Retail Tech Startups

Catalan.ai offers an AI-powered dynamic pricing platform that uses machine learning to predict demand and automatically adjust product prices based on factors like seasonality, sales history, ad metrics, and competition. It serves online store owners and retailers, with support for multimarket pricing and user-defined price guardrails.

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Catalina operates a retail media and marketing platform in Japan built on first-party purchase data, partnering with over 120 retail companies across more than 10,000 stores and collecting roughly 500 million receipt records monthly. It uses this purchase data to provide targeting, insights, and evidence-based marketing strategies for manufacturers and retailers.

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Catch is an in-store retail media platform that turns physical store traffic into a monetizable advertising channel, personalizing shopper experiences and delivering targeted content in real time without collecting personal data. It offers closed-loop measurement for retailers and CPG brands to connect online and offline shopping behavior.

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CenterCheck provides transaction-based retail intelligence, estimating in-store sales performance for retail locations and brands using anonymized card transaction data. It serves landlords, developers, brokers, retailers, REITs, and investors for site selection, tenant evaluation, and retail asset underwriting.

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Chainlane provides RFID-based software that gives real-time visibility into supply chain and operations, letting users track items and manage inventory across systems. It serves the retail, food & beverage, manufacturing, and logistics industries.

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ChapChap offers a mobile app for small shop owners to track cash and credit sales, manage customer debts, monitor inventory, and calculate change, along with a mobile money service supporting MTN Mobile Money and Airtel Money, bank deposits, and bill payments. The product targets retail shopkeepers and small businesses in Africa managing point-of-sale, bookkeeping, and payments from their phones.

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The site lists fashion and luxury items — including clothing, handbags, sunglasses, and jewelry — with original and discounted prices, suggesting an online resale or discount fashion marketplace. Listings are in Korean, indicating a Korean-market focus.

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ChargeAfter operates an embedded consumer financing platform that connects mid-market and enterprise merchants to a network of lenders, offering point-of-sale financing across in-store, in-home, online, and telesales channels. It also provides a white-label financing platform for financial institutions to create and distribute consumer finance products.

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Cheers builds reputation management software for multi-location service businesses, optimizing how AI systems like ChatGPT and Gemini discover and recommend them. The platform manages citations, reviews, structured data, and local content to make businesses visible to AI recommendation engines.

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Cheq (by Cantaloupe) is a mobile-first point-of-sale and mobile ordering platform for sports and entertainment venues, offering attended and self-service POS, handheld payment devices, in-seat food and beverage ordering, and suite ordering management. It serves stadiums and venue operators looking to speed up concessions transactions and manage fan purchases.

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Chicisimo builds fashion taste-intelligence infrastructure for fashion retailers, including a Fashion Taste Graph, shopper taste profiles, and an unsupervised learning model that power personalization and outfit recommendations across online and physical stores. Its products include virtual closet technology and in-store and online outfit recommenders, supported by more than 25 US granted patents.

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Childy is an online select shop offering kids' fashion brands and curated apparel items for children, marketed toward mothers. It operates as an e-commerce store featuring MD-recommended products, discounts, and a fashion magazine.

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Chipply is an online store platform that lets team dealers, uniform dealers, and apparel decorators build branded web stores for schools, leagues, and clubs to sell and manage team gear. It automates order tracking, work order generation for decorators, payment processing (Stripe, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Klarna), and fundraising, serving sporting goods suppliers who outfit teams and organizations each season.

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CHRONEXT is an online retailer of luxury watches, offering new, mint-condition, pre-owned, and vintage timepieces from brands such as Rolex, Omega, and Patek Philippe. It provides authentication, certification, and warranty services through certified watchmakers, acting as the direct contractual seller rather than a marketplace.

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Chrysalis is a company builder that develops software using timely data to create digital-meets-personal customer moments, applied in sectors such as retail and hospitality. Founded on a self-organization, people-first philosophy, it builds and operates multiple product companies.

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Chungdam Global is a South Korean company focused on global distribution and export of brands, with an emphasis on K-Beauty products across international channels and markets. It positions itself as a partner helping brands enter and grow in overseas markets.

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Cienty operates a free purchasing platform that connects neighborhood pharmacies and small chains with distributors and industry suppliers, letting pharmacies compare prices across distributors, check real-time stock, and place orders. The service targets pharmacy retailers in Brazil, with current coverage focused on the state of São Paulo and the Southeast region.

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Cin7 is a cloud-based inventory management platform for product sellers — manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers — offering real-time stock visibility, order and manufacturing management, multi-channel sales connectivity, and AI-driven demand forecasting. It integrates with accounting systems like Xero and QuickBooks and serves industries such as fashion, health and beauty, and food and beverage.

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Circana provides technology, AI, and data analytics through its Liquid Data platform to consumer packaged goods companies, durables manufacturers, and retailers. Its predictive analytics help clients measure market share, understand consumer behavior, and analyze media campaign effectiveness across CPG, general merchandise, and retail industries.

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CitrusAd operates a self-serve retail media platform combining on-site monetization (sponsored products, banners, brand pages) with off-site advertising across the open web for retailers and advertisers. Following integration with Epsilon, it offers identity-led targeting to drive sales both online and in-store.

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City Super Group operates a chain of lifestyle speciality retail stores offering food and general merchandise for urban consumers, under brands including city'super, LOG-ON, and cafe ToGather. Founded in 1996 in Hong Kong, it runs stores across Hong Kong, mainland China (Shanghai and Nanjing), and Taiwan.

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Citysense installs GDPR-compliant "urban satellites" at gas stations and convenience stores that detect passing smartphones via WiFi to capture real-time foot-traffic data. It combines this traffic data with business KPIs to help fuel and retail operators optimize pricing strategies, store operations, and customer segmentation.

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Cladwell is a smart closet and AI stylist app that gives daily outfit recommendations based on a user's wardrobe and the weather forecast, helping people build a "capsule wardrobe" of mix-and-match pieces. It is aimed at consumers who want to get more use out of their existing clothes and simplify getting dressed.

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Clane is a financial services provider offering payment solutions for businesses and individuals to send and receive payments. It reports serving over 500 businesses and 100,000 customers for their day-to-day financial transactions.

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