Retail Tech Startups

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

DaySmart provides a point-of-sale software system for businesses that process customer payments, manage inventory, and track sales. The platform serves small businesses and retail operations across various industries seeking to streamline checkout, customer management, and operational efficiency.

3 investors

Dealer Tire is a company originating from the retail tire business that provides tools and services to automotive manufacturers and dealers. It aims to help its dealer and manufacturer partners grow their business by increasing customer satisfaction and retention in the tire and car care category.

3 investors

Deeping Source builds privacy-preserving video analytics using Vision AI, applying data anonymization to convert in-store camera footage into insights on customer behavior, foot traffic, and store performance. It serves physical, brick-and-mortar businesses such as retail stores and event venues to help optimize layouts, inventory, and customer engagement.

3 investors

Delicious Data provides AI-powered analytics and automation tools for bakeries and food retail operators, helping them analyze sales data, detect anomalies, optimize inventory management, and automate ordering across multiple locations. The platform serves bakery chains and specialized food retailers in Germany with real-time data insights and predictive ordering capabilities.

3 investors

Deligo provides an AI-powered self-checkout solution using machine learning to enable frictionless checkout experiences in retail locations while reducing staffing needs and preventing theft through advanced product identification.

3 investors

Mekari Desty is an omnichannel e-commerce management platform that connects marketplaces (Shopee, Tokopedia, TikTok Shop, Lazada, Blibli), webstores, and physical stores into one dashboard for centralized inventory, order, chat, and sales reporting. It serves online and offline sellers in Indonesia and integrates with the Mekari ecosystem, using a pay-per-transaction model instead of subscriptions.

3 investors

Dor provides a data visualization and analytics platform using thermal foot traffic counters to help retailers understand store performance and optimize operations. The company serves brick-and-mortar retailers seeking actionable insights from physical foot traffic data.

3 investors

Dragonfly AI offers a creative insights platform that uses attention prediction and gaze-path analysis to forecast how visual assets and packaging will perform, with benchmarking, A/B testing, and real-time optimization recommendations. It serves consumer brands, retailers, and agencies looking to improve conversion rates at the digital shelf and across sales channels.

3 investors

Dragonfruit AI provides AI agents that analyze camera footage to detect incidents, flag operational errors, and escalate alerts for retail and operations teams managing multiple locations. The platform helps organizations reduce shrink, maintain compliance, and improve workplace safety.

3 investors

Dropthought offers an omnichannel experience management platform that collects customer feedback and provides data-driven insights. It is aimed at retailers and e-commerce businesses to improve customer experience across the customer journey.

3 investors

eComID is an AI-powered personalization platform that provides size recommendations, product discovery, and conversational shopping experiences for apparel and footwear brands. The platform reduces return rates and increases conversion for fashion retailers through individual-level shopper understanding and dynamic policies.

3 investors

Edgify provides edge-first computer vision software that runs directly on retail devices to detect shrinkage and improve customer and employee experiences, without relying on cloud infrastructure. The company serves retail businesses with low-code, privacy-first AI solutions.

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

Ethosphere is a privacy-first platform that records and analyzes in-person, customer-facing conversations on the retail sales floor to generate coaching feedback for associates, action steps for managers, and fleet-wide performance insights for brands. It serves retail organizations seeking to develop frontline sales teams and understand in-store customer experience.

3 investors

EV Life builds AI-powered tools that calculate personalized electric-vehicle incentives and savings for shoppers based on their ZIP code, household, income, and vehicle, drawing from a database of over 500 federal, state, utility, and local programs across all 50 US states. It sells embeddable calculators, an API, and a Model Context Protocol connector to automotive OEMs and dealerships to help convert EV savings into sales.

3 investors

EvenFlow is an AI-powered appointment scheduling platform for automotive dealerships that optimizes technician capacity and service workflows to increase revenue and customer satisfaction.

3 investors

Exchange Solutions provides a cloud-native loyalty and customer engagement platform that helps retailers and B2B businesses increase customer lifetime value through personalized offers and AI-powered gamification. The company offers both loyalty program infrastructure and personalized engagement solutions, serving brands across retail and wholesale sectors.

3 investors

Eyerim is an online optician store selling eyewear across multiple European countries. It operates as an e-commerce retailer in the eyewear category, serving consumers in markets including Austria, Germany, Italy, Poland, and other European countries.

3 investors

Fairmart builds products that handle the operational tasks of running a local store, aimed at small businesses. It focuses on the digital transformation of local commerce and small retailers.

3 investors

FARO gives fashion brands a discreet outlet for overstock and returned clothing, using reconditioning and repair to resell traditionally unsellable inventory while protecting brand value. It focuses on fashion retail in emerging markets.

3 investors

FAUME provides a turnkey resale solution for fashion and luxury brands, handling trade-in management, item authentication, reconditioning, pricing, and online and in-store secondhand sales. It offers omnichannel and cross-border tools, AI-driven pricing and logistics, and analytics to help brands launch and scale circular, secondhand business models across Europe and 30+ countries.

3 investors

Fermat provides a suite of AI tools with simple, form-based interfaces aimed at designers and creative teams, letting them generate work and adjust parameters to iterate. It offers organization-wide controls including admin access management, role permissions, model opt-outs, GDPR compliance, and the ability to train AI agents on a company's brand archive.

3 investors