Top E-Commerce Startups in 2025

Knock is a caring group of people who came together from across the industry with the belief there had to be a better way to serve people in the journey between homes. We offer a first-of-its-kind Knock Bridge Loan™ that gives everyone in the process more convenience, certainty, and competitiveness. Founded in 2015, we have earned the industry’s trust: an A+ Better Business Bureau rating and relationships with more than 120,000 real estate agents in our 75 markets across the US. Launched by founding team members of Trulia, we are funded by industry leading investors, including Foundry Group, Greycroft, RRI, Parker89, and The National Association of Realtors who serves 1.6 million members. We’re most proud of the stories from people we’ve helped get their new home, and the five star Zillow rating from over 750 reviews. To learn more, Knock.com

1stdibs is the premier luxury marketplace for rare and beautiful objects in furniture, fashion, fine art, and jewelry. We connect the world’s most respected dealers with buyers who share in the pursuit of beautiful design. In doing so we strive to define and shape the future of antique, vintage, and contemporary buying-and-selling. We consider ourselves unique among start-ups. We’ve been around since 2001, yet still exhibit strong entrepreneurial DNA that informs how we operate and function as a company. It helps that we are led by a seasoned executive team that has seen it all: CEO David Rosenblatt formerly ran DoubleClick and negotiated its sale to Google for $3.2 billion. Other executives have held senior roles at eBay, Gilt Groupe, FreshDirect, BarnesandNoble.com, MLB.com, Group Commerce, and Venmo. We are backed by prominent venture capital firms like Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Insight Ventures, and Spark Capital. Alibaba Group has also made a significant investment.

Thumbtack is a technology leader building the modern home management platform. Through the Thumbtack app, homeowners can effortlessly manage their homes — confidently knowing what to do, when to do it, and who to hire. Bringing the $500 billion home services industry online, Thumbtack empowers millions of homeowners to fix, maintain, and improve their most valuable asset. The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Javelin Venture Partners, Baillie Gifford, and Capital G, among others.

Tapcart is a SaaS platform that enables ecommerce merchants to launch and manage mobile apps for their brand. As the market leader in mobile ecommerce, we focus on providing great experiences for our customers and for mobile shoppers worldwide. Our platform powers the mobile apps of some of the largest shopping brands, including Fashion Nova, Chubbies, The Hundreds and many more. We are inspired by the future. We work to inspire the future. Recently featured at Shopify UNITE, Google I/O and in The Verge, Tapcart is trusted by over 5,000 brands to launch and manage their mobile apps.

Today, we no longer “go shopping. We “are shopping” --- everywhere, in every mode, in every moment. Social, mobile, marketplaces, voice, AI and more have all led to the creation of a new shopper’s journey where shoppers are discovering and buying products everywhere, at any moment. Salsify enables brands to centrally manage all of the data they need to create commerce experiences on the digital shelf in one system. With Salsify, brands can manage their core data alongside a Walmart version of the product, a D2C version of the product and so on. Salsify empowers brands to win on the digital shelf by delivering consistent and engaging commerce experiences anywhere a consumer shops. By combining PIM, DAM, syndication, analytics, GDSN, enhanced content and order and inventory management into a single unified platform, brands can improve business agility, achieve faster time to market, and increase sales and market share.

A live event’s better because of the people by your side. You see the same things. You feel the same feels. You walk out changed for the better. And that’s why SeatGeek makes it easy to score sweet deals on tickets to more events than we can count.

Zora is a group of individuals working towards a new paradigm for creators by enabling the creation, curation, and collection of cryptomedia (cryptomedia.wtf). We believe that by enabling a more equitable system for creators and communities, we will fundamentally rediscover the power of the internet. Zora is built on top of Ethereum: an incredibly powerful tool for open, transparent, internet-native value creation and exchange. Powerful, but famously hard to use. We’re working tirelessly to make Zora available to as many creators as possible, and to make it easy for everyone to use day to day. Luckily, our team has experience in doing just that for millions of people around the world during our time at Coinbase—one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. Join us in our mission to build a new creator and community-owned economy. Read our manifesto: zora.co/manifesto

Productboard is a customer-centric product management platform that helps organizations get the right products to market, faster. Over 5,400 companies, including Microsoft, Zoom, 1-800-Contacts, and UiPath, use Productboard to understand what users need, prioritize what to build next, and rally everyone around their roadmap. With offices in San Francisco, Prague, and Vancouver, Productboard is backed by leading investors like Dragoneer Investment Group, Tiger Global Management, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Credo Ventures. Learn more at productboard.com.

Our technology combines advanced cyber intelligence, identity analysis and behavioral data to create a multi-layered fraud detection mechanism. The technology is fully automated so that it can approve or deny transactions in real-time, rendering “yes” or “no” decisions in under 300 millseconds. Furthermore, the technology is so accurate that Forter fully backs its transactions with a 100% chargeback protection program.

SIGNIFYD’s full-service cloud platform simplifies fraud detection through a financial guarantee, allowing businesses to increase sales while reducing fraud losses. SIGNIFYD is in use by multiple companies on the Fortune 1000 and Internet Retailer Top 500 list.