Retail Tech Startups

CenterCheck offers embeddable widgets that integrate the company's insights into third-party products and interfaces for brokers, landlords, investors, and retailers.

1 investor

Chainlane provides a supply chain visibility platform that uses RFID, barcode, QR, NFC, and BLE technologies to track inventory in real-time across all sales channels. The platform enables organizations to optimize operations, improve customer satisfaction, and increase profitability through end-to-end supply chain insights.

1 investor

Channel Pilot provides tools and resources for online retailers selling across marketplaces, including guidance on EU compliance requirements such as marketplace product labeling. It serves e-commerce merchants operating on multiple sales channels.

1 investor

ChapChap Africa is a Ugandan fintech company providing digital financial tools for micro, small, and medium enterprises and mobile money agents. The company operates ChapChap Shop, a bookkeeping app for small business owners, and ChapChap Agent, a platform for mobile money agents to manage transactions across multiple networks.

1 investor

The site lists fashion and luxury items — including clothing, handbags, sunglasses, and jewelry — with original and discounted prices, suggesting an online resale or discount fashion marketplace. Listings are in Korean, indicating a Korean-market focus.

1 investor

ChargeUp offers a SKU activation and trade management platform for CPG brokers and brands, automating item setup across distributor and retailer portals such as UNFI, KeHE, Syndigo, 1WorldSync and IX-ONE. It also provides trade spend analytics, automated deduction dispute recovery, and commission reconciliation to help protect margin and reduce manual work.

1 investor

Charlotte Russe is a fashion retailer offering trend-focused clothing and accessories at accessible prices. The company caters to style-conscious consumers seeking versatile pieces.

1 investor

Chex is a specialty and natural foods distributor serving retailers with curated products from local New England producers and global brands. The company partners with retailers and suppliers to build emerging food brands and increase store sales.

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Chicisimo builds fashion taste-intelligence infrastructure for fashion retailers, including a Fashion Taste Graph, shopper taste profiles, and an unsupervised learning model that power personalization and outfit recommendations across online and physical stores. Its products include virtual closet technology and in-store and online outfit recommenders, supported by more than 25 US granted patents.

1 investor

Childy is an online select shop offering kids' fashion brands and curated apparel items for children, marketed toward mothers. It operates as an e-commerce store featuring MD-recommended products, discounts, and a fashion magazine.

1 investor

Chipply is an online store platform that lets team dealers, uniform dealers, and apparel decorators build branded web stores for schools, leagues, and clubs to sell and manage team gear. It automates order tracking, work order generation for decorators, payment processing (Stripe, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Klarna), and fundraising, serving sporting goods suppliers who outfit teams and organizations each season.

1 investor

Chrysalis is a company builder that develops software using timely data to create digital-meets-personal customer moments, applied in sectors such as retail and hospitality. Founded on a self-organization, people-first philosophy, it builds and operates multiple product companies.

1 investor

Chungdam Global is a South Korean company focused on global distribution and export of brands, with an emphasis on K-Beauty products across international channels and markets. It positions itself as a partner helping brands enter and grow in overseas markets.

1 investor

Cienty operates a free purchasing platform that connects neighborhood pharmacies and small chains with distributors and industry suppliers, letting pharmacies compare prices across distributors, check real-time stock, and place orders. The service targets pharmacy retailers in Brazil, with current coverage focused on the state of São Paulo and the Southeast region.

1 investor

Cin7 Omni is an omni-channel inventory management platform that integrates sales channels, manages complex inventories across multiple locations, and automates order fulfillment through native EDI and 3PL provider connections. The software serves enterprises with multi-entity operations, e-commerce integrations, and supply chain automation needs.

1 investor

Circle the Wagons (CTW) is a group purchasing organization that provides purchasing, supply chain, warehousing, and fulfillment services along with strategic and technology solutions for retail, grocery, convenience, and hospitality businesses. It serves independent operators and larger enterprises across the United States, including through its own warehouse facilities and third-party logistics platform.

1 investor

An e-commerce retailer selling adapters, analog cameras, audio equipment, underwater photography gear, and related accessories.

1 investor

CitrusAd provides technology and solutions for retail brands to better understand and serve their customers in competitive markets.

1 investor

City Super Group operates a chain of lifestyle speciality retail stores offering food and general merchandise for urban consumers, under brands including city'super, LOG-ON, and cafe ToGather. Founded in 1996 in Hong Kong, it runs stores across Hong Kong, mainland China (Shanghai and Nanjing), and Taiwan.

1 investor

Citysense installs GDPR-compliant "urban satellites" at gas stations and convenience stores that detect passing smartphones via WiFi to capture real-time foot-traffic data. It combines this traffic data with business KPIs to help fuel and retail operators optimize pricing strategies, store operations, and customer segmentation.

1 investor

Cladwell is a smart closet and AI stylist app that gives daily outfit recommendations based on a user's wardrobe and the weather forecast, helping people build a "capsule wardrobe" of mix-and-match pieces. It is aimed at consumers who want to get more use out of their existing clothes and simplify getting dressed.

1 investor

A platform that generates on-model fashion images at scale using AI, enabling e-commerce and fashion brands to create diverse product visuals without scheduling photoshoots. The API supports both AI-generated models from a library and custom brand models, with options for pose, background, and styling control.

1 investor

Clane is a financial services provider offering payment solutions for businesses and individuals to send and receive payments. It reports serving over 500 businesses and 100,000 customers for their day-to-day financial transactions.

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Classic Football Shirts is a retailer and archive of new and vintage football (soccer) shirts, sourcing, authenticating, and selling kits from teams past and present to football fans and collectors worldwide. The company also runs physical stores, pop-up exhibitions, and maintains the CFS Archive of rare jerseys.

1 investor