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The physical intelligence layer for commerce does not build itself. Stord Labs was built with a clear mandate: find the people who have operated at the frontier of where robotics meets real operational complexity at scale. Nirmal Doshi is exactly that. Two decades at the frontier of where robotics meets real operational complexity. Amazon. Agility Robotics. Symbotic. Eight patents. He joins Stord to help lead Stord Labs, and he is not arriving alone. Dozens of Stordians are joining from leading robotics and AI companies, because the opportunity here is unlike anything being built anywhere else right now. Here is why that matters. Most companies deploying robotics are doing it on top of fragmented systems. When you combine world-class talent with a decade of vertical integration, a unified software stack from consumer checkout to the warehouse floor, and $15B in real GMV training our models annually, the compounding advantage is structurally different. The foundation is built. Now we deploy intelligence on top of it. Welcome, Nirmal. The most exciting chapter of this is just beginning.

Bloomberg. TechCrunch. Reuters. Fortune Term Sheet. Axios. Sourcing Journal. WSJ Pro VC. They all covered the same story. Not because of a funding round. Because they recognized that something genuinely new is here. The physical intelligence layer for independent commerce is real, it is at scale, and it is here. Every brand that refuses to give away their customer relationship to a marketplace now has the infrastructure to compete on their own terms. Ten years of building to this moment. And we are just getting started.

$3 billion vs $2.92 trillion. Nearly 1,000x different in valuation. This week TechCrunch and many others called Stord an "Amazon competitor." Here's what most people get wrong about that. Amazon has reshaped commerce for over 30 years. Revolutionized fulfillment. Reset consumer expectations permanently. Grown into one of the most dominant companies in history. They are not invulnerable. In year 11, Amazon launched Prime. Free two-day delivery for everyone. They called it a gift to brands. It was not a gift. It was a trap. To meet the expectation Amazon created, brands had to hand over their customer relationship. Cannibalize their own channels. Compete against products Amazon made itself. Give up their data, their margins, and their consumers. A compromise brands felt they had no choice but to make. Speed in fulfillment became a moat. Amazon used it to benefit one company: themselves. Stord is not trying to out-Amazon Amazon. We are arming every independent brand to compete without making that compromise. "Amazon makes you feel like a SKU. Stord makes us feel like a brand. That's the gap, and Stord is exactly built to fill it." Imran Jawaid, doingwell We are also in year 11. The same moment in the timeline when Amazon launched Prime. Stord now delivers 2-day and faster to nearly 1 in 4 U.S. households, without a single brand surrendering their customer relationship. They keep their packaging. Their data. Their consumers. Instead of a generic brown box, they ship an experience. Instead of Amazon's product page, they own every channel they sell on. Instead of surrendering their customer lifecycle, they own it completely. When you compare GMV, Amazon has a 55x lead today. At our current trajectory that gap closes within a decade. This is what the physical intelligence layer for commerce should be. Infrastructure that compounds with every order. Not for one company. For every brand of every size. Amazon built Prime for Amazon. We built it for every independent brand that refuses to give away their customer relationship.

The reaction to our Series F and Stord Labs announcement has been tremendous!! But none of this happens without the brands that trusted us first. Swipe to hear from the operators, founders, and CEOs who trust their consumer experience to Stord.

Nine of the ten largest U.S. companies by revenue operate physical networks at scale. You cannot replicate that advantage with pure software. That is the physical intelligence layer for commerce. And it is what Stord is building for every independent brand. Watch our co-founder and CEO Sean Henry break down what this raise means, why physical infrastructure and AI are inseparable, and where Stord is headed next in his interview with Katie Greifeld and Romaine Bostick, CFA on Bloomberg, The Close.

Today, Stord announces a $250 million Series F at a $3 billion valuation. But the more important announcement is what this funding means. Amazon controls more than a third of U.S. online commerce, not because their storefront is better, not because their ads are better, but because of delivery. Prime reset consumer expectations permanently, and every consumer now carries those expectations to every other brand they shop. That advantage was Amazon’s alone. Every independent brand has been left to figure out on its own how to compete against a consumer experience Amazon spent decades and hundreds of billions building. Stord is the physical intelligence layer for independent commerce. The infrastructure for the full consumer experience, from the delivery promise shown at checkout, to the package on the doorstep, to the return that converts into a loyal customer. Over 1,000 brands are already on the platform. We process over $15 billion in GMV annually. Our packages touch nearly one in four U.S. households every year. And today, alongside the raise, we are announcing Stord Labs, a physical intelligence lab where we validate AI, robotics, and operational innovations and scale them across our network of nearly 100 facilities. Because our technology and operations run on a single unified stack, what proves out at Stord Labs deploys everywhere with a speed and consistency that is only possible when your software and physical network are built as one. Every independent brand now has the infrastructure to surpass Prime. https://lnkd.in/d_aikjVU

Most commerce teams start their day the same way. Open a dashboard. Look for problems. React. 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗔𝗜 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲. Feed is a personalized intelligence stream embedded directly into the Stord Commerce Suite. It continuously monitors your orders, inventory, carrier network, return rates, and demand signals, and delivers prioritized, actionable alerts before they become disruptions. The difference isn't just speed. It's posture. Brands running on Feed aren't asking "what went wrong?" at the start of every shift. They're making decisions on what's about to happen next. Feed is the final piece of the StordAI intelligence layer. Chat gave you answers on demand. Search gave you access to any order, any data point, in seconds. Feed gives you forward visibility. Built on real operational data. This is AI that runs commerce. Feed’s core functionality is live with more capabilities coming out over the next weeks. Learn more about StordAI Feed here: https://www.stord.com/ai