Retail Tech Startups

JOOR is a digital wholesale platform connecting brands and retailers globally for buying and selling fashion products. The platform serves over 14,000 brands and 650,000+ buyers across 150 countries with real-time data and collaboration tools.

7 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.

7 investors

Kopi Kenangan is a grab-and-go coffee chain operating across Indonesia and Southeast Asia, serving coffee consumers through a fast-growing retail network. The company sources and emphasizes high-quality Indonesian coffee as a regional brand.

7 investors

LiquiDonate provides a donation-based disposition service that matches retailers' and brands' warehouse overstock and unsellable returns to a vetted network of 501(c)(3) nonprofits, handling fulfillment, tax documentation, and impact reporting. It positions donation as an alternative to liquidation and landfill disposal for retail excess inventory, offering products WarehouseDirect for bulk overstock and ReturnsDirect for intercepting unsellable returns.

7 investors

Locate.ai helps brands identify and secure optimal retail or commercial real estate locations using artificial intelligence and real estate advisory services. The platform serves retailers and enterprises seeking data-driven location intelligence.

7 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.

7 investors

Miros builds an AI-driven product discovery technology that infers shopper intent from behavioural signals such as scroll velocity, clicks, and dwell time, rather than requiring shoppers to describe what they want. It powers search, browse, recommendations, and shop-the-look for e-commerce retailers in visual categories like fashion, furniture, and decor.

7 investors

Pin Labs provides payment and financial technology products and solutions for businesses, including developer tools for integration.

7 investors

GoDaddy Poynt manufactures smart payment terminals for merchants to accept physical and contactless payments at point-of-sale. The company offers dual-screen countertop terminals and pocket-sized mobile payment devices with end-to-end encryption and PCI compliance.

7 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.

7 investors

RADAR is an RFID-based hardware and software platform that enables real-time inventory tracking and location accuracy in retail stores. The system provides item-level visibility to reduce out-of-stocks, improve fulfillment, and enables checkout-free shopping experiences.

7 investors

Displai (Raydiant) provides digital signage, employee experience tools, and location analytics powered by AI for brick-and-mortar and enterprise businesses. Its platform combines a content management system, an app marketplace, and customer analytics to manage in-location screens and experiences across multiple sites.

7 investors

SENSEIDATA develops retail technologies including autonomous and hybrid stores, pods, zero-waste vending cabinets, and AI-driven data systems for the next generation of retail. The company focuses on dematerializing retail processes and enhancing user experience with environmentally efficient solutions.

7 investors

Shopmonkey is an all-in-one shop management software designed for auto repair shops of all types, offering workflow management, customer communications, digital estimates and invoicing, payment processing, accounting, and marketing tools. The platform serves independent repair facilities, quick lube shops, fleet operations, and detailing shops across North America.

7 investors

Showdrop runs in-store product sampling campaigns for consumer brands using branded vending machines placed in high-traffic retail stores, and gives brands a dashboard with data on impressions, samples dispensed, shopper demographics, feedback, and in-store and online sales lift. It serves consumer product brands looking to test and market new products through physical retail sampling.

7 investors

Showroom B2B operates a B2B apparel sourcing marketplace that connects retailers with manufacturers through an AI-powered supply chain platform offering demand forecasting, supplier matching, and fulfillment tracking. It also runs a "phygital" model with physical experience stores and a digital marketplace targeting retailers in Tier II and III cities across India, alongside solutions for national retail chains.

7 investors

Spyne provides an AI-powered platform that helps car dealers source, list, market, and sell vehicles. The platform serves automotive dealers looking to streamline their digital operations and brand management.

7 investors

The LIST is a shopping platform powered by artificial intelligence that connects consumers with a curated network of global boutiques and retailers, enabling personalized discovery and direct social shopping experiences. The platform allows independent boutiques to operate digital storefronts with managed logistics, fulfilment, and international delivery to 190 countries.

7 investors

Trendalytics builds AI-powered analytics and trend forecasting tools that analyze large volumes of data to help brands guide product development and marketing strategy. It combines automated analytics with human trend-forecasting and merchandising expertise, serving brands in the fashion and beauty industries.

7 investors

Ume provides a platform for businesses to create, operate and scale their own financial products, including digital credit cards, transactional credit for large purchases, and personal loans. It handles credit policies, underwriting, technology infrastructure, customer support, collections and capital funding, letting merchants keep the financial returns from credit offered to their customers.

7 investors

Veesion provides AI-powered video surveillance software that analyzes gestures from a store's existing cameras to detect shoplifting behaviors and send short alert clips to staff. It serves retailers such as grocery and convenience stores to help prevent repeat theft.

7 investors

Vori operates a B2B operating system that connects data across the food supply chain for the grocery industry. The platform serves grocers and suppliers, aiming to reduce operational inefficiencies, food waste, and improve access to food across local and underserved markets.

7 investors

Zippee provides rapid delivery infrastructure for consumer brands in India, using a network of dark stores and last-mile fleets to enable 30-minute, 60-minute, 120-minute, and same-day delivery. Brands integrate with its platform to run quick commerce through their own sales channels, aiming to lower fulfillment costs and reduce RTO rates.

7 investors

Zubale develops e-commerce technology solutions and tools for retailers in Latin America, helping them increase sales and improve customer experience on their digital channels. The company operates across Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Peru, serving retailers and brands in the region.

7 investors