Retail Tech Startups

Distribution Depot builds AI-powered eCommerce solutions for distributors and brands in the professional trades, including HVAC, plumbing, and electrical. The platform helps customers search, select, and purchase products with a personalized shopping experience.

1 investor

Dealt provides an omnichannel SaaS platform and certified provider network that lets retailers and companies add home services and product insurance offers to their in-store and e-commerce sales journeys. Its tools cover offer design, technical integration (APIs, PrestaShop/Shopify modules, back-office), a national network of providers, and consulting to help brands launch service and insurance revenue streams in France.

1 investor

Dealyze provides in-store digital loyalty and referral management software for small retailers, combining customer rewards programs with marketing automation to increase repeat purchase behavior.

1 investor

Numia (Debmedia) is a customer journey orchestration platform that uses AI to manage and optimize in-person branch and store operations, connecting queue management, appointments, speech analytics, and AI agents into one system. It serves banking, retail, and healthcare businesses across Latin America to reduce wait times, improve staffing, and turn physical-location interactions into structured data and sales opportunities.

1 investor

Deck Commerce provides an order management system for direct-to-consumer brands, unifying inventory and fulfillment across channels and systems with automated order routing, real-time inventory, and returns handling. It serves ecommerce, operations, and IT teams at retail brands looking to scale omnichannel fulfillment.

1 investor

deco operates clients' e-commerce sites, apps, and storefronts using senior engineers, AI agents, and its own open-source software, charging based on the incremental revenue generated. It offers services such as site/app deployment, CRO, SEO, integrations (VTEX, Shopify, ERP, OMS, CRM), and 24/7 monitoring, primarily for digital commerce brands.

1 investor

DeepScout offers an AI-based platform that collects e-commerce competitor data — product details, prices, and availability — and matches identical products across competitors to inform pricing and assortment decisions. It serves online retailers and e-shops, from startups to large enterprises, tracking competitor positioning across multiple markets.

1 investor

Deepview uses artificial intelligence to analyze footage from existing security cameras, generating real-time alerts for retailers and distribution centers to detect theft and reduce shrinkage, measure operational KPIs such as on-shelf availability, facing, and stock-outs, and control facility access and capacity. Founded in 2019, the company serves the retail and logistics sectors.

1 investor

Degpeg is a cloud-based live commerce platform that lets brands showcase and sell products through multichannel live-streaming across their website, app, and social communities. It offers live communication, shoppable videos, and media buying for retailers in sectors such as fashion, education, healthcare, music, gaming, and travel.

1 investor

Deko is a payment platform offering checkout financing through a multi-lender model for merchants and consumers. The company connects lenders with customers to enable retail finance solutions across all transaction types and locations.

1 investor

Demandly provides a supply chain and operations platform for ecommerce and retail businesses, covering AI-powered demand planning, inventory management, and analytics. It offers three operating models — self-service software, an AI operator that automates routine tasks like purchase order creation and stock alerts, and vetted human operations experts — with integrations to Shopify, Amazon, and other platforms.

1 investor

Demooz offers a digital activation platform with five programs — brand ambassadors, customer loyalty, retail store companion communities, social commerce, and influencer campaigns — aimed at driving brand growth. It provides an ambassador CRM, real-time decision dashboards, and community animation methods for brands.

1 investor

DemoUp Cliplister runs a content syndication network and digital asset management platform that lets brands distribute product content to retail partners and lets retailers automatically source optimized PDP content. It also offers content creation services (review videos, animated clips, 3D/AR) and EAA accessibility compliance tools for e-commerce.

1 investor

Designovel builds domain-specific AI for industries that work with unstructured data, offering an end-to-end fashion AI pipeline covering planning, design, materials, and demand forecasting, along with a GEO/AEO solution for brand visibility in AI-driven search. The company also extends its AI to additional industry domains beyond fashion.

1 investor

DHOLIC provides fulfillment services and operates offline retail stores in Japan (such as locations in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Nagoya) to help brands run brand marketing. The company focuses on retail and fulfillment for brands entering the Japanese market.

1 investor

Dialog provides an AI sales agent embedded on ecommerce product pages that enables shoppers to ask questions and make purchases through conversational interactions rather than navigating traditional menus and filters.

1 investor

Digimarc provides authentication and anti-fraud solutions using digital watermarking, fingerprinting, cryptography, and AI to verify products, transactions, and digital content and prevent counterfeiting, leaks, and fraud. Its solutions serve governments, central banks, and companies across retail, pharmaceuticals, media, consumer packaged goods, and other industries.

1 investor

DMVI designs and builds bespoke vending machines tailored to a product's size, weight, packaging, storage temperature, and theft risk. The company engineers the dispense path, cabinet geometry, lighting, and lock system to match each machine to the product.

1 investor

Diller offers a loyalty platform embedded into physical stores' existing POS and payment terminals, recognizing customers at the moment of payment ("Tap2ID") without an app or QR code. It provides merchants with first-party customer data, automated onboarding, and cross-channel personalization to drive repeat purchases.

1 investor

DineMarket operates a B2B foodservice marketplace and app that connects restaurants, bars, caterers, hotels, and other food businesses with wholesale suppliers to place, compare, and manage orders. The platform lets buyers view supplier products and real-time pricing while giving suppliers tools to list, sell, and promote products.

1 investor

Dines is a hospitality management platform for food and beverage venues such as food halls, offering counter POS, self-order kiosks, mobile and QR ordering, handheld tableside devices, integrated payments, stock and staff management, vendor revenue splitting, and an AI assistant called Tilly. It serves multi-vendor venues and operators across the UK and Ireland.

1 investor

Dirac Group buys and sells surplus, excess, and end-of-line branded stock, distributing it internationally through a network of discount retailers, wholesalers, export buyers, and online resale channels. It operates a distribution centre in London and focuses on brand protection and compliant surplus resale for suppliers with excess inventory.

1 investor

Dishtracker offers AI-powered point-of-sale technology that automatically recognizes food and beverages from images to accelerate checkout processes in restaurants and food service establishments. The system integrates with existing POS solutions or operates as a standalone all-in-one device, completing transactions in approximately 7 seconds.

1 investor

Dispension develops self-service kiosk technology with identity and age verification features, offering products such as ID.ME.PLS, Palm+, OpnServ, Dispension ERP, and Intoxivision. Its data-driven kiosks serve businesses needing automated retail dispensing with user identity verification.

1 investor