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Shop Circle
eCommerce software platform
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Internal tools
- SaaS
- eCommerce
- Kensington, London, UK
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Company mission
Shop Circle is on a mission to provide brands with the cutting-edge tools they need to deliver remarkable end-to-end shopping experiences that convert.
Our take
The term “eCommerce rollup” has been all the rage since early 2021 – a concept in which companies acquire multiple direct-to-consumer startups with the intention of accelerating their growth through its own market expertise.
Shop Circle is taking the concept and doing things a little differently. Rather than buying D2C companies, it’s rolling up SaaS applications via acquisitions and partnerships in a bid to become a one-stop-shop for eCommerce tools.
Given that the company emerged from stealth with a huge $65 million in funding, it begs the question: what can Shop Circle promise merchants that Shopify can’t? Better curation seems to be the main answer. Whereas Shopify offers thousands of fragmented apps, Shop Circle appears intent on offering less quantity, but more quality.
It’s early days for the 2021-founded company, but with such heavy funding and grand ambitions, both its headcount and acquisitions are accelerating quickly.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Offsite meetings, inclusive of international meetups.
- You will be a part of a truly diverse and international team.
- A mixture of working from home, and some days a week at our beautiful office in Mayfair, but can be fully remote in the UK.
- Flexible working hours to accommodate personal commitments.
- A healthy learning and development budget.
- Your mental wellbeing mattes to us, but how you improve that is down to you – so we have partnered with Juno, and Shop Circle will pay an amount into the platform for you to decide how to spent it depending on how you feel that month.
- Paid company sick leave.
- Watch out for Random Acts of Kindness, as well as plenty of prizes and quizzes and engagement.
- Your social spirit – we are keeping the social spirit alive by hosting virtual events, twice yearly retreats and all other kinds of initiatives.
- Your holidays – We believe in finding your work-life alignment and encourage all staff to use their holiday allowance (as outline in their contract), plus any public holidays.
- We're fierce defenders of a healthy work-life balance. We work smart, not long. We understand that everyone has life admin and responsibilities, so if you need to pop to the bank, do the morning school run or adjust your hours to suit your needs, we’re open to making arrangements that suit you and the company. At the end of the day, the work needs to be done but we also need you to balance that with life. We hope we can enable you to do both.
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2023
$120m
SERIES A
Apr 2023
$18.4m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $138.4m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Luca Cartechini
(Co-founder & CEO)Forbes 30 under 30. Previously worked as a VC Investor with Pretiosum Ventures, focusing on Fintech, AI and Future of Work. Former Equity Associate at Jefferies and Business Development Executive at Admiral Group.
Gian Maria Gramondi
(Co-founder)Previously worked for Amazon as a Brand Specialist, then Category Manager. Before this they worked for Deloitte Luxembourg as a Strategy Consultant.