Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best New York City based E-Commerce companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the E-Commerce industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top New York City E-Commerce Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
VTEX
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VTEX focuses on e-commerce strategies for major retailers and consumer brands.
nate
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nate is a shopping app that enables users to buy a product from any online retailer with the click of a button.
Riskified
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Riskified empowers businesses to realize the full potential of eCommerce by making it safe, accessible, and frictionless
Warby Parker
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Warby Parker is a lifestyle brand that offers designer eyewear while being a socially conscious business.
Squarespace
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Squarespace is an all-in-one platform for websites, domains, online stores, marketing tools, and scheduling.
Birchbox
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Birchbox is a New York-based online subscription service that specializes in makeup and other beauty related products.
Goldbelly
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Goldbelly is an online delivery platform for specialty food makers and artisans.
Popshop Live
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Popshop Live is a mobile live streaming marketplace where talented individuals can create and host their own shopping channel.
Slice
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Slice is a provider of tools for pizzerias to manage the digital side of their businesses.
Elevate Brands
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Elevate Brands buys consumer Amazon FBA brands and elevates them to their full potential.
Sketchfab
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Sketchfab provides a platform to publish and find 3D models online
Forter
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Forter offers a fraud solution that helps retailers grow sales, lower costs, and improve customer experience via its Decision as Service.
Casper
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Casper is a sleep startup that launches a comfortable mattress sold directly to consumers, eliminating commission driven, inflated prices.
Rally
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Rally is a platform for buying and selling equity shares in collectible assets, enabling anyone to invest in one-of-a-kind collectibles.
Rent the Runway
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Rent the Runway is an online e-commerce website that allows women to rent designer apparel and accessories.
JOOR
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JOOR is an online global fashion marketplace, connecting brands and retailers.
BarkBox
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Barkbox is a subscription-based e-commerce and content company for dog lovers.
Pietra
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Pietra is a business-in-a-box platform that provides Creators all the tools they need to build a business.
1stdibs
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1stdibs is an internet company that offers a marketplace for rare and desirable objects in furniture, fashion, fine art, and jewelry.
Scentbird
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Scentbird enables its users to choose and get supply of sample designer fragrances on a monthly basis before buying them.
Yotpo
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Yotpo is an eCommerce marketing platform that helps brands accelerate their direct-to-consumer growth.
Hungryroot
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Hungryroot is a provider of an artificial intelligence-powered personalized grocery service.
Vroom
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Vroom is an innovative, end-to-end ecommerce platform designed to offer a better way to buy and sell used vehicles.
Blue Apron
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Blue Apron is a grocery delivery service company that delivers a recipe and the required ingredients right to their customer’s doorstep.
Freshly
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Freshly delivers gourmet ready-made meals, prepared and delivered at the door.
Letgo
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Letgo is a second-hand shopping app that helps users buy and sell locally.
Olo
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Olo is a SaaS digital ordering and delivery platform for restaurant brands.
Rebag
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Rebag is an online luxury handbag authority that rethinks the role of luxury in the secondary market.
The Farmer’s Dog
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A smarter, healthier pet food — delivered. #longlivedogs
AptDeco
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AptDeco is a peer to peer marketplace for buying and selling furniture.
ShopShops
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ShopShops is a livestream, interactive cross-border shopping marketplace that connects retail stores globally with Chinese consumers.
Saks Fifth Avenue
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Saks Fifth Avenue was the vision of Horace Saks and Bernard Gimbel.
Harry’s
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Harry is a developer of an online platform used to sell shaving equipment and accessories for men.
Away
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Away is a modern travel and lifestyle brand designed with thoughtful features that solve real travel problems
Bluecore
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Bluecore uses predictive intelligence to automatically connect shoppers to products, content, and offers, wherever they are.
Blink Health
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Blink Health is a web-based application that enables users to search for medical prescriptions online and pick them up from any pharmacy.
Lolli
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Lolli is a rewards app that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.
Zola
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Zola is a wedding company that reinvents the wedding planning and registry experience.
Cover Genius
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Cover Genius provides an insurance distribution platform designed to protect the customers of the world’s largest digital companies.
Shapeways
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Shapeways redefines product creation by offering digital manufacturing solutions.
Orchard
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Orchard is an online platform for buying and selling residential real estate.
Daily Harvest
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We take care of food, so food can take care of you
ROKT
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Rokt is an ecommerce marketing technology that gives customers a more personalized and relevant experience while buying online.
Bombas
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Bombas is a comfort-focused apparel brand with a mission to help those in need. One Purchased = One Donated.
MakeSpace
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MakeSpace is an on-demand storage company that makes it easy to order, store, and retrieve physical belongings.
Rowing Blazers
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Rowing Blazers is a youthful, irreverent menswear label dedicated to the idea that the classics can be cool.
Teachable
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Teachable is a venture-backed company that allows anyone to create and sell online courses.
HealNow
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HealNow is the online payments and on-boarding platform for pharmacies.
Obsess
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Obsess is a platform for immersive mobile commerce.
Grailed
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Grailed is a NYC-based peer-to-peer marketplace company.
Kaiyo
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Kaiyo is an online gently-used furniture marketplace for pre-owned furniture.
Teachers Pay Teachers
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Teachers Pay Teachers is a community; the first and largest open marketplace where teachers share, sell/buy original educational resources.
Hubble Contacts
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Hubble is a contact lenses maker and retailer.
Abound
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Abound is a marketplace that helps entrepreneurs gain the insights and connections needed to place their products on retail shelves.
Clyde
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Clyde is a platform that connects small retailers to insurance companies to launch and manage product protection programs.
Burrow
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Burrow specializes in selling various luxury furniture online.
Food52
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Food52 is an online portal that provides a curated shop, content, and community for kitchen and home enthusiasts.
Fancy
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Fancy curates the most innovative fashion, accessories, art and gadgets from emerging brands and artists across the globe.
Moda Operandi
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Moda Operandi is a platform for emerging fashion designers and retailers.
BOND
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BOND is a mobile-first startup that brings back the powerful personal touch of handwritten communication and the art of the cool.
BaubleBar
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BaubleBar is a one-stop retailer for affordable, on-trend fashion jewelry.
Prose
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Custom hair care made fresh in NYC with natural active ingredients
Plated
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Plated home-delivers 30-minute gourmet recipes and ingredients.
Negotiatus
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Purchasing software that helps business administrators and users place orders, control spend, and submit payment across their vendors.
Narrativ
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Narrativ is a subscription technology platform for brands to acquire new customers through trusted creators, not sponsored content or ads.
Yardline
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Yardline is an offering Capital-as-a-Service technology for e-commerce platforms, marketplaces, and direct capital providers.
Ordergroove
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Ordergroove transforms brands & retailers from episodic transactions to recurring revenue via frictionless, recurring customer experiences.
Dia&Co
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Dia&Co sells plus size clothing and accessories via a try at home model.
Kafene
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Kafene is a mission driven startup with the goal of empowering flexible ownership.
Ten Little
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Ten Little is a predictive e-commerce platform that makes shopping for kids easy at every stage.
TodayTix
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TodayTix is the premier digital gateway to shows, arts, and cultural experiences.
Bonobos
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Bonobos is an e-commerce driven clothing brand focused on delivering great fit and excellent customer service.
Acquco
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Acquco is an e-commerce platform that focuses on acquiring and growing Amazon Marketplace businesses.
Chord
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Chord offers a commerce-as-a-service software that provides businesses with technology and products to access meaningful data.
Bulletin
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Bulletin operates as a wholesale marketplace and community that connects premium brands and retailers.
Thinx
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A healthier world through sustainable solutions to menstruation and incontinence.
Botify
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Botify is the first unified suite of applications assisting enterprise SEO stakeholders in each phase of the organic search process.
Queen of Raw
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Marketplace for fashion brands and retailers to buy/sell unused textiles, keeping them out of landfills and turning pollution into profit
Exponea (acquired by Bloomreach)
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Customer Data and Experience Platform (CDXP) with marketing automation capabilities
IEX Group
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IEX is an equity trading venue owned exclusively by buy-side investors, including mutual funds, hedge funds, and family offices.
Sailthru
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Sailthru helps modern marketers acquire, grow, and retain customers.
Flaviar
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Flaviar, a spirits tasting club, offers a subscription service that helps members discover new liquor products through sample tasting packs.
INTURN
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INTURN is an enterprise solution providing custom solutions to efficiently convert slow-moving and excess inventory.
Bespoke Post
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Goods and guidance, delivered in a monthly box of awesome – plus a full shop of uniquely cool products.
HODINKEE
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HODINKEE designs watches and is a media and retail platform providing a point of view on industry news and releases.
Ohi
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Ohi enables same-day delivery for e-commerce brands by developing the Amazon Prime Now experience.
Rockets of Awesome
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Rockets of Awesome is a direct-to-consumer kids’ apparel brand, designing and selling over-the-top clothes.
Quirky
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Quirky is a developer of a crowd-sourced invention platform that engages participants to collaborate in every aspect of product creation.
Thirstie
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E-commerce solutions for beverage alcohol brands.
Clinch
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Clinch delivers hyper-personalized creative experiences and consumer intelligence across all channels
SellersFunding
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SellersFunding is an alternative working capital solution for e-commerce marketplace sellers.
Spring
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Spring is a retail company that sells a wide range of items from apparel to home and garden items.
Perfitly
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Perfitly is the only accurate, end-to-end solution that bridges the online divide between a customer and the fitting room experience.
The Sill
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The Sill offers ceramic planters potted with houseplants.
Intrinsic Brands
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Intrinsic Brands is an eCommerce acquisition and growth platform uniquely focused on digital-first health and wellness brands.
Pair Eyewear
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Pair Eyewear is an eyewear brand designed and made specifically for children.
Andie
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Andie is a designer and manufacturer of one-piece women’s swimsuits and sells them to consumers through its e-commerce platform.
Feedvisor
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Feedvisor is an algorithmic pricing and revenue intelligence platform for online retailers.
