“Can a commerce platform for global enterprise brands become the full-stack AI operating system for omnichannel retail — spanning storefront, customer experience, search, ads, and marketplace?”
Founded in 2000 as a textile B2B procurement platform in Brazil, VTEX quickly pivoted into full-stack e-commerce SaaS for large enterprises. After scaling across Latin America through the 2010s, it raised $365M and went public on NYSE in 2021. More recently, VTEX has repositioned itself as an 'AI-Native Commerce Suite' targeting CIOs and CEOs of global enterprises, adding an AI-powered CX platform, retail media (VTEX Ads), and agentic commerce capabilities on top of its core commerce infrastructure.
VTEX processes payments through Stripe.
VTEX integrates with ERP integrations (Brightpearl, Aptean Catalyst, Aquilon, ECI Software Solutions, and others via VTEX API).
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 2 layers in VTEX's stack: Payments / PSP (Stripe); Accounting (ERP integrations (Brightpearl, Aptean Catalyst, Aquilon, ECI Software Solutions, and others via VTEX API)).
VTEX was founded by Mariano Gomide de Faria and Geraldo Thomaz and is founded in 2000, headquartered in New York, NY, USA (with main operations in Brazil).
VTEX has raised $365M+ in total (latest round: Series D, 2020; valuation: $1.7B (2020, unicorn); IPO 2021 (NYSE: VTEX)).
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