E-commerce startup ecosystem
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Radosław Rejman
Partner at Movens Capital. Background in finance and operations, leading deal execution and portfolio support for early-stage CEE startups across fintech, enterprise software, and commerce enablement.
Razor Group
Razor Group is a Berlin-based e-commerce aggregator that acquires and operates Amazon marketplace brands, using technology and operational expertise to scale product portfolios. The company has consolidated multiple competitors and built one of Europe's largest portfolios of marketplace-native consumer brands. Razor Group focuses on supply chain optimization, product development, and cross-border expansion to grow acquired brands.
Re-Pie Asset Management
Re-Pie is Turkey's first and largest alternative portfolio management company, established in 2015 under a Capital Markets Board licence and managing assets worth over 73.5 billion TL across 41 venture capital, 36 real estate, and 13 securities investment funds. Its venture capital arm backs Seed to Series A technology companies with cheques of $1M–$10M, with a notable portfolio including Getir, Hepsiburada, ikas, Modanisa, Colendi, and Ace Games. Re-Pie combines financial structuring expertise from its broader asset management platform with active strategic and operational support for portfolio companies. The firm is headquartered in Istanbul and is regulated by Turkey's CMB.
Recombee
AI-powered real-time recommendation and personalized search engine offered as a SaaS API; uses 100+ proprietary ML models and the ReQL query language, serving media, streaming, e-commerce and marketplaces.
refurbed
refurbed is a Vienna-based online marketplace for refurbished electronics, household appliances, and sports equipment, founded in 2017 by Peter Windischhofer, Kilian Kaminski, and Jurgen Riedl. The platform connects certified refurbishers with consumers seeking sustainable, warranty-backed alternatives to new devices at savings of up to 40%. refurbed operates across 11 European markets including Germany, Austria, Italy, and Sweden, and has raised over EUR 55 million. By planting a tree for every product sold, the company emphasizes its sustainability mission and has become one of Austria's most visible circular-economy startups.
Replenit
Warsaw-based AI decision engine for retail that converts customer behavioural signals into real-time, individualised actions—adjusting recommendations, promotions, and inventory allocation to match intent at the point of decision. Serves 30+ enterprise retailers globally. Raised €2.1M pre-seed co-led by Movens Capital and Vastpoint.
Retail Technology Show 2026
Retail innovation event at ExCeL London showcasing payments, in-store analytics, loyalty platforms, and omnichannel solutions. Free for qualified retailers; vendors pay for exhibition space. Attracts 10,000+ retail technology buyers and decision-makers. Valuable for retail-tech startups seeking direct access to UK high-street and e-commerce buyers.
Retail Technology Show 2027
Retail Technology Show returns to ExCeL London on 21-22 April 2027, with exhibit and floorplan enquiries already open. The retail innovation event showcases payments, in-store analytics, loyalty platforms, and omnichannel solutions to thousands of retail technology buyers.
Robert Gentz
Robert Gentz is Co-founder & Co-CEO of the fashion e-commerce giant Zalando. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Robert leads the fashion e-commerce giant Zalando.
Rockaway Capital
Rockaway Capital is a Prague-based investment group founded in 2013 by Jakub Havrlant, focusing on e-commerce, e-travel, media, fintech, and blockchain ventures across DACH, CEE, and the Balkans. The group's portfolio companies have generated aggregated revenues exceeding €2.5 billion and employ more than 5,000 people in 17 European countries. A notable exit was the sale of its stake in Mall Group, a leading CEE e-commerce platform, to Allegro for $1.13 billion.
Rodolfo Carpintier
Rodolfo Carpintier is a veteran Spanish internet entrepreneur and angel investor who has been active in Spain's digital economy since the mid-1990s. He founded DFJ Espana (the Spanish affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson) and later DAD (Digital Assets Deployment), a venture builder and investment firm. Carpintier has invested in over 60 Spanish and Latin American startups, focusing on e-commerce, digital media, and internet services. He authored 'La Empresa 2.0' and is a frequent speaker on digital entrepreneurship in the Spanish-speaking world. Known as one of Spain's internet pioneers, Carpintier brings decades of operational and investing experience to early-stage founders and remains one of the most active individual investors in the Iberian startup scene.
SALESmanago
SALESmanago is a Kraków-based marketing-automation platform serving mid-market e-commerce companies across Europe. Founded by Grzegorz Błażewicz in 2011, the company offers customer data, segmentation, omnichannel campaign execution, and AI-driven personalization. SILVER LAKE Waterman acquired a majority stake in 2022, valuing the company at hundreds of millions of euros, after which Błażewicz continued investing through Borubar Ventures.
Samaipata
Samaipata is a Madrid-based seed-stage venture capital fund founded in 2016 by José del Barrio (founder of La Nevera Roja) and Eduardo Díez-Hochleitner, investing in marketplace and platform business models with network effects across Europe, with particular focus on Southern Europe, France, and the UK. The fund deploys tickets of €500,000 to €3 million at pre-seed and seed, and has backed over 40 companies whose follow-on rounds from tier-1 funds including Index, Atomico, and Kleiner Perkins have exceeded €250 million in aggregate.
Sebastian Siemiatkowski
CEO/co-founder of Klarna, Sebastian has Polish roots and has made angel investments in Poland. He participated in funding for Warsaw-based custom packaging startup Packhelp, among others. His presence brings a bit of Scandinavian fintech savvy to the Polish ecosystem. Associated startups: Packhelp (and likely other Polish e-commerce enablers).
Showroom.pl
Showroom.pl is a Warsaw-based online fashion marketplace that aggregates independent designers and boutique brands from across Poland, offering curated multibrand discovery for younger consumers. Co-founded by Jan Stasz, the company became one of Poland's best-known fashion-tech successes of the 2010s and is a frequent reference point in the Polish e-commerce ecosystem.
Simon Beckerman
Founder of Depop, the social marketplace for secondhand fashion that became a cultural phenomenon with Gen Z before its acquisition by Etsy. A designer by background, he also co-founded PIG magazine.
Skroutz
Skroutz is the dominant price-comparison and e-commerce marketplace in Greece, routinely ranking among the top five most-visited websites in the country and effectively serving as the discovery layer for most Greek consumer online shopping. Founded in 2005 by George Hadjigeorgiou, Vassilis Stavrou, and Panagiotis Papadimitropoulos as a simple product price-comparison site, it has since evolved into a full marketplace with integrated checkout, Skroutz Last Mile logistics, Skroutz Pay, and Skroutz Plus subscription, becoming the closest thing Greece has to a local answer to Amazon. The company was majority-acquired by CVC Capital Partners in 2021 at a valuation reported around EUR 300 million — one of the largest consumer-tech exits in Greek history — and it continues to run both its marketplace and a logistics arm independently. For the directory, Skroutz shows how a domestically dominant consumer platform can compound over fifteen years to become a strategic asset that global PE buyers are willing to pay premium multiples for.
SKYdeals
Paris-headquartered e-commerce platform for travel retail, with additional offices in Dubai and London. SKYdeals lets airlines, airports, cruise lines, rail operators and retailers monetise passenger dwell time through what it calls a shoppertainment approach, sold as both turnkey software and consulting. The company is an alumnus of the MonacoTech incubator.
Slingshot Ventures
Slingshot Ventures is an Amsterdam-based venture capital firm founded in 2014, focused on late seed and Series A investments in consumer digital brands, e-commerce, and direct-to-consumer startups. The firm invests EUR 500K-3M and works closely with founders on brand building, growth marketing, and customer acquisition strategies. Slingshot's portfolio spans emerging consumer platforms across the Benelux and broader European market, with the team bringing operational experience from scaling digital-first brands and marketplaces.
Smartsupp
Conversational e-commerce platform combining live chat, chatbots and an AI shopping assistant (Mira) to engage visitors and convert leads; used on 100,000+ websites, with leading live-chat market share in Central Europe.
