Alokai Analysis: $2M Raised
What is Alokai?
Alokai is a frontend as a service platform for composable commerce and enterprise ecommerce storefronts. Its product suite includes a prebuilt storefront, type-safe integrations, cloud hosting, monitoring, and AI-driven shopping guidance. The company says it is the former Vue Storefront and publishes an ISO/IEC 27001 security claim plus a 99.9 percent uptime SLA for Alokai Cloud.
Location
San Francisco, United States
Employees
51-200
Founded
2020
Revenue
$15M
Business Model
Open-source model for small businesses; enterprise solutions for larger organizations.
Product Features & Capabilities
- Alokai Storefront, production-ready application for eCommerce, Alokai Connect, orchestration API for third-party integrations, Alokai Cloud, cloud hosting optimized for eCommerce, Alokai Console, dedicated monitoring and management solution.
Pricing
- Open-Source:
- Best for small and medium businesses that want to save time on frontend development and achieve great website performance.
- Storefront UI frontend library
- Community built and maintained integrations
- API orchestration for open-source integrations
- Community Support
- Enterprise:
- For organizations with custom needs at an enterprise scale.
- Dedicated support, training, SLAs, and scaling friendly pricing.
- Enterprise eCommerce backend, Search, CMS, and payment integrations
- 99.9% Uptime SLA
- Fast and secure Cloud services
- Premium Support
- IMPACT services with dedicated Solution Architect
How much Alokai raised
1 - $1.5 million
October 2021Lead Investor: Not specified in the source.
Who are the founders of Alokai
Market Focus
Alokai primarily focuses on the eCommerce industry, providing a Frontend as a Service solution that enables businesses to build, deploy, and manage enterprise eCommerce storefronts.
Competitors Overview
Alokai's main competitors in the Frontend as a Service and eCommerce solutions market include:
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Salesforce Composable Storefront: Designed for Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2C, it offers a Progressive Web Application (PWA) kit for building React-based storefronts. However, it is limited to Salesforce Commerce Cloud and lacks a separate API layer for data orchestration, complicating integrations.
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SAP Composable Storefront (Spartacus): Tailored for SAP Commerce Cloud, it uses Angular libraries for JavaScript-based storefronts. It integrates well with the SAP ecosystem but is also limited to SAP Commerce Cloud implementations.
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commercetools Frontend: Built on a headless platform, it offers a React-based storefront starter kit and a flexible API hub for third-party integrations. However, it primarily serves commercetools customers and has fewer prebuilt components.
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Front-Commerce: Provides frontend-as-a-service solutions for creating user-friendly headless storefronts, focusing on customizable front-end solutions.
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deco: A digital experience platform that allows for both no-code and full-code editing, integrating AI capabilities and various data sources.
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Frontastic: Specializes in digital customer experience services, emphasizing agility and customer engagement.
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Shogun: Known for e-commerce optimization and personalization, it offers tools for dynamic content creation and A/B testing.
Alokai distinguishes itself by being technology-agnostic, allowing integration with various backend platforms and offering high customization and flexibility for businesses adopting a composable commerce architecture.
Investors
- Earlybird
- Felix Capital
- Nagi Letaifa
- New Forge
- Philippe Corrot
- Bek Ventures
- Creandum
- Smok Ventures
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