Retail Tech Startups

Threedium is a 3D infrastructure platform that combines AI-powered generation with interactive workspaces and production-ready workflows for creating, refining, and deploying 3D content. It serves creators, developers, brands, and enterprise and gaming teams, and offers a global edge network for delivering interactive 3D experiences at scale.

3 investors

Tienda Pago provides working-capital financing to small shopkeepers, offering short-term credit to pay distributors for merchandise, instant cash deposits to their bank accounts, and financing for selling phone airtime top-ups. It serves independent retailers (tenderos) in Mexico, with sign-up handled via WhatsApp.

3 investors

Toolio provides retail merchandise planning software with AI-driven demand forecasting, scenario planning, assortment planning, and allocation, integrating merchandising, ERP, POS, and e-commerce data from systems like SAP, NetSuite, Snowflake, and BigQuery. It serves retail merchants, planners, and finance teams managing complex, multi-category assortments across many store locations.

3 investors

TrackStreet provides brand protection software and managed services that monitor online marketplaces and retailers to enforce MAP pricing, remove unauthorized listings, and identify rogue resellers. It serves brands seeking to protect pricing consistency, retail partner relationships, and revenue across e-commerce channels.

3 investors

Traxlo operates tasku.app, a pay-per-task labor platform that matches local gig workers to standardized tasks such as shelf replenishment and warehouse work for grocery chains, retailers, and FMCG brands. It serves commerce operators across Europe, with a focus on Lithuania and Poland.

3 investors

Trendyol is an online retail marketplace offering fashion products such as platform boots and other footwear to consumers, with a Romanian-language storefront serving that market.

3 investors

TTG provides unmanned checkout and retail automation systems for convenience stores and shops across various settings including offices, hospitals, and universities. The company offers AI camera-based point-of-sale solutions, self-checkout systems, and comprehensive support services including store design, operations management, and property-business matching.

3 investors

TWICE is a commerce operating system for rental and resale businesses, built around serialized inventory that tracks each item as a unique asset with its own lifecycle, pricing, and profitability. It combines inventory, listings, order management, payments, and a built-in CRM to handle rentals, sales, and subscriptions across online stores, in-store kiosks, and third-party marketplaces, with an API-first architecture supporting AI agents.

3 investors

Two Boxes provides software for processing ecommerce returns, giving warehouse associates step-by-step SOPs to inspect and grade returned items and giving brands real-time returns data and dashboards. It serves direct-to-consumer brands and third-party logistics providers (3PLs), integrating via API with ecommerce, WMS/OMS, carrier, and returns platforms.

3 investors

Una Brands acquires and operates e-commerce brands across Asia, running them under a single house-of-brands model with combined East-West retail practices and AI-led operations. It is headquartered in Singapore with expertise in the Chinese market.

3 investors

Union offers a guest-led mobile ordering and rewards platform purpose-built for high-volume bars and hospitality venues. It funds guest rewards in full for venues and aims to increase revenue, tips, and customer loyalty for operators and staff.

3 investors

Union is a hospitality operating system and point-of-sale platform for busy bars and restaurants, offering venue management tools plus a consumer mobile app for browsing menus, ordering, paying, and earning loyalty rewards. It also runs an OnPrem Impact Network that provides consumer behavior data and insights to beverage brands, operating across the U.S.

3 investors

V-Count builds AI-powered people counting sensors (3D Active Stereo Vision) and a cloud analytics platform (BoostBI) that measure retail foot traffic, occupancy, queues, demographics, and conversion rates. Its GDPR-compliant hardware and SaaS serve retailers and other venues for visitor analytics, with customers in over 130 countries.

3 investors

Velou provides product data infrastructure for agentic commerce, using its retail-specific Commerce-1 model to turn unstructured or incomplete product catalogs into structured, context-rich data. It serves retailers and ecommerce businesses, enriching product attributes, tags, and product graphs to power AI agents, on-site search, conversational commerce, and performance marketing.

3 investors

Verifone provides a global payments platform that processes transactions across multiple channels, devices, and payment types for banks, retailers, financial institutions, and merchants. The company operates in 165+ countries and serves enterprise merchants, SMBs, acquirers, and partners across diverse sectors including retail, petro, and convenience.

3 investors

VIOLET GREY is a beauty retailer that curates and sells skincare, haircare, makeup, fragrance, and wellness products vetted through its "Violet Code" testing process by makeup artists, dermatologists, and other experts. It operates online and physical stores in Los Angeles, New York City, Long Island, and London.

3 investors

Vizit uses AI trained on real shopper purchase data to score, optimize, and generate product page images and copy, predicting how content will affect conversion before media spend. It serves consumer brands and retailers looking to improve e-commerce product page performance across major retailers and markets.

3 investors

Wafr offers a mobile app for merchants (shopkeepers/grocers) in Morocco that provides discounts on mobile phone top-ups from operators Maroc Telecom, Orange, and Inwi, and lets merchants receive funds directly from customers via a code. The service targets local retailers and includes customer support in Moroccan Arabic.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

3 investors

Chaps Retail provides an AI-powered unified commerce platform that synchronizes sales channels (e-commerce, marketplaces, physical stores) and delivers personalized, omnichannel customer experiences. The solution integrates order management, digital in-store tools, omnichannel checkout, CRM, and AI agents for demand forecasting and customer recommendations.

3 investors

Zanifu provides inventory financing to small retailers, wholesalers, and distributors, letting them procure stock from suppliers and pay after selling while suppliers are paid in real time, with no collateral or credit history required. It serves SMEs in Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa.

3 investors

ZAX is a mobile app-based B2B marketplace connecting fashion retailers with over 1,000 wholesale clothing suppliers from São Paulo districts such as Brás and Bom Retiro. It offers direct-from-factory purchasing with no minimum order, installment payments, and shipping to buyers across Brazil.

3 investors

Zid is an e-commerce platform that lets merchants build, manage, and grow online stores with integrated payments, global shipping, financing, and marketing tools, plus a POS system (Zid Cashier) for offline sales. It serves small entrepreneurs, physical shop owners, and larger retailers, with a focus on the local Saudi/regional market.

3 investors

EGONGEGONG (이공이공) is a North American distribution and brand accelerator that sources Korean consumer products, launches them on Amazon and across US retail, and invests directly in the brands it grows. It focuses on bringing Korean brands to the North American market, having launched over 4,000 SKUs in the US.

3 investors

iRidge develops app-based business solutions centered on OMO (online-to-offline) capabilities for retail and commerce customers. The company also provides business production services.

3 investors