E-commerce startup ecosystem
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Spacegoods
Spacegoods is a direct-to-consumer wellness brand founded in Amsterdam that sells functional-mushroom and adaptogen drink blends, including a coffee alternative (Rainbow Dust), a matcha blend, an evening relaxation blend (Astro Dust) and an electrolyte blend (Hydro Dust). The company sells through its own online store with UK and international shipping.
Spotawheel
Tech-driven used-car B2C platform that inspects, reconditions and sells pre-owned vehicles with transparency and warranty. Founded 2015, ~250 staff, operating in Greece, Poland, Romania and Germany.
Spryker
Spryker is an enterprise commerce platform offering a composable, API-first architecture for B2B and B2C digital commerce. Based in Berlin and Hamburg, Spryker enables large enterprises to build custom transactional experiences across marketplaces, IoT commerce, and unified commerce scenarios. The company serves enterprise customers across manufacturing, retail, and wholesale, and has raised over $200 million from investors including TCV and One Peak.
Tagpeak
Cashback platform that links shopping rewards to the stock market: a share of each purchase at 300+ partner brands is invested in stocks, with rewards fluctuating daily and a guaranteed minimum.
Taxdoo
Taxdoo is a Hamburg-based tax automation platform founded in 2016 that specializes in VAT compliance, financial accounting, and tax reporting for e-commerce businesses selling across European borders. The platform automates the complex web of cross-border VAT obligations that arise when online sellers store and ship goods across multiple EU countries. Taxdoo integrates with major e-commerce platforms and marketplaces including Amazon, Shopify, and eBay, and handles VAT registration, filing, and reporting across jurisdictions. The company serves thousands of online merchants navigating Europe's fragmented tax landscape.
Thibaud Hug de Larauze
Co-founder and CEO of Back Market, the refurbished-electronics marketplace he co-founded in 2014 to make second-hand devices mainstream. He scaled it into one of Europe's largest circular-economy platforms, valued at over $5bn.
Threeding
Threeding.com is a Bulgarian online marketplace where creators sell, and buyers purchase, free and paid 3D printing models and files across categories such as toys and hobby, art, home and office, tools, education and fashion. Designers can list their own 3D models on the platform for other makers to download and print. Threeding is a portfolio company of Morningside Hill Capital Management.
Tomasz Ciąpała
CEO of Lancerto and active business angel focused on the overlap between traditional retail operations and modern digital commerce. Tomasz frequently mentors D2C founders and contributes as a jury member in startup competitions. His investment interests center on e-commerce, fashion tech, logistics, and tools that improve customer experience or supply-chain performance.
Tomasz Danis
Managing partner at MCI Capital (Internet Ventures), Tomasz is one of the most experienced digital growth investors in Central Europe. His background includes strategy and international operating exposure, and he has led investments across e-commerce, digital health, and online marketplaces. Portfolio and exit references include Frisco.pl, SiDLY, and Morele.net.
Trendyol
Trendyol is Turkey's largest e-commerce platform, operating a marketplace, express delivery service, digital wallet, and food delivery product that together serve tens of millions of customers. Founded in 2010 by Demet Mutlu, the company attracted a major investment from Alibaba Group and has grown into one of the most valuable private technology companies in Europe with a valuation exceeding $16 billion. Trendyol processes millions of orders daily through its logistics infrastructure spanning hundreds of thousands of merchants. The platform is a dominant force in Turkish digital commerce and an increasingly important player in cross-border e-commerce across the broader region.
Trustpilot
Founded in 2007 by Peter Holten Muhlmann, Trustpilot is a Copenhagen-born consumer reviews platform that helps people share feedback about businesses and helps companies respond to and learn from customers. The platform operates a freemium model, pairing public reviews with paid tools for analytics, review invitations, and trust widgets. Trustpilot scaled internationally, opened major offices in London and New York, and went public on the London Stock Exchange in 2021. Today it hosts hundreds of millions of reviews and remains one of Denmark's best known global software successes.
Türkiye Exporters Assembly (TİM)
The Türkiye Exporters Assembly (Türkiye İhracatçılar Meclisi, TİM) is the umbrella body of Turkish exporters. It organises the Istanbul Global E-Export Summit (IGEXX), a cross-border digital commerce and e-export event in Istanbul, in collaboration with the Electronic Commerce Operators Association and the Ministry of Trade.
Tushar Ahluwalia
Tushar Ahluwalia is Co-founder & CEO of the e-commerce roll-up Razor Group. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Tushar leads the e-commerce roll-up Razor Group.
Tylko
Tylko is a direct-to-consumer, digital-first furniture company specialising in made-to-measure shelving and storage. Customers configure pieces online with a parametric configurator and AR app, with each item CNC-manufactured to order in Poland from birch wood and shipped across Europe.
Vianney Vaute
Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Back Market, shaping the brand and product behind the refurbished-electronics marketplace he started with Thibaud Hug de Larauze and Quentin Le Brouster.
Vispera
Image-recognition and AI platform for retail and CPG companies, automating shelf monitoring, planogram compliance, price tracking and competitive intelligence from in-store imagery.
Vital Bites
Vital Bites is a Zagreb-based direct-to-consumer brand selling dog gut-health supplements, including joint and hip, probiotic, and skin and coat chews. The company, registered as Vital Bites d.o.o., ships across more than a dozen European countries including Croatia, Germany, France and the Netherlands through its online store. It reports having served over 30,000 customers and is backed by Zagreb-based investor Feelsgood Capital.
Vivino
Vivino is a Copenhagen founded wine discovery app that lets consumers scan labels and access crowd sourced ratings, tasting notes, and pricing. Founded in 2010 by Heini Zachariassen and Theis Sondergaard, Vivino built the largest wine data community and later expanded into a full marketplace where users can buy wines directly. The company has grown to tens of millions of users and has raised significant venture funding to expand internationally. Vivino is a standout Danish consumer tech company that blended mobile, computer vision, and commerce.
Wallapop
Wallapop is a Barcelona-based mobile-first marketplace for buying and selling second-hand goods, designed as a hyper-local consumer-to-consumer platform for used items. Launched in 2013, it grew into one of Spain's leading second-hand marketplaces and a key player in the circular economy. South Korean internet group Naver, an investor since 2021, agreed to acquire full ownership in a deal announced in August 2025 and completed in early 2026, while the company remained headquartered in Barcelona.
Wayflyer
Wayflyer is a Dublin-based revenue-based financing platform that provides non-dilutive working capital to e-commerce and consumer brands, using their store, payments, and marketing data to underwrite advances in days rather than weeks. Founded in 2019 by Aidan Corbett and Jack Pierse, the company became one of the fastest Irish startups ever to reach unicorn status after raising a Series B at a USD 1.6 billion valuation in 2022, off the back of explosive demand from DTC brands that needed alternatives to equity and bank debt during the post-pandemic inventory crunch. Wayflyer's technical edge is its underwriting model, which ingests Shopify, Amazon, Facebook Ads, and bank data to produce forward revenue forecasts and risk-adjusted offers, and it has expanded from pure cash advances into a broader financial-operations product for e-commerce merchants. In the European ecosystem it is the clearest example of fintech built specifically around the growth capital needs of modern digital brands.
