Retail Tech Startups

Food Market Hub provides a centralized platform for restaurants and food service businesses to manage procurement, inventory, and costing in real time. The platform helps restaurant operators and suppliers reduce costs and improve operational efficiency by consolidating backend activities that were previously scattered across manual processes.

4 investors

Freeing Returns offers an AI system that scans transactions to identify and recover revenue lost to vendor errors, missed credits, return fraud, damaged goods, pricing errors, and overstocking. It targets loss prevention and procurement leaders at large enterprises, positioning itself beyond traditional theft-focused loss prevention.

4 investors

THE ICONIC is an online fashion and sports retailer serving consumers in Australia and New Zealand, offering product ranges, delivery, and returns through digital shopping experiences. Founded in 2011, it operates as an e-commerce platform in the apparel and sportswear category.

4 investors

goooods is a Japanese B2B wholesale marketplace connecting retail shops with distinctive domestic and overseas brands, focusing on food, organic products, and specialty goods. Small retailers can order samples and buy in small lots to reduce inventory risk, with access to product background stories about materials, production methods, and makers.

4 investors

Granify, now part of the Bazaarvoice platform, offers an AI-powered decision engine that uses shoppers' real-time behavioral data to deliver tailored shopping experiences and drive incremental online revenue. It is sold as a fully-managed service for large enterprise retailers' ecommerce websites and apps.

4 investors

Happy Pay operates a Buy Now Pay Later platform for Africa that lets shoppers split purchases over two paycheques interest-free and helps merchants increase basket size and conversion. The platform donates 1% of fees to environmental initiatives.

4 investors

Helcim is a payment processing platform for small businesses, offering in-person, online, and phone card payments plus ACH, invoicing, payment links, and 40+ integrations. It uses Interchange Plus pricing with no monthly fees and provides APIs and embeddable payment forms for merchants.

4 investors

Hemster offers a technology platform that creates personalized fit profiles, using a Fit Profile algorithm to save a person's measurements as reusable "Patterns" and match garments to them. The consumer-focused product aims to provide accurate clothing fit regardless of standard sizing in the fashion industry.

4 investors

Reproduction of Found is a Tokyo-based footwear label that sources and reproduces vintage military shoes and trainers using European factories that originally manufactured them in the mid-20th century. The brand distributes roughly 30 shoe models globally through approximately 150 stockists and collaborates with fashion labels on limited editions.

4 investors

Hilbert builds AI-native infrastructure for growth teams to consolidate fragmented data, analyze growth drivers with mathematical rigor, and make rapid, precision-driven decisions. The platform serves B2C companies seeking to replace manual dashboards and siloed insights with automated intelligence across user dynamics and business metrics.

4 investors

Hotelverse provides software and digital solutions for hotels to increase revenue through personalized upselling, dynamic pricing, and digital twin technology. The platform enables hotels to offer room upgrades, customization options, and personalized recommendations across multiple customer touchpoints before and during guest stays.

4 investors

HubBox provides checkout technology that enables retailers to offer parcel pickup as a shipping option at point-of-sale, integrating with major carriers and e-commerce platforms. The platform addresses the gap between consumer demand for pickup services and limited retailer adoption.

4 investors

Hypefast invests USD 1–10 million in select Indonesian consumer brands and grows them using in-house experts and a proprietary end-to-end retail and technology ecosystem. It focuses on backing local founders and building consumer brands for the Indonesian market.

4 investors

iGlu provides a point-of-sale and omnichannel platform that unifies physical stores and e-commerce, integrating products, customers, payments, inventory, tax invoicing, and discounts into a single sales experience. It targets retail brands seeking to connect in-store and online operations, with features like infinite shelf, WhatsApp sales, multichannel returns, and integrations with Shopify, VTEX, Bling, Stone, and others.

4 investors

ikas is an e-commerce platform that enables businesses to build and manage online stores with features like multi-channel inventory sync, drag-and-drop site design, and one-page checkout. The platform serves merchants globally with infrastructure hosted on AWS.

4 investors

Innoviti provides payment acceptance solutions for Indian businesses, enabling them to accept multiple payment methods including cards, UPI, and loyalty points. The platform serves retail enterprises, mobile dealers, and merchants of varying sizes across India's omnichannel retail environment.

4 investors

inyad provides electronic payment processing solutions that enable businesses to accept multiple payment methods with transparent pricing and next-business-day fund settlement. The platform serves merchants and businesses looking to simplify payment collection while maintaining PCI compliance and data security.

4 investors

iSeller is a point-of-sale and e-commerce platform that lets businesses sell both in-store and online, with features for inventory management and accepting multiple payment types. Built by Intersoft Solutions, it targets SMEs in Indonesia.

4 investors

IVPAY provides cryptocurrency payment solutions across multiple channels—vending machines, payment terminals, e-commerce, and mobile apps—enabling merchants and consumers to transact with digital currencies in everyday retail environments.

4 investors

PayPal's point-of-sale platform that provides modern POS products designed to help businesses accept payments and track sales in a unified system.

4 investors

JOOR operates a wholesale digital marketplace connecting fashion brands and retailers, enabling brands to manage sales and retailers to discover and order products. The platform serves the fashion and apparel industry for both brands and retail buyers.

4 investors

Kuona provides an AI-based retail intelligence platform that optimizes pricing, promotions, and commercial strategies to increase revenue and profit. It serves retailers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands, integrating with ERP, CRM, and other data systems.

4 investors

Lightyear is an investment platform offering commission-free ETF trading, access to stocks, funds, bonds and crypto, high-yield savings accounts, and automated investing plans for retail investors. It operates across the UK and European Union, with savings managed by asset managers such as BlackRock and J.P. Morgan.

4 investors

Localistico is a local marketing and analytics platform that helps brick-and-mortar businesses get discovered by customers through search engines, maps, and AI assistants, while managing their online presence and reputation at scale.

4 investors