Ecommerce & marketplaces startups in San Francisco

Tony Xu, Stanley Tang, Andy Fang & Evan Moore

Founded 2013 at Stanford as Palo Alto Delivery; the #1 US on-demand food-delivery marketplace, later adding grocery, retail and DashMart. IPO'd December 2020 (NASDAQ: DASH); acquired Wolt (2022) and SevenRoo...

Apoorva Mehta, Max Mullen & Brandon Leonardo

Founded 2012; the leading US grocery-delivery and pickup marketplace, pivoting toward a retail-enablement and advertising platform. IPO'd September 2023 (NASDAQ: CART), one of the highest-profile consumer li...

Manish Chandra, Tracy Sun, Gautam Golwala & Chetan Pungaliya

Founded 2011 in Redwood City (South Bay); a social-commerce marketplace for reselling fashion, blending shopping with community feeds and live shows. IPO'd January 2021 (NASDAQ: POSH), then acquired by South...

Julie Wainwright

Founded 2011; the leading authenticated luxury-consignment resale marketplace. IPO'd June 2019 (NASDAQ: REAL); reached its first quarters of adjusted-EBITDA and free-cash-flow positivity in 2024 under a turn...

James Reinhart, Chris Homer & Oliver Lubin

Founded 2009 in Oakland (East Bay); one of the largest online resale marketplaces for secondhand apparel, plus a resale-as-a-service platform for brands. IPO'd March 2021 (NASDAQ: TDUP) and returned to reven...

Max Rhodes, Marcelo Cortes, Daniele Perito & Jeffrey Kolovson

Founded 2017; a B2B wholesale marketplace connecting 100,000+ independent retailers with 20,000+ makers and brands. Reached a peak $12.6B valuation; a late-2025 tender valued it near $5.2B as it scaled ARR p...

AI hiring & expert data-labeling marketplace

Founded 2023 by Thiel Fellows Brendan Foody, Surya Midha and Adarsh Hiremath (Bay Area high-school debate teammates). Started as AI-driven recruiting; pivoted to sourcing specialized human experts to train f...

co-ownership marketplace for second homes

Founded 2020 by Austin Allison and Spencer Rascoff (ex-Zillow). Proptech marketplace enabling fractional co-ownership of luxury second homes via managed LLCs. Raised a $125M Series C; a headline Bay Area pro...