Retail Tech Startups

Relay operates a flexible middle-mile parcel network that replaces traditional hub-and-spoke delivery models, using a distributed network and hyperlocal last-mile approach to move parcels across the country. It serves e-commerce retailers, aiming to cut infrastructure costs and improve delivery speed.

3 investors

Relay Commerce provides software solutions for e-commerce merchants to help them scale and manage their operations. The platform serves online retailers and merchants in the competitive e-commerce industry.

3 investors

RELEX provides an AI-native supply chain and retail planning platform offering out-of-the-box forecasting, inventory, and demand-planning capabilities that customers can deploy, connect to existing AI ecosystems via open protocols, or extend with custom logic. It serves retailers and manufacturers, including sectors such as pharmaceuticals and fashion.

3 investors

Relive is a real estate brokerage that helps customers rent, buy, and sell properties through agents who combine local expertise with technology and social media marketing. The company operates across major U.S. cities and targets a technology-forward generation of homebuyers and renters.

3 investors

RetailReady builds an AI-powered platform that uses large language models and computer vision to automate warehouse compliance and shipping practices for brands and retailers. The technology helps companies avoid revenue loss from compliance chargebacks in the $40 billion retail compliance market.

3 investors

Reveni operates a commerce platform for ecommerce brands, offering instant refunds backed by a proprietary risk model, AI shopping guidance, cross-border logistics, and returns and exchanges tools. It serves retailers across Europe, aiming to convert returns into repeat sales.

3 investors

RevShopp offers Shape Intelligence, an AI tool that personalizes and curates fashion product recommendations for online shoppers based on body shape rather than size alone. It is sold to e-commerce fashion merchants to increase conversions, reduce returns, and build customer loyalty.

3 investors

An online store selling stationery and school supply products, such as erasable jumbo crayons, with pricing shown in Mexican pesos.

3 investors

RocketRez offers a cloud-based ticketing, point-of-sale, and guest experience platform for tours and attractions of all sizes and verticals, helping operators manage revenue, guest experiences, and operations. The company targets the mid-market tours and attractions industry.

3 investors

Rotageek provides workforce management and scheduling software for rota planning, including demand forecasting, labour modelling, auto-scheduling, time and attendance tracking, and leave management. It serves sectors such as retail, hospitality, entertainment and leisure, healthcare, and care homes.

3 investors

Rundoo builds an AI-powered point-of-sale platform for independent supply stores, including hardware stores, garden centers, farm and feed stores, paint stores, and lumber yards. Its tools handle inventory, purchasing, pricing, charge accounts, and reporting, using each store's own sales data.

3 investors

Samaria operates a manga platform, fan community service, AI tools development, and advertising business targeting manga creators and readers.

3 investors

Sary operates a B2B e-commerce platform and app that connects merchants — including grocery stores, hotels, restaurants, cafés, and SMEs — with suppliers, letting them source products, compare prices and availability, place orders, and receive VAT invoices. The platform consolidates procurement and supply-chain needs in one place, with delivery and team-account management. Focused on Saudi Arabia.

3 investors

SATURDAYS is a tech-enabled eyewear brand in Indonesia that designs and sells frames through physical lifestyle stores, a web and app platform with virtual try-on, and at-home and in-office try-on services. It serves fashion-conscious consumers and operates more than 60 stores across 23 Indonesian cities.

3 investors

Sauceclip provides short-form video commerce tools that let online retailers embed shoppable clips in their own stores, with in-video add-to-cart, viewer rewards, and performance analytics. It also offers ClipBooster, an ad network distributing short-form videos across roughly 14,000 apps, and AI that converts live/long-form video into short clips.

3 investors

Shopeaks offers a link management platform that enables e-commerce brands to create optimized social links with embedded analytics, discount codes, and conversion tracking. The tool integrates with Shopify and social platforms to reduce cart abandonment and improve purchase conversion rates.

3 investors

Short Story is an ecommerce and style discovery platform that helps petite women find clothing that fits, curating items for style, quality, and fit. It targets the underserved petite women's apparel segment.

3 investors

Flic develops smart buttons that integrate with existing business systems through customizable software. The buttons are programmable physical controllers designed for retail and enterprise environments.

3 investors

SimpliField (now part of YOOBIC) offers a mobile platform for retail operations that connects headquarters with in-store frontline teams through employee communication, task management, store visit workflows, onboarding/microlearning, and reporting analytics. It serves retail brands and franchises seeking to coordinate field teams and improve store execution.

3 investors

Skip is a cloud-POS provider offering frictionless checkout apps that let shoppers scan items, pay, and bypass checkout lines at participating retailers. It also builds digital retail products for remote ordering with delivery or pickup and a network connecting tailored promotions to shoppers, serving both consumers and retailers.

3 investors

SmarterX offers a product intelligence platform that automates classification workflows, replacing manual data entry and reviews with faster, scalable decisions. It is accessible online, via mobile, or through API, and lets teams apply standard data or layer on custom business policies.

3 investors

Smatch is a B2B marketplace connecting brands and retailers to facilitate sustainable and efficient trade in the fashion industry. The platform addresses 3 trillion Euro worth of unsold merchandise by enabling smarter commerce with ecological and economical impact.

3 investors

Snap Finance offers lease-to-own financing, retail installment contracts, and bank installment loans for U.S. consumers, with approvals from $300 to $5,000 and no FICO score impact to apply. It also provides Seen-branded credit products, including a Mastercard credit card, aimed at consumers building or accessing credit.

3 investors

SnappRetail is a retail operating platform for traditional trade retailers in Pakistan, offering payment technologies (such as EasyPaisa and QR payments), Sharia-compliant financing, insurance, digital products, and AI-based reporting. It also provides B2C and B2B solutions to help retailers manage online sales and procurement operations.

3 investors