eCommerce

I’m one out of 2 founders of Baby Sweets GmbH. We founded Baby Sweets in April 2016, looking back to a longer history working together with my partner Tom on several projects. I’ve studied business economics at Martin-Luther-Universität in Halle (S.) and made my degrees in early 2011. In my first 1 ½ years I’ve been working for an online marketing agency in Leipzig and got in contact with most of the online marketing channels, focusing on affiliate and search engine marketing. From 2012 on I’ve been working at KUPONA GmbH in Munich for 4 ½ years. During this time I’ve been responsible for managing hundreds of retargeting campaigns for big ecommerce companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In 2014 we started our Facebook community together with Tom and recognized a very fast increase in followers over the years which made us think about possibilities of making money with the community and reach we were able to generate on our posts. During this time first ideas of founding an ecommerce shop for baby fashion and accessories came up, the first business plan was written and from 2016 on we were focusing on our own “baby”.

From that founding idea, Stackline has emerged as a leading retail technology company helping more than 500 of the world’s largest brands and retailers grow their e-commerce businesses. 

Jan-Willem Roest, after many successful years in the role of general manager at PayPal, has now made the decision to join Paazl as CEO. His passion for innovation has led him to take a turn from his payments history towards the world of e-commerce delivery. Willing to make an impact in that important ‘last mile’ and remove friction, he saw the potential for growth in Paazl.

My name is Alain, I have a passion for entrepreneurship. Already as a kid, I was always trying to buy and sell things when I saw opportunities. I remember when I was 10, some classmates’ parents were telling mine that a kid was ruining their children selling them plenty of small figurines.

Mark Hilton and his team realized they could put together something that was truly unique to the marketplace that was based 100% on Adobe technology and that resided in the cloud. They figured if they could build a product that empowered designers to solve the problem of maintaining brand compliance while simultaneously equipping the sales and marketing people with tools to edit their own materials using a web browser, then they would be onto something.

Like makers that apply, we also review every retailer to make sure they are a good fit for our marketplace. We fully vet each retailer to confirm that they are legitimate retailers, meaning that they must actually sell goods, ideally in a brick and mortar environment.

Rytis created a powerful omnichannel marketing automation platform for small and medium-sized e-commerce merchants. He and his marketing team are good at simplifying the complex processes of customer communication with the help of email marketing tools. 

I’m Vanessa Kruze, the Founder and CEO of Kruze Consulting, CPA and big-four alum. I’ve helped startups raise more than $500 million in funding over the last 12 months and am an early adopter of cloud accounting solutions at scale. 

Launched in 2015, CashBasha, unlike most of the other services operating in this space that are limited to package forwarding only, provides users with a seamless way to shop on international shopping websites and have the products delivered to their doorstep with local payment methods, logistics, and customer service.

After a few years in London I moved into my parents’ spare room and that’s where I started and ran the business for the first two years. As the first person to sell GoPro in SA I capitalized on this and the business grew rapidly and achieved the first R1m month in Year 3.