Retail Tech Startups

SLI Systems develops a machine learning-powered e-commerce search and discovery platform for online retailers, handling over 1 billion search queries monthly across multiple continents. The platform includes search, navigation, recommendations, merchandising, mobile and SEO applications designed to increase revenue for e-commerce businesses.

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Slice builds software and technology tools for independent, local pizzerias and small restaurant businesses, helping them with ordering, operations, and other functions used by larger chains. The company serves over 20,000 restaurant partners globally.

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Slicer offers Kanvas, a cloud-based retail merchandising platform that lets fashion and lifestyle brands plan buying, manage inventory, develop products, and analyze sales data visually with AI-driven insights and recommendations. It serves fashion and lifestyle retailers, with a focus on brands across South East Asia and India.

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Slurp is a cloud-based point-of-sale system for cafes, restaurants, and food and beverage operators that handles order management, payments, inventory, and reporting through a single integrated platform.

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Slyp offers a customer engagement platform for retailers, providing loyalty programs, card-linked offers, and tax-compliant digital receipts delivered through bank apps, retailer apps, SMS, or email. Its platform integrates with point-of-sale systems, CRMs, and CDPs to help retailers collect and action first-party customer data, with a focus on the Australian market.

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Connected Pickup is a waste management technology that integrates retail store inventory systems with waste collection trucks to optimize pickup schedules and reduce unnecessary trips. The solution serves retailers by eliminating empty pickups, lowering fuel consumption, and improving operational efficiency.

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SmartSign supplies custom branded promotional products and merchandise for businesses to use at events, campaigns, and customer appreciation initiatives. The company serves enterprises and marketing teams seeking tangible promotional tools for brand awareness and customer retention.

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Smartven provides vending machines in Indonesia through rental, purchase (new and used), and custom event options, with online monitoring and cashless QRIS payment support. It targets small businesses (UMKM), corporations, and solopreneurs looking to run automated 24/7 retail outlets, and also offers digital out-of-home advertising on the machines.

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SmartVend provides telemetry controllers and payment terminals (including the Korobka POS) that install inside vending machines, enabling cashless payments, QR-based receipts via a cloud register, and remote monitoring of machine data through an online dashboard. It supplies and assembles hardware for vending machine operators and ships equipment across Russia.

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Smartway offers a data-driven food waste management system for retail operations that identifies short-dated products and optimizes decisions around selling or donating inventory to minimize losses.

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Smartzer offers a platform for creating interactive shoppable videos, live shopping events, and shoppable ads with clickable product hotspots, add-to-cart functionality, and an analytics dashboard. It serves brands, publishers, agencies, and influencers looking to add e-commerce and video commerce capabilities to their content.

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Smooth Commerce provides a digital in-room dining ordering platform for hotels, replacing traditional phone and PDF menu systems with mobile and tablet-based ordering. The platform enables real-time menu management, order tracking, personalized guest experiences, and contactless payment integration.

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Smyth manufactures and distributes labels and packaging products, with quality assurance through 380+ checkpoints and compliance with BRC, ISO, and AIB standards.

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Snap2Insight uses AI image recognition to give CPG brands real-time, SKU-level visibility into retail shelf conditions and in-store execution. Its platform helps brands monitor and optimize shelf presence store-to-store.

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Snapette was a mobile app launched in 2011 that used location-based technology to let shoppers discover and share fashion items—particularly high-end shoes and bags—from nearby stores, connecting online discovery with in-store retail. It served fashion consumers and was later acquired by PriceGrabber.

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SnapPay is a North American payment platform that lets merchants accept Alipay, WeChat Pay, and China UnionPay across online, in-store, in-app, and mobile channels. It also offers marketing solutions to help merchants reach Chinese consumers and grow revenue.

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SnapWrite is an AI merchandising platform that connects to a company's existing systems (ERPs, PIMs, PLMs, spreadsheets) to collect, clean, structure, and enrich product data, then automatically publishes it across sales channels and AI discovery engines. It is built for eCommerce and merchandising teams, especially brands in fashion, footwear, accessories, luggage, and homeware.

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Sneakersnstuff is an online retailer selling sneakers and streetwear apparel from brands including adidas, Nike, New Balance, Vans, and Butter Goods. The company operates an e-commerce store alongside a physical presence in Stockholm.

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SNK Peek provides AI-powered authentication and tracking systems to verify the legitimacy of sneakers and prevent counterfeits. The platform serves resellers, collectors, and marketplace participants by offering rapid authentication and supply chain visibility for authenticated goods.

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Social Nature is a cash back rebate app and website where members browse offers on natural and better-for-you grocery, beauty, wellness, and household products, shop in-store at U.S. retailers like Whole Foods, Walmart, and Target, and upload receipts to earn cash back via Venmo, PayPal, or gift card. Members can also write product reviews to unlock free product trials and higher-value offers.

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Socket Mobile designs cordless barcode scanners and data capture readers for businesses in specialty retail, field service, logistics, and industrial settings. It also offers a CaptureSDK for developers to integrate its readers into mobile and desktop apps, including support for macOS.

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Soft Restaurant is a restaurant management software that combines sales, inventory, reporting, billing, and payments in a single platform. It serves restaurants of all sizes to centralize operational data and support real-time decision-making.

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Sokrio Technologies develops business management software including a CRM system and a distribution management system designed for retail channel management and sales automation.

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Solvoyo offers an AI and optimization platform for end-to-end supply chain planning, spanning demand forecasting, replenishment, assortment, pricing, procurement, inventory, and fulfillment. It targets enterprise retail and CPG companies, aiming to move planning toward autonomous, no-touch decision-making.

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