They will become the biggest DTC player in healthcare apparel. All metrics pointing in the right direction, in a growing sector.

This trend continues to accelerate around the world. The big are getting bigger. There are conglomerate groups that are controlling the largest sellers on the big marketplaces now.

This is so useful for a few reasons. One, it’s digital. It’s not limited by the physical. So the creative surface area is infinite. We are on a multi-decade shift from spending more time in physical worlds to spending more time in digital ones. These sort of “bridge” solutions will pop up in this interim period to help bridge the gap. I don’t know if it will work. But SOMETHING like this will.

Payments is a hot space, and more so for B2B payments. There are only so many players out there.

It’s an interesting idea and almost the evolution of what WooCommerce was supposed to do. Let’s weave commerce into any content experience you can.

“Reels in $$” was taken. I like underserved categories but like everything the success of this will depend on inventory.

$33M in the till led by McRock Capital. Looks like a lot of interesting players and technology. For some reason, I still feel this is an underinvested space.

I thought the best way to get funding was to add “ship” to your name. Perhaps I was wrong. “Headless” is apparently the word you’re looking for. Seriously though, it looks like Shopistry is a data connector play plus a CMS. Is it it’s own eCom platform? Not certain. It connects to Shopify and others.

I dunno about this one. Your guess is as good as mine!

Logixboard gives freight-forwarders their own platform for transparency & service w/ their consumers. Just raised $13M. Possible they get scooped up by a larger player like Convoy or Transfix later.

The biggest applications are for college dorms, multi-family residential settings, apartments, etc. They could be an acquisition target by someone like goPuff with a similar consumer segment target.

While I’ve personally seen cross-border decreasing on client’s radars in the past few years based on trade tensions and the strength of the dollar, cross-border startups continue to raise money at a good clip.

Raises $200M at $1.8B valuation. This is an undeniable supplier as well as consumer trend to ethically source products.

Impressive amount of traction for a young startup. It wants to be the connectivity layer between the eCom platform and all sorts of interesting B2B payment scenarios, so that as a merchant you don’t need to build these custom.

$50M at a $1B+ valuation is extremely unusual in this world. The headline says they want to acquire companies which means this is just a cash-flow raise. Strong positive signal.

2021 fundraising trick: put “ship” in your name. It will be interesting to see if Shopify keeps investing in this space too.

They specialize in food that would otherwise be wasted, which is an idea I can get behind!

Why aren’t startups like this funded and founded more? I think we know the answer, but seriously VC community get with it.

The company is designed to streamline B2B payments to suppliers. Competitive space but payments is always hot.

This is a great concept and I see a bright future here. High-value shipping is risky and complex. Any simplicity here is going to produce outsized returns.