Retail Tech Startups

Message in a Window manages storefront window displays across France, handling stickers and window graphics (vitrophanie) including measurement, installation, and photography. It works with a network of local partners and clients such as retailers, chains, and brands.

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MessageWrap provides checkout-lane advertising and messaging products that turn the point-of-sale area in retail stores into a promotional touchpoint, used to promote loyalty programs, e-commerce, lottery sales, retail media, and payment/credit card sign-ups. It serves retailers and grocery chains looking to increase sales and customer loyalty at checkout.

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Mestergruppen is a group that owns building-industry companies and brands across Norway and Sweden, operating in building supplies, surface products, homebuilding and property development, plumbing services, logistics, and production. It serves the construction and home-building market through its portfolio of retail chains, house builders, and manufacturers.

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Metadome.ai builds immersive AI and XR digital experiences for the automotive mobility sector, including Autodome Discover for passenger vehicles and Autodome AI, an AI agent for dealerships that supports interactive sales, customer support, and post-sale engagement. It serves OEMs and dealerships to optimize the digital customer journey across web, app, and in-store channels.

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Metropolitan Market is a grocery and specialty food retailer offering prepared foods, recipes, and weekly deals, including signature items like The Cookie and a prime rib sandwich.

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Mi Hub is a uniform solutions company supplying corporate uniforms and workwear to businesses and individuals through its Dimensions, Affinity, Yaffy and Alexandra brands. It operates globally with offices in the UK, Europe, USA and Bangladesh and publishes an annual ESG report for its brand customers.

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Midas is a mobile app that lets consumers earn points on purchases and redeem them to pay, and discover promotions and discounts at nearby stores. It also tracks users' transactions, points balances, and purchase receipts across a network of retail points of sale.

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Milkyway provides a platform for store-level inventory and stock management, enabling retailers to track out-of-stock (OOS) items and automate replenishment across their locations. The platform delivers real-time insights to improve in-store availability and sales performance.

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mimbi is a retail media intelligence platform that consolidates commerce, advertising, and sales data across online retailers, marketplaces, and D2C channels into a single system with SKU-level analytics and automated reporting. It serves brands and agencies seeking to optimize retail media ad spend and profitability across fragmented retail channels.

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Mimoo operates a behavior-based retail activation platform where shoppers reserve in-store visits via an app and redeem product "mimos" (samples/giveaways) with identity confirmed by CPF, generating verified in-store traffic and behavioral data for retailers and brands. It repurposes slow-moving, delisted, or write-off products into identified store visits without discounts, and also enables trial-based content from pre-qualified creators, serving Brazilian retail and consumer goods industries.

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Mine Iyakuhin operates the MineDrug drugstore and Mine Pharmacy retail chains, selling pharmaceutical and drugstore products through stores in Tokyo and neighboring prefectures. The company runs a network of retail pharmacies and drugstores in the Tokyo metropolitan area.

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Minerva is a family-owned UK retailer selling fabrics (including deadstock and exclusive print-on-demand collections), sewing patterns, dressmaking kits, and haberdashery for home sewists, dressmakers, and textile enthusiasts. It offers online shopping with UK and international shipping, its own exclusive and collaborative pattern ranges, and an in-person store in Darwen, Lancashire.</parameter> <parameter name="hq_city">Darwen

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MINISO is a lifestyle retail brand that sells consumer products, including items released through IP collaborations such as a partnership with Zanmang Loopy. It offers themed products and stores catering to consumers seeking fun and personalized goods.

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Minodes provides out-of-store analytics and communication tools for physical retailers, offering insights into consumer behavior and the customer journey to help stores increase visitor frequency, sales, and location decisions. As a subsidiary of Telefónica NEXT, it combines mobile connection data with analytics and anonymized data processing for retail clients.

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Miva is an enterprise-grade ecommerce platform for merchants managing large or complex, high-SKU product catalogs, with tools for AI-powered site search, product filtering, and dynamic merchandising. It supports hybrid B2B and DTC operations from a single admin and integrates with ERPs, CRMs, 3PLs, and shipping systems via managed connectors.

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MIWA is a technology company that develops reusable and refillable packaging solutions for FMCG products, aiming to bring reuse into regular shops and other points of sale. It combines packaging design, retail operations, logistics, and data systems while tracking impact measurements.

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MOBI provides an AI-driven platform for restaurants and food brands to run in-store and delivery ordering, marketing, promotions, and loyalty in one system. It offers tiered options for small operations as well as large franchise and corporate multi-brand, multi-region operators.

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Mobile Klinik buys, repairs, and sells certified pre-owned smartphones with expert technician certification and sustainability focus. The company operates 120+ locations across Canada offering device trade-in, repair, and activation services through partnerships with carriers like TELUS and Koodo.

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Mobile Price Card provides software for retailers to manage and display content on in-store digital screens through a centralized dashboard, enabling control over pricing, promotions, and merchandising messaging. The platform connects online and physical retail experiences through web-connected digital displays at points of purchase.

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Mobile Commerce Daily (as presented, a Retail Dive-affiliated site) is a news publication covering the retail and e-commerce industry, reporting on retailers, brands, earnings, technology, and consumer trends. Its content targets retail professionals and industry followers.

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Mobiz is an SMS and MMS marketing platform that lets businesses send personalized text messages with MMS text overlays and build personalized landing pages using a drag-and-drop tool. It offers a two-way inbox, subscriber growth tools (keywords, QR codes, join links), analytics, and automation for small businesses and enterprises.

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ModaResa provides a B2B wholesale sales platform for fashion brands and buyers, covering showroom appointment scheduling, self-booking, buyer CRM, attendance tracking, and real-time performance analytics. It serves fashion wholesale teams managing showroom campaigns during events like Paris Fashion Week.

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Modelia is an AI tool that generates styled outfit visuals from a brand's product images, letting users mix and match items from their catalog to create complete looks. It targets fashion and retail brands seeking to showcase their collections.

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Modella Capital is an investment boutique that provides equity and debt financing to retail and consumer businesses for growth, buyouts and turnarounds. It targets companies with £100m–£3bn turnover across the UK and Europe, investing its own capital alongside selected partners.

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