Retail Startups

Burrow is a direct-to-consumer furniture brand that designs modular sofas and home furnishings shipped quickly and built to be easy to assemble, durable, and sustainably made. It serves consumers furnishing their homes.

17 investors

Joy is a software platform for planning and remembering life's events, from weddings to other celebrations, aimed at consumers organizing personal milestones. It operates in the consumer events and planning software category.

14 investors

Meesho operates an online marketplace that connects small businesses and individual entrepreneurs with customers across India, offering logistics, payments, and support services to help sellers manage their operations.

14 investors

Faire operates an online wholesale marketplace that uses machine learning to connect independent retailers with brands and products suited to their stores. It offers retailers financing terms that eliminate inventory risk and provides brands with sales, marketing, and analytics tools.

13 investors

Standard AI (Standard Cognition) builds a computer-vision system that lets shoppers pick up items and leave without going through a cashier, enabling autonomous checkout for retail stores.

12 investors

SureBright provides product protection insurance solutions that merchants embed directly into their customer checkout experience. The company handles underwriting, claims, and customer support, enabling merchants to earn incremental revenue while building customer trust.

10 investors

Peeba operates a B2B wholesale marketplace connecting independent retailers across Southeast Asia with branded product suppliers, handling inventory purchases.

8 investors

Positive Food Co. makes healthy prepared foods, such as salads and overnight oats, using fresh ingredients from local farms, and sells them through grocery stores. The company runs its own production, point-of-sale data, and cold-chain logistics to supply retailers across California.

8 investors

Santé builds a point-of-sale system designed specifically for liquor retail stores. The software helps liquor business operators modernize their store management and operations.

8 investors

The Flex Co. makes sustainable menstrual products, including menstrual discs and cups sold direct-to-consumer online and through over 30,000 U.S. retail stores such as Walmart, Target, CVS, and Walgreens. It designs and manufactures its own period care products in the U.S. and Canada.

8 investors

Autone provides inventory management and demand forecasting software for retail brands to optimize stock levels, reduce overproduction, and minimize waste. The platform helps retail teams make data-driven decisions about buying, replenishment, and restocking at scale.

7 investors

flexEngage provides retailers with software to personalize post-purchase communications such as digital receipts, turning them into a marketing channel to engage customers and drive additional sales. It also builds a database of consumer shopping behavior, serving physical-store retail brands in the United States.

6 investors

Glimpse consolidates retail sales data and uses AI agents to automate revenue recovery, cash application, and dispute management for consumer brands.

6 investors

Pango is an AI-powered operating system for e-commerce logistics that unifies shipping, tracking, returns, and post-purchase operations in a single platform. It automates operational workflows so e-commerce teams can make logistics decisions faster and scale across markets without proportional increases in complexity.

5 investors

Teespring is an e-commerce platform that lets independent creators design and sell custom made-to-order products to their communities. It serves creators and online shoppers, operating in the print-on-demand and creator commerce space.

5 investors

Firsthand builds software-enabled, self-serve retail kiosks, supplying the kiosk hardware, the products, and the software while hosts provide the space and receive a share of monthly profits. It operates in the retail hardware space.

4 investors

Luca provides AI-powered pricing optimization software for retail businesses, analyzing sales data to identify opportunities for revenue and profit improvement and recommending price adjustments to capture additional margin.

4 investors

Thread is a free online personal styling service for men that pairs users with human stylists and a proprietary algorithm to recommend clothing and outfits tailored to their sizes, budget, and preferences. It operates in the fashion and ecommerce space.

4 investors

Vendora provides an all-in-one POS and grocery management platform for retail grocers, combining point-of-sale checkout, loyalty programs, inventory management, and AI-powered analytics in a single system.

4 investors

42 provides an end-to-end analytics platform for DTC and wholesale retail brands, consolidating sales, stock, and customer data across stores, ecommerce, and wholesale channels into unified reporting. It handles hosting, maintenance, and data integration with major retailers via xlsx, portals, or EDI, and can serve as a vendor portal for retailers.

2 investors

Bikry provides a no-code platform enabling small retail and service businesses in India to establish online presence by creating digital catalogs, integrating payment processing, and connecting to logistics partners for nationwide delivery.

2 investors

Booth AI provides an AI image generation platform that creates lifestyle product photos for e-commerce companies. The service is designed for brand managers and marketers who need to produce catalog-style product photography faster and more cheaply than hiring traditional photographers.

2 investors

FlexWash provides point-of-sale and customer relationship management software for car wash operators, combining membership management, sales tracking, and customer data tools in a single platform. The software serves independent and chain car wash businesses across North America.

2 investors

Fountain9 provides demand forecasting and inventory optimization software to food brands and retailers, using historical sales data and pricing information to predict future inventory needs and reduce both stockouts and waste.

2 investors