E-commerce AI Startup Jobs

Ernesta is a direct-to-consumer brand selling custom-sized rugs through an ecommerce platform paired with a growing network of physical showrooms and an in-house fabrication facility. Founded in 2022 by Peloton co-founder John Foley, it positions itself as the largest custom-sized rug retailer in the U.S. It has raised venture funding across Seed, Series A, and Series B rounds led by Addition.

All-in-one online ordering and restaurant marketing platform that helps independent restaurants build commission-free websites and apps, manage CRM and loyalty programs, and automate marketing with AI agents.

Moloco is a machine learning company that powers performance advertising and monetization for app developers, marketers, and retailers. Its core products — Moloco Ads, Moloco Retail Media Platform, and Moloco Streaming Monetization — apply proprietary ML models to first-party data to drive measurable user growth and revenue. Founded in 2013 by former Google engineers, the company is headquartered in Redwood City / Menlo Park, California.

Mollie is a European payment service provider offering a simple, developer-friendly API for online payments, subscriptions, and financial services. It supports a wide range of payment methods across Europe, serving tens of thousands of businesses from startups to enterprises.

Creator monetization and affiliate marketing platform connecting brands with influencers through curated storefronts, commission tracking, and data-driven creator partnerships.

Primer builds payment orchestration infrastructure for online merchants, giving teams a no-code workflow layer to connect processors, optimize routing, and manage the full payment stack through one integration.

Co-branded credit card platform enabling consumer brands to launch customized Visa and Mastercard rewards programs, deposit accounts, and installment loan offerings.

Siena builds autonomous customer experience agents for commerce brands, combining conversational AI, workflow automation, and analytics to resolve support issues while preserving brand voice.

Wi-Fi landline phone for kids and families that reinvents the home phone experience without screens, apps, or texting. Features parental controls via companion app to approve contacts, set quiet hours, and enable Do Not Disturb. Priced at $75 with free calling between Tin Cans or $10/month for regular phone numbers. Addresses smartphone addiction concerns and went viral, selling out first two production runs.

AI-enabled image editing app offering background removal, retouching, and batch editing services, processing 5 billion images annually and serving over 150 million downloads for e-commerce and social media content creators.

Beauty brand behind viral Wonder Blading lip products; tech-infused cosmetics.

Posh is a New York-based events, ticketing, and social-discovery platform (posh.vip) that lets organizers create, sell tickets to, and grow communities around live events while users discover experiences via a 'Netflix-style' feed. It has issued ~25M tickets across ~50,000 organizers and ~8M users. This is distinct from posh.ai, the conversational/voice-AI provider for banks and credit unions.

Wayflyer is a revenue-based financing platform for e-commerce merchants, providing flexible capital to help online businesses grow.

Olipop is a prebiotic soda brand creating healthier alternatives to traditional sodas, using plant fiber and botanicals to support digestive health while delivering classic soda flavors.

Partiful is a social event planning platform that makes it easy to create, share, and manage invitations for parties and gatherings, named Google's Best App of 2024.

Whop is a social commerce and software marketplace that helps creators and internet businesses sell digital products, memberships, and community access with integrated payments and growth tools.

Redo is a post-purchase platform for e-commerce brands offering returns, exchanges, and purchase protection.

London-based direct-to-consumer fresh cat food platform delivering personalized nutrition, having served over 100 million fresh meals and captured 2% of the UK cat food market

Lightship is the first American all-electric recreational vehicle company, designing and producing aerodynamic, battery-powered travel trailers. Founded by Tesla alumni, the company builds zero-emission travel trailers including the Atmos and Panos models, with deliveries starting in 2026. Lightship is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado.

Generative design software for fashion and consumer brands to rapidly create on-brand visual concepts.

A24 is an independent entertainment company producing and distributing films, television, and related consumer media products.

Doji is an AI fashion shopping app that creates a personalized avatar so consumers can try on real apparel products, explore looks, and share style ideas before purchasing.

Predictive delivery intelligence platform providing centimeter-precise indoor tracking for last-mile delivery. Uses smartphone sensors to solve the 'last 500 feet' problem for logistics and e-commerce.

InHouse is a marketplace and AI-powered design platform that helps short-term rental hosts and property residents furnish and design their spaces. The platform combines AI floorplan analysis with professional design recommendations and offers exclusive pricing on products from premium brands.

Numan is a UK-based men's digital health platform offering telehealth services including treatment for erectile dysfunction, hair loss, weight management, and related conditions. Provides online consultations and medications delivered directly.

Banking and cash management for e-commerce brands with real-time insights.

Members-only home swapping network enabling a travel-rich lifestyle at a fraction of hotel costs, with 220,000+ homes worldwide where 90% are primary residences, requiring members to host to travel.

Post-purchase commerce platform that helps brands manage returns, exchanges, tracking, fraud, and other operations that protect margins and improve customer retention.

Sequen provides real-time search, ranking, recommendation, and personalization infrastructure for consumer-internet and e-commerce companies. Its platform uses Large Event Models (LEMs) to dynamically re-rank content and products in under 50ms based on live in-session behavior (clicks, scrolls, views) rather than only historical profiles. Founded by ex-Etsy ranking lead Zoë Weil, it processes billions of monthly requests for Fortune 500 customers.

Wizard builds an AI-native shopping agent experience, covering conversational product discovery and checkout workflows for online commerce.

Blockchain-based loyalty and payments platform for restaurants, letting diners earn $FLY cryptocurrency rewards at participating restaurants. Built on Coinbase's Base layer-2 protocol.

High-protein, better-for-you meat snacks available across major US retailers.

GrubMarket is an AI-powered technology and software platform for the food supply chain, combining e-commerce marketplace operations with industry software tools.

Merciv is an AI-native consumer intelligence platform for enterprise commerce, connecting internal systems, syndicated research, social signals, and the open web into one queryable layer that returns cited answers. Its agentic system, EVA (Enterprise Virtual Analyst), turns price shifts, demand changes, and competitor activity into recommendations and automated workflows. After two years in stealth, it launched publicly in January 2026 and says its platform drives 8-figure gross margin improvements for large retailers.

Neon is a modern direct-to-consumer payment platform built specifically for mobile games, helping game publishers build branded digital stores and bypass costly app store fees while providing players with personalized experiences and publishers with higher profit margins.

Picsart is an AI-powered creative platform for photo and video editing with over 150 million monthly active users. It provides AI-driven tools for content creation, background removal, and design for both consumers and businesses.

Subscription commerce platform powering recurring revenue for e-commerce brands.

Embedded product protection platform enabling merchants to offer extended warranties.

Intro is a marketplace for booking one-on-one video calls with in-demand experts across business, wellness, design, and lifestyle categories. The platform connects users with celebrity advisors and industry professionals for personalized advice sessions.

Community-obsessed live shopping platform for rare plants, vintage decor, fashion, beauty, and unique goods through daily live shows from trusted sellers, empowering creators and collectors to build thriving businesses.

Rove is building the first universal airline mile, a loyalty program that lets users earn and redeem miles across dozens of international airlines and hotel chains worldwide. Through a Chrome shopping extension and hotel booking platform, Rove enables travelers to earn transferable miles without needing credit cards. The Y Combinator-backed startup partners with airlines including Air France-KLM, Qatar Airways, and Finnair.

Stan is an all-in-one commerce platform for creators to sell digital products, courses, coaching sessions, memberships, and bookings from a single link-in-bio storefront, combining checkout, audience monetization, and creator tooling in one product.

Community-driven fitness platform that allows users to discover and host in-person fitness classes, events and experiences. Transforms gyms and studios into social hubs with over 1 million monthly users across 24 US cities.

Climate tech company building a carbon-smart wood supply chain and marketplace for reclaimed timber.

Ekho is an end-to-end vehicle commerce platform that unlocks online sales and automates in-store workflows, consolidating websites, F&I, DMV work, taxes, and compliance to power compliant, digital sales of titled vehicles with a seamless, Tesla-like experience.

Hotplate is an online ordering and drop-selling platform for independent chefs, bakers, and food creators. Sellers set up a storefront in minutes, schedule timed food "drops" (events), and coordinate local pickup or delivery with hundreds or thousands of customers. Founded in 2020 and part of Y Combinator's Summer 2020 batch, the company is based in San Francisco.

Medusa builds open-source commerce infrastructure and modular APIs that let developers compose storefronts, carts, checkouts, and backend workflows without adopting a monolithic commerce stack.

Moonshot AI builds an autonomous conversion-optimization platform that turns static e-commerce websites into self-improving ones. Its generative-AI system analyzes visitor behavior, generates and A/B-tests design, copy and UX variations, then deploys the winning variants automatically without engineering work. Founded in 2023 by Aviv Frenkel and Evyatar Segal, it is headquartered in New York City with a team also in Tel Aviv.

MUBI is a global movie streaming platform and production company that curates and distributes arthouse and independent films.

New Generation, also known as New Gen, builds AI-native commerce infrastructure that turns static product catalogs into structured data, generative storefronts, and conversational shopping experiences for brands and agents.

Recraft is a text-to-image model and design platform for photorealistic assets, vector generation, custom brand styles, mockups, and collaborative creative workflows.

Luxury vacation rental platform combining curated hotel-quality smart homes with proprietary AI-powered operations technology, scaled to over 1,000 homes with industry-leading NPS of 85.

&Open is a certified B Corporation providing a powerful corporate gifting platform that makes it easy for companies to send thoughtful, sustainable gifts at scale, serving notable clients including Airbnb, Spotify, and Intercom.

Copper is a Berkeley-based startup that makes battery-equipped induction stoves that plug into regular 120V outlets, enabling easy upgrades from gas to induction without costly electrical work, combining premium cooking performance with grid-supporting battery technology.

Liquid Death is a better-for-you beverage brand selling canned water, iced tea, and sparkling energy with a sustainability-focused, entertainment-driven consumer brand.

Torch Dental is a NYC-based B2B platform that digitizes dental supply procurement, letting practices discover, order, and pay for supplies from 100+ vendors in one place with price transparency. It also handles inventory tracking, spend analytics, and back-office ordering workflows, saving practices an average of ~16% on supplies. Founded by brothers Khaled and Yassine Boukadoum after watching their dentist sister struggle with manual ordering.

AI-native commerce platform enabling brands to create dynamic, personalized shopping experiences across every digital touchpoint. Bridges the gap between ad creative and checkout for DTC brands on Meta and TikTok.

Vivrelle is a membership club that gives subscribers access to a shared closet of designer handbags, fine jewelry, and diamonds for a monthly fee, with tiers ranging from about $45 to $309/month. Members can borrow items indefinitely, swap them, or buy pieces they love at member-only discounts. Founded in 2018 by Blake and Wayne Geffen, the company operates a NYC showroom plus a multi-city partnership with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.

Flash-frozen specialty coffee capsule company that delivers barista-quality coffee to consumers, requiring no machine — just add water or milk to enjoy.

Dub is an open-source link attribution platform that powers short links, QR codes, conversion tracking, and affiliate programs for modern marketing teams. Used by over 1,000 companies including Twilio, Vercel, Perplexity, and Buffer, it provides advanced analytics and branded link management infrastructure.

Onton is an AI-powered product search and discovery engine that uses neuro-symbolic, multimodal search to help shoppers find the right product. Originally focused on furniture (formerly Deft), the platform is expanding to apparel and consumer electronics. It aims to dramatically shorten shopping decision time compared to traditional e-commerce browsing.

Phia is a New York-based AI shopping assistant, offered as a mobile app and browser extension, that compares prices across thousands of retailers and resale platforms to find the cheapest new or secondhand version of an item. Founded in 2023 by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, it launched publicly in April 2025 and has since surpassed 1M users and 6,200 retail partners. It monetizes through retail/affiliate partnerships and positions itself as the AI alignment layer for commerce.

Leisure-enhancing sunscreen brand based in Miami that creates the world's best-smelling sunscreen products with nostalgic appeal, sold nationwide through Ulta Beauty, Nordstrom, Anthropologie, BlueMercury, and Aerie, building a lifestyle brand around sun protection and leisure culture.

Alloy Automation provides an embedded integrations platform that enables product and engineering teams to build, deploy, and manage SaaS integrations. The platform offers low-code integration builders and connectivity APIs for B2B software companies.

Alta is an AI-powered personal stylist app that organizes your wardrobe, creates outfit recommendations, and enables virtual try-ons using a digital avatar. Backed by Menlo Ventures and LVMH-backed Aglae Ventures, Alta leverages over a dozen proprietary multimodal AI models trained in-house on fashion data.

AI-powered inventory management platform that helps retail and fashion brands predict demand, optimize stock levels, reduce waste, and increase sales through intelligent forecasting.

Beacons builds an all-in-one business platform for creators, combining link-in-bio websites, audience management, analytics, email marketing, monetization, and storefront-style tools for creator-led businesses.

Beehiiv is a newsletter platform built for growth, serving tens of thousands of publishers and reaching hundreds of millions of readers monthly. The platform provides tools for newsletter creation, audience growth, monetization through ads and subscriptions, and comprehensive analytics.

BERO produces premium non-alcoholic beer with uncompromising taste, co-founded by Tom Holland, approaching eight figures in revenue within its first year.

Super app platform enabling companies to embed lightweight mini-apps into existing mobile applications for payments, remittances, eSIM, lending, and marketplace features.

AI-powered shopping platform building a more personalized way to discover, compare, and buy products online.

AI-powered commerce platform that lets independent sellers and creators launch community-driven marketplaces with live selling, auctions, and paid communities.

Duffel provides a powerful API that enables developers and businesses to search, book, and manage flights and other travel products without the complexity of legacy travel infrastructure.

DZINLY is a virtual exterior design platform that helps homeowners visualize and plan home renovation projects. The platform provides professional design services and 3D renderings, allowing users to experiment with color palettes, materials, and upgrades before committing to physical changes.

Flock AI (Flock Shopping) builds AI tools for visual commerce and shopping experiences, helping brands and retailers improve product discovery and conversion.

Ghost is a non-profit organization building open source technology for modern publishing. It provides a professional blogging and newsletter platform with built-in email newsletters and paid subscriptions, used by publishers worldwide.

Golden Child is a Miami-based direct-to-consumer pet nutrition brand building a science-backed fresh food system for dogs, including a shelf-stable $19.95 'drizzle' topper and a fresh-frozen meal system with protein blocks. Founded by former Hims & Hers VP of Product Quentin Lacornerie and Hims & Hers co-founder Jack Abraham, it was incubated at Atomic and operates a proprietary human-grade supply chain. It launched publicly in April 2026 with $37M in total backing from Redpoint Ventures, Atomic, and A*.

Gordian Software builds APIs that enable the world's leading travel organizations to increase revenue by seamlessly selling airline ancillaries and add-ons, serving over 60 million passengers monthly across 100+ airline partnerships.

Direct-to-consumer premium olive oil brand known for its signature squeeze bottles and high-quality, single-origin Spanish olive oils designed for everyday cooking.

Creator management platform for ecommerce brands to discover creators, run influencer programs, manage relationships, and measure revenue across campaigns.

Helcim provides payment processing software and merchant services for small and midsize businesses, combining payments acceptance, invoicing, subscriptions, and commerce tools in one platform.

Italic is a consumer commerce platform that sells unlabeled luxury goods directly from the same manufacturers behind premium brands.

Limy provides infrastructure platform for the agentic web, enabling brands to control visibility and revenue as AI agents retrieve information and execute actions on behalf of users.

Premium bottled water brand offering purified spring water from protected mountain springs in Southern California, exclusively in glass bottles. Features chemical-free membrane filtration, precise mineralization with trace magnesium and Celtic sea salt, third-party lab verification accessible via QR codes, PFAS-free, plastic-free, and NSF certified for transparency and purity.

Malachyte builds real-time behavior intelligence and personalization AI for e-commerce sites, constructing a live behavioral profile for every visitor including anonymous first-time shoppers. Its two-headed vector architecture models shopper intent and product preference simultaneously to reorder products and adapt recommendations across the storefront. The founding team previously built the behavioral intelligence infrastructure behind most of Spotify's recommendation system.

Nomba (formerly Kudi) is a Nigerian fintech company that provides business banking, POS terminals, online payments, and international wire transfers for businesses across Africa. It operates one of the largest agent banking and point-of-sale networks in Nigeria.

Omi is a 3D AI-powered virtual photography studio for generating realistic product images and marketing content.

Operand is an AI platform designed to replace traditional management consulting, starting with pricing and discount strategy for e-commerce and retail businesses. The platform integrates with financial systems and CRM tools to deliver live strategic recommendations verified by human experts including ex-MBB consultants. Founded in 2024 and backed by YC W25, Felicis, and SV Angel.

Ordo is America's fastest-growing K-12 school food service platform, operating a marketplace that pairs schools with local chefs to deliver fresh, homestyle meals. It serves 100+ schools across 15+ states.

AI-powered photo editing platform offering tools for background removal, image upscaling, and automatic photo retouching to enhance visual content for e-commerce, advertising, and social media.

Pogo empowers consumers to unlock value from their personal data by providing cashback rewards in exchange for purchase data, helping merchants gain real-time consumer insights while enabling over 3 million users to earn and save money.

Reebelo operates a global marketplace for refurbished consumer electronics and lifestyle products. The platform connects buyers with vetted sellers across phones, laptops, and other devices, focusing on affordability and sustainability in the circular economy.

Cloud-based AI-powered image editing platform offering face swapping, video editing, image upscaling, watermark removal, and background removal tools

YC-backed procurement platform simplifying indirect spend management for operations teams in 3PLs, distributors, and retailers with real-time pricing from 100+ industrial vendors.

Rintin is an AI-powered B2B commerce platform in Mexico that lets small retailers and resellers source inventory directly from manufacturers and wholesale importers, with 15,000+ SKUs across apparel, cosmetics and stationery. It bundles embedded credit, nationwide logistics and digital selling tools into a single marketplace serving 12,000+ micro-entrepreneurs. Founded by Argentine entrepreneurs Quinto Van Peborgh and Gastón Greco, it is headquartered in Mexico City.

Safara builds a hotel discovery and booking platform that curates standout properties and gives travelers rewards, trip management, and mobile-first booking tools.

Slate Auto is a Bezos-backed EV startup building a customizable, sub-$25,000 electric pickup truck. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Troy, Michigan, it has raised roughly $1.4 billion to date and targets the start of production by the end of 2026. The company reports over 150,000 reservations for its modular, accessory-driven truck.

Stash builds a direct-to-player commerce platform for game studios to own checkout, improve acquisition efficiency, and grow lifetime value outside app-store fees.

Sway is a material innovation company that harnesses seaweed to create home-compostable replacements for single-use plastic packaging. Their patent-pending TPSea resin is 100% biobased and microplastic-free. Named TIME Best Invention of 2025.

Easy-to-use online video editing platform for creating stunning videos, adding subtitles, and growing audience with professional tools

Volta is an AI-powered B2B commerce platform that automates sales administration for distributors and wholesalers in Europe. The platform digitalizes product catalogs, automates order processing, and integrates with ERP systems.