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Quince is an American online retailer, headquartered in San Francisco, that sells apparel, home goods, accessories, jewelry, beauty and wellness products made directly by factories without wholesalers or retail intermediaries. It was founded in 2018 by Sid Gupta and Sourabh Mahajan. The company became known on social media for its USD 50 cashmere sweater and prices far below department stores. It announced a USD 500 million Series E in March 2026 at a valuation of USD 10.1 billion, led by ICONIQ, and says its top-line revenue has surpassed USD 1 billion. Earlier investors include Insight Partners, Founders Fund, 8VC, Notable Capital, Wellington Management and DST Global. No acquisition or investment by the company appears in the sources reviewed.

Shein Global Holdings Ltd is an online fashion and lifestyle company. It operates online platforms that offer fashion products to consumers mainly in the United States and Europe. The company's portfolio of brands includes SHEIN, Dazy, Romwe, MOTF, Anewsta, Musera, Glowmode, and Aralina. The majority of the company's revenue is derived from the sale of its fashion apparel products.

Skims is a direct-to-consumer apparel brand offering shapewear, underwear, loungewear, and outerwear in inclusive sizing from XXS to 5X and 40+ skin tone shades. New York-headquartered and launched in 2019, it produces bodysuits, bras, briefs, slips, and sleepwear using nylon-elastane blends for stretch and support. Skims operates flagship stores in New York and Los Angeles, ships to over 50 countries, and collaborates with retailers like Nordstrom and Net-a-Porter.

Desigual is a Barcelona-headquartered fashion retailer founded in 1984. It operates over 5,000 points of sale including e-commerce, retail stores, franchises, and department stores in more than 100 countries, with local offices in New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. The company generates €860 million in annual turnover and employs over 5,000 people worldwide.

eobuwie.pl is an e-commerce retailer of footwear and accessories across Central and Eastern Europe. Zielona Góra, Poland-headquartered and founded in 2005, it stocks 1,000 brands including Nike and Adidas with 10 million products shipped yearly to Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia. The platform features 24/7 customer service in six languages.

NOME is a design-led retailer collaborating with Nordic independent designers to produce affordable furniture and home goods. Headquartered in Dongguan, China, NOME sources manufacturers globally for automated, large-scale production of practical items like sofas, bedding, and kitchenware. The company operates stores across China emphasizing functional Scandinavian aesthetics.

Alibaba Group is a Chinese technology company headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, founded on 28 June 1999 by Jack Ma and 17 friends and students as the business-to-business marketplace Alibaba.com. It operates China's largest consumer marketplaces, Taobao (consumer-to-consumer) and Tmall (business-to-consumer), the global B2B site Alibaba.com and domestic wholesale platform 1688, alongside international e-commerce, Alibaba Cloud, the Cainiao logistics network, local consumer services and digital media and entertainment businesses, reorganised in 2023 into six business groups. It earns revenue mainly from merchant advertising and commissions on its marketplaces, plus cloud computing, logistics and direct sales. Early backers included Goldman Sachs, SoftBank and Investor AB, which invested $25 million in October 1999. Its September 2014 New York Stock Exchange IPO raised $25 billion, then the largest in history, giving it a market value of $231 billion, and in January 2018 it became the second Asian company to pass a $500 billion valuation. Joseph Tsai became chairman and Eddie Wu chief executive in 2023.

Carvana Co is an e-commerce platform for buying and selling used cars. The company derives revenue from used vehicle sales, wholesale vehicle sales and other sales and revenues. The other sales and revenues include sales of loans originated and sold in securitization transactions or to financing partners, commissions received on VSCs and sales of GAP waiver coverage. The foundation of the business is retail vehicle unit sales. This drives the majority of the revenue and allows the company to capture additional revenue streams associated with financing, VSCs, auto insurance and GAP waiver coverage, as well as trade-in vehicles.

JD Health is the largest healthcare e-commerce platform in China in terms of revenue. The company offers pharmaceutical drugs and healthcare products on its platform, both as a marketplace that connects merchants to consumers and as a first-party, or 1P, direct retailer. It also offers online consultation from real life doctors and separately partners with offline pharmacies that can provide location-based 24/7 delivery as part of an omnichannel initiative to complement its core e-commerce business. Its closest competitors are Alibaba Health and Meituan for its e-commerce business. As of Dec. 31, 2024, the platform has over 200 million active annual users and over 70,000 merchants. JD Health is 67.49% owned by its parent company, JD.com.

Wayfair engages in e-commerce in the United States (88% of 2025 sales), Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. It's also embarked on expansion into the brick-and-mortar landscape, with 13 stores (excluding outlets) between the AllModern, Birch Lane, Joss & Main, and Wayfair banners. The firm offers more than 40 million products from more than 20,000 suppliers under the brands Wayfair, Joss & Main, AllModern, Birch Lane, and Perigold. Its offerings include furniture, everyday and seasonal decor, decorative accents, housewares, as well as advertising and logistics services. Wayfair was founded in 2002 and began trading publicly in 2014.

Lenskart Solutions Ltd is a technology-driven eyewear company, with a belief that clear vision is fundamental to personal development and well-being. It sells a range of eyewear products including prescription eyeglasses, sunglasses, and other products such as contact lenses and eyewear accessories.

Founded in 2011, Chewy is a leading e-commerce retailer of pet food, toys, supplies, and medications in North America. The firm offers a comprehensive selection of proprietary and third-party brands, anchored by its highly sticky autoship subscription program, which drives over 83% of its sales. Beyond core retail, Chewy is expanding into high-margin revenue streams, including its retail media network (Chewy Ads), specialized veterinary healthcare software, and brick-and-mortar veterinary clinics to further integrate customers into the Chewy ecosystem.

Zalando, founded in 2008, is Europe’s biggest pure-play online fashion platform. Zalando is present in 25 European countries, and its major market is the DACH region, comprising Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. After the About You acquisition, it has 17 fulfillment centers, offers over 7,000 brands, and as of September 2025, had 62 million active users (more than 10% of the population in countries where the firm has a presence).

Vipshop is a leading Chinese online discount retailer offering branded products at attractive discounts ranging from 10%-90% off their original price through daily flash sales. It operates warehousing, retailing, product procurements, software development, and information technology support in-house while outsourcing to third-party logistics providers for distribution and shipments. Branded products on Vipshop’s platform are sourced mostly through a consignment model with global brand partners . As of March 31, 2025, Eric Ya Shen, chairman and CEO, had 64.5% voting rights. Leading Chinese social media firm and strategic shareholder Tencent also holds an 12.5% interest.

Alibaba Health is of one of China's leading e-commerce platform specializing in healthcare-related products, including prescription drugs, OTC drugs, traditional Chinese medicine, health foods, and so on. The company operates both a third-party B2C service, or 3P, and its own direct-to-consumer business, or 1P, with its own inventory, which can both be accessed by Alibaba’s Tmall app and Alipay. The company also provides online consultation services in a separate app called Yilu or “Dr. Deer,” although its e-commerce businesses remain its core competency in the long-term. E-commerce accounted for 93% of revenue in fiscal year 2022. We estimate that AliHealth holds about 45% of market share in the industry in terms of GMV. AliHealth is 63.74% owned by its parent company, Alibaba Group.

Zozo, established in 1998 by Yusaku Maezawa, operates Zozotown, Japan's largest fashion e-commerce platform. Zozotown runs primarily on a consignment model, where brands stock products at Zozo's logistics bases and operate shops as tenants. As of 2025, Zozotown hosts over 11,000 brands and 12.5 million active users. Beyond its core domestic business, Zozo is expanding into adjacent categories such as skincare, cosmetics, and fragrance (near fashion), and internationally through Lyst, a UK-based luxury fashion platform acquired in 2025, and Zozofit, a body measurement app.

Jumei is a Beijing-headquartered e-commerce platform specializing in cosmetics and skincare from brands like Estee Lauder, Calvin Klein, Avon, and Elizabeth Arden. Founded in 2010, it serves nearly 20 million registered users in China with monthly sales exceeding 500 million yuan and investments from Sequoia Capital and Alibaba.

Harry's is a direct-to-consumer grooming and personal care company that sells razors and shaving products on a one-off and subscription basis, alongside cartridges, shave gel, and after-shave. The company owns and operates its own razor blade manufacturing facility in Germany, giving it a vertically integrated model from production to consumer sales. Founded in 2012 by Andy Katz-Mayfield and Jeff Raider, Harry's has since expanded into a portfolio of consumer brands including women's razor and body care brand Flamingo, pet brand Cat Person, and haircare brand Headquarters.