Retail Tech Startups

Yoco is a South African fintech company offering payment processing and point-of-sale solutions for businesses.

8 investors

ZAX is a mobile app-based B2B marketplace connecting fashion retailers with over 1,000 wholesale clothing suppliers from São Paulo districts such as Brás and Bom Retiro. It offers direct-from-factory purchasing with no minimum order, installment payments, and shipping to buyers across Brazil.

8 investors

Zehitomo operates an online marketplace that connects consumers in Japan with local professionals, freelancers, and small businesses across a range of services. Founded in 2015, the platform aims to give independent service providers more visibility and help customers find services suited to their needs.

8 investors

GoToAisle is a mobile marketing platform that enables retail businesses to engage customers through SMS and MMS messaging, offering features like cashback incentives, location-aware promotions, and customer data synchronization to drive sales and repeat purchases.

7 investors

Arena is a real-time engagement platform that enables organizations to create immersive interactive experiences, engage audiences through live updates, and personalize customer interactions across news, gaming, and ecommerce industries.

7 investors

Autone provides inventory management and demand forecasting software for retail brands to optimize stock levels, reduce overproduction, and minimize waste. The platform helps retail teams make data-driven decisions about buying, replenishment, and restocking at scale.

7 investors

Banyan organizes item-level receipt data from transactions and makes it accessible for commerce and consumer applications. The company serves financial services, retail, and banking sectors with SKU-level transaction intelligence.

7 investors

BigCommerce is a cloud-based ecommerce platform that enables merchants and retailers to build and manage online stores. The company serves retailers of all sizes across 150+ countries.

7 investors

Bridg provides in-store identity resolution that links anonymous point-of-sale transactions to known customer profiles or creates new ones, enriching them with extended attributes to expand a retailer's first-party data. It serves retailers, convenience stores, and quick-service restaurants looking to grow reachable audiences and power retail media and paid campaigns.

7 investors

Broadlume provides an all-in-one marketing and management platform for independent flooring retailers to help them grow revenue and manage operations. The company serves local flooring retailers with digital tools including CRM, visualization, lead management, and accounting capabilities.

7 investors

Canal (now Rokt Catalog) is a product curation and distribution platform that helps retailers expand their product assortments with third-party brands and enables brands to reach customers at the point of purchase. The platform has been acquired by Rokt and integrated into the Rokt ecommerce ecosystem.

7 investors

DRESSX is a digital fashion retailer offering virtual clothing, accessories, and collections for use on avatars, social media, and platforms like Roblox. It sells digital apparel from various designers and operates an app and AR camera for trying on and wearing digital fashion.

7 investors

Dust Identity develops physical identity solutions using diamond-based technology to authenticate and trace high-value products and components across supply chains. The company serves customers requiring product authentication and anti-counterfeiting capabilities in defense, aerospace, semiconductor, and industrial sectors.

7 investors

Feedvisor builds AI-driven pricing, advertising, and inventory optimization technology for brands and sellers on Amazon's marketplace. Its platform, including the agentic commerce product Agentis, connects marketplace signals to help e-commerce businesses optimize profitability.

7 investors

Fermat provides an agentic commerce platform that helps brands analyze shopper behavior, test changes, and optimize purchasing paths in real-time. The platform serves e-commerce and retail teams seeking to accelerate the conversion of customer insights into measurable business actions.

7 investors

FindMine is a creative production system that turns a retailer's catalog, brand rules, and live inventory into shoppable outfits, rooms, and styled imagery using AI, keeping content on-brand and in stock across marketing, ecommerce, and AI shopping agent channels. It serves apparel, home, and beauty brands, from emerging labels to global enterprise retailers.

7 investors

Fynd provides a commerce platform with AI agents for sales and support, letting brands build websites, sell on marketplaces (Amazon, Myntra, Noon, Trendyol), run wholesale operations, modernise retail stores, and manage orders, payments, and logistics. It also offers AI tools for product image editing, listing generation, and 3D/AR/VR experiences for retailers, e-commerce brands, and manufacturers.

7 investors

Gemist provides technology solutions for online jewelry retailers, offering customizable user experiences and tools designed to increase customer engagement and sales conversion. The platform uses visual and interactive features optimized for modern consumers shopping for jewelry online.

7 investors

Ghost is an AI-native wholesale distribution platform that connects brands with retailers, letting brands list surplus and wholesale inventory with controls over pricing, channels, and geography while buyers source products from vetted suppliers. It serves enterprise retailers, marketplace sellers, and brands, operating as a B2B inventory marketplace across multiple continents.

7 investors

Growsari operates an app that lets sari-sari (neighborhood) store owners order over 800 products from brands like Unilever, P&G, Alaska, and Nestlé at distributor prices, with delivery to their stores. It serves small retail store operators in the Philippines to help them restock inventory and expand their product assortment.

7 investors

Hailify provides last-mile delivery services for retailers and brands, using its own TMS, WMS, and sortation software plus a network of delivery partners. It offers flat-rate pricing, real-time tracking, proof-of-delivery options, and 24/7 support across industries including apparel, retail, prescriptions, meal kits, and alcohol.

7 investors

Hala is a Saudi fintech platform that provides small and medium-sized businesses with digital tools to accept payments, manage cash flow, and track sales performance. It is licensed as a financial institution by the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA).

7 investors

Honey is a shopping and rewards platform that helps consumers earn cash back through merchant offers and deals, with the ability to redeem points via PayPal and access deal-seeking features on mobile browsers.

7 investors

Insite AI provides AI-driven solutions for large consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands, supporting pricing, assortment, trade, and revenue growth management. It serves executives in revenue management, commercial, sales, marketing, category management, and IT at major brands in consumables, beverages, and food.

7 investors