Retail Tech Startups

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SKUx builds digital payment and promotion technology, including offers, loyalty programs, and promotional acceptance via its SKUPay network, for CPG brands, retailers, healthcare, travel, and aid organizations. Its solutions cover payments, offers and promotions, loyalty, customer care, and healthy benefits.

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SLI Systems provides AI-driven site search, product recommendations, merchandising, and automated landing page tools for e-commerce retailers. Its software aims to personalize the shopping experience and increase conversions and average order value.

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Slice builds software and technology tools for independent, local pizzerias and small restaurant businesses, helping them with ordering, operations, and other functions used by larger chains. The company serves over 20,000 restaurant partners globally.

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Slurp provides a point-of-sale platform for restaurants and cafes, with order management, QR table ordering, payments, real-time sales reporting, and multi-outlet operations. It serves food and beverage businesses in Malaysia.

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SmartCommerce operates Click2Cart, a technology that turns product mentions across media and brand websites into one-click, direct-to-cart links routing high-intent shoppers to in-stock retailer carts. It serves consumer brands and marketers, using inventory-aware routing across large SKU catalogs to convert discovery moments into retail purchases.

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Smarter Sorting provides an AI-based system that enriches, normalizes, and structures retail product data to help retailers safely and legally sell, ship, store, and dispose of items in their catalog. It targets retail operations, legal, and compliance teams handling product classification and regulatory requirements such as transportation, waste, and sustainability.

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Smartven provides vending machines in Indonesia through rental, purchase (new and used), and custom event options, with online monitoring and cashless QRIS payment support. It targets small businesses (UMKM), corporations, and solopreneurs looking to run automated 24/7 retail outlets, and also offers digital out-of-home advertising on the machines.

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SmartVend provides telemetry controllers and payment terminals (including the Korobka POS) that install inside vending machines, enabling cashless payments, QR-based receipts via a cloud register, and remote monitoring of machine data through an online dashboard. It supplies and assembles hardware for vending machine operators and ships equipment across Russia.

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Smartzer offers a platform for creating interactive shoppable videos, live shopping events, and shoppable ads with clickable product hotspots, add-to-cart functionality, and an analytics dashboard. It serves brands, publishers, agencies, and influencers looking to add e-commerce and video commerce capabilities to their content.

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Smooth Commerce provides a white-label, first-party digital ordering platform for restaurants, including web/app ordering, an order tablet, and a self-serve merchant portal. The platform adds built-in loyalty programs, offers, and customer segmentation tools to help restaurant brands manage customer data and reduce reliance on third-party delivery marketplaces.

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Snap2Insight uses AI image recognition to give CPG brands real-time, SKU-level visibility into retail shelf conditions and in-store execution. Its platform helps brands monitor and optimize shelf presence store-to-store.

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Snapette was a mobile app launched in 2011 that used location-based technology to let shoppers discover and share fashion items—particularly high-end shoes and bags—from nearby stores, connecting online discovery with in-store retail. It served fashion consumers and was later acquired by PriceGrabber.

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SnappRetail is a retail operating platform for traditional trade retailers in Pakistan, offering payment technologies (such as EasyPaisa and QR payments), Sharia-compliant financing, insurance, digital products, and AI-based reporting. It also provides B2C and B2B solutions to help retailers manage online sales and procurement operations.

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SnapWrite is an AI merchandising platform that connects to a company's existing systems (ERPs, PIMs, PLMs, spreadsheets) to collect, clean, structure, and enrich product data, then automatically publishes it across sales channels and AI discovery engines. It is built for eCommerce and merchandising teams, especially brands in fashion, footwear, accessories, luggage, and homeware.

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SNK Peek provides AI-powered authentication and tracking systems to verify the legitimacy of sneakers and prevent counterfeits. The platform serves resellers, collectors, and marketplace participants by offering rapid authentication and supply chain visibility for authenticated goods.

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A business management platform for small merchants and retailers in Vietnam that provides point-of-sale, inventory management, multi-channel sales integration, tax compliance, and customer loyalty tools.

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Annex Cloud (Social Annex) provides a loyalty marketing platform that lets marketers build and manage customer loyalty programs without IT dependence. The software focuses on customer data, retention, and repeat purchases for marketing teams.

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Sonans provides AI agents built on fashion data that turn raw sketches, purchase orders, and vendor line sheets into photorealistic imagery, on-brand copy, and enriched product catalogs for apparel and retail companies. The platform automates merchandising and wholesale workflows and integrates with ERP, PLM, Shopify, and B2B wholesale systems to prepare catalogs for B2B and DTC sales channels.

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Sonny's Direct offers an online tool that lets users upload or take a photo of a part to find matching products. It also provides online services for initiating and tracking returns and submitting and checking warranty claims.

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Sontai Data Solutions provides a fully managed business intelligence and reporting platform that consolidates sales, retailer, ERP, CRM, and supply chain data into unified, automated dashboards. It is built for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) brands whose non-technical teams need reporting without an in-house BI team.

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Southern CaseArts manufactures heated, ambient, and refrigerated display cases and merchandisers for supermarket, grocery, and food service retailers. Part of the Royston Group, it provides refrigeration units for deli, meat, produce, prepared foods, and front-end checkout merchandising.

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Sozie provides user-generated content—imagery, video, and reviews from real shoppers—for online retailers and media networks to enhance product discovery and purchasing decisions. The platform brings authentic, peer-sourced product information to e-commerce websites.

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Space NK is a beauty retailer selling makeup, skincare, haircare, fragrance and wellness products from a curated range of brands, available online, via its app and in stores. It operates an "Ndulge" rewards programme and offers products to UK consumers.

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