Retail Tech Startups

Seer provides a platform for sales associates in luxury retail to create and share customized lookbooks and style recommendations with clients. The tool replaces manual processes like image curation and email recommendations with an integrated application designed for in-store and online sales teams.

3 investors

SessionM offers a multichannel campaign management hub that lets brands run scheduled and behaviorally triggered campaigns across email, push, SMS and other digital channels, with personalized offers and loyalty promotions. It serves customer engagement and loyalty needs for retail, restaurant, and consumer brands, integrating with providers like Braze, Salesforce and Twilio.

3 investors

ShipHawk provides a warehouse management system (WMS) with receiving, system-directed putaway, and cross-docking functionality, using license plating for real-time inventory tracking. It serves warehouse and distribution operations across eCommerce and wholesale distribution.

3 investors

ShopKirana is a B2B e-commerce platform that connects unorganized Kirana (mom-and-pop) retailers directly with brands, using technology and supply chain innovation to source FMCG and grocery products within 48 hours. It serves small retailers in India, primarily in tier II cities, and offers value-added services such as logistics, ordering, and lending.

3 investors

ShopUp operates a full-stack B2B commerce platform connecting mills and manufacturers to small neighborhood shops, handling sourcing, logistics, and financing for these micro-retailers. It serves Bangladesh's fragmented retail market, giving millions of people access to food and household essentials through its shop network.

3 investors

SmarterX builds specialized AI models on top of large language models, refined by regulatory experts, to enrich, normalize, and structure retail product data for safe, legal, and compliant handling, shipping, storage, and disposal. It serves retailers' operations, legal, and compliance teams, addressing regulatory classification for transportation, waste, sustainability, and product claims.

3 investors

smatch operates a B2B marketplace with AI co-pilots that connect global inventories for fashion sales and purchasing teams. The platform matches retailers and brands with verified buyers and sellers, offering trade insights, logistics, and financing to support cross-border B2B fashion transactions.

3 investors

Soapbox SaaS provides cloud-based software for e-commerce retailers to manage and fulfill purchase orders across one or more online storefronts. The platform is licensed to merchants on a tiered subscription basis.

3 investors

SOJO is a UK-based clothing repair and alterations platform offering online-booked repair services for consumers and white-label, tech-enabled aftercare solutions for fashion brands, including in-store alterations digitisation and damaged stock recovery. It operates in the circular fashion space, using in-house tailors and an AI-driven booking flow.

3 investors

Solink provides a cloud-based video security platform for brick-and-mortar businesses that integrates camera footage with operational data such as POS, alarms, and inventory to enable risk management and loss prevention. The platform serves global multi-location retail and enterprise organizations across more than 32 countries.

3 investors

Spacefill provides an Order Management System (OMS) that unifies inventory across warehouses, stores, and 3PLs, and automates order routing, prioritization, returns, and ship-from-store orchestration. It connects to WMS, ERP, e-commerce, TMS, and other tools, and includes AI agents for tasks such as anomaly detection and intelligent routing, serving retailers and companies managing multi-location supply chains.

3 investors

Spacture AI provides a real-time AI video intelligence platform that analyzes existing retail store cameras to detect and prevent loss, theft, and fraud. The platform serves enterprise retailers by delivering instant alerts for shoplifting, unscanned items, safety risks, and operational anomalies.

3 investors

Spectrio provides customer engagement solutions for physical spaces, including digital signage, interactive kiosks, on-hold phone messaging, in-store music and scent marketing, guest WiFi, and content creation services. It serves businesses looking to manage branded experiences across screens, speakers, and other in-location touchpoints.

3 investors

Envive builds AI agents for online retail, helping brands deploy AI at scale for e-commerce ("Agentic Commerce"). It is developed by a team with academic AI research and retail backgrounds.

3 investors

Stockly builds software to optimize inventory management and stock rotation for e-commerce and retail merchants competing against larger platforms. The company addresses out-of-stock problems by improving liquidity and reducing waste in supply chains.

3 investors

StoreCash is a mobile app that offers cash back rewards on purchases at hundreds of retailers and brands, with rewards paid directly to users rather than retained by intermediaries. The app works with both debit and credit cards for both online and in-store shopping.

3 investors

Storefront is an online marketplace for short-term retail space, letting brands and businesses find and book pop-up stores, showrooms, galleries, event venues, and other flexible spaces. It serves retailers, brands, and event organizers looking to rent physical locations on a temporary basis.

3 investors

SwiftSku provides a mobile app and hardware solution that automates pricebook management and point-of-sale integration for independent convenience stores, enabling real-time sales monitoring, customer loyalty programs, and business analytics.

3 investors

Talon.One provides a cloud-based incentives engine that enables businesses to design, manage, and execute loyalty programs and promotional campaigns in real-time across multiple channels and markets. The platform serves enterprise brands seeking flexible, code-free solutions for customer rewards and incentive management.

3 investors

Teikametrics offers an AI-powered marketplace intelligence platform for brands selling on Amazon, Walmart, and TikTok Shop, covering multi-marketplace campaign management, full-funnel advertising, generative-AI listing optimization, and analytics. It also provides managed services with marketplace strategists who support advertising and inventory decisions for scaling ecommerce brands.

3 investors

Tenyks develops a Visual Intelligence Platform that processes and extracts actionable insights from large collections of visual data and assets. The platform serves organizations seeking to convert visual data into strategic assets for decision-making and competitive advantage.

3 investors

Tern provides commerce technology for managing product returns and reverse logistics for both consumers and merchants. The platform aims to improve the returns experience while reducing environmental waste.

3 investors

Theatro offers a voice-first platform, powered by its Tiva AI assistant, that combines communication, workflow automation, safety tools and AI-powered assistance for frontline teams. It provides applications for retail and enterprise frontline associates to improve communication, productivity, operational execution and safety.

3 investors

Bright Insights (The Market Beyond) is a competitive data platform for retail that provides always-fresh global market data on pricing, assortment, stock, reviews, and market share, delivered via dashboards, API, MCP, or cloud data warehouses. It serves brands, retailers, and marketplaces with managed price intelligence, assortment monitoring, MAP compliance, and an AI assistant grounded in customers' retail data; it is the insights arm of Bright Data.

3 investors