Retail Tech Startups

SpaceVision provides AI-powered computer vision analytics that measure in-store customer behavior—traffic, attention, movement, and dwell—by processing camera footage on-site and outputting de-identified, aggregated data to a dashboard. It serves physical retail environments such as grocery, convenience, beauty, electronics, malls, and event venues, offering products for digital signage, storefront, and full-store measurement.

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SPARE operates a network that turns retailers' existing point-of-sale registers into "virtual ATMs," letting account holders withdraw and deposit cash and complete basic banking transactions via their bank, credit union, or digital wallet app. It serves financial institutions, credit unions, ISOs/resellers, and retailers as an asset-light alternative to ATMs and branches.

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SparkPlug operates a platform that rewards frontline retail and restaurant workers with cash incentives for the sales they make, while giving business owners tools to motivate staff and drive revenue. It serves brick-and-mortar retailers and restaurants.

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Spence Diamonds is a jewelry retailer offering engagement rings, wedding bands, tennis bracelets, and diamond celebration bands, using artisan-created (lab-grown) diamonds. Its stores feature open showcases with over 2,500 customizable, price-marked ring prototypes and diamond consultants, with a stated presence in North America.

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SPG is an independently owned licensing and product development firm that designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes licensed products for well-known consumer brands such as Carhartt, Hurley, and Fox. Founded in 2006, it offers full-service brand licensing across product development, sourcing, sales, and marketing, with operations in the US, Bangkok, and Mumbai and distribution across more than 35,000 retail doors.

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Sportfiskeprylar (Söder Sportfiske) is a Swedish sport fishing retailer selling rods, reels, lines, lures, and fishing apparel through an online store and a physical shop in Stockholm. It offers gear for methods such as pike, perch, salmon, sea, fly, and ice fishing to both beginner and experienced anglers.

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Sports Endeavors is a retailer of sporting goods and team apparel serving youth sports teams, players, parents, coaches, and fans worldwide, carrying merchandise from brands such as adidas, Nike, and PUMA. It operates a portfolio of retail brands including SOCCER.COM, WorldSoccerShop, and 431 Sports.

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SPOT Metrics offers an AI-driven CRM platform for shopping malls and retailers that unifies offline and digital customer data to run segmentation, loyalty, cashback, promotions, and communication campaigns. Its products include SPOT Retail, Planner, Unique, Cashback, and Win, serving retail and mall operators across five countries with a focus on Brazil.

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Spreetail partners with brands to buy their inventory wholesale, manage their marketplace listings, advertising, and promotions across major channels, and handle end-to-end fulfillment through a global network of fulfillment centers. It offers brands both a wholesale-purchase model and a services model for scaling ecommerce sales domestically and internationally across the US, UK, and Europe.

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Sprie is a visual production platform that uses 3D and AI-based visualization, including virtual try-on and high-detail digital twins, to create product visuals that adapt to a brand's catalogue. It serves brand and ecommerce teams, with notable adoption among eyewear companies.

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SprintAI provides an AI platform that helps brands and retailers optimize inventory decisions and automate fulfillment operations across multiple sales channels.

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Stackline provides Advisor, an AI-powered agent with retail expertise that connects sales, media, and shopper data to answer questions, analyze performance, research categories, and assess competitors. The tool also produces action plans, ROI-forecasted recommendations, and content for retail and commerce teams.

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Staqu Technologies builds JARVIS, an AI-powered video analytics platform that converts CCTV camera feeds into real-time alerts and operational intelligence for enterprises across retail, manufacturing, hospitality, infrastructure, public sector, and smart city use cases. The platform uses computer vision and deep learning to support security monitoring, footfall and demographic analytics, and compliance management.

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Starcart provides an agentic commerce infrastructure that lets websites, content publishers, marketplaces, and AI assistants enable in-site purchasing through AI agents that handle cart building, checkout, payment, and delivery tracking across merchants. Integrated via a one-line JavaScript snippet, it offers white-labeled checkout and access to millions of products from online stores, aimed at helping sites monetize their traffic.

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Starmerx operates a global portfolio of home-lifestyle brands—spanning furniture, appliances, MRO, tools, and toys—selling across marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, AliExpress, Walmart, Target, Home Depot, and OTTO in 50+ countries. It runs self-owned warehouses across the US, Europe, Canada, Mexico, and Japan and uses a machine-learning platform built on Amazon Marketplace data to guide selection, pricing, and marketing.

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Sthrive provides an AI-driven platform for training and performance optimization of frontline retail staff, including learning systems, real-time performance analytics, and customer service tools. The platform serves retail businesses of all sizes looking to improve employee performance, sales, and customer experience.

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Stockagile offers retail inventory and replenishment software that generates restocking suggestions based on real sales data and minimum stock levels, covering both transfers from a central warehouse to stores and purchase orders to suppliers. It serves retail brands managing multi-store operations, integrating point-of-sale, ecommerce, purchasing, warehouse, and B2B channels.

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Stocklear operates a B2B marketplace and liquidation auction platform where retailers and brands sell excess inventory, overstocks, and customer returns as pallets and job lots to professional buyers such as discount stores, wholesalers, and second-hand shops. It serves major European brands and retailers.

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StockRx provides inventory management software for independent pharmacies and pharmacy groups, digitising the goods-in process and tracking deliveries, supplier performance, and dispensary profitability in real time. Its features include margin analysis, automated credit note and claims management, invoice-to-statement reconciliation, and compliance reporting.

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StockTrim is an inventory forecasting and demand planning software that uses machine learning to predict future inventory requirements, calculate safety stocks, and generate purchase order suggestions. It targets small and medium-sized businesses, including manufacturers and retailers, and integrates with common inventory management, accounting, POS, and e-commerce systems.

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StoneEagle builds F&I (finance and insurance) selling tools, performance reporting, and repair documentation software for automotive dealerships. Its products help dealers present F&I products, analyze DMS data, and document warranty repairs in the fixed operations department.

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The Stone Fashion Group is an outerwear specialist that owns four fashion brands and two multi-brand stores, spanning segments from luxury ski to urban outerwear. It manages its own supply chain and sells to consumers across Europe, Asia, and the USA through retail and e-commerce.

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Stor.ai provides a grocery eCommerce platform for independent and regional grocery retailers (from 5 to 500 stores) to run digital storefronts, fulfill pickup and delivery orders, and manage personalized loyalty and rewards. Its "icommerce" system aggregates first-party data across online and in-store interactions and uses machine learning to deliver 1:1 personalized offers across channels.

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StoreForce provides retail workforce management software that combines scheduling, task management, team communication, and KPI dashboards on one platform. It serves retailers and their operations, finance, HR, technology, merchandising, and executive teams to align labor with sales performance across store estates.

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