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Calm Company Fund is proud to back Wholesale Gorilla, which allows any Shopify store to seamlessly serve wholesale customers.
Matt and Hallie, from Louisville, Kentucky, founded Wholesale Gorilla in a classic scratch your own itch story. Hallie launched Graymarket Design, a scarf and textile vendor on Shopify. When wholesale buyers started inquiring they found Shopify was not able to support the key features wholesale customers need like bulk pricing, minimum orders, freight shipping, NET30 payments, and so on. Rather than bolt on a separate wholesale portal, they built out a custom app to allow logged in wholesale customers to use their existing store. After using the app to run their own business for two years, they made it available to other merchants. With zero marketing they have accumulated a huge waiting list of customers that they have been diligently working their way through.
At Calm Company Fund our core thesis is around enabling distributed entrepreneurship and any time we can back a company and double-down on that we love it. Wholesale Gorilla enables a literally seamless—the product actually transforms the full shop UI for logged in wholesale customers—transition from DTC e-commerce startup to growth via local retailers and wholesale distribution. We are excited about the Wholesale Gorilla team because as avid customers of their own product, the team is always going to stay a step ahead for their merchants than the inevitable dev shops or copycats.
Shopify merchants should check them out directly on the app store. Merchants not on Shopify but looking for a powerful wholesale engine should say hello directly to stay in the loop for future announcements.
