Retail Tech Startups

Jumbotail runs a B2B marketplace platform connecting India's mom & pop grocery retailers (kirana stores) and supermarkets with brands and staples producers, offering products across staples, packaged foods, personal care, and home care. It provides tech-driven supply chain and logistics, sourcing and quality control, fintech-based payments and working-capital credit, and a cloud-based Retail Operating System (Golden Eye) plus a J24 Retail-as-a-Service platform for running modern convenience stores.

5 investors

Klasha is a cross-border payments platform that enables businesses to collect, send, and hold funds between Africa and Asia, supporting over 120 currencies. The company helps merchants reduce costs and friction in trade flows between the two regions.

5 investors

Lightspeed provides a point-of-sale and payments platform that lets retail and hospitality businesses sell in person, online, and on social channels from one connected system. It offers inventory management, integrations, embedded funding, and B2B wholesale ordering for merchants across more than 100 countries.

5 investors

Liven is a hospitality management platform for restaurants, QSRs, groceries and food venues, combining point-of-sale, self-ordering, omnichannel delivery, kitchen and inventory management, payments, loyalty and marketing in one system. It serves food and beverage operators across Australia, Southeast Asia and the USA, and is now transitioning under the Nomni brand.

5 investors

MarketDial provides a testing platform that combines machine learning with human expertise to help companies conduct in-store experiments and make data-driven decisions. The platform serves retail and consumer-facing businesses seeking to validate ideas through controlled testing.

5 investors

Mashgin develops automated checkout kiosks using computer vision and machine learning to instantly identify items without scanning or barcodes, serving retailers in stadiums, hospitality, hospitals, and foodservice venues.

5 investors

Mia builds AI tools to modernize automotive dealership sales and operations and improve the consumer buying experience. Founded in 2023, it targets car dealerships in the US automotive retail industry.

5 investors

MishiPay provides a modular, cloud-native point-of-sale platform with mobile self-checkout, "scan, pay & leave," RFID-based checkout, and flexible payment options for retailers. It serves single- and multi-location retail brands and enterprises across North America, Europe, and the Middle East.

5 investors

Mswipe provides payment acceptance solutions for merchants in India, including smart POS terminals, payment soundboxes, a payment gateway, and pay-by-link tools, along with a merchant app and portal for tracking transactions and settlements. It is an RBI-approved payment aggregator serving retail, restaurant, and other businesses of varying sizes.

5 investors

OlaClick provides a point-of-sale and delivery management platform for restaurants, including AI-powered menu creation, order management, and loyalty programs. The platform serves restaurants in Brazil and Latin America with commission-free direct-to-consumer sales capabilities.

5 investors

StoreHub provides a point-of-sale (POS) system with ordering and business management features for retail and food-and-beverage businesses. Its software helps merchants handle daily operations, orders, and store management.

5 investors

Oscar AI is an operations automation platform that ingests franchise and multi-unit business data to detect anomalies in sales, labor, voids/discounts, fraud, compliance, and product availability, then routes alerts and action plans to managers. It serves franchise and multi-unit brands across restaurants, retail and convenience chains, hospitality and service businesses, and healthcare and wellness networks.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

5 investors

Peak builds agentic AI solutions that optimize inventory and pricing decisions for retail and manufacturing businesses. Its platform offers pre-built, configurable AI products for enterprise customers, and the company is now part of UiPath.

5 investors

Percolata provides machine-learning-based forecasting and optimization for retailers and restaurants, predicting hourly sales, foot traffic, and takeout orders so businesses can optimize staffing, delivery, and marketing budget allocation. It offers a managed "Forecast as a Service" solution using computer vision, POS, online traffic, and external data, serving mid-sized and global retail brands.

5 investors

Provenance operates a claims-validation framework that independently verifies product sustainability and quality claims for consumer brands, mapping them to certification bodies and regulatory standards. Its validated "Proof Points" appear across retail partners' product pages, search and recommendations and are structured to be cited by AI shopping assistants, serving brands and retailers in beauty, personal care and food.

5 investors

Purple Dot provides inventory management software for eCommerce brands and retailers, addressing overstock and understock issues by enabling flexible selling of stock in warehouses, in transit, and pre-production. The platform helps operators reduce unsold inventory and improve commerce operations through better visibility and control.

5 investors

qlub provides QR-code-based pay-at-table, order-and-pay, digital menus, payment links, and a SoftPOS terminal that integrate with restaurants' POS systems. It serves restaurants, hotels, and hospitality businesses, with stated markets including the UAE, Singapore, and Australia.

5 investors

Qomodo is a digital payment platform offering merchants a smart POS that accepts card payments and lets customers pay in installments (2 to 12 payments, up to €5,000) while the merchant is paid immediately. Aimed at Italian businesses, it includes self-service onboarding within 48 hours and a management dashboard.

5 investors

Recurrent builds software and data analytics tools to help consumers and dealerships transition to electric vehicles and optimize EV adoption. The company focuses on the automotive sector with a mission to accelerate the decarbonization of transportation.

5 investors

RetailAware provides sensor-based analytics and sense technology that lets retail brands and their partners measure how shoppers interact with physical in-store product displays, tracking foot traffic, dwell time, and out-of-stock events. The data helps brands benchmark and optimize display performance to increase product sales.

5 investors

ReturnLogic provides a returns management platform for ecommerce merchants that automates returns workflows, tracks products through the return lifecycle, and offers analytics to optimize return policies. It includes a white-label returns center, exchange incentives, and reporting tools aimed at reducing returns and increasing per-return profit.

5 investors

Rigado operates a certification program for IoT devices to connect and operate on a unified retail IoT infrastructure powered by the Cascade 5000 access point. The program enables IoT vendors and developers to certify sensors, tags, and smart devices for deployment across thousands of retail store locations.

5 investors

Rockbot offers a platform for businesses to manage in-location audio and visual experiences, including licensed background music, digital signage, in-store TV content, guest song requests, and audio/visual advertising. It serves single locations through national chains and franchises, providing centralized control over branded content across multiple sites.

5 investors

ShopKeep is a point-of-sale platform for retailers and restaurants, now fully integrated into Lightspeed as Lightspeed POS (S-Series). It offers POS software, hardware, and 24/7 support for small business owners to manage and grow their operations.

5 investors