Retail Tech Startups

Violet Grey is an online beauty retailer that sells curated skincare and cosmetics products, including editorial "files" reviewing items such as Angela Caglia's Cell Forté serum. The site combines e-commerce with product reviews and beauty guides.

6 investors

ViSenze provides a multimodal AI platform for ecommerce search, product recommendations, and discovery, offering features like multi-search (text, keyword, image), an AI shopping assistant, GenAI smart tagging, and analytics. It serves online retailers, with clients including Myntra, Zalora, and Showpo.

6 investors

Work Truck Solutions provides online tools and services for commercial vehicle dealers, focused on the heavy-duty and work truck dealership market.

6 investors

Sumutasu operates an AI-based service for selling condominiums in Japan, providing an online price assessment in as little as one hour and cash payment in as little as two days. It serves individual homeowners looking to sell their apartments quickly through direct purchase without showings or intermediaries.

6 investors

10X is a company focused on transforming the retail industry, particularly supermarkets, through product innovation. The company aims to evolve the customer experience and work practices in retail by applying technology and design solutions to address structural changes in the sector.

5 investors

3cat is a retailer of used devices in Malaysia that offers a 15-day money-back guarantee and exchange options for customers.

5 investors

AlgoDriven provides AI-powered appraisal, inspection, and pricing tools for used-car dealers, banks, OEMs, and online marketplaces. The platform uses proprietary datasets and machine learning models trained on live market data to support inventory valuation and purchasing decisions across Australia, New Zealand, MENA, and the USA.

5 investors

Alokai develops frontend software for ecommerce retailers to build fast, modern online storefronts using composable commerce and headless architecture. The platform provides ready-made components, integrations, and services that developers can use individually or together throughout the frontend development lifecycle.

5 investors

AMPECO provides a software platform that enables retail companies to deploy and manage EV charging stations in their locations, attracting customers and generating revenue while integrating with existing retail systems. The platform includes features for pricing management, payment processing, loyalty program integration, and white-label mobile apps.

5 investors

ApnaKlub is a B2B wholesale platform that supplies retailers, SMEs, and business owners in India's Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities with a wide range of branded products, offering better margins, on-time delivery, and customer support. Founded in 2020, it focuses on serving small-city retailers across India.

5 investors

Apna Mart operates neighborhood retail grocery stores and offers quick delivery of groceries and daily goods in about 10 minutes across towns in eastern and central India. It serves consumers through physical outlets and an online ordering service, concentrated in Jharkhand, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, and Bihar.

5 investors

Auror operates a Retail Crime Intelligence platform that lets retailers record and share structured crime data and connect with law enforcement to identify repeat and organized offenders. It serves large retailers and police agencies across North and South America, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

5 investors

Black.ai provides AI-powered retail intelligence by analyzing CCTV footage to track customer journeys across multiple cameras. The platform enables retailers to increase conversions, optimize store layouts, reduce theft, and measure marketing impact while maintaining privacy through default face blurring.

5 investors

Blackcart provides a Try Before You Buy solution for e-commerce merchants, letting online shoppers try products at home before paying. The service integrates with merchant store apps to convert existing traffic into new customers and increase store profitability.

5 investors

Bold provides payment and financial products for small and medium businesses, including card readers (datáfonos), payment links, online payment gateways, a digital business account, debit and credit cards, business credit, electronic invoicing, and a POS system. It serves merchants in Colombia.

5 investors

bops provides software that helps consumer packaged goods manufacturers' sales, supply chain, and retail-operations teams reduce on-shelf availability issues and out-of-stocks across their retailer partners. Its customers include CPG brands and food and beverage manufacturers, with activity noted in Latin American markets such as Mexico and Chile.

5 investors

Boxo provides a Super App platform that supports miniapps. The single visible page is a form for submitting feature requests.

5 investors

Breinify offers an AI personalization platform that lets B2C and D2C marketers launch and test coordinated experiences across web, email, SMS, app, and API without heavy engineering involvement. Its Temporal AI analyzes time, weather, and location patterns to personalize for all users, including anonymous first-time visitors, serving brands in eCommerce, retail, grocery, and CPG.

5 investors

Brij provides AI-powered rebate management software that enables brands to launch receipt-based discount campaigns through a digital concierge model. The platform captures first-party customer data while validating purchases and distributing payouts to shoppers via digital payment methods.

5 investors

Bumper provides a payment orchestration platform designed for automotive dealerships that integrates in-store and online payment processing with features including pay-later options, bank transfers, and card payments. The platform manages customer payments across multiple touchpoints including point-of-sale systems, digital booking, dealership management systems, and customer relationship management tools.

5 investors

CB4 offers Spotlight, a patented AI software that runs machine learning on brick-and-mortar retailers' POS data to detect in-store physical issues holding back sales. It sends store managers prioritized recommendations to fix critical issues and reports on program success, compliance, and margin lifts.

5 investors

Candid Wholesale offers a software platform that helps brands and retailers set up, manage, and grow their wholesale business online, serving companies from small boutiques to established brands. It positions itself as an alternative to marketplace models and expensive sector-specific tools, enabling businesses to transact directly with one another.

5 investors

CardFlight builds a mobile point-of-sale payment platform that lets small merchants accept payments in-store, on mobile, and in back-office settings. It sells its SwipeSimple product directly and through merchant acquirers and channel partners in the US.

5 investors

CarNow provides a conversion platform for automotive dealerships to engage shoppers, identify purchase intent, and improve sales and service outcomes. The platform helps dealerships across North America convert more shoppers into buyers and support over 4,000 dealerships and partnerships with major OEMs.

5 investors