Firework

Firework

Livestream and shoppable video commerce platform

Overview

Firework provides a video commerce platform that lets brands, retailers, and publishers add livestreams and shoppable video to their online stores. Businesses embed interactive videos in storefronts, and viewers can click products to see details and purchase, with support for live events, on-demand content, and community features. Firework differentiates itself by focusing on building a shopping community and using patented technology to convert engagement into sales, not just host video. Its goal is to make interactive video a core part of online storefronts and help brands grow sales through richer shopping experiences.

About Firework

Simplify's Rating
Why Firework is rated
C+
Rated C on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Consumer Software

Enterprise Software

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$270.2M

Headquarters

San Mateo, California

Founded

2017

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What believers are saying

  • Raised $250M+ capital enabling expansion to 1,500+ brand partnerships globally.
  • Generative AI testing shows 10-40% post-livestream conversions via SMS and email.
  • Retail media network partnerships with grocers like Fresh Market drive sponsored video ads.

What critics are saying

  • US consumers prefer traditional websites over immersive video, limiting adoption versus China.
  • Shopify integrating native shoppable video directly threatens Firework's core platform differentiation.
  • Generative AI product launch underperforms internal tests, risking client churn and credibility.

What makes Firework unique

  • AI-powered platform enabling shoppable video across owned digital properties and open web.
  • Omnichannel video commerce with livestream, on-demand, and 1:1 video chat capabilities.
  • Generative AI chat providing real-time product recommendations and post-livestream engagement.

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Funding

Total Funding

$270.2M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

7 Rounds

Series B funding is typically for startups that have proven their business model and need more funding to expand rapidly—often by entering new markets or adding more products. Investors are usually venture capital firms that specialize in later-stage investments.
Series B Funding Comparison
Above Average

Industry standards

$35M
$45M
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$65M
Substack
$100M
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$150M
Firework

Benefits

Hybrid Work Options

Stock Options

Flexible Work Hours

Remote Work Options

Performance Bonus

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

2%

2 year growth

1%
Advertising Press Releases
Jun 22nd, 2026
Pacvue launches Pacvue Prism, powering the industry's first Agentic Commerce Grid.

Pacvue launches Pacvue Prism, powering the industry's first Agentic Commerce Grid. Pacvue Prism expands existing and recently announced integrations including ChatGPT, The Trade Desk, and adds new integrations with Pinterest, tvScientific by Pinterest, Firework, and Shopsense AI for alpha launch; Additional integrations are underway, most notably Yahoo DSP, to connect and power the industry's first Agentic Commerce Grid. CANNES, France, June 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Pacvue today announced the launch of Pacvue Prism, a commerce-native platform that creates each brand's Agentic Commerce Grid: a single, connected view of every channel a customer touches, accountable to the results that matter to the brand. Pacvue Prism enables brands to plan, execute and measure media by combining Pacvue's market-leading retail media capabilities with new capabilities in search, programmatic, social, and frontier formats such as conversational and shoppable. The Problem The customer journey no longer follows a predictable path. People discover products on social, research through traditional search or LLMs, engage through streaming, and buy through a retailer or a social shop, often within the same session. Existing marketing tools were built for a world where awareness, consideration, and conversion were separate stages owned by separate teams. The result is fragmented measurement, siloed budgets, and a persistent inability to answer the one question every CMO is asking: what is this spend actually driving? The Agentic Commerce Grid The Agentic Commerce Grid is a brand's unified view of media performance: every channel connected to underlying commerce signals and tied to verifiable outcome metrics. It is built on each brand's own data, configured to their channel mix, and optimized for their business objectives. Pacvue Prism is the platform purpose-built to power it. "What excites us about Pacvue Prism is the vision of bringing greater connectivity and agility across media and commerce," said Jason Colon, Executive Vice President of Commerce Media at Horizon Commerce. "Brands are managing more channels, more signals, and more complexity than ever before, and they need technology that enables better orchestration, faster decision-making, and more agile execution." With Pacvue Prism, enterprise brands can: * Build and operate the brand's Agentic Commerce Grid as a brand asset, configured to the brand's commerce signals, channel mix, and outcomes that matter to their business. * Deploy a unified agentic infrastructure to plan across every channel, optimizing toward the brand's business goals and continuously improving as results come in. * Make media accountable through proprietary halo measurement built on top of trusted regression modeling in addition to custom attribution, and pixel tracking that connects each media investment to a measurable and relevant outcome. * Compound performance over time by connecting to proprietary tech stacks, including data lakes & warehouses, CDPs, CRMs, and custom AI agents via MCP, so every new signal feeds back into the system and sharpens future decisions. * Activate seamlessly across search, programmatic, social, and new-frontier formats, including conversational and shoppable, through a unified Pacvue platform with an agentic experience. "I'm excited all over again by seeing Pacvue Prism, because most organizations assign budgets at the channel level, but in the long term, this could eliminate that process," said Nic Jones, Director of Media at PetIQ. "You're no longer dealing with channel level budgets. Now you're dealing with what is the goal of these dollars. That in itself is really powerful." New-frontier formats show just how quickly commerce is moving across every format and surface. Through its integration with Firework, Lowe's connects brands to shoppable video inventory, linking these formats directly to retail product detail pages. "Commerce media is moving from channel optimization to commerce accountability," said Rahul Choraria, CEO of Pacvue. "The brands that win from here will operate at the grid level: every touchpoint connected, every dollar accountable. The Agentic Commerce Grid, powered by Pacvue Prism, will become the lens through which every CMO evaluates their business." Alpha participants are actively testing Pacvue Prism and seeing promising early results, particularly on investments like CTV, social, and brand campaigns that historically optimized for reach and impressions alone: +34% impressions, −23% CPM, +12% total sales, and +24% new-to-brand growth. "For years, marketers have managed channels," said Melissa Burdick, Co-Founder and President of Pacvue. " The next era is about managing outcomes. As discovery fragments across social, retail media, streaming, and AI, brands need an intelligence layer that connects every touchpoint to commerce. That's what Pacvue Prism was built to do." Pacvue Prism is available today to enterprise brands and agencies. To learn more or request a demo, visit pacvue.com/platform/prism. About Pacvue Pacvue is the leading Commerce Media OS, powering over $12B in advertising spend across 100+ global retail media networks including Amazon, Walmart, Target, Kroger, Instacart, Criteo, and Citrus. Powered by industry-leading AI and real-time data, Pacvue enables over 70,000 brands and agencies to maximize advertising performance, drive incrementality, and expand reach across the commerce universe from a single mission control. As of 2025, Pacvue powers 12% of total retail media ad spend worldwide excluding China. Combined with Helium 10's SMB solutions, Pacvue delivers the industry's most comprehensive platform for businesses of all sizes. Founded in 2018, Pacvue spans Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Washington D.C., London, Shanghai, and Tokyo. Discover more at www.pacvue.com. Media Contact Chelsea Suls Pacvue [email protected] Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content "as is" without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.

The Wall Street Journal
Oct 28th, 2025
Fireworks AI Raises $254M, Valued $4B

Fireworks AI, a startup focused on providing developers with access to advanced AI chips and models, announced it has raised $254 million in a recent funding round. This investment values the company at $4 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Tech in Asia
Jun 16th, 2025
Aliexpress To Launch ‘Celeb Shop’ To Promote Korean Fashion

👩‍🍳 How we use AI at Tech in Asia, thoughtfully and responsibly.🧔‍♂️ A friendly human may check it before it goes live. More news hereChinese ecommerce platform AliExpress has introduced a new initiative called Celeb Shop, aimed at Korean fashion enthusiasts.The company announced on June 16, 2025 that it will recruit social media influencers to curate and promote fashion items available on its platform.Celeb Shop will showcase products sourced from vendors in Seoul’s Dongdaemun area, known for its clothing trade.Influencers will select, style, and model their chosen pieces, which will be sold on the platform.Fulfillment and delivery will be managed by AliExpress and its Korean vendor partners.A beta version of Celeb Shop is scheduled to launch next month.🔗 Source: The Korea Times🧠 Food for thought1️⃣ AliExpress times its influencer strategy amid massive industry growthAliExpress’s new Celeb Shop initiative enters the market during a pivotal period in influencer commerce evolution.The global influencer marketing industry is projected to more than triple from $21.1 billion today to $69.44 billion by 2028, reflecting brands’ growing reliance on creator-led sales strategies1.This shift is further evidenced by research showing 69% of marketers plan to increase their influencer marketing budgets by 2024, demonstrating broad industry confidence in this approach2.By specifically recruiting Korean influencers to model and promote items from Dongdaemun vendors, AliExpress is embracing the micro-influencer trend that has seen brands increasingly favor authentic, relatable voices over traditional celebrities.The company’s emphasis on influencers curating and modeling their selected pieces directly addresses the 61.9% of marketers who now utilize influencers primarily for content generation rather than simple product promotion2.2️⃣ Gen Z shopping behaviors drive AliExpress’s strategic pivotAliExpress’s targeting of teenagers to thirty-somethings with its Celeb Shop reflects deep understanding of evolving consumer behaviors in fashion retail.Research shows 97% of Gen Z shoppers cite social media as their primary inspiration for purchases, with this demographic controlling approximately $150 billion in spending power3.The platform’s “celeb pick shopping” approach directly addresses the 43% of young consumers who specifically turn to social media for fashion inspiration, offering them a streamlined path from discovery to purchase4.By focusing on Korean fashion items, AliExpress is tapping into both K-fashion’s global appeal and the demonstrated preference of younger consumers for cross-border shopping experiences that offer unique styles.The simultaneous launch across multiple markets including the US, Japan, France, and Spain leverages the 83% of young adults (15-27) who already make their apparel purchases online, positioning AliExpress to capture share in the rapidly expanding social commerce market projected to exceed $1 trillion by 202845.Recent AliExpress developments

Siam News Network
Jun 9th, 2025
Firework Recognized with Frost & Sullivan's 2025 Global Competitive Strategy Leadership Award

SAN ANTONIO, June 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - Frost & Sullivan recently analyzed the video commerce industry and based on its research findings, recognizes Firework with the 2025 Global Competitive Strategy Leadership Award.

BetaKit
Jan 29th, 2025
Why Canadian Commerce Startups Are Building “Live Shopping” Into Their Marketing Plans

Connie Lo of Three Ships sold $20,000 in beauty products in the company’s first hour live

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