Retail Tech Startups

AI Merch is a retail execution platform that uses computer vision to turn field reps' phone photos and walkthroughs into live shelf intelligence, detecting every SKU, price, facing, out-of-stock, and share-of-shelf, and reconstructing shelves in 3D. It serves CPG brands, distributors, and merchandising teams tracking in-store product placement and category performance.

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AIPERIA provides AI-based demand forecasting and production planning for highly perishable fresh goods, generating per-store, per-item order and baking recommendations that factor in around 150 external variables like weather and holidays. It serves bakeries and retailers managing bakery counters and food-to-go assortments across multi-location store networks, aiming to reduce waste and improve product availability.

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TextAisle provides SMS and MMS marketing tools for retail merchants, enabling cashback incentives, location-aware features, and customer data collection to drive sales and repeat purchases.

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Aisle 3 is a shopping platform that aggregates products from multiple stores and enables users to purchase from them through a unified checkout. The service uses AI to search and match offers across retailers while offering cashback rewards on purchases.

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AisleAI is an AI-powered analytics platform for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands that unifies retail data from sources like Nielsen, SPINS, IRI, distributors, and POS systems into a single platform. It offers a natural-language query tool (AisleGPT) and daily-refreshed intelligence to detect distribution gaps, predict demand, and optimize retail execution for emerging, challenger, and enterprise brands.

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Aislelabs offers a WiFi analytics and marketing platform that lets venues such as malls, airports, and retailers deanonymize guest WiFi visitors, track foot traffic and dwell time, and send visit-triggered marketing messages. It integrates with a range of WiFi and people-counting hardware and marketing software to help leasing and marketing teams grow email databases and understand visitor behavior.

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AI-powered platform for online fashion designed to simplify the shopping experience. Serves fashion e-commerce consumers and retailers.

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Akıllı Ticaret is a Turkish e-commerce platform that lets merchants build customizable online stores from themes, upload products, and connect payment, invoicing, and shipping systems. It provides ERP tools and integrations with seven marketplaces, plus SEO and advertising support for sellers in Turkey.

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Akinon provides a digital commerce platform for enterprise retailers, offering software to build and operate e-commerce websites and omnichannel retail operations. It serves large brands and retailers in the online commerce and retail technology space.

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Alby provides an AI customer experience agent for retailers that answers shopper questions about orders, returns, and policies, guides product discovery, and compares options within the online store. The platform also captures shopper interaction data to build customer profiles for marketing and personalization, with configurable guardrails, brand voice controls, and human escalation.

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ALDI is a grocery retail chain operating supermarkets across multiple countries in Europe, Australia, China, and the United States. The page serves as a global landing portal directing visitors to country-specific ALDI websites.

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Alhena AI offers an AI agent assistant for customer support teams that summarizes incoming inquiries, detects customer sentiment, retrieves answers from a company's knowledge base, and drafts responses in each agent's style for review. It supports over 90 languages and integrates with ticketing, CRM, and content systems.

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Alpha Modus Holdings is an IP-first company that holds method patents for physical retail technology infrastructure, including AI-driven shelf intelligence for inventory optimization and planogram accuracy. Through its Alpha Cash subsidiary, it operates a "phygital" model of physical financial kiosks and a mobile app offering check deposit, prepaid debit, mobile top-up, and money transfer to unbanked and underbanked communities in the United States.

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Altavia is a marketing and retail services agency that provides creative strategy, design, digital transformation, and marketing procurement management for retailers and brands. It focuses on retail experiences and managing the marketing commodity lifecycle to help brands optimize costs and time to market.

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Alternew is a white-labelled post-purchase care and repair platform for apparel brands, using an AI care agent to route customer requests to documented answers, guided repairs, store visits, or a vetted tailor network. It handles warranty, coverage, and repair decisions in a single record shared across customers, store teams, tailors, and brand leadership.

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Althexis offers a subscription-based sales assistant tool that combines skin analysis with product recommendations, along with sponsored product placements and a business analytics platform providing anonymized demographic and behavioral data. It targets pharmacists and healthcare partners in the skincare retail space.

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Today (투데이) is a parcel delivery service that uses optimized point-to-point routing to enable same-day delivery for businesses without requiring platform onboarding. It provides delivery tracking via Naver search, KakaoTalk notifications, and a real-time location page, plus an open API and partner integrations for merchants.

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Amer Sports is a global group of sports and outdoor brands—including Arc'teryx, Salomon, Wilson, Atomic, and Peak Performance—that make apparel, footwear, equipment, protective gear, and accessories for athletes and consumers. The publicly traded company operates in 40 countries across sports and outdoor activities.

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Amicci operates a private-label execution platform in Brazil that connects retailers with certified manufacturers to design, quote, develop, and launch own-brand products. It also provides project management, real-time performance data, a sensory lab, and financing for both retailers and industrial suppliers.

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Amity Robotics builds AI-powered customer-facing robots and kiosks that use generative AI and visual intelligence to answer visitor questions and provide multilingual, around-the-clock service. Its digital-human robots, offered in three form factors on one platform, serve retail, healthcare, and hospitality businesses across markets including Singapore, the Gulf, Australia, and Southeast Asia.

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Amply is a store operations platform that moves daily retail workflows from paper and spreadsheets into a single app, offering task checklists, scheduled SOPs, digital store visit audits, a communication feed, and AI-powered image verification for visual merchandising. It serves multi-location retail chains, restaurants, and hospitality businesses, giving head offices visibility into store-level operations.

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Andover Analytics offers a price-tracking dashboard that aggregates buying and selling data from resale marketplaces and wholesalers (such as Swappa, Back Market, Walmart, Reebelo, and Gazelle) across more than 350 phone models. It is aimed at phone resellers/flippers who want to compare prices and maximize margins on each device.

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A German medical supply store (Sanitätshaus) offering health and orthopedic products along with individual advice and custom-fitted solutions for consumers. It focuses on aids intended to support daily life and health.

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Antavo is an AI-powered customer loyalty and incentives platform that lets marketers build and run loyalty programs and promotions—points, tiers, challenges, referrals, rewards, and agentic AI—across online, in-store, mobile, and wallet channels. It serves mid-market and upper-mid-market brands in fashion, retail, beauty, travel, hospitality, restaurants, and sports across North America and Europe.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

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