Retail Tech Startups

Brysk provides autonomous retail hardware and AI software solutions that operate checkout-free stores in hotels, universities, and other venues. The company serves retail operators and businesses seeking to automate shopping experiences while addressing labor shortages and increasing operational efficiency.

3 investors

Bulu is a technology-enabled third-party logistics (3PL) and fulfillment provider offering storage, pick-and-pack, shipping, and kitting across multiple sales channels via a hub-and-spoke model. It serves ecommerce, wholesale, and subscription box businesses, from small brands to Fortune 500 companies, with integrations to over 70 sales platforms in the U.S.

3 investors

ClearDemand is an AI-powered platform that provides price optimization, promotion planning, and competitive intelligence for regional grocery and convenience retailers. The platform helps smaller grocery chains compete with national competitors by automating pricing strategy and reducing manual work for pricing teams.

3 investors

Buybuddy is an AI merchandising platform that tracks in-store products, detects issues like stockouts and misplaced items, checks planogram compliance, and suggests or takes corrective actions. It uses Vision AI and smart tags to monitor customer interactions, forecast demand, and adjust pricing, serving retailers and merchandising teams.

3 investors

A company addressing a market inefficiency in fashion by turning what the industry overlooks into a competitive advantage. The company operates in the fashion marketplace or resale sector.

3 investors

Capillary Technologies provides a managed SaaS loyalty management and customer engagement platform for enterprise brands, offering program design, omnichannel communication, analytics, a consumer data platform, and a rewards network. It serves industries including retail, airlines, fuel retail, CPG, hospitality, and food & beverage across global markets.

3 investors

Cartelux is an adtech platform that enables retail networks to rapidly create, reproduce, and measure digital marketing campaigns. It serves global brands and their national and local marketing teams seeking agile, personalized campaign execution at scale.

3 investors

Cartona operates a B2B e-commerce marketplace that digitizes Egypt's traditional trade market, connecting retailers such as mom-and-pop stores, hotels, restaurants, and cafes with FMCG companies and wholesalers. The asset-light platform offers order management, an ERP for inventory, real-time data insights, and embedded finance including buy-now-pay-later options.

3 investors

CG Hero produces 3D product design CGI visuals, including modeling, photoreal materials, lighting, and animation for brands' products. Its imagery is aimed at ecommerce, advertising, and product launch use cases.

3 investors

ChannelEngine is a platform that enables ecommerce sellers to manage product data, inventory, orders, pricing, and fulfillment across multiple marketplaces from a single interface. It serves ecommerce businesses selling on third-party marketplaces by automating multichannel operations including content syndication, pricing management, order processing, and inventory synchronization.

3 investors

An embedded lending platform that connects shoppers, merchants, and financial institutions at the point of sale, enabling omnichannel financing with real-time matching across multiple lenders and products. The platform serves enterprise merchants and financial institutions seeking to offer frictionless financing options across ecommerce and in-store channels.

3 investors

Cherrypick builds a grocery shopping platform for consumers. The company is based in London.

3 investors

CHILI publish provides data-driven visual content production software that automates the creation of multichannel retail marketing assets from product data. The platform enables retail teams to generate print, digital, and animated promotional materials at scale using AI-powered templates and workflows.

3 investors

Circana provides predictive analytics, data, and AI technology to consumer packaged goods companies, manufacturers, and retailers to measure market share, understand consumer behavior, and accelerate growth. The company operates Liquid Data, a technology platform powered by six decades of domain expertise and high-quality datasets covering 26 industries.

3 investors

A vehicle inspection platform that uses camera scanning to identify automotive damage, enabling car rental companies to document vehicle condition, distinguish pre-existing from new damage, and share inspection results with customers.

3 investors

CLO is 3D garment design software that lets fashion designers visualize the fabric, fit, and silhouette of clothing in real time. It supports virtual sampling and remote collaboration to reduce time-to-market and physical sample waste for apparel design teams.

3 investors

CloudPick develops AI-powered checkout and inventory management solutions for retail stores using computer vision and machine learning. The company enables cashier-free shopping experiences and digital transformation for brick-and-mortar retailers globally.

3 investors

Cohort is a "smart loyalty" SaaS platform that lets marketing and CRM teams build customer engagement experiences—such as social media challenges, UGC campaigns, and reward programs—through a no-code interface. It aims to increase average order value and customer lifetime value while enriching CRM/CDP systems with zero- and first-party behavioral data, and is used by large French brands.

3 investors

CommerceIQ provides AI-driven automation software for consumer brands to optimize sales and profitability across retail ecommerce channels and marketplaces. The platform enables algorithmic decision-making for inventory planning, pricing, and promotions across 1500+ retailers globally.

3 investors

Constant offers "Landing Spaces," a platform that lets consumer brands create shoppable, on-brand landing pages and redirect shoppers to their preferred retailers across marketing channels like email, social, and retail media. It provides GDPR-compliant analytics that map the path from ad impression to conversion, supporting over 30 UK, US, and EU retailers.

3 investors

Covalenty operates Cienty, a free purchasing platform that connects independent pharmacies and small pharmacy chains with distributors and manufacturers for price comparison, quoting, and ordering. It also offers AI-based tools to digitize shortage lists via WhatsApp and real-time stock lookup across distributors, with a focus on Brazil's Southeast region.

3 investors

Creditop offers a platform that centralizes financing options merchants provide to customers at the point of sale, connecting them with financial institutions and letting them launch their own automated credit line and credit score. It serves retailers across Colombia, with over 1,000 stores using the service.

3 investors

CREOATE operates an online wholesale marketplace connecting independent brands and wholesalers with retailers, letting brands sell directly across borders while offering interest-free finance and tools for international trade. It serves small, independent retailers and wholesalers across the UK, Europe, US, Canada and beyond, with options to shop by values such as eco-friendly, minority-owned, and handmade products.

3 investors

Dabble is a virtual photo studio for e-commerce that uses CGI and computer vision to generate product photography. It aims to automate and scale product imagery for online retail brands.

3 investors