The team

Two brothers. One mission.

We scaled an ecommerce brand to six figures a month on tools we hated. Amboras is the platform we wish we had.

Founder-led

Built by operators who lived the problem, not advisors who read about it in a market report.

Founders

Meet the Mokadem brothers.

Two operators turned founders. We ran stores, fought plugins, burned cash on freelancers, and eventually decided to rebuild the stack from scratch.

Imad Mokadem
CEO & co-founder

Imad Mokadem

Grew up around his dad’s brick-and-mortar businesses, learning how to sell and run operations before he could drive. Studied mechanical engineering at ETH Zurich, finishing his master’s in robotics. Co-built and scaled an ecommerce brand to six figures a month, then set out to build the platform he wished existed when he started.

Studied
ETH Zurich — MSc Robotics
Built
6-figure/mo ecom brand
Focus
Product, brand, merchants
Amin Mokadem
CTO & co-founder

Amin Mokadem

Same upbringing, same family businesses, always shipping software on the side. Studied software engineering at ETH Zurich. Co-built the ecommerce brand from zero, owning development and conversion work end to end. Now turning years of operator pain into the AI platform that replaces the stack.

Studied
ETH Zurich — Software Engineering
Built
Storefront, funnels, infra
Focus
AI, platform, engineering
How we work

Three principles. Every decision.

We’re a small team with strong opinions. These are the non-negotiables that shape what we build and, just as importantly, what we refuse to build.

01
Operator-built.
Every feature starts from a real problem we hit running our own store. If it does not make a merchant faster or richer, it does not ship.
02
AI does the work.
Merchants should describe what they want, not wire up apps. We push as much of the job as possible onto the model.
03
One opinionated platform.
No app marketplace, no plugin roulette. One cohesive product where every part is designed to work with every other.
Backed by Y Combinator.Winter 2026

Supported by the investors behind Stripe, Airbnb, and thousands of the world’s best startups.

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The full story
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