Zinc blog · Jul 2026
Summarizes the 2026 agentic-commerce stack and positions Zinc as the execution layer for retailers that do not support merchant-native checkout protocols.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Zinc is a San Francisco-based, privately held software company building a developer-first e-commerce infrastructure/API for programmatic product search, checkout, tracking, and returns across 50+ retailers. It positions itself as an execution layer for agentic commerce and says it is profitable.
Primary product
Developer-first e-commerce API for searching, buying, tracking, and returning products across online retailers
Founded
2014
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Commerce infrastructure / e-commerce automation API
Offices
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Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$125K
Latest round
Seed · Mar 2017
Latest amount
$125K
Mar 2017
Founders
Co-founder and Chief Engineer
Investors
Public materials emphasize developers first, infrastructure over interfaces, profit-powered rather than venture-dependent, and agent-native/web-wide product thinking. The company also highlights reliability, clear documentation, and support.
Pricing
Usage-based pricing: $1 per successful order and $0.01 per data API call, with volume discounts and custom enterprise terms for larger usage.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Zinc blog · Jul 2026
Summarizes the 2026 agentic-commerce stack and positions Zinc as the execution layer for retailers that do not support merchant-native checkout protocols.
Newsfile / FinancialContent · Jun 2026
Announced a public consumer price tracker that updates daily using Zinc's commerce infrastructure across thousands of products and hundreds of categories.
Zinc blog · Mar 2026
Introduced Machine Payments Protocol support, enabling agentic checkout without a pre-existing Zinc account or API key.
Zinc blog · Jan 2026
Released an open-source reference implementation that searches retailers, takes payment, and completes real checkouts using Stripe and Zinc.
Zinc blog · Jan 2026
Launched multi-product, multi-quantity ordering across retailers, expanding Zinc's checkout execution across major stores.