E-commerce Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) in the San Francisco Bay Area that are currently hiring 2025

Founded in 2013, DoorDash is a San Francisco-based technology company passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. Today, DoorDash connects customers with their favorite local and national restaurants in more than 600 cities across the United States and Canada. By building intelligent, last-mile delivery technology for local cities, DoorDash aims to connect people with the things they care about — one dash at a time. Read more at blog.doordash.com, and find us on Glassdoor.

Instacart is the North American leader in online grocery and one of the fastest-growing companies in e-commerce. Instacart’s same-day delivery and pickup services bring fresh groceries and everyday essentials to busy people and families across the U.S. and Canada in as fast as an hour. Since its founding in 2012, Instacart has become an essential service for millions of families, while also serving as an immediate, flexible earnings opportunity for hundreds of thousands of shoppers across North America. The company partners with more than 350 retailers and delivers from more than 25,000 stores across more than 5,500 cities in North America. Today, Instacart is accessible to more than 85% of households in the U.S. and more than 70% of households in Canada.

Reacher is an AI-powered platform that automates creator marketing workflows—from discovery and outreach to campaign management and content strategy—making marketing teams 10x more productive. We handle the manual tasks so brands can focus on building relationships with creators while centralizing their operations in one platform to manage creators on TikTok Shop, Instagram, and YouTube.

At Anglera, we're developing a suite of AI agents to help e-commerce companies run their operations more efficiently. Our flagship agent helps our customers onboard, enrich, and manage their product data, reducing time per product from 15 mins down to 5 seconds. We previously developed ML to automatically enrich millions of products at Uber Eats, and we're now on a mission to automate the most common manual workflows for every e-commerce business.

End-to-end suite of fraud detection and prevention solutions, including an analytics product to monitor and understand dispute + fraud metrics, an AI product which highlights transactions for merchants to follow up on, and an AI solution to recommend rules that can be implemented in payment provider platforms (Stripe, Shopify, Adyen) to proactively reduce dispute + fraud rates.

Numeral is the fastest, easiest way to stay compliant with US sales tax and global VAT. Trusted by 2,000+ businesses, including Eight Sleep, Ridge, and Manus, our end-to-end platform keeps our customers compliant wherever they sell, with registrations, filings, calculations, and ongoing compliance support. Numeral’s AI-native solution covers more than 70 countries and tens of thousands of jurisdictions and is built for accuracy and scale.

OneText is disrupting SMS marketing and payments. We win incremental sales for direct to consumer brands by making every purchase as effortless as paying with your hotel room number. OneText shoppers literally reply and buy with one text. In our first year, we’ve onboarded 50 fast-growing e-commerce brands and have added as much as 14% in incremental revenue to their bottom lines. In March, we generated $597,000 dollars in payments. In April, we’ll book $50,000 dollars in revenue. Founders Jonathan Fudem/CEO and Daniel Brain/CTO met at PayPal Checkout where we designed and launched some of the world’s best checkout experiences. We left PayPal to build a payments company that actually helps merchants acquire customers and win sales. The CMO of our largest customer, a $90M clothing brand, says we have revolutionized marketing for his company, and are, quote: “the best thing that’s happened to SMS marketing in forever.” We are excited to share what you can do with OneText.

Backed by Y Combinator, NEA, and Stanford University, Slash is one of the fastest growing fintech companies in America. At Slash, we're building a new category of business banking that recognizes the fundamental differences between industries. We combine the reliability of traditional banking (high yields, competitive rewards, and comprehensive security) with industry-specific features that make businesses more efficient, more competitive, and more profitable. By deeply studying workflows across verticals, we reimagine what banking can be when it's designed with true industry insight. We offer businesses: 1. Deposit accounts with free outgoing wire and ACH transfers. 2. Corporate cards with up to 2% cash back, virtual cards, fine grain spend controls, and controls/automation to save hours of work. 3. Integrations to all major accounting platforms. 4. Detailed spend, income, and other financial analytics. 5. Vertical specific software that automate's your industry's unique, pressing challenges

OneStopKitchen (OSK) offers advanced technology and an innovative model which allows any restaurant to scale to multiple locations at zero cost. OSK offers an entire suite of AI powered advanced restaurant inventory, ops and logistics tech to scale quickly with limited risk. OSK operationalizes underperforming restaurant space and staff to run OSK kitchens which are located in prime downtowns and high walk-in areas. Think of AirBnB for restaurants. OSK is a preferred restaurant partner due to its innovative hyper scalable model. Consumers can mix & match multiple cuisines in a single order for dine in, pick up or delivery.

Synder is an easy accounting platform focused on e-commerce. It connects all sales platforms (like Shopify, Stripe, Amazon or Etsy) into one ecosystem, providing businesses with consolidated cash flow, automated accounting, and inventory management making Synder a single source of truth of the correct analytics, accounting and tax filing.

Pillar is the all-in-one business platform for content creators and talent managers.

Short Story is a style discovery platform to help petite women find clothes that fit. The average American woman is 5'4" and petite, yet this remains an enormously underserved segment. We’re a team of curators passionate about finding style, quality, and fit for petite women. Our mission is to remove the “ugh” from the shopping equation and support petite women in telling their stories, stylishly and confidently.

Shogun is an ecommerce experience platform empowering brands to drive higher conversions, revenue, and brand loyalty. Our products Shogun Page Builder and Shogun Frontend help teams build and optimize their online stores to deliver exceptional experiences. Our products integrate with ecommerce platforms like Shopify and BigCommerce, and our 20,000+ customers include Leesa, MVMT, Timbuk2, and Chubbies. Visit www.getshogun.com for more. We're an inclusive, remote, diverse, and globally distributed team. And we’re hiring!

Proven is a data powered skincare company that creates personalized skincare products based on more than 47 factors about an individual's skin, genetic background, lifestyle and environment. Our formulations are rooted in the largest beauty database in the world, the proprietary Skin Genome Project, built in-house by Proven's cofounder Amy Yuan, a computational physicist from Stanford. The database has won MIT's AI Technology of the Year award and encompasses more than 20Million consumer datapoints and thousands of scientific articles on skin. Our challenge now is to tell the story of Proven, and share our industry leading personalized skincare products with the world.

Joy is a software platform with a mission to help the world celebrate better together. Our software helps everyone plan and remember all of life's events. Big or small, Joy is there every step of the way.

Drapr lets shoppers try on clothing, online. Apparel brands use Drapr to make more money online.