Retail Tech Startups

A business management platform for small merchants and retailers in Vietnam that provides point-of-sale, inventory management, multi-channel sales integration, tax compliance, and customer loyalty tools.

3 investors

Solink provides a cloud-based video security platform for brick-and-mortar businesses that integrates camera footage with operational data such as POS, alarms, and inventory to enable risk management and loss prevention. The platform serves global multi-location retail and enterprise organizations across more than 32 countries.

3 investors

Spangle delivers adaptive commerce experiences powered by AI agents that leverage discovery context from social and agentic platforms to improve conversion and ROI for retail brands and direct-to-consumer companies.

3 investors

SparkPlug operates a platform that rewards frontline retail and restaurant workers with cash incentives for the sales they make, while giving business owners tools to motivate staff and drive revenue. It serves brick-and-mortar retailers and restaurants.

3 investors

Spectrio provides digital signage and interactive kiosk solutions with a content management system for retail, banking, and equipment dealership locations. The platform enables businesses to manage and deploy dynamic visual content across multiple locations to increase customer engagement.

3 investors

Envive builds AI agents for online retail, helping brands deploy AI at scale for e-commerce ("Agentic Commerce"). It is developed by a team with academic AI research and retail backgrounds.

3 investors

SPINS provides market intelligence and product data for the natural, organic, and specialty consumer products industry, giving brands cross-channel retail data and granular product attributes. Its tools help emerging and established CPG brands analyze growth drivers, benchmark competitors, and expand into retailers such as Sprouts and Kroger.

3 investors

Splitit provides embedded card-linked installment payments that let consumers split purchases using their existing credit rather than taking on new debt. It serves merchants, consumers, and banks as an alternative to traditional buy-now-pay-later models in the payments ecosystem.

3 investors

Spocket is a dropshipping platform that connects entrepreneurs with suppliers globally and provides inventory management, logistics integration, and fulfillment services. The platform serves e-commerce businesses of all sizes looking to source and sell trending products.

3 investors

Stockagile offers retail inventory and replenishment software that generates restocking suggestions based on real sales data and minimum stock levels, covering both transfers from a central warehouse to stores and purchase orders to suppliers. It serves retail brands managing multi-store operations, integrating point-of-sale, ecommerce, purchasing, warehouse, and B2B channels.

3 investors

Stylitics provides AI-powered outfitting, bundling, and product imagery tools for retailers and brands, including shoppable styled images, personalized outfit recommendations, and AI-generated e-commerce product photography. It also offers catalog enrichment and data infrastructure to improve conversion, average order value, and product discoverability across e-commerce touchpoints.

3 investors

SUPER STUDIO develops AI-powered ecommerce and customer management platforms, including ecforce (a commerce platform) and ecforce check (a store reservation and customer management system) for online merchants and retailers in Japan.

3 investors

SPS Revenue Recovery (SupplyPike) is software combined with managed services that helps brands and suppliers identify, dispute, recover, and prevent revenue lost to retailer deductions, chargebacks, shortages, and compliance fines. It serves suppliers selling to major retailers and distributors such as Walmart, Target, Amazon, Kroger, UNFI, and CVS, as well as marketplace sellers, within retail supply chain operations.

3 investors

Tangerine develops in-store retail engagement and analytics technology, including beacon hardware and store visualization services for physical retail stores. Its Store360 platform (formerly nearME) offers retail UX, analytics, and in-store retail media services for Japanese retailers.

3 investors

Tern provides commerce technology for managing product returns and reverse logistics for both consumers and merchants. The platform aims to improve the returns experience while reducing environmental waste.

3 investors

The Coffee is a Brazilian coffeehouse chain founded in 2018, inspired by Japanese minimalism and "to go" culture, offering a compact, tech-enabled café experience where customers order and pay via in-store tablets or a mobile app. It serves a curated menu of hot and cold drinks, some with exclusive branded names, developed by baristas and specialists.

3 investors

The Fabricant develops AI-powered design tools for fashion professionals to streamline the digital design workflow, from concept creation to production-ready visualization. The platform serves independent designers, global fashion brands, and fashion creators seeking to reduce repetitive tasks and accelerate the design process.

3 investors

The Retail Equation (TRE) is a software and analytics company that provides retailers with transaction-authorization software to detect and deter return fraud and enforce return, exchange, and claim policies. Its system analyzes linked transaction history to give retailers real-time recommendations to approve, warn, or deny a transaction request.

3 investors

Thri5 offers an AI-powered "System of Action" that detects issues, prioritizes opportunities, coordinates workflows across teams and AI agents, and measures impact to improve retail execution across stores, distribution centers, and HQ. It integrates with existing POS/ERP/WMS/OMS and workforce tools to recover lost sales, protect margin, and improve inventory accuracy for retailers.

3 investors

Tictag provides AI data annotation and computer-vision systems built for Asian markets, using a community of 30,000 human taggers to review every AI-generated label before it becomes training data. It serves operations teams across sectors such as retail, mining, manufacturing, construction, autonomous vehicles, and municipal/public-safety, offering end-to-end data pipelines from capture to labeling to QA.

3 investors

Toolio provides retail merchandise planning software with AI-driven demand forecasting, scenario planning, assortment planning, and allocation, integrating merchandising, ERP, POS, and e-commerce data from systems like SAP, NetSuite, Snowflake, and BigQuery. It serves retail merchants, planners, and finance teams managing complex, multi-category assortments across many store locations.

3 investors

Tote develops an AI-native point-of-sale system designed for fuel and convenience retail operations, unifying loyalty, marketing, operations, and associate support. The platform integrates forecourt and in-store operations to drive higher revenue per visit for convenience stores and gas stations.

3 investors

TA Petro operates a network of travel centers and fuel stations, offering diesel and gasoline fueling (including high-flow diesel pumps) primarily for truck drivers and travelers. It runs a loyalty program called earnify for its members.

3 investors

Trendio offers a suite of proprietary technology products for running and scaling video shopping programs, including creator sourcing, AI-powered content optimization, affiliate matching and management, and performance analytics. As an official TikTok Shop Partner with a Shopify app, it serves brands and merchants looking to publish and optimize shopping videos across channels.

3 investors