Retail Tech Startups

Last.app is a point-of-sale (POS) system designed for restaurants that combines order management, reservation handling, inventory control, and delivery order unification on a single interface. The platform serves restaurant operators of all sizes, from single locations to multi-unit franchises, emphasizing ease of use and operational efficiency across front-of-house, kitchen, and delivery channels.

3 investors

Lexer builds a Customer Data & Experience Platform that helps brands and retailers use customer data to improve customer experiences and drive incremental sales. The company operates across Australia and North America.

3 investors

LinkToAny provides software integration, data migration, and onboarding services to help small businesses connect multiple applications and reduce manual tasks. The platform serves SMBs managing dozens of software tools, reducing integration costs and accelerating user onboarding.

3 investors

Lipari Foods is a food distributor and private-label manufacturer that plans assortments, manages cold-chain warehousing and transportation, and provides in-store category and merchandising support for grocery, college and university, convenience, and healthcare retailers. It offers a digital portal for ordering, pricing, availability, and claim tracking across ten product categories.

3 investors

Rakuten operates a shopping platform that provides cash back rewards to members when purchasing from partner brands across apparel, beauty, grocery, travel, dining, and other categories.

3 investors

LocketGo is a smart locker platform offering on-demand secure storage and contactless delivery for carriers, retailers, and venues. It includes a browser-based booking portal that works without an app and lockers that can be branded to the client's identity.

3 investors

Loewi is an e-commerce platform that sells refurbished electric bikes, including models like the Tenways CGO800S, with certified testing and a one-year warranty.

3 investors

Logikura is a cloud inventory management system for businesses selling across multiple channels—e-commerce, physical stores, and wholesale—that syncs stock across locations, stores, and outsourced warehouses in real time. It offers a smartphone app for inspection and shipping that removes the need for dedicated barcode scanners, serving apparel, goods, cosmetics, and packaged food merchants in Japan.

3 investors

Black Fashion is an Istanbul-based clothing brand that designs and sells women's apparel through wholesale and retail channels internationally. The brand targets modern women seeking to blend feminine and masculine styles in contemporary fashion.

3 investors

Loops AI provides a semantic intelligence layer for e-commerce that powers AI-driven product discovery, natural-language search, automated sales conversations, and virtual try-on agents. It targets commerce teams, aiming to increase conversion and reduce returns.

3 investors

Lyteflo provides software tools for electric vehicle sales, service, and appraisal to dealerships and automotive businesses. The platform includes fuel savings calculators, incentive finders, battery health reports, and EV insights integrated into vehicle listing pages.

3 investors

Magic Memories provides photography and imaging products and services for attractions and tourism venues, helping them capture and sell guest photo experiences. It offers a platform for partner venues to enhance visitor engagement and generate revenue from photo memories.

3 investors

Make the Dot is an AI-native product development platform for wholesale fashion that connects design, development, and merchandising in one workflow, letting teams build production-ready collections virtually and reduce reliance on physical samples. It serves fashion brands of all sizes, from one-person Shopify labels to teams behind large retail brands.

3 investors

Mapan runs an Indonesian payments and lending network aimed at low-income households. The platform distributes services such as mobile phone airtime and bill payment, and it relies on local agents who earn income by serving their communities. Its stated purpose is to widen access to financial services and everyday products for customers typically underserved by banks.

3 investors

Markato is a distributor, logistics provider, and brand builder that helps beauty and lifestyle brands expand into Asian markets through offline retail placement (e.g. Sephora, Watsons, Mannings), e-commerce operations (Shopee, TikTok, Lazada), social commerce, marketing, and fulfillment. It serves consumer brands seeking distribution and growth across the region, including Hong Kong and Macau.

3 investors

Bright Insights is a competitive retail data platform that provides continuously refreshed pricing, assortment, stock, review, and market share data across retailers and marketplaces worldwide. It delivers this data to brands and retail teams via dashboards, API, MCP, and cloud warehouses to support pricing, assortment, and AI workflows.

3 investors

Market Force provides mystery shopping, customer experience surveys, and field auditing services for multi-location businesses across retail, hospitality, food service, and other industries. The company operates a proprietary platform (KnowledgeForce) to measure and improve customer experience and operational performance.

3 investors

Mavi.io builds in-car retail infrastructure through its OnMyWay commerce platform, letting drivers shop and place pickup orders directly from their vehicle dashboard. The company serves automakers, dashboard manufacturers, and retailers, connecting merchants directly with customers without third-party delivery.

3 investors

A luxury fashion boutique that curates designer collections from established labels and emerging global designers for individual shoppers. Based in California, the boutique emphasizes discovery, craftsmanship, and support for designers of color.

3 investors

Meadow is an AI co-manager for restaurants and retail operators that provides real-time visibility into store operations, flagging issues like missed charges, labor waste, and upsell opportunities. It serves multi-location and franchise businesses such as café and restaurant chains to improve margins and store-level profitability.

3 investors

MedPay provides a pharmacy management platform that helps neighborhood pharmacies in India digitize operations, manage inventory, process payments, and engage customers through an all-in-one app.

3 investors

Minimist provides AI-powered tools for charity retailers to list, price, and photograph second-hand items for online resale. The platform automates listing creation, pricing analysis, and virtual model generation to help charity shops sell items faster across multiple online marketplaces.

3 investors

Mixtiles creates magnetic picture frames and wall art products that can be easily repositioned without damaging walls, featuring museum-quality printing and customizable sizes and materials.

3 investors

Molo provides business management software for marine facilities, including payment processing, vessel repair tracking, and inventory management across docking, storage, fuel, and service operations.

3 investors