Retail Tech Startups

KidsBrandStore is an online retailer selling branded clothing, shoes, and accessories for children, teens, and juniors, carrying labels such as Peak Performance, Gant, Levi's, and Calvin Klein. Founded in 2011, it operates as a Nordic e-commerce store focused on the children's apparel niche.

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An online store selling discounted children's toys and baby gear sourced as ex-display items, retail returns, and surplus stock from brands, with prices up to 60% off RRP. Items are inspected for parts and safety before sale.

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Kiko Live is a digital platform that enables local retailers, including kiranas, pharmacies, and stationeries, to digitize their businesses and offer home delivery services through ONDC buyer apps. The platform provides technology, seller training, and marketing support to help neighborhood retailers compete with quick commerce providers.

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King Louie is a fashion brand offering women's clothing, sold through its online store and multiple physical retail locations. It operates stores across the Netherlands and Switzerland.

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Kintow provides an orchestration platform that connects fragmented restaurant and retail operational tools—POS, scheduling, invoicing, ordering, and price checks—so they work together and automate tasks like ordering, invoice capture, and staffing. It targets store managers and operators, reducing manual forecasting and spreadsheet work.

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KiotViet provides point-of-sale and business management software for small merchants and household businesses in Vietnam, covering retail, wholesale, F&B, spa/beauty, and hospitality. Its tools handle multichannel online/offline sales, integrations with e-commerce and food delivery platforms, staff management, payments and lending, and tax/accounting compliance.

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KitchenSurfing is a product recommendation resource for cooking and kitchen items, reviewing products from manufacturers based on quality checks, manufacturer reputation, and user feedback.

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Klangfarbe is a music equipment retailer selling synthesizers, digital pianos, PA/audio systems, and stage lighting from brands such as Arturia, Yamaha, Casio, Nord, and LD Systems. The site is presented in German and targets musicians and audio professionals.

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ounda GmbH is a German group that unites independent traditional opticians and hearing-aid acousticians under one umbrella while preserving each location's own identity, with over 100 affiliated specialist stores. It offers services and support to partner opticians and acousticians and acquires existing businesses from owners looking to sell, operating across Germany.

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Athos Commerce (formerly Klevu) provides ecommerce search, merchandising, and personalization software for online retailers. The company enables merchants to connect shoppers with products both on their websites and through offsite channels.

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Koalafi provides point-of-sale financing for merchants, offering Lease-to-Own and lending solutions (with loans issued by The Bank of Missouri) so retailers can extend pay-over-time options to non-prime consumers. It handles consumer credit risk, pays merchants after delivery, and offers approval amounts up to $7,500 in the U.S.

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Kobas provides a connected hospitality management system centered on EPoS software, covering stock control, kitchen display, payments, ordering apps, CRM, and HR/rota tools. It serves UK food and beverage operators such as casual dining restaurants, QSR, pubs, bars, clubs, and food halls of varying sizes.

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Konigle deploys AI agents alongside dedicated human "AI Operations Engineers" to automate and run business workflows for small, medium, and mid-market companies. It offers an end-to-end platform plus consulting services covering everything from quick automation wins to full workflow redesign.

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Kovzy provides an all-in-one platform for restaurants covering online ordering websites, QR-code digital menus, and a POS system. Its tools handle direct online sales, card and mobile payments, delivery cost calculation, menu and recipe management with ingredient cost analysis, and reporting across in-house sales and delivery aggregators like Glovo and Wolt.

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Krispy Krunchy Chicken is a fried chicken brand offering hand-breaded Cajun-style chicken, tenders, wings, biscuits, and sides through a food program placed in convenience stores and retailers rather than a traditional franchise. It operates more than 3,600 locations across the United States, with strong presence in the South.

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Krispy Kreme is a doughnut and beverage retailer that offers a variety of flavored doughnuts and seasonal drinks through its dedicated shops and rewards program.

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KSI Vision is an AI video analytics software platform that turns existing CCTV security cameras into behavioral data—people counting, heatmaps, dwell times, and real-time alerts—without new hardware. It serves retailers, shopping malls, and airports in Europe, LATAM, and the US.

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Kustom provides an all-in-one online checkout and mobile point-of-sale solution for merchants, supporting multiple payment methods (cards, Klarna, Swish, Apple Pay), shipping options, 140+ integrations and shopper analytics. It serves businesses from startups to enterprises and is most widely used in the Nordics.

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Kyte is a point-of-sale system designed for small businesses to manage sales across multiple channels including physical stores and online platforms. The platform provides cash flow tracking, payment processing, and order management for merchants selling via computers, tablets, or mobile devices.

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L'Exception is an online store selling a curated selection of fashion and lifestyle products, offering free shipping over a threshold and country-specific delivery. It operates as an e-commerce retailer for consumer goods.

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Lablaco builds SPIN, an IoT and Web3 platform for the fashion industry that connects physical products with digital experiences (RFID labeling, digital product passports, resale, rental, VR/AR) to enable a circular fashion economy. It serves fashion brands, retailers, and creators, and has worked with partners including Kering, H&M, and Farfetch since 2016.

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Ladorian provides an AI-powered retail media platform for physical stores that creates audience segments from sales data and enables intelligent, personalized advertising campaigns across in-store devices to drive sales and generate advertising revenue for retailers.

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Kabushiki Kaisha Lamp builds SaaS and AI products for restaurants and food retailers in Japan, including Take-Eats, a customizable takeout order-taking and management system with online pre-order and payment, and Ritel, an AI marketing platform that consolidates customer data from takeout, e-commerce, POS, and apps for analysis and campaign delivery. It serves food and retail businesses nationwide across Japan.

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Laplace Analytics is a data analytics platform that automatically integrates data from ad channels, online stores, ERP, and CRM into a single platform, using an ontology-based AI agent to measure metrics like ROAS and LTV and detect anomalies. It is built for e-commerce businesses such as D2C brands and online sellers, connecting with Korean shopping platforms like Smartstore, Cafe24, and Coupang.

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