Retail Tech Startups

Générale Vosgienne d'Agencement (GVA) is a fit-out company that designs and builds turnkey commercial spaces and public-facing establishments, with in-house metalwork and joinery workshops producing custom and series furniture. It serves retail franchises, independent brands, and private clients across sectors such as retail, restaurants, fast food, optics, dry cleaning, and daycare centers in France and Europe.

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GyftGram provides a QR code-based digital gift card platform for restaurants, allowing them to sell branded eGifts through their websites and social media that customers redeem by scanning codes at dining locations.

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GyftHint operates a gifting marketplace that lets recipients build personal stores of the brands and products they want so gift buyers can purchase with more certainty. It serves both consumers and retail merchants, positioning itself around reducing returns and the environmental footprint of retail gifting.

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Hakio provides AI-powered demand forecasting and inventory planning software for the fashion and apparel industry. Its algorithms help fashion companies optimize stock levels to improve profitability and reduce excess inventory and waste.

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Hana Group is a retailer of pan-Asian cuisine that operates food kiosks and counters, often located within retail partners, offering ready-to-eat meals. It runs its own brands and operates across Europe and the United States.

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HANDSEL connects consumer brands with independent retailers, using campaign data, audience insights, and geotargeting to identify untapped retail demand and match brands to stores likely to drive incremental sales. It curates boxes of six brands selected for each store based on location and performance insights.

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This page is a Shopify blog article about finding and vetting wholesale and dropshipping suppliers, not a site describing the "handshake.com" domain owner's own business. The content is educational marketing material from Shopify covering wholesale sourcing options for ecommerce merchants.

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Handwave builds palm-based biometric payment technology for retailers, enabling identity verification, age checks, loyalty program enrollment, and payment through a single hand scan. Its plug-and-play palm scanning device integrates with point-of-sale and electronic cash register systems and uses palm geometry, vein patterns, and liveness detection for fraud prevention.

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Handwave provides palm-based biometric payment technology for retailers, using palm geometry, vein patterns, and liveness detection to verify identity, process payments, handle age-restricted purchases, and integrate loyalty programs. Its device connects to existing POS or electronic cash register systems.

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Haoyiku is a private-domain e-commerce brand flash-sale platform in China that provides brand supply-chain and discounted-sales services to private-domain traffic operators such as resellers and shop owners. Paired with its Haojia Cloud Store tool for private-labeled online shops, it operates a "front-store, back-warehouse" model and reports over one million shop owners and partnerships with more than 20,000 brands.

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Happy Pay operates a Buy Now Pay Later platform for Africa that lets shoppers split purchases over two paycheques interest-free and helps merchants increase basket size and conversion. The platform donates 1% of fees to environmental initiatives.

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Hardloop is an online retailer selling outdoor and mountain sports equipment and technical apparel — including hiking, trail running, climbing, alpinism, cycling and camping gear — from a wide range of brands. It offers new, eco-designed and second-hand products for outdoor enthusiasts, with content available in French.

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Harmonya provides a product intelligence platform for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands and retailers, enriching product listings, reviews, and performance data at the UPC level to reveal which attributes drive demand and where portfolio gaps exist. Its offering spans demand, consumer, and attribute intelligence to support assortment, benchmarking, and commercial decisions.

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ABX Harsys develops Harsys, a point-of-sale and management software for restaurants and hospitality businesses, offering functions for sales tracking, warehouse/stock management, recipes, and pricing across tiered license options. The system stores data locally on the customer's own computer rather than in the cloud, and includes add-ons such as a mobile waiter feature; it targets the Czech restaurant market.

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Everlasting Love (ELF) is a Black, women-owned third-party logistics (3PL) provider offering end-to-end order fulfillment for direct-to-consumer and retail eCommerce brands, including omni-channel and big-box retail fulfillment, Amazon FBA handling, kitting/subscription boxes, and same-day shipping. It also provides brand-aligned customer service across email, chat, and social media, serving over 70 eCommerce brands.

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Haypp Group is an e-commerce company selling nicotine pouches and snus online, serving consumers shifting from combustible tobacco to smokeless products. It operates as a leading online retailer in the nicotine pouch and snus category.

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Health Food Wall operates unmanned smart fridges stocked with freshly handmade, plant-based meals, sandwiches, wraps and snacks as a self-service canteen solution for offices, schools, gyms, hospitals and public transport locations. The company provides full-service, data-driven catering across the Netherlands.

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嘿店 provides an e-commerce website builder with designer-made, cross-device templates and a customization editor for merchants to create branded online stores. The platform also offers social media syncing, real-time analytics, marketing tools, SEO, content creation, customer service, and store management for warehousing, product listing, and logistics.

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Helium 10 is an all-in-one SaaS platform for online sellers on Amazon, TikTok Shop, and Walmart Marketplace, offering tools for product and keyword research, listing optimization, advertising automation, inventory management, and analytics. It also provides training courses and can connect to AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT for research and reporting.

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Official store of Hellas Verona FC selling the football club's official merchandise, including home and away jerseys, to fans. Products are available online and at physical locations in Verona, including at the Bentegodi stadium on match days.

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Hello Again provides a white-label loyalty app platform that enables retailers and small businesses to build their own branded customer loyalty programs. The platform includes features for point collection, personalized marketing, customer data management, and CRM functionality.

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LiSA is an AI-powered platform that brings shoppable social experiences — stories, reels, videos and live streams — directly onto e-commerce sites, turning that content into a first-party data engine. It serves brands and retailers pursuing social commerce, using an AI co-pilot to recommend, schedule and publish content to lift conversion and customer lifetime value.

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Greeter provides commercial-grade digital storefront displays (55", 46", LED and transparent mesh) bundled with installation, content management software, performance data, and support for a single monthly fee with no upfront cost. It targets retail and small business owners looking to attract passersby and increase in-store customers.

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The Herholdt's Group is a South African wholesaler and supplier of electrical, lighting, and renewable energy products and accessories from various brands. It provides residential, commercial, and industrial solar energy solutions and operates branches across South Africa.

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