🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 101 Top English Shopping Startups & Firms

August 14, 2021
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This article showcases our top picks for the best English Shopping companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Shopping 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 English Shopping Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Lyst

Lyst

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Lyst is a global fashion search platform that allows users to browse through thousands of online fashion stores.

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Fy

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Fy is a home, living, and lifestyle retail marketplace designed for millennial consumers.

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Reflaunt

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Reflaunt provides clothing platform designed to secondhand markets.

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Papier

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Papier’s aim is to inspire people to connect with each other in a more thoughtful way and more often.

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BUMP

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BUMP is a social peer-to-peer marketplace for authentic streetwear and sneakers.

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NearSt

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NearSt is a retail technology company building the world’s source of real-time local inventory.

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Purple Dot

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Purple Dot allows consumers to request a “worth-the-wait” lower price.

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Bother

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Bother operates as an online grocery delivery startup.

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StyleWe.com

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StyleWe is dedicated to create a shopping community featuring independent fashion designers.

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Cornerstone

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Cornerstone is a subscription service for men’s toiletries.

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mySupermarket

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mySupermarket designs a supermarket shopping and comparison website that helps users to compare prices across different stores.

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Nuji

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Nuji is a marketplace to discover the Internet’s best fashion and lifestyle products.

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ME+EM

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ME + EM is an online and brick and mortar fashion retailer founded by Clare Honrby.

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Ubamarket

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Ubamarket is a tech startup that provides a retail shopping app.

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Shopi

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The mobile platform of new generation retailing

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Taggstar

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Real-time social proof message expert for enterprise eCommerce | Conversion uplift by up to 12% | Shop Direct, N Brown, TUI, Missguided use.

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Ubio

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Ubio provide direct booking capabilities for travel metasearch websites and apps.

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Ollie Quinn

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Ollie Quinn is a branded retailer of prescription glasses, sunglasses and non-prescription polarised sunglasses based in the UK and Canada.

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Shopitize

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Connecting shoppers with brands on mobile

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Truly Experiences

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Truly is a London-based gift marketplace.

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Intelligent Reach

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Intelligent Reach optimises the product discovery journey with augmented product data and scientific testing that drives conversion.

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Delivery Drop

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Delivery Drop specialise in on-demand same day grocery and home essentials

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Marks & Spencer

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Marks & Spencer, through its subsidiaries, engages in retailing clothing, food, and home products.

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Stylus Media

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Stylus is a company which analyses how consumer lifestyle trends impact product design and consumer engagement across industries.

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Shopcade

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Shopcade is a leader in media commerce, now part of Lagardère Active (media group).

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Hedoine

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Hedoine craft the most innovative, sustainable, and premium fashion essentials.

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Aduna

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Aduna is a African-inspired food brand

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The Stem

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The Stem is an online garden center that aims to be a leading digital brand in UK garden retail market.

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The Idle Man

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The online style destination for todays Man

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Sourced Market

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Sourced Market Bond incredibly proud of the suppliers that They work and believe Their role is seeking out & bringing to market the best.

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Clouder

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Clouder is a marketplace, subscription service and hyperlocal delivery.

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Selfridges

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Selfridges is a chain of department stores that offers clothing, shoes, bags, and much more for men and women

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SHAREIGHT

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SHAREIGHT is a retail technology business powering multiple brands.

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Po-Zu

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Po-Zu is an award-winning sustainable footwear brand, currently ranked the UK’s No. 1 Ethical Shoe Brand.

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Knomo

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OFFICIAL KNOMO PAGE. Beautiful bags & cases designed for technology and life on the go

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Isabella Oliver

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Isabella Oliver offers stylish and versatile maternity clothing that allow expectant women to maintain their fashion confidence.

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AMALIAH

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Amaliah is the global fashion platform for Muslim women.

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Beulah London

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Founded in 2010, ‘Beulah London’ is a luxury fashion label with a conscience.

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Shopological

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Shopological is a website and mobile app focusing on men’s and women’s fashion, beauty, and lifestyle.

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Ocapo

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Ocapo develops online performance marketing and lead generation technologies for targeted international markets.

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The New Craftsmen

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The New Craftsmen is a multi-channel platform that enables British craftsmen and craftswomen to reach customers in the luxury goods market.

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By Rotation

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The World’s First Social Fashion Rental App.

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field&flower

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A UK-based company that delivers grass fed, free range meat boxes.

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WallBrand

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WallBrand is the first Social Network dedicated to Shopping. It was born from a combination of a social network and a mobile market place.

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Wantfeed

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Wantfeed lets you store and curate things from around the web into your own personal wantlist.

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I Love Snacks

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I Love Snacks, is a healthy snack brand selling deliciously tasty snacks

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Gumtree

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GumTree is an online classified ads and community site that provides users with a platform to find and advertise rooms, flats, and houses.

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BKD

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BKD provides fun baking events, classes, and parties as well as handmade and hand-mixed innovative baking kits for kids.

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DiscountIF

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DiscountIF is a SaaS product which gamifies rewards for brands and retailers.

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Quidco

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Quidco is web platform that enables users to earn cash back when shopping online, in-store and on mobile.

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Deals.com

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Deals.com is an online shopping platform enabling consumers to search for products across several store at the same time.

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Scoop Retail

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Scoop Retail is a digital platform for multi-channel retailers.

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New Look

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New Look is a retail seller of mens and womens clothing.

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MyDeals.com

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MyDeals is a global platform for finding and using discounts that are relevant to users.

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VeeLoop

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VeeLoop enables teens to shop online giving their parents visibility and peace of mind.

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TheFullWorks

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Thefullworks is a subscription based end-to-end eCommerce services solution, providing webshops, storage, and distribution.

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AZYA

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AZYA is the only omni-channel connecting wine brands to Chinese marketplaces.

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ThePresent.Co

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ThePresent.Co is a web and mobile gifting site for busy shoppers.

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Harrods

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Harrods is an upmarket department store located on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London.

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Save Your Wardrobe

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FashionTech startup using AI to make Fashion more digital and sustainable

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Dimble App Ltd

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Straight-to-the-point shopping app

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World of Zing

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World of Zing specializes in bringing an innovative range of foods and drinks to their customers through developing in-house products

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Dent Reality

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Dent Reality develops an augmented reality platform that helps users find their favorite products on the market.

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Huez

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Huez uses advanced sportswear fabrics to create a truly stylish range of cycling clothing.

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House of Fraser

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House of Fraser is a national premium department store group.

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The London Jam Factory

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Homemade Jams and Preserves traditionnaly made with amazing combination of flavours.

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wishkicker

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wishkicker provides a mobile social shopping app for consumers, and a demand-driven crowdsourced market for sellers.

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Ramp T-shirts

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Ramptshirts.com is owned by MDNTECH in the UK.

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East End Manufacturing

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East End Manufacturing is a UK-based clothing factory focused on jersey clothing, menswear, T-shirts, and womenswear.

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LetsBab

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LetsBab is a digital mall revolutionizing the way you shop and share products with others.

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Leanpay

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Leanpay is an omni-channel POS financing company that aims to disrupt consumer loans segment, and help consumers buy products they need.

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BRANDALLEY

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BRANDALLEY is an online retair of fashion, home and beauty products

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Confer With

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Immersive retail livestreaming

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Lebara

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Lebara offers tailored innovative telecommunications solutions for families, friends, and colleagues to keep in touch.

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Rated Global

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Rated Global is an online platform and mobile app that specialize in fashion shopping.

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intu Properties

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intu owns some of the largest and most popular shopping centres in the UK and Spain, as well as the UK’s first online shopping centre.

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Wearisma

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Wearisma is a premium influencer marketing solution for brands, agencies & influencers.

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Stimply

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Stimply is a personal shopping assistant for home appliance and electrical products.

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WholeLot

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WholeLot enable registered businesses to sell their products or services to local customers and also at 15+ e-commerce and social platforms.

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Enjoy Stevie

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Enjoy Stevie is a slick, fast-growing UK and Ireland discount platform for a cheaper dining experience.

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Euroffice

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Euroffice Ltd., a London, UK-based online office supplies company serving the SME market. Based on an internet-only business model, with

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HEWI London

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HEWI London are the UK’s leading designer resale site, allowing members to shop and sell the world’s most coveted luxury brands online.

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Volvita

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Volvita is mobile app for fashion

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Styloko.com

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Styloko is a fashion shopping site that helps women discover more fashion.

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KidPix

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KidPix is a shopping platform for baby and children’s clothes.

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Carryr

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We’re on a mission to supercharge the end-to-end delivery experience for fashion retailers and their customers.

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Duke & Dexter

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Duke & Dexter is a British born footwear label appealing to those looking for a touch of the traditional, delivered on contemporary terms.

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Simpler

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Simpler is revolutionising online checkout for shoppers and sellers.

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Moonsift

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Predictive AI working on behalf of consumers (not marketers) to re-imagine how we all shop online.

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Vogacloset

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Vogacloset is a online fashion store offering the latest women, men and kids trends from the runways directly to the closets of fashion.

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KNOMI

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Fashion. Anytime + anywhere. For you, by you.

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Chicmi

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Chicmi helps fashion lovers discover fashion events, fashion news, new collections, offers and more from their favorite brands.

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3D-A-PORTER

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3D-A-PORTER is a young company with an exciting mission: to revolutionise the fashion and uniform manufacturing industries.

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SunnaMusk

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SunnaMusk is providing perfumes and fragrance oils.

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The Sales Finder

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The Sales Finder Destination for everything Sales, Deals, Discounts, Coupons and Savings.

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CardMobili

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CardMobili operates in digital wallet sector focusing in mobile loyalty, rewards schemes and mobile commerce deployments.

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Dropit Shopping

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Dropit provides a digital handsfree shopping solution for malls and central shopping districts, delivering bags from store to door.

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Barry M

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Barry M is an online shopping platform & store and e commerce agency selling Beauty, cosmetic & personal care products.

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Brilliant Inc

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Brilliant Inc is a Boutique luxury jewellery store that creates and sells jewelry online and in-store.

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GLIMR

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GLIMR connects the offline and the online world and allow retailers and brands to retarget their shoppers after they have left the store.

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Theo Paphitis Retail Group Ltd

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Theo Paphitis Retail Group Ltd is a retail company that revives retail brands as La Senza, Contessa Lingerie, Ryman and Stationery Box.

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