# Stephan Schambach

> Stephan Schambach is a seed investor in Boston backing E-Commerce and SaaS. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanschambach
- X (Twitter): http://www.twitter.com/schambachsays
- Website: http://www.newstore.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1441655157

Stephan Schambach is a seed investor in Boston focused on E-Commerce and SaaS. Stephan Schambach is the Founder and CEO at NewStore, Inc. He attended the Harvard Business School.

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $4M–$30M |
| Series B | $20M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 42% |
| SaaS | 3 | 25% |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| Retail | 2 | 17% |
| Internet | 2 | 17% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 17% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Series B | 2 | 17% |
| Series E | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 33% |
| Germany | 3 | 25% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CODE University of Applied Sciences | CODE is a Berlin-based state-accredited university of applied sciences that offers bachelor’s degree programs in the field of Digital Product Development. | $8.1M |  | Dec 09, 2025 |  |
| ChannelEngine | With a single powerful Software as a Service integration, ChannelEngine connects a sellers systems to international marketplaces and sales channels while optimizing sales, minimizing time, and maximizing profit and reach. It offers brands, distributors, and retailers automated order and return systems, an advanced management suite and rich partnerecosystem, to bring their sales to the next level.ChannelEngine empowers companies by creating a seamless integration between businesses and marketplaces. Learn more: www.channelengine.com. | $49.9M | Series B | Mar 15, 2022 |  |
| NewStore | NewStore operates a platform for retailers to run their stores on the iPhone. Purpose-built for mobile shoppers, the company provides Omnichannel-as-a-Service with the only integrated cloud OMS and mobile POS. Intuitive store associate apps allow retailers to offer seamless shopping experiences through the endless aisle, mobile checkout, storefulfillment, real-time inventory, and clienteling. An API-first architecture and an expansive ecosystem of partners means retailers can deploy fast and flexible omnichannel with ease. NewStore was founded by Stephan Schambach, who pioneered e-commerce at Demandware (now Salesforce Commerce Cloud). The company has offices in Berlin, Boston, and New York. | $45M | Series B | Jul 07, 2021 |  |
| Mister Spex | Mister Spex is an online store that sells various brands of glasses and contact lenses in Germany. Its product range includes over 5000 different glasses, sunglasses, sports eyewear, and contact lenses from more than 60 brands and designers.The store’s offerings include sports labels such as Adidas, Carrera, Lacoste, and Oakley to designer brandssuch as Burberry, Calvin Klein, Dolce&Gabbana, Gucci, Jil Sander, Prada, Roberto Cavalli, Tom Ford, and Versace.Mister Spex was launched in 2007 and its operations are headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It also operates its own websites in France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. | $72.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 20, 2019 |  |
| NewStore | NewStore operates a platform for retailers to run their stores on the iPhone. Purpose-built for mobile shoppers, the company provides Omnichannel-as-a-Service with the only integrated cloud OMS and mobile POS. Intuitive store associate apps allow retailers to offer seamless shopping experiences through the endless aisle, mobile checkout, storefulfillment, real-time inventory, and clienteling. An API-first architecture and an expansive ecosystem of partners means retailers can deploy fast and flexible omnichannel with ease. NewStore was founded by Stephan Schambach, who pioneered e-commerce at Demandware (now Salesforce Commerce Cloud). The company has offices in Berlin, Boston, and New York. | $20M | Series B | May 18, 2018 |  |
| NewStore | NewStore operates a platform for retailers to run their stores on the iPhone. Purpose-built for mobile shoppers, the company provides Omnichannel-as-a-Service with the only integrated cloud OMS and mobile POS. Intuitive store associate apps allow retailers to offer seamless shopping experiences through the endless aisle, mobile checkout, storefulfillment, real-time inventory, and clienteling. An API-first architecture and an expansive ecosystem of partners means retailers can deploy fast and flexible omnichannel with ease. NewStore was founded by Stephan Schambach, who pioneered e-commerce at Demandware (now Salesforce Commerce Cloud). The company has offices in Berlin, Boston, and New York. | $50M | Series B | Jul 18, 2017 |  |
| BigCommerce | BigCommerce is a cloud e-commerce platform for established and growing businesses. It combines enterprise functionality, an open architecture, an app ecosystem, and market performance. BigCommerce enables businesses to grow online sales with 80% less cost, time, and complexity than on-premise software. BigCommerce powers B2B and B2C e-commercefor more than 60,000 brands, 2,000+ mid-market businesses, 30 Fortune 1000 companies, and industry brands, including Assurant, Ben and Jerry’s, Paul Mitchell, Skullcandy, Sony, and Toyota. | $30M | Series E | May 10, 2016 |  |
| NewStore | NewStore operates a platform for retailers to run their stores on the iPhone. Purpose-built for mobile shoppers, the company provides Omnichannel-as-a-Service with the only integrated cloud OMS and mobile POS. Intuitive store associate apps allow retailers to offer seamless shopping experiences through the endless aisle, mobile checkout, storefulfillment, real-time inventory, and clienteling. An API-first architecture and an expansive ecosystem of partners means retailers can deploy fast and flexible omnichannel with ease. NewStore was founded by Stephan Schambach, who pioneered e-commerce at Demandware (now Salesforce Commerce Cloud). The company has offices in Berlin, Boston, and New York. | $30M | Series A | Jul 30, 2015 |  |
| Klara | Klara’s end-to-end patient engagement platform enables healthcare organizations to easily communicate with patients, provide virtual care, collaborate as a team, and automate many front-desk tasks. Thousands of healthcare teams across more than 40 specialties use Klara to make their workflows more efficient, deliver an exceptional patientexperience across the entire care journey, and grow their patient volume. | $2.5M | Seed | Jan 31, 2015 |  |
| minubo | minubo is an eCommerce Intelligence “as a Service” solution particularly developed to meet online retailers specific analytics requirements. As eCommerce companies face rapid growth today, they require a pioneering solution that helps them connect data from fragmented sources and thus capture its complete value without imposing costly and complexIT demands. Having built up comprehensive eCommerce experience during their long-term work in the domain, the minubo team developed a ready-to-use analytics solution that works as the central data hub for every online shop: A unified database with comprehensive possibilities of reporting and analysis based on eCommerce best practice metrics creates transparency in all business areas and helps retailers make better, metrics-based decisions. Thus, they grow sales and profitability by converting data into action! |  | Seed | Dec 11, 2014 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Stephan Schambach invest in?

Stephan Schambach invests primarily in E-Commerce, SaaS and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Stephan Schambach's check size?

Stephan Schambach typically joins rounds of $4M–$30M at Series A and $20M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Stephan Schambach participates in.

### How do I contact Stephan Schambach?

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### When did Stephan Schambach last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Stephan Schambach closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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