Retail Tech Startups

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

Arbor provides an operational listening platform that surfaces internal knowledge from employees to help organizations identify problems and opportunities. The platform uses AI to enable continuous, scaled conversations within teams rather than relying on traditional periodic surveys.

3 investors

Maeve is an AI assistant for fashion retailers that analyzes product data from multiple sources—including Shopify, PLM systems, reviews, and customer service tools—to optimize decisions around pricing, sizing, returns, and range planning. It helps retailers reduce profit leakage by identifying fit issues, supplier quality problems, and pricing opportunities.

3 investors

Fivestars is a customer loyalty and payments platform for small local businesses, turning transactions into ongoing customer relationships. Launched in 2011, it connects consumers with local merchants to drive repeat sales.

3 investors

Flagship provides data and growth infrastructure for physical, brick-and-mortar retail, giving store networks the analytics visibility that eCommerce brands already have. It is built for retailers to manage and optimize their store operations.

3 investors

Flipp operates an end-to-end digital platform that helps retailers and brands create and distribute shoppable merchandising experiences to reach over 100 million households. The platform converts traditional print weekly ads into interactive digital shopping content across grocery, pharmacy, home & garden, and other retail sectors.

3 investors

Flitch provides cloud software for lumber and building material (LBM) suppliers, covering point of sale, order processing, accounts receivable, inventory management, purchasing, delivery/GPS logistics, and customer payment portals. It targets building supply dealers, including those migrating from legacy systems like ECI and Epicor, with AI-driven inventory and reordering features.</parameter> <parameter name="sector_codes">["saas", "ai_ml", "logistics"]

3 investors

Fluent Commerce provides Fluent Order Management, an API-first, event-driven order management system (OMS) that handles inventory availability, order orchestration, fulfillment, delivery promises, returns and customer service across channels and regions. It serves multi-brand and multinational retailers and DTC brands in sectors such as apparel, grocery, beauty, automotive parts and sporting goods.

3 investors

Footway is an online retailer selling footwear, apparel, and accessories such as children's caps from brands like Affenzahn. The e-commerce site offers products with express shipping and a 365-day return policy.

3 investors

NIQ Digital Purchases is an e-commerce data platform that aggregates transaction emails from an online consumer panel of over 5M e-shoppers across more than 2,000 online merchants to produce digital shopping insights. It helps brands analyze market shares, competitor pricing, consumer behavior, and loyalty across marketplaces, D2C, and second-hand commerce.

3 investors

Frekuent operates a point-of-sale platform for unattended retail and service locations such as vending machines, laundromats, and smart refrigerators. The company enables card and mobile payments alongside real-time transaction data management for operators and end users.

3 investors

Gameball is a customer loyalty and retention platform that adds gamification elements—points, cashback, tiers, missions, and challenges—along with personalized offers and segmentation across web, mobile, and in-store channels. It serves consumer brands and retailers looking to increase engagement, repeat purchases, and customer lifetime value, offering SDKs, APIs, and integrations for enterprise teams.

3 investors

An authorized Nike Team dealer that provides customized uniforms and apparel for sports teams, leagues, and schools, emphasizing personalized design and customer service for logistics and ordering.

3 investors

Gentle Monster designs and sells eyewear including sunglasses and prescription glasses through direct-to-consumer channels. The company offers multiple collections and collaborations, including intelligent eyewear products.

3 investors

Gimme is a technology platform for managing unattended retail operations, particularly vending machines. The company serves vending machine operators with software solutions designed to modernize route management and machine operations.

3 investors

Greentoe operates an e-commerce marketplace where consumers name their own price for products and are matched with retailers willing to accept the offer. It serves shoppers seeking lower prices and retailers looking to reduce inventory and gain customers.

3 investors

grubtech provides a middleware platform called gOnline that unifies fragmented restaurant and quick-commerce operations, connecting POS systems, ERPs, and delivery aggregators into a single operational layer. The company serves food and beverage operators and quick-commerce retailers across the Middle East and Europe.

3 investors

Gshopper is an e-commerce platform that sources and sells branded products from over 200 countries and areas globally, serving consumers seeking international merchandise. The company has processed over 10 million orders and operates across multiple regions including Asia.

3 investors

Guac helps grocery retailers reduce food waste and increase profitability through AI-powered demand forecasting and inventory replenishment. The company works with grocery stores to optimize their fresh food operations and minimize unsold inventory.

3 investors

HappyOrNot builds the Smiley feedback terminal and related analytics tools that let businesses collect high-volume customer and employee feedback at the point of experience and turn it into AI-powered operational insights. It serves retail, service, and other brands worldwide across 135 countries.

3 investors

Happy Returns provides a returns and reverse logistics platform for retailers, offering box-free, label-free drop-offs through a network of 10,000 Return Bar locations along with AI-powered fraud detection, item verification, and consolidated returns to warehouses. It serves ecommerce and retail businesses managing reverse logistics.

3 investors

Harper provides a try-before-you-buy shopping service for fashion retail, offering customers the ability to try on clothing at home with no upfront payment and return unwanted items within 5 days. The service integrates with fashion retailers' websites to combine online convenience with in-store shopping experience.

3 investors

Hero is a listing tool for online resellers that turns product photos into marketplace listings using AI, with features for pricing, image editing, and bulk posting to channels like eBay and Facebook. It offers inventory import from Shopify, WooCommerce, and spreadsheets, plus web and mobile apps for managing and cross-listing inventory.

3 investors

Heyday operates skincare shops offering custom facials, add-on enhancements, and skincare products, and sells gift cards redeemable online or in-store. It serves consumers seeking professional facial and skincare services.

3 investors