eCommerce UnderCover really enjoyed its conversation with Anton Hermann, a Co-Founder of SPACEGOATS. SPACEGOATS is a German software company enabling Amazon sellers to easily manage, automate, and internationalize their businesses—without the headaches and bureaucratic hurdles.
Some of the topics that Anton discussed:
eCommerce UnderCover really enjoyed its conversation with Abdelrahman Sherief, a Co-Founder and VP of Growth at Taager. Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
Some of the topics that Abdelrahman discussed:
- The startup ecosystem in Egypt
- What spurred the Venture Capitalists to invest in Egyptian Startups
- The main mechanics and idea behind Taager
- The advantages of the service
eCommerce UnderCover really enjoyed its conversation with Narek Vardanyan, a Co-Founder and CEO of Prelaunch.com. Prelaunch.com is an AI-based product validation platform that helps companies discover early if their product concepts have potential. It validates product ideas, finds the best price, and gets vital insights directly from customers. It has the highest accuracy among all available methods by employing behavioural data and actual purchase intent.
Some of the topics that Narek discussed:
eCommerce UnderCover really enjoyed its conversation with Denys Lichtenstein, a Co-CEO and Co-Founder of SassyClassy and ProfitDog. SassyClassy is an online fashion marketplace based in Germany. ProfitDog's algorithm uses first-party data to score SKU profitability and creates actionable insights to improve the efficacy of product ads.
Some of the topics that Denys discussed:
- What it was like working for Facebook
- The evolution of Facebook and the Metaverse and its impact on the ad business
- The dynamics of working in a dynamic and growing family business
- Building ProfitDog to automate merchandise analytics and supercharge eCommerce marketing
eCommerce UnderCover really enjoyed its conversation with Ohad Greenshpan, Co-founder and CTO of Namogoo. Namogoo’s cloud-based service, built on proprietary, Machine Learning technology, detects and blocks invasive content spread across eCommerce sites.
Some of the topics that Ohad discussed with us:
- Being born and raised in Israel
- His experience working for IBM previously
- Startup landscape in Israel
- Why AI is so important in gathering data for eCommerce
eCommerce UnderCover really enjoyed its conversation with Kausambi Manjita and Barada Sahu, Co-founders of Mason. Mason is a store conversion playbook that helps to convert new visitors & create loyal customers for a user’s Shopify Store.
Some of the topics that Kausambi and Barada discussed:
eCommerce UnderCover really enjoyed its conversation with Eric Youngstrom, Founder and CEO of Onramp Funds. Onramp Funds is a financing service for eCommerce sellers using data-driven technology. Onramp Funds then provides working capital from that data to resolve the shipping, fulfilment, advertising and inventory cost of goods.
Some of the topics that Eric discussed:
eCommerce UnderCover really enjoyed its conversation with Roberto Meza, Co-founder of Pancake Live. Pancake Live is a fun virtual experience that brings accessible, affordable and sustainable design. Users can arrange a virtual call with one of the interior designers and have their house redesigned within the call. Ultimately, they are offered a list to get the needed furniture.
Some of the topics that Roberto discussed:
- His interest in sustainability
- How Pancake Live works
- Why he chose the US as Pancake Live's Target Market
- His experience operating overseas
eCommerce UnderCover really enjoyed its conversation with Emiliano Segura, Co-founder and CTO of clicOH. clicOH provides fulfilment and logistics solutions through innovation and technology for digital companies.
Some of the topics that Emiliano discussed with us:
- Startup landscape in Argentina
- Emiliano's Experience applying for Y Combinator multiple times
- Pivoting industries your startup is in
- Is data beneficial to the user?
- Expanding your startup to a wider region: The opportunities and challenges that come with it
eCommerce UnderCover really enjoyed its conversation with Kacper Nowicki, a co-Founder and the CEO of Nomagic. Nomagic provides services based on Intelligent Robotics to e-commerce and retail leaders wishing to get one step closer to full automation.
Some of the topics that Kacper discussed:
eCommerce UnderCover enjoyed our conversation with Frost Li, the Founder, and CEO of Social Chat. Social Chat enables brands to host live shopping events directly on their websites.
Some of the topics that Frost covered:
eCommerce UnderCover was joined by Andersen Conner, a co-Founder of Foraged. Foraged is an online marketplace for "wildly unique foods, sustainably harvested, and carefully crafted."
Some of the topics we covered with Andy:
eCommerce UnderCover had Emilio Di Marco join us on the show from Miami, Florida - the capital of Latin America. Emilio is the CEO and Founder of Aument, which he describes as a SaaS platform that easily helps small eCommerce brands get new sales quickly.
Some of the topics we covered with Emilio:
eCommerce UnderCover was excited to host Brett Joyal (He says it rhymes with 'loyal'.) at the studio at Seven Peaks. Brett is the Founder and CEO of mom&pop, a retail technology company digitizing and connecting neighborhood family stores.
Some of the topics we covered with Brett:
eCommerce UnderCover was joined by Kait Stephens, co-Founder and the CEO of Brij. Brij is a software platform that powers one-touch registration & reorder to connect brands to their customers with the simple scan of a QR code.
Some of the topics that Kait covered:
This episode was produced by Isabelle Goh.
At least we made Ana Maria Jipa laugh as the conversation began. Ana is a co-Founder and the CEO of Olyn. Olyn is a universal asset registry service, built on the blockchain.
Some of the topics Ana covered:
It is always great to have our guests in the studio and we were happy to have Stephen Inscoe join us at Seven Peaks Software in Bangkok. Stephen is a Founder of BlueSleep, the online sales leader for mattresses in Russia.
Some of the topics Stephen discussed:
eCommerce UnderCover was joined by Bruce Macdonald, the Head of ANZ Sales for Algolia. Algolia empowers Builders with the Search and Recommendation services they need to build world-class experiences.
Some of the topics Bruce discussed:
The eCommerce UnderCover research team did a report on which companies have announced fundraising in the eCommerce space globally in the 6 months from September 2021 to March 2022.
Pu Yuming, our amazing eCommerce UnderCover intern that put this report together, joined us on the show to discuss this in detail.
No less than USD $20BN has been invested in eCommerce-related companies in the past 6 months, more than 2.5 times the amount that was announced in the first 6 months of 2021. Yuming broke this down into 8 categories including:
eCommerce UnderCover was joined by Jamie Brennan, the Head of Thailand Global Selling at Amazon.
Some of the topics Jamie covered:
