Ecommerce & quick-commerce startups in Berlin

Lea-Sophie Cramer, Sebastian Pollok

Founded 2013, a D2C 'sensual wellness' / sexual-lifestyle e-commerce brand that de-stigmatized the category with TV-driven mainstream marketing. ProSiebenSat.1 invested in 2014 and became majority owner in 2...

Christian Bertermann, Hakan Koç (Amaury Sepulchre)

Founded 2012, a pan-European used-car marketplace (wirkaufendeinauto.de / AUTO1.com wholesale / Autohero consumer retail). Raised ~$2B in private capital; IPO'd on Frankfurt in February 2021 raising ~$1.8B a...

Filip Dames, Christian Meermann, Daniel Glasner

Founded 2012–13 by Zalando/Spotify/Uber operators, a pan-European seed/early-stage VC. Strong consumer & commerce track record (Amorelie, Forto, Flixbus, and more) and a natural anchor investor for Berlin D2...

Frederick Roehder, Richard Schwenke, Tobias Tschötsch

Founded 2014, a B2B online marketplace for tools, hardware and MRO (maintenance/repair/operations) supplies for tradespeople. Acquired by German tool specialist Hoffmann Group (Hoffmann SE) in June 2017 for ...

Michael Wax, Ferry Heilemann, Fabian Heilemann, Erik Muttersbach

Founded 2016 as FreightHub; a digital freight forwarder and supply-chain platform (e-commerce enabler / logistics). Same founding team behind DailyDeal, sold to Google. Raised a $240M+ SoftBank-led round in ...

Michael Cassau

Founded 2015, a consumer-electronics rental/subscription platform (smartphones, laptops, VR) positioned as an anti-e-waste alternative to buying. Offers 8,000+ products across Germany, US and Spain. Hit unic...

Marc Appelhoff (CEO) & co-founders

Founded 2009 (Rocket Internet stable), an online furniture and home-accessories retailer with 250,000+ SKUs across Europe and Brazil. IPO'd in 2018; taken private in 2022 and now a wholly-owned subsidiary of...

Dirk Graber, Björn Sykora, Philipp Frenkel, Thilo Hardt (Lukasz Gadowski)

Founded 2007 (shop live 2008), Europe's leading digital omnichannel eyewear brand — online prescription glasses plus a growing store network. ~€164M revenue (2020). IPO'd on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in J...

Christian Wegner

Founded 2004 (momox.de live 2006), Europe's largest re-commerce platform, buying and reselling used books, media, electronics and fashion (momox fashion, US brand medimops). Bootstrapped from €1,500; later P...

Kai Seefried & co-founders

Founded 2010, a product-content / feed-management and commerce-integration SaaS (retail-tech e-commerce enabler) syndicating product data across marketplaces, ads and marketplaces. 270+ employees serving 900...

Florian Heinemann, Uwe Horstmann & partners

Founded 2012, a leading Berlin early-stage 'operational VC' with 130+ portfolio teams and hands-on go-to-market/e-commerce support. Deep consumer & commerce DNA (partners ex-Rocket Internet). Largest fund ~$...

Tushar Ahluwalia, Christoph Gamon, Shrestha Chowdhury

Founded 2020, Europe's leading Amazon-FBA / e-commerce brand aggregator and 'consolidator of consolidators'. Raised $400M+ and reached unicorn status; in April 2023 acquired Berlin rival The Stryze Group, an...

Lawrence Leuschner, Olivier Mackovic, Daniel Freudenberger

Founded 2004 (originally trade-a-game), a re-commerce marketplace for refurbished electronics and media — buy-back, refurbish and resell. One of Germany's earliest circular-economy consumer platforms; CEO Ph...

David Nothacker, Nicolaus Schefenacker, Julius Köhler

Founded 2015, Europe's leading digital road-freight forwarder connecting shippers with truck carriers (e-commerce/retail supply-chain enabler). Merged with France's Everoad and Poste Italiane's freight unit;...

Marc-Alexander Christ, Daniel Klein, Stefan Jeschonnek, Jan Deepen & co-founders

Founded 2012, a card-reader / POS / merchant-payments and business-banking provider powering small merchants across 30+ markets (retail-tech / commerce enabler). DUAL-HQ FLAG: operates Berlin (SumUp Services...

Sebastian Funke, Sascha Krause, Taro Niggemann, Mark Hartmann

Founded December 2020, a D2C brand-holding / Amazon-FBA aggregator building and scaling e-commerce brands across pull (Amazon) and push (social) channels. Raised $100M; acquired by fellow Berlin aggregator R...

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Founded ~2022, a B2B market-network / AI-powered platform for food & beverage sourcing connecting brands, suppliers and buyers. Raised an oversubscribed €2.7M seed in April 2024 — a recent Berlin foodtech/re...

Robert Gentz, David Schneider (later Rubin Ritter)

Founded 2008 as a Zappos-style online shoe shop run out of a Torstraße apartment. Now Europe's largest online fashion & lifestyle platform, serving ~50M active customers across 25+ markets. IPO'd on the Fran...