America's best gourmet food purveyors. We are creating an alternative to ...

Trumaker

Mobile distributed men's apparel
Trumaker is building a new kind of men's apparel brand - we make it easier to get better fitting clothing and style guidance so guys can shop less and do more. We're just getting started with shirts. We design our apparel line in-house and consider every detail ...

Conekta

Powering payments for Mexico and LATAM
Conekta helps businesses in Mexico and LATAM accept online payments using credit and debit cards, cash payments, and bank transfers. We offer an API that handles the complications of building a payment gateway such as security, anti-fraud, and scaling. Besides ...

Move Loot

The easiest way to buy and sell used furnishings.
Moving? Downsizing? Refurnishing? Finally, there's an easier way to buy and sell home furnishings: www.moveloot.com Move Loot rationalizes the fragmented used furniture market by serving as an intermediary: picking up furniture from sellers, storing it in our ...

MyTime

Find and book open appointments for nearby local businesses. Book and pay with 1-click.
MyTime is an online destination that lets you book the appointments you want for the time you want, while saving you money in the process. Currently available nationwide with over 2 million businesses, MyTime makes it simple and convenient to find and book appointments ...

JungleCents

Daily deals matched with industry leading publishers through editorials
JungleCents works with publishers to create new ways to monetize by matching content with daily deals. Transforming traditional publisher advertising by targeting ecommerce deals through editorial content. While brands have used traditional banner ads for clicks, ...

Shopseen

The Dashboard for Commerce
Shopseen gives sellers a unified platform to manage their products, everywhere they want to sell, including Square and Instagram! Connect ecommerce, POS, social channels, email marketing, and shipping in one place. - Push product listings to any channel - Schedule ...

One Kings Lane

One Kings Lane is an online marketplace that brings shoppers exceptional value on a spectacular collection of top-brand, designer, and vintage items for the home.

Travelnuts

Comprehensive m-commerce suite for hotel owners to offer extras to their guests
Travelnuts maximizes hotels’ revenues by enabling them to upsell ancillary products and services - such as local activities, dining, shows, transportation, etc. - directly to their guests. Based on a proprietary, mobile-compatible e-commerce platform, Travelnuts’ ...

Plum District

Discover well-loved products, family activities and inspiration for you and your kids.
Plum District is an e-commerce platform and media property focused strictly on parents and their needs. We are a community of parents connecting other parents to products and inspiration to make our lives easier. We’re here to spark the sort of connections that ...

Wiser

Pricing Perfected
Wiser's mission statement is to "bring the wisdom of Amazon to the rest of the retail world." Wiser powers retailers in the online and brick and mortar spaces (Petsmart, HomeDepot, Ruelala, Petco, AT&T, Verizon, eBay, 3M, Moosejaw, Dell, and more). Wiser's suite ...

Pixlee

Revolutionizing the relationship between people and brands through user-generated photos
Pixlee is revolutionizing the relationship between people and brands. We help companies leverage customer photos/videos from social media to improve marketing. We work with over 100+ customers, including top brands such as Converse, Kenneth Cole, UGG Australia, ...

Opendoor

Liquidity for Residential Real Estate
Allowing owners to sell their home in a few clicks. • Simple: A transparent and simple sales process. • Certain: Full certainty on the price and close date. • Fast: Receive an instant offer online and funding in as soon as three days.

Shopeando

Making International E-commerce Borderless
PROBLEM: In the search of good prices, international customers take the “risk” to buy from Chinese websites but they promptly face many problems: a)Unreliable Sellers b)Information In Different Languages c)Unsecure Payment Options d)Exchange Rates e)Slow Delivery ...

Tie Society

Netflix for menswear. Members rent from our online closet of high-end accessories.
Featured on: USA Today, New York Times, TimeOut NY, Tech Crunch, GigaOm, The Washington Post, NPR, Voice of America. We offer an affordable rental subscription service for business professionals and stylish men. We make it easy and fun to look your best. Tie ...

Chec

Sell anything, anywhere. Stripe/Parse for eCommerce. AngelPad S11.
Chec (AngelPad) is a beautiful decentralized ecommerce platform that is extendable. We're building lego blocks for ecommerce, and letting merchants build whatever they want.

Better Finance

Better Finance, Inc. is a financial technology company providing innovative leasing and credit solutions to consumers and small businesses online, in-store and via mobile. The company has two main products: SmartPay for Consumers Consumers rely on SmartPay, ...

Two Tap

The first e-commerce gateway built to make online shopping experiences seamless
Two Tap is the first e-commerce gateway built to make online shopping experiences seamless across the entire web. Two Tap enables in-app purchasing of any product from 850+ retailers and works on all devices. • Universal shopping cart: Order multiple products ...

CardSpring

Application platform for payments
CardSpring is a new API for the payment network that lets developers add new capabilities to credit and debit cards by programming the payment network to link online applications to specific payment events. The API brings the disruption of the web to the payment ...

Tuckernuck

E-Commerce for the all-American Lifestyle
Tuckernuck is e-commerce for the all-American lifestyle. The customer can shop all their favorite small and large preppy brands on one inspirational platform.

Tell Market

Story + Commerce
Tell Market is online shopping made personal. By using video to capture the personalities and stories of small business owners, Tell creates a virtual shopping experience that lets customers build a personal connection with authentic, specialty products and the ...

Clipabout

Effortless video discovery
Founded by two Ph.D.s and 6-year Google Video/YouTube veterans, Clipabout is building a platform to provide personalized video recommendation for EACH person on earth. Clipabout understands who you are and what videos you like. It then picks the best videos that ...

Adku

Big data for eCommerce

Doughbies

Freshly baked goods delivered on demand - 20 mins or less
Doughbies delivers freshly baked goods on demand - in 20 mins or less. It's truly the most delightful way to send a gift or have something delicious delivered for yourself. Everything is handmade by our own team of local bakers who care about quality and method. ...

iDreamBooks

RottenTomatoes for Books
RottenTomatoes for books. We aggregate professional reviews from sources like NYTimes or WashingtonPost to create an authentic book recommendation. Our goal is to become the industry standard for book ratings and create the best page for any book on the internet ...

ePantry

Natural essentials, delivered on your schedule
ePantry makes it easy to get the best natural home & personal care products delivered to your door, on your schedule. We've built the first replenishment service focused exclusively on natural & sustainable home goods. Our subscription-only marketplace features ...

Modify Industries

Modular, Custom Products
Modify designs mass-customized products (a la NikeID, Timbuk2, etc.). Our unique twist is adding interchangeability, enabling customers to "refresh" their looks and extend the value of purchases. We launched our first product, the Modify Watch in 2010. We have ...

Consumer by Flight.vc

Investing in the Top Consumer Companies and Entrepreneurs
The syndicate invests in technology companies that touch the consumer, but can span across a variety of sectors and verticals. The founder was an angel in LinkedIn, Evite, Paypal and a number of other leading consumer companies. The syndicate will invest in ...

Cardpool

Makes it ridiculously easy to buy and sell pre-owned gift cards

Rocksbox

Transforming the way women buy jewelry.
Rocksbox is the premiere destination to borrow jewelry before you buy. For a monthly fee, Rocksbox members receive a curated box of designer jewelry with the option to borrow, buy or swap at any time. We feature 30+ on-trend designers including Kendra Scott, Gorjana, ...

Betabrand

new limited-batch clothing ideas every day
Betabrand produces new, real-world products every week, which are consistently covered in publications such as the New York Times, Wired, Gizmodo, and Boing Boing. We’re also developing new models of social interaction and community development in e-commerce. Take ...

Lumoid

Try before you buy service, for consumer electronics
Lumoid is a try before you buy service for consumer electronics. 

StubHub

At StubHub, our mission is simple: provide fans a safe, convenient place to get tickets to the games, concerts, and theater shows they want to see, and an easy way to sell their tickets when they can't go.

Second Funnel

Helping consumer brands turn content into a sales funnel
Live campaign with Gap: http://gap.secondfunnel.com/summerloves/ Live campaign with NastyGal: http://nastygal.secondfunnel.com/swim-city Go to market: a web-based landing page creation tool for digital marketers at retail brands. We segment visitors by what they ...

Popbasic

Women's fashion for the Youtube generation.
Popbasic is an online fashion brand for women. We design and manufacture clothing and accessories. Our merchandise is sold in three piece sets called "micro collections", for under $100 with free worldwide shipping. Video is a core focus for Popbasic, this sells ...

Remoov

The simplest way to declutter. One pickup to sell, donate and discard all unwanted items.
Remoov is the simple way to declutter. We help you sell, donate and discard your household goods such as furniture, electronics, appliances, sporting goods, etc, saving you time, space and money. Our mission is to reduce waste by increasing reuse. 

Overstat

Visual website Conversion Rate Optimization.
Overstat was acquired by Tealeaf/ IBM! The Overstat team has started another company, MyCrowd. MyCrowd is actively raising a seed round. Come check us out! https://angel.co/mycrowd Regards, Matthew ================================ang We have the only Website ...

ShopLogic

Intelligent Incentives and Pricing
ShopLogic optimizes incentives and pricing for online businesses. Shopping consumers have come to expect incentives like discounts and deals, but incentives can kill financial margins for online businesses. ShopLogic lets those businesses intelligently manage ...

TargetingMantra

Targeting + Personalization Platform #500Strong
TargetingMantra offers a SaaS based personalization and targeting platform that enables small and medium sized e-commerce companies to cross-sell, and up-sell, like Amazon. We learn the behavior of users in real-time & shows items to the right person at the right ...

Merchbar

The online retailer for music merchandise
Merchbar is the best place to discover and buy music merchandise. Our first product is an iPhone app built to make discovering fun and purchasing a snap. We automatically personalize every customer's experience by creating a custom feed of gear they'll love ...

Monetsu

Secure and compliant Blockchain technology and social payments
The Monetsu online banking app for digital currencies combines the security of online banking software with global digital currency networks and makes digital currencies as simple and easy to use as any social network. With our responsive and universal web application, ...

Gustin

What if a fashion company broke all the rules?
Gustin is a fashion company that delivers Barney’s quality at GAP prices using crowdsourcing. We are a fashion company operating at a high-tech company pace. What We Do • Design: premium, classic American garments all produced locally in the USA. Our design cycles ...

Purse

Bitcoin Marketplace
Purse is the leading marketplace built on the blockchain. Purse connects Amazon shoppers with users who have Amazon gift card balances. Here's how to save 20% on anything at Amazon. 1. Sign up. 2. Add items to wish list. 3. Deposit bitcoins to new Purse wallet. Get ...

Theorem

The Marketplace for Independent Fashion
Theorem is the marketplace for independent fashion. We help people connect with and purchase from independent brands around the world. Users make offers. Merchants see the data and choose a price. Anyone at or above the price point receives their purchase in ...

Given Goods Co.

Curated home goods and lifestyle accessories making authentic impact.
Given Goods curates beautiful, high-quality home goods and everyday accessories that make authentic impact—a brand fit for the modern lifestyle. Whole Foods capitalized on a fragmented yet emerging industry with strong, existing demand by creating a brand that ...

Shoe Lovers

A demand-led shoe platform and brand, with the world's largest community of Shoe Lovers.
Shoe Lovers is a demand-led shoe platform and brand, that encompasses the world's largest community of shoe fashionistas. With over 29 million fans on Facebook, Shoe Lovers is the #2 Fashion brand on Facebook based on the number of fans, and the #1 brand on Facebook ...

PitchTop

Crowdfunding toolkit for everyone (AngelPad Winter '15)
PitchTop is a SaaS platform to prepare, launch and optimize new product sales.  Crowdfunding has introduced a seismic shift in how new products enter the market, but preparing a successful crowdfunding launch and sustaining momentum is too difficult today.  We ...

GoodLabs

Point of Sale & eCommerce Donations
GoodLabs is a SaaS platform that empowers micro-donations in all points of sale, both in-store and online. We're live on Clover (in-store/ owned by First Data) and on Shopify (e-commerce). We're partnered with a growing number of leading non-profits including ...

Skyara

Marketplace for things to do
Skyara is a marketplace for fun things to do, where individuals can share their hobbies and interests as bookable experiences for others. An experience is a personalized activity or service such as a biking tour, photography lessons, or lunch at a tech incubator. ...

Spencer's Market

A customized online food shopping experience
We're making the "long tail" of food accessible. What Amazon did for books and Netflix did for movies, we're doing for food. - Personalized for preferences and diet restrictions? Check. - Discovery via push marketing? Yep. - Thousands of loyal repeat customers. ...

EatWith

The best meals are homemade. Enjoy a dinner party at the chef's house. You're invited.
EatWith.com is a community marketplace offering authentic dining experiences in people's homes around the world. Try new dishes, meet new people and experience the hottest new trend in foodie travel. At EatWith, we bring the world together one meal at a time by ...

Richrelevance

As the global leader in omnichannel personalization, RichRelevance partners with the most innovative brands and retailers. Our fully integrated product suite and proven, real-time infrastructure were built from the ground up to enable brands and retailers to deliver ...

DARBY SMART

DARBY SMART is stylish, simple DIY. Launch, discover, share & buy DIY projects.
Founded less than a year ago, Darby Smart has quickly become a leading online brand in the $25bn DIY market. We’re a trusted community marketplace for people to launch, discover, and buy unique DIY projects and supplies online.

MistoBox

Amazing Coffee Made Easy
Never drink a bad cup of coffee again. Amazing coffee experiences for home and office.

Vufind

Deep learning as a service for maximizing ecommerce revenue
Vufind is a deep learning service for maximizing ecommerce revenue. eCommerce is a highly visual and increasingly social activity which currently lacks intelligent immersive user experience and suffers low conversion (less than 1.3%). Vufind set out to solve this ...

Mountary

Easiest way to get your photos, poster and art on the wall
The easiest way to get your art, posters, prints and photos on the wall: 1) Schedule a pickup and an expert Mountary framer will come to you and do everything for you (Available in SF, NY and Seattle)  2) Order online in under 5 minutes and have a beautiful ...

NextUser

Analytics & Marketing Automation platform for consumer websites
NextUser is a Marketing Automation and Analytics platform for consumer websites that help marketing tools to work in harmony and increase engagement, conversion and lifetime value. Historically, companies have relied on individual solutions (CMS, email, Advertising, ...

OneTraction

The #1 startup accelerator that provide technology, business development and funding
We are a Silicon Valley based team of entrepreneurs and innovators with deep knowledge and expertise, along extensive network from top school to investors and Fortune 500 partners. We help founders and startups unleash sustainable growth.

BUREAU OF TRADE

A curated digital marketplace
E-commerce sites are time-consuming and soulless, but magazines, newsletters and lifestyle sites overlook the merchandise that men want most. The $500 Rolex. The $5k Porsche. The pair of Eames chairs for $250. BUREAU OF TRADE redefines content-driven commerce. ...

Shopsy

The marketplace to shop for fashion products seen on Instagram.
The Problem Instagram does not allow buy buttons or clickable links • Consumers cannot directly purchase products or find them online • Brands and retailers cannot convert followers into customers and track consumer analytics • Fashion bloggers cannot monetize ...

yerdle

Shop freely.
Yerdle is the people-powered store with the best prices on earth. Our inventory is the billions of useful items sitting idle in homes and storage spaces. On Yerdle, you post items to earn credits and shop for what you want. Together, we make it easy to save money ...

Extole

Acquire new customers at scale by rewarding the customers you have
Extole is an Enterprise referral marketing platform. Our platform automates and optimizes all aspects of a referral marketing or "refer a friend" program, including rewards, promotions, sharing, and analytics. Moreover, it supports multiple languages and currencies, ...

Slant

We help people learn what to buy.
Slant is a collaboratively edited Q&A site designed to help people learn what products or tools to use. We aim to take the pain out of product research to help people quickly make informed decisions. Here are some of our best questions: * http://www.slant.co/topics/1488/~what-are-the-best-front-end-package-managers * ...

StyleTech

online fitting room for eyewear
StyleTech is an online fitting room that makes shopping for prescription glasses and sunglasses fun and convenient. Using a 3D model of the customer's face (from a standard webcam), StyleTech virtually tries on every pair of glasses in a few seconds and provides ...

YBUY

Try the best products in the world before you buy
YBUY is a membership club that curates the best products for our customers' lifestyles and then lets them try them in their homes before they financially commit.

Qwikwire

Qwikwire empowers people who live and work overseas to be able to pay their bills back in the Philippines. We allow enterprises to collect payments from anywhere in the world. We go beyond basic remittance and provide recurring billing, invoicing, customer dashboards, ...

Dot & Bo

Inspired designs for the modern lifestyle.
Content + Commerce. Storytelling through products.

Ghost Nest

A customization tool for home furnishings
Ghost Nest is like a mash-up between Design Within Reach and Zazzle – high quality products anyone can customize. Our first products are cabinet knobs (new and non-knob products coming soon) . We place any graphic you want inside of the knob. In addition to ...

Ownza

What do you own?
Share, discover and discuss cool products. Unlock personalized discounts based on what you own.

Teaman & Company

Revolutionizing the jewelry experience for the millennial generation.
Teaman & Company is the luxury colored gemstone engagement ring company -  the online jeweler for the millennial generation. Millennials seeking fine jewelry find retail stores uncomfortable, and are turning online to discover the most unique products and to seek ...

PointsHound

Online Booking Service for Frequent Flyer Junkies
PointsHound is a loyalty points-centric booking engine for frequent travelers. Once members join the community, they earn lots of points/Miles by booking hotel rooms (and later, other products) on the site. PointsHound launched with United MileagePlus & Delta SkyMiles ...

Curriculet

Dynamic, interactive ereading platform for schools
Curriculet gives teachers exactly what they need: an amazing tool, deeper student engagement, incredibly useful data, and TIME! Curriculet is a digital reading platform that allows teachers to place questions, quizzes and rich media throughout the texts they teach ...

Modern Citizen

The online style destination for the modern woman
Modern Citizen is the online style destination for the modern woman. Designed for a full and on-the-go life, our collections focus on accessible ready-to-wear with a relaxed sophistication and youthful elegance. Carefully curated and driven by style, Modern ...

Plumfare

Gift the good stuff
Plumfare is building a mobile experience to allow you to buy a round of drinks for your friends. Plumfare lets you share the good stuff, no matter where you are. We are a start up founded in 2011 in San Francisco, CA. We are building a native iOS application with ...

Forward

Build and scale e-commerce
Forward is reinventing the e-commerce platform as a cloud API. Developers use Forward to build and scale e-commerce apps with integrated payments, shipments, product catalogs, checkout flows, blogs and other content. All the power and none of the hassle that comes ...

HauteDay

Gaming Meets Fashion!
Haute Day was created to make shopping a lot more fun! Everyday, we invite our community to submit their best new fashion finds, centered around a particular theme or topic. The community spends the next 24 hours voting, sending their favorite item to the top of ...

Billowby

Zappos for Smoking Accessories
Billowby is Zappos for the $25 billion worldwide smoking accessories market (vaporizers, pipes, bongs, etc.) and is the go-to resource for people seeking smoking accessories online. With a keen focus on design, user experience, content marketing and branding, Billowby ...

Rewinery

Simply the best way to purchase beverages
Rewinery is simply the best way to purchase alcoholic beverages. We select special products and deliver to our customers within the hour. We started with wine and will soon be selling beer and liquor. With Rewinery, our goal is to disrupt the beverage industry. We ...

Tog+Porter

Providing Top-Notch Personal Styling & Shopping at Scale
Tog (n): Fine Clothing + Porter (n): Someone who carries or delivers. Tog + Porter provides the personal attention and white glove service you'd find at high-end department stores with the convenience and scale of e-commerce. Our stylists consult one-on-one ...

Plastiq

Make payments for tuition, cars, and more on credit card
We have a simple idea – make payments easier for people by letting them use the credit cards they prefer, to pay for things they want, when they want to.

Chubbies Shorts

Radical Shorts for Men
We're building the most radical shorts company known to man kind. From February to March we've grown 271% continually sell out of every unit we produce. Our brand has an incredibly engaged customer base which you can out on Facebook (/TheChubsters) or Twitter (@chubbies) ...

Seat 14A

A complete "GQ" look in your inbox, you can actually buy.
At Seat 14A we offer fresh, complete “GQ” looks in your inbox every 1-2 weeks (that you can actually buy). We're the only private label with such curation and simplicity baked into the experience. Every outfit includes 2-4 items matching in color, accessories, ...

Mellow

The robotic sous-chef for home cooks
Mellow is a smart cooking tool that stays behind and gets dinner started while you're away at work. It combines sous-vide cooking with software and refrigerator-like cooling, so that you can drop ingredients in, give it an order through your smartphone, and come ...

Massdrop

Massdrop is building an online community for enthusiasts.

Pixc

On demand product image editing for eCommerce stores (500 Startups Batch 13)
Pixc provides on demand product image editing. We help eCommerce stores and individuals selling online increase their sales with better product images. We remove the background and touch up the photo within 24 hours. A great product on a contrasting background ...

Virtrue

Verified identity - accurate, instantaneous, used wherever transactions occur.
Identity verification - a platform for valid individual attributes for secure transactions. Trust is critical to every transaction. Virtrue enables verified, real trust & reputation to create greater security for global transactions. We are a B2B, B2C, and ...

GetArtUp

Subscription Art Rental Company
GetArtUp offers subscription based art rentals. Try art monthly, rotate is out for something new, or purchase a piece you love... We are lowering the barrier to entry into the art market by letting customers to try art in an affordable new way. WE HAVE REVENUE ...

strapping

First-ever gay lifestyle brand
We have built a seasonal clothing and lifestyle subscription service for gay men; we curate clothing and accessories to our subscribers' style preferences. Subscribers pay a $39 styling fee per season (quarter) and receive 6-10 pieces of clothing with total retail ...

Showbucks

Mobile Video Platform for e-Commerce
Showbucks is a Mobile Video Platform for E-Commerce & Entertainment.

Syfto

Pandora for Style
Coming Soon....

MTailor

A master tailor in your phone
MTailor sells men's custom dress and casual shirts by measuring you with your phone's camera. MTailor is 20% more accurate than a professional tailor. Ordering a perfect fitting shirt takes less than 5 minutes and is completely customizable with just a few taps. ...

WishPlz

Pocket + Evernote for Shopping
WishPlz is a smart personal shopping assistant that alerts you when the price drops on any product, from any website. Just email or bookmark a product and we'll track it, check websites for better prices, and tell you when to buy.

Notehall (Acquired by Chegg 6/11)

Document Marketplace for College Students
Update: Notehall Acquired by Chegg in June 2011; Notehall is an interactive learning platform for students to buy and sell class notes, study guides and knowledge in specific subjects. This way the most relevant/real-time information can be learned in the most ...

Jambool

Jambool was a pioneer in in-app payments for virtual and digital goods for the web. Google acquired Jambool in August 2010.

Cuyana

Fewer, Better Things
Cuyana is a brand of women’s premium essentials that celebrates fewer, better things. Cuyana creates apparel and accessories, made from the best materials around the world and designed with a classic, feminine aesthetic. By directly sourcing materials from around ...

Joy & Revelry

Online home decor marketplace curated by social style influencers
Joy & Revelry is a social commerce platform that empowers elite, established social influencers called Style Mavens to create online shops filled with trade-only home decor merchandise that has previously never been made available online. Our Style Mavens are ...

Alumnify

Reengagement platform for Alumni
Alumnify is a location based professional networking application that enables communication between mutually interested alumni. Using LinkedIn’s API, Alumnify pulls users’ professional information and uses filters to match potential graduates who are most likely ...

Cylindo

How Furniture Shopping Should Be
Cylindo is the visualization platform for commerce. Our entry-market is the $430B furniture industry where our visualization SaaS helps retailers drastically reduce return rates and increase conversions. Cylindo powers more than 1500 stores and site, including ...

Embly

Social Commerce
Embly’s proprietary Thoughtfulness Engine sorts through a wealth of social data to surface the interesting and important moments in your friends’ lives and helps you recognize them with spontaneous and relevant retailer gifts and other actions.

Ingenio

Deal Decor

Group-buying for furniture that can beat Amazon's prices by 30-60%
Deal Decor is going to disrupt the $80B furniture industry. By leveraging the power of group buying and cutting out the middlemen, Deal Décor has developed a smarter way to shop for furniture. Customers save 30-70% off beautiful, high-quality furniture that ...

Mulu

Deep Learning for Intelligent Commerce
Mulu is the world's first deep learning platform built specifically to identify millions of commercially available products, however and wherever they're mentioned online. Publishers and bloggers use Mulu to automatically offer the products they mention for sale ...

Ebates

Find thousands of coupons, promo codes and discounts. Plus get cash back savings with online rebates.

Maestro Market

Marketplace for talent (AirBnB for talent)
Maestro Market which is an interactive marketplace for people seeking and providing personalized advice, unique experiences and direct connections to hand-picked experts across a wide variety of areas. Through Maestro Market, users will, for the first time, be ...

NConnex

Digitizing environments and products, merging them seamlessly to boost shopping experience
We develop sophisticated and mobile-based technologies that digitize and merge the products and environments seamlessly, creating a new shopping experience by allowing consumers to try home furnishing products before they buy. It helps both buyers to make better ...

Blackhawk Investments

Peer-to-Peer Lending for real estate.
Peer-to-peer lending is revolutionizing the post-recession financial landscape by cutting out traditional middlemen (like banks) and democratizing the process of lending money. Over $280 million in peer-to-peer loans were made in the month of November alone, by ...

Auctomatic

UNYQ

Creativity and style for amputees using 3D printing technologies.
UNYQ is reimagining orthotics and prosthetics by 3D printing and handcrafting custom, fashionable fairings and accessories that embellish and restore body symmetry. Amputees can select from new collections or work directly with the fashion house’s designers to ...

Xoom

Transfer money online safely and easily with Xoom and save on money transfer fees. Wire money to a bank account in minutes or pickup cash at thousands of locations.

SnapBi

PRINT TO PURCHASE: Driving “impulse buy” conversion from ad to transaction
We leverage the cloud to provide a TaaS (Transaction as a Service) solution to bring advertisers and consumers together for impulse mobile purchasing experiences from printed media.

Eventbrite

We bring the world together through live experiences.
Eventbrite brings people together around the power of live events. Founded in 2006, the innovative ticketing, registration, and event discovery platform has sold more than 140M tickets in 176 countries, and processed over $2B in gross ticket sales (25% of the in ...

MineWhat

A profitablity platform for online retailers
Stage: Cashflow positive, customer funded SaaS application, growing at rapid rate, launched on June, 2014, Alchemist Class X What we solve: Retail intelligence platforms so far have focussed largely on customer acquisition and increasing revenue. Not enough has ...

Creative Action Network

Etsy meets Upworthy.
The Creative Action Network is a marketplace for meaningful merchandise from a passionate community of artists & designers around the world. We invite artists to build a collection of content around a topic or cause. We turn their work into merchandise and sell ...

GlamST

Your go-to makeup expert
GlamST helps retailers and beauty brands to provide a multichannel and customized experience for Millennials giving them freedom, creativity and choice through a mobile and web virtual experience. Through our app users can try makeup on their selfie (using our ...

GrubMarket

Online Marketplace for Local Foods. A Y Combinator Company
GrubMarket is an online marketplace to connect people who are passionate about creating and consuming locally produced foods including farm produce. GrubMarket’s mission is to facilitate the direct sale of local foods (including farm produce) to local consumers, ...

Giving Assistant

Digital Loyalty Marketplace
Our mission is to save you more money, so you can better care for your loved ones and support charity.

Madison Reed

Revolutionizing home hair care!
Madison Reed (www.madison-reed.com) is an ecommerce start-up with $16m in funding and a team off 50+ rock stars in San Francisco. We’re revolutionizing the $50B hair care market using technology (web, mobile, tablet, social) to radically innovate the user experience ...

BlueShift Labs

Predictive Marketing Automation
Marketers are challenged everyday with turning streams of digital touchpoints from always-on addressable customers into realtime actionable campaigns. We are building Blueshift to enable marketers of all sizes to engage their customers at scale. We are uniquely ...

Joyus

AdmitSee

College advice marketplace
ABOUT AdmitSee is a social networking site and marketplace focused on college admissions and career readiness. We’re known for our database of past application files and resumes. On admitsee.com, applicants browse anonymous, basic profiles for free; they pay to ...

Orankl

Amazon's e-commerce tools as a service
Orankl offers the same tools that Amazon has available to everyone as simple, easy to use SaaS with an integration time of minutes and zero coding. Right now we provide optimized product reviews and smart email marketing.

Lonely Walls

Simple and fun way to decorate your space with visual arts
Lonely Walls is a mobile art aggregator offering customers a fun and simple way to visualize a chosen piece of art or décor on their walls in the most precise dimensions and taking into account the ambience lighting. Knowing that art is completely irrational, we ...

Mercari

Next generation peer-to-peer mobile marketplace.
Japan’s mobile shopping obsession is finally in the US. Mercari, the resale shopping app, is aiming to become the country’s biggest community-powered shopping fair in the palm of your hands. The intuitive app lets you buy and sell anything, from anywhere, in seconds ...

Inporia

Memebox

Beauty Full Stack E-Commerce
Memebox is a rapidly growing Y Combinator backed full stack beauty eCommerce born in Seoul, headquartered in San Francisco. We are determined to deliver high quality cosmetics, made widely accessible through technology. Memebox is targeting the space between ...

GraphScience

Leverage social data to generate revenue and optimize marketing spend on Facebook
We give brands insight into consumer social interests to drive more relevant engagement and advertising. GraphScience is a social data and advertising company delivering the highest impact branding and revenue for top retail and e-commerce brands. Our powerful ...