Retail Tech Startups

Hellometer provides AI-powered video monitoring and real-time analytics for quick-service restaurants, tracking drive-thru and lobby service times, kitchen operations, and loss prevention. It serves restaurant owners and operators looking to reduce wait times and improve guest experience.

5 investors

Hummingbirds is a creator platform that connects food and beverage brands with creators across 60+ cities for retail campaigns in grocery stores. The platform generates user-generated content for launches, resets, and seasonal retail moments.

5 investors

Hypersonix is an AI-driven platform that enables eCommerce and retail businesses to achieve profitable growth through proactive monitoring, diagnostics, and agentic AI capabilities. The platform integrates with existing eCommerce, ERP, financial, and accounting systems to analyze sales, competition, consumer behavior, and demand forecasts.

5 investors

JD.com is a technology and services enterprise built around supply chain operations, with businesses spanning retail, logistics, technology, health, industrials, property development, and international operations. It operates an e-commerce platform and related services aimed at consumers and businesses.

5 investors

Juicer is a margin management platform for restaurants that connects to a restaurant's POS to track costs, competitor pricing, sales, and delivery commissions. It surfaces mispriced menu items and delivers specific, dollar-quantified pricing recommendations with associated traffic risk.

5 investors

Juo provides a toolkit for launching and managing subscription models for physical products, including a frontend editor, workflow builder, and APIs/SDKs. It serves ecommerce businesses looking to convert one-time purchases into recurring subscription programs.

5 investors

Kafene provides lease-to-own financing at the point of sale, using an application process based on 20,000+ data points to approve customers regardless of credit history. It serves merchants and their retail customers, offering leases up to $5,000 with point-of-sale integration and flexible payment plans.

5 investors

Keeyu is an AI agent for proactive e-commerce operations that monitors orders from payment through delivery and return, detecting and fixing fulfilment, payment, and return issues before customers complain. It integrates with a brand's existing storefront, warehouse, payment, and carrier systems to give CX and operations teams a single source of truth and automated issue resolution.

5 investors

Kevel provides API-based ad-serving and audience technology for retailers, marketplaces, and other commerce leaders to build and scale their own retail media networks. Its Retail Media Cloud combines ad decisioning, first-party data audience segmentation, and campaign management with ML and AI features.

5 investors

Label Insight provides product attribute data that captures over 27,000 attributes per product, covering allergens, ingredients, nutrient content, diet and lifestyle, sustainability, and clean-label criteria. Its technology is used by brands, retailers, and regulatory agencies to understand consumer purchase drivers and inform product innovation, marketing, and assortment strategies in the U.S.

5 investors

Lightspeed provides a point-of-sale and payments platform that lets retail and hospitality businesses sell in person, online, and on social channels from one connected system. It offers inventory management, integrations, embedded funding, and B2B wholesale ordering for merchants across more than 100 countries.

5 investors

Liven offers an all-in-one technology platform for hospitality businesses that integrates back-of-house and front-of-house operations. The company serves restaurants and hospitality merchants through its partner network model.

5 investors

Lula provides a digital commerce platform focused on handling the operational side of online ordering, including integrations. Details on the page are limited to a contact prompt about its digital commerce offering.

5 investors

Mall IQ offers a mobile engagement platform that uses real-time location data to identify where and when customers shop in physical venues like malls and stores, then triggers personalized campaigns via push notifications, CRM APIs, SMS, or email. It serves businesses looking to enrich customer segmentation and improve metrics such as activation, frequency, wallet share, and retention.

5 investors

Mason builds technology that helps eCommerce brands, marketplaces, and teams replace fragmented toolchains and improve the customer experiences they create. It positions itself as a design-focused product company serving online retail and marketplace businesses.

5 investors

Material Depot is a materials discovery and procurement platform that helps architects, designers, and brands find and source materials. The platform uses AI design tools and a discovery engine to simplify the material selection process for the design community.

5 investors

Mia builds AI tools to modernize automotive dealership sales and operations and improve the consumer buying experience. Founded in 2023, it targets car dealerships in the US automotive retail industry.

5 investors

Micromart advances retail technology, delivering solutions to improve customer experience in the retail sector. The company is led by a team with deep experience in retail technology, e-commerce, and related fields.

5 investors

MishiPay provides a modular, cloud-native point-of-sale platform with mobile self-checkout, "scan, pay & leave," RFID-based checkout, and flexible payment options for retailers. It serves single- and multi-location retail brands and enterprises across North America, Europe, and the Middle East.

5 investors

Mollie provides in-person payment tools for European businesses, including card terminals, mobile and fixed POS terminals, and tap-to-pay apps for iPhone and Android, all managed through a central dashboard. It also offers online payment features such as payment links and recurring billing, and lets platforms embed and monetise in-person payments for their merchants.

5 investors

Nexite provides retailers with a continuous stream of real-time data about their physical merchandise, tracking items from the factory through to purchase to give visibility across the value chain. Its technology delivers automated inventory insights and digital capabilities aimed at improving how retailers manage and match products with customers.

5 investors

Nimble provides digital workflow and patient engagement software for independent and regional pharmacies, helping them manage prescription fulfillment, mobile checkout, and patient communications. The platform improves medication adherence and enables life sciences companies to access commercial intelligence on therapy adoption.

5 investors

Nino Foods operates three quick-service restaurant brands (Nino Burgers, Francesco's Pizzeria, and KHA) across 20+ locations in Mumbai and surrounding areas. The company builds a fast food business focused on delivery and dine-in services for consumers seeking burgers, pizza, and fried chicken.

5 investors

Oda is an online grocery retailer offering a range of food and household products for delivery in Norway.

5 investors