Retail Tech Startups

anavid applies AI computer vision to retailers' existing CCTV cameras to detect theft and suspicious behavior in real time and to analyze shopper behavior and store performance. It serves grocery, fashion, DIY, and theme park retailers, integrating with existing IP and analog camera systems for loss prevention and store analytics.

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AndesML provides a white-label retail media platform that enables retailers and brands to manage and monetize digital advertising. The platform serves both publishers/retailers seeking to monetize content and advertisers looking to reach relevant audiences through retail channels.

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Andisor offers an enterprise buying platform that helps retail buyers discover, refine, and deliver product ranges from a single source of truth. It targets buying teams in retail with tools designed to reduce range-planning time and support buy-plan execution.

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Andover Analytics offers a price-tracking dashboard that aggregates buying and selling data from resale marketplaces and wholesalers (such as Swappa, Back Market, Walmart, Reebelo, and Gazelle) across more than 350 phone models. It is aimed at phone resellers/flippers who want to compare prices and maximize margins on each device.

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A German medical supply store (Sanitätshaus) offering health and orthopedic products along with individual advice and custom-fitted solutions for consumers. It focuses on aids intended to support daily life and health.

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Antavo is an AI-powered customer loyalty and incentives platform that lets marketers build and run loyalty programs and promotions—points, tiers, challenges, referrals, rewards, and agentic AI—across online, in-store, mobile, and wallet channels. It serves mid-market and upper-mid-market brands in fashion, retail, beauty, travel, hospitality, restaurants, and sports across North America and Europe.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

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Anthor operates a mobile app that connects retailers needing temporary workers with qualified people to cover demand peaks, handling tasks like shelf stocking, checkout support, distribution-center and warehouse organization, e-commerce/delivery picking, and store price comparison. It serves retail businesses in Brazil.

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anybill provides digital receipt technology that lets brick-and-mortar retailers deliver receipts to customers' smartphones via QR code, loyalty card, or card payment, replacing paper receipts. The platform turns the point-of-sale moment into a marketing channel for newsletter sign-ups, loyalty programs, coupons, and customer data collection, with over 60 integrations into POS systems across more than 9 countries.

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Apex Noire is a cannabis dispensary offering products for online browsing and in-store pickup, with an emphasis on customer education and product selection. It serves consumers in the Boston, Massachusetts area.

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Api operates self-service, unstaffed convenience stores in French villages that lack local shops, offering around 700 everyday grocery products at supermarket prices and open every day of the year. Customers create an account to get a QR code that unlocks the store, shop freely, and pay at an automatic checkout, with an emphasis on local producers.

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Aplazame provides a buy-now-pay-later payment option that lets shoppers split purchases into monthly installments at partner online and physical stores. It also offers merchants a financing solution to integrate into their e-commerce or point of sale to raise average order value.

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Shifter develops payment processing software for bicycle shops and repair workshops, partnered with Smile and Pay. The solution accepts multiple payment methods and includes customer loyalty and review features.

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Appcard provides intelligent data capture and analytics solutions for mid-size retailers, grocery stores, and brands to optimize customer engagement campaigns.

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AQUA develops and sells original merchandise and goods themed around animals and nature, based on experiences at facilities such as zoos and aquariums, and operates directly-managed retail stores, e-commerce, and product planning. It works with facilities, producers, and local communities in Japan to turn learning and encounters with wildlife into products and events.

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Online retailer specializing in pet supplies and products for dogs and cats, including food and health solutions.

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Arco is a UK and Ireland safety specialist that supplies personal protective equipment (PPE), workwear, cleaning and hygiene products, and workplace safety training and services to businesses across industries including construction and the public sector. The company sells third-party and own-brand products and offers expert safety advice, with operations spanning the UK, Europe and North America.

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Ariadne provides people counting and foot traffic analytics for physical venues using patented phone signal detection combined with Time-of-Flight depth sensing, delivered as a SaaS platform with privacy-first architecture that captures no personally identifiable information by default.

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ArtBinder is a cloud-based inventory management and sales platform for art galleries, dealers, artists, and collectors, with a mobile iOS app and desktop access. It covers object and artist management, virtual viewing rooms, customizable forms and reports, object-level financials, and payment processing.

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Artcaffé operates a chain of artisanal cafés and markets in Kenya offering handpicked food products, fresh produce, specialty goods, and ready meals alongside coffee service and live cooking demonstrations. The company operates a central bakery producing artisanal bread using traditional methods and natural fermentation.

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Arteli is an AI platform that analyzes retail data to generate insights on product assortment, inventory optimization, and store layout for brick-and-mortar showroom retailers. Its products (Select, Move, and Flow) support merchandising planning, predictive inventory management, and store design decisions.

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An AI-powered 3D and AR solutions company that helps e-commerce brands and retailers improve engagement and sales through virtual try-on technology and 3D product visualizations generated from existing images. The company serves brands in North America, Europe, and the Middle East.

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AS Colour designs and supplies premium blank apparel such as t-shirts, shorts, and headwear for creators, makers, and brands. Founded in New Zealand, it sells wholesale blanks globally and operates distribution centres including a facility in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Ashley Furniture is a home furnishings retailer selling furniture and decor across categories including living room, bedroom, kitchen and dining, home office, outdoor, mattresses, rugs, and kids' furniture. It sells online and through over 1,000 physical stores, positioning itself as a furniture home store in North America.

1 investor

ASKUL is a Japanese online retailer selling office supplies, furniture, consumer goods, and daily necessities to businesses and individuals through its e-commerce catalog. It offers products across categories such as office equipment, beverages, and home goods.

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