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🚀 Our startup, @joinmassive, closed a $11m seed round to launch a new business model for the internet! 🚀
A 🧵 about the raise and what’s next…
Jason Grad 🇺🇦 retweeted
You don’t need expensive tools to do GEO.
Just use our Massive Render /ai endpoint to monitor what LLMs say about you and your company all around the world.
It’s like 1/1,000 the cost and you can just hook it up w your agent.
This is pretty cool, proxy provider I use, @joinmassive
just dropped a cool AI scraper
enter query and country and it scrapes chatgpt and returns in in a nice json
joinmassive.com/en/playgroun…
Almost no startups are safe
Running a company:
2020: can you survive a pandemic?
2021: still here? we’re going to give all of your competitors $100m series A rounds.
2022: wow, you made it? okay, all engineers cost $600,000/year now.
2023: nice job! okay, SVB failed and we’re going to take away your bank account.
2024: a survivor I see. but can you pivot from ai to crypto to defense tech back to ai-enabled defense tech in a 12 month period to stay relevant?
2025: unfortunately all of your competitors have raised $2b series B rounds. oh and only 500 engineers are relevant and they cost $100m/yr each.
2026: well, well, well. you’re still in business? let’s deploy the thunderclap of godlike LLMs from the heavens so all of your customers can rebuild your app in 2 hours. can you survive?
Amazon is worth $2.4T. Everyone knows that...but the global e-commerce landscape looks almost nothing like the US market...
The 12 largest e-commerce companies by market cap:
1. @amazon (United States) - $2.4T: Everything store turned cloud computing and logistics empire
2. @AlibabaGroup (China) - $371.45B: China's B2B and consumer marketplace giant
3. @Mercadolibre (Argentina) - $102.19B: Latin America's marketplace and fintech play
4. @SeaGroup (Singapore) - $74.01B: Southeast Asia's marketplace, payments, and gaming
5. @CoupangInc (South Korea) - $46.81B: Korea's fast-delivery platform
6. @eBay (United States) - $39B: The original online auction marketplace
7. @RakutenGroup (Japan) - $13.25B: Japan's largest e-commerce and loyalty ecosystem
8. @vipshopofficial (China) - $9.62B: Discount/flash-sale style ecommerce
9. @Allegro_Group (Poland) - $9.04B: Dominant CEE marketplace
10. @Zalando (Germany) - $7.35B: Europe’s big fashion e-commerce platform
11. @Etsy (US) - $5.26B: Handmade/vintage marketplace
12. @mercari_app (Japan) - $3.1B: Peer-to-peer resale marketplace
Notice that only a few are US-centric.
State of E-commerce Data Providers - Q4 2025
E-commerce runs on constant measurement: prices, promos, availability, seller changes, and "what the shelf actually looks like" across retailers and marketplaces.
The challenge is stable collection at scale, retries when sites break, anti-bot evasion, clean geo signals, and then turning messy HTML into usable structured data.
In preparation for the holiday season, we mapped the landscape of e-commerce data providers:
Competitive intel + digital shelf: @dataweavein, @Price2Spy, @bigdataNODE, @Profitero, @WiserInc
Marketplace intelligence + data: @junglescout, @H10Software, @datahawkco, @SellerSprite_EN
Trade, Supply Chain, Imports / Exports: @Trademo1, @ImportYeti, @datamyne
Scraper APIs & Extraction Platforms: @zytedata, @diffbot, @Stratalis, (AutoScraping handle?), @serpapi
Managed Data Extraction & Services: @groupBWT, @Data_Ox, @epctex, @MrScraper_
Retail Media & Ad Platforms: @Pacvue, @PerpetuaLabs, @Teikametrics
Network & runtime infra for e-com scraping: @playwrightweb, Puppeteer, @browserless
The Proxyway review is in: Massive is #1 for Residential Proxy Success Rates!
proxyway.com/reviews/massive…
Commoditization of knowledge and code means a shift away from specialists to generalists who can learn quick and figure things out.
Google just rolled out an update blocking scrapers, APIs, and AI tools / Agents.
What started as "organizing the world’s information" became controlling it long ago—and shutting out AI competition in search.
Scheduling tasks with ChatGPT is here.
They are going after workflow building tools with this update.
I already have scheduled a bunch of industry news updates to be sent to me every morning.
I'm sure they will add complexity and allow you to string together tasks in line with the Agentic revolution of 2025 🚀
If you're still wondering what AI means for tech companies–Meta and Salesforce both paused hiring new engineers 🤯
Generative AI tools are racing toward commoditization. 🚀
• Prices will drop.
• Performance will improve.
• Only the most efficient, cost-effective models will win.
Great for consumers. Tough for some investors oversaturating a fast-evolving, crowded market.
I love the shift from founders flexing on headcount growth to flexing on ARR growth—while staying lean and scrappy. 💪
