Retail ecommerce

Global Belly

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Founded 2019Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Global Belly is a platform that helps creators and content companies add shoppable products to their content and monetize their audience. We drive social commerce for partnering brands, by matching their products to relevant content.

We take care of technology, analytics and operations so that content creators can easily

create and start selling unique physical and virtual offerings in a matter of minutes. Global Belly has launched 100+ influencers in the food space and shipped thousands of products nationwide. Global Belly's co-founders are Ankita Sharma and Madhuri Sharma (unrelated). Ankita has a Masters in Computer Science (Carnegie Mellon) and MBA (NYU Stern) and experience working at Apple and Bloomberg. Madhuri brings the culinary and content marketing skills to the team, with a B.S in Film & Television (Boston University), a Culinary Arts degree (Institute of Culinary Education) and experience at Grey Global Group and The Food Network.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Madhuri Sharma

Founder

I currently manage production oversight at Publicis Groupe across experiential, traditional content, and digital campaigns while developing frameworks for safe and scalable AI integration within creative workflows. Previously, I co-founded Global Belly (YC W20), a culinary tech startup in the social commerce space. Today, I focus on how producers and creative teams can safely adopt AI, develop “fair-trade” data pipelines, and unlock new creative economies within agency ecosystems.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2019 · Source

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Y Combinator

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
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Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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