E-commerce startup ecosystem
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İbrahim Kırcova
Professor of Marketing at Yıldız Technical University and an authority on digital marketing and e-commerce in Türkiye. He is an announced speaker at the IGEXX Istanbul Global E-Export Summit 2026.
iCEE.fest (Interactive CEE) 2026
Central and Eastern Europe's digital industry festival covering digital marketing, e-commerce, and content creation. Brings 1,000+ marketing and growth professionals to Bucharest with strong representation from regional tech companies and agencies. Tickets from EUR 100.
IGEXX — Istanbul Global E-Export Summit (September 2026)
The second edition of the Istanbul Global E-Export Summit (IGEXX) is a cross-border digital commerce and e-export event at the Haliç Congress Center under the theme 'Beyond Borders'. It brings together e-commerce brands, online marketplaces, retailers, logistics and fulfilment providers and trade policymakers for keynotes, panels, B2B matchmaking and the IGEXX Awards.
İlke Toptaş
Regional Director for Northern Europe at Meta, working on advertising and commerce solutions for businesses. She is an announced speaker at the IGEXX Istanbul Global E-Export Summit 2026.
InMerge Ventures
Launched in October 2024 at the INMerge Innovation Summit in Baku, InMerge Ventures is Azerbaijan's second institutionally backed venture capital fund, with an authorized capital of $4 million contributed equally by the Innovation and Digital Development Agency, Azerbaijan Investment Company, PASHA Future Lab, and Trendyol Group. The fund focuses on digital technologies, e-commerce, and innovation-driven startups from the Caucasus, Central Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and the MENA region. Key founding figures include Inara Valiyeva (Chairwoman, Innovation and Digital Development Agency), Yasin Jalilov (Deputy Executive Director, Azerbaijan Investment Company), and Farrukh Aliyev (CEO, PASHA Future Lab). Its co-sponsorship by Trendyol Group, the Turkish e-commerce giant, gives it a distinctive cross-border e-commerce and marketplace angle.
Jack Yu
Government Relations and Public Affairs lead at SHEIN, the global online fashion and lifestyle retailer. He is an announced speaker at the IGEXX Istanbul Global E-Export Summit 2026.
Joko
Joko is a Paris-based consumer fintech that rewards users with cashback on their everyday purchases. Through a mobile app and browser extension, it automatically detects qualifying transactions at partner retailers and credits users with rewards, both online and in store. The company's technology builds on PSD2 open banking, connecting to users' bank cards to identify eligible spending without manual scanning of loyalty cards. Joko raised a €10M Series A in October 2020, led by Partech and Axeleo, bringing total funding to around €12M at that time.
Juicefast
Juicefast (Juicefast d.o.o., registered in Brezice, Slovenia) is a cold-pressed juice and functional food e-commerce brand offering fasting and detox programs such as Weight Loss Fast, Digestion Fast, and Skin Glow Fast, alongside complete nutrition boxes, functional juices, kombucha, and plant-based snacks. It also sells structured multi-day fasting and weight-loss meal plans tailored by gender, and ships across Croatia and other European markets with cold-chain delivery.
Juni
Juni is a Gothenburg-based financial management platform for e-commerce businesses, founded in June 2020 by Samir El-Sabini, Jonathan Sanders, and Anders Orsedal. The platform offers multi-currency accounts, virtual and physical cards, credit products, analytics, and accounting integrations designed specifically for online merchants and digital advertisers. Juni holds an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licence from Sweden's Finansinspektionen and has raised $282 million across five funding rounds including a $206 million Series B.
Just Eat
Just Eat began in Kolding in 2001 as one of the first online takeaway ordering marketplaces in Europe. After early traction in Denmark, the company relocated to London and expanded aggressively across Europe and beyond through acquisitions and country launches. Just Eat listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2014 and later merged with Takeaway.com, forming one of the largest food delivery groups globally. The company is a defining example of a Danish startup scaling into a multi-billion euro public business.
Kedari Ventures
Kedari Ventures is a Tbilisi-based early-stage investment fund founded by Dimitry Kumsishvili, who served as Georgia's Minister of Finance and First Vice Prime Minister before moving to the private sector. The fund targets digital platforms with global expansion potential across e-commerce, logistics, education, and entertainment, and has built a portfolio of over 10 companies employing more than 100 people. Fund size is not publicly disclosed; the firm has deployed approximately 993,000 GEL in equity and 2.5 million GEL in loans across portfolio companies. Kedari also co-founded AXEL, Georgia's first structured business angel network, in partnership with Tbilisi Startup Bureau.
Kencko
Kencko is a Portuguese-founded direct-to-consumer brand selling instant fruit-and-vegetable smoothie mixes designed to be ready in 30 seconds without shopping, chopping or cleanup. The company cites Harvard-linked nutrition research behind its products and reports more than a million members and tens of thousands of customer reviews.
Kiwi.com
Kiwi.com is a Brno-founded online travel agency that uses proprietary Virtual Interlining technology to combine flights from airlines that do not formally codeshare, creating unique multi-carrier itineraries unavailable on traditional booking platforms. The platform searches across 750+ carriers including low-cost airlines, trains, and buses to find the cheapest routes. Founded in 2012 by Oliver Dlouhy, the company grew rapidly and became one of the largest travel booking platforms in Europe, processing tens of millions of bookings annually. Kiwi.com also offers a Guarantee product that protects travelers on self-transfer connections.
Kopa.ai
Vilnius-based agentic AI operating system for e-commerce teams. AI agents autonomously monitor products, campaigns, customers, and inventory, then execute tasks such as generating creatives, adjusting ad budgets, and publishing site updates through connected tools. Reached €1M ARR six months after launch. Raised €2M seed from XTX Ventures and Practica Capital.
Lalafo
Lalafo is an AI-powered C2C classifieds marketplace founded in September 2015, operating Azerbaijan's largest buy-sell, job, and real estate search platform at lalafo.az. The platform covers categories including electronics, real estate, vehicles, clothing, and services. Lalafo operates localized versions in multiple countries including Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Greece, and Poland.
Lancerto
Lancerto is a Polish premium menswear brand founded in 2008 by Tomasz Ciąpała together with Mariusz Jończy and Tomasz Górkiewicz, headquartered in Łańcut where it also runs its own manufacturing. The brand sells suits, shirts, shoes, and accessories through dozens of retail showrooms across Poland and a dedicated e-commerce store launched in 2016. The company is founder-owned and self-financed, with no external funding rounds or stock-market listing publicly disclosed.
Ľuboš Ľahký
Chief Marketing Officer at Dedoles, a fast-growing Central European direct-to-consumer fashion and lifestyle brand, with expertise in marketing measurement and return on investment. He is an announced speaker at the XXII E-Commerce Conference 2026 in Budapest.
Luigi's Box
Luigi’s Box provides advanced search and product recommendation for ecommerce sites, boosting conversion by understanding intent, typos, and synonyms. Its tooling has become a de facto standard across CEE ecommerce, with strong adoption among mid-market retailers. By 2026, Luigi’s Box is one of the region’s top AI-powered ecommerce infrastructure companies.
Maciej Białek
Founder of interior design marketplace Pixers, Maciej now actively mentors and funds young startups. Drawing on his e-commerce background, he has invested in projects like PCdoc and ScreenSHU, among others, to help new founders scale their services. Associated startups: PCdoc.pl, ScreenSHU, and various e-commerce/marketplace startups.
Maja Schaefer
Co-founder and CEO of Zowie, the AI customer-service platform she started in 2019 (originally Chatbotize). A software-engineering graduate of AGH University in Kraków, she has scaled Zowie to serve enterprises like L'Oréal and InPost, raising around $20M from investors including Tiger Global, and has been named to Forbes 30 Under 30.
