Retail Tech Startups

StoreKing provides a retail operating system that connects small-town store owners in India with brands and customers through digital infrastructure, online store capabilities, and financial services. The platform modernizes traditional retailers into digitally-enabled supermarkets without requiring new physical infrastructure.

1 investor

Storepass is a retail operations platform for trading card game and hobby stores, integrating buylist, point of sale, catalog management, and automated pricing, with built-in catalogs for games such as Pokémon, MTG, and One Piece. It serves card retailers across roughly a dozen countries, including large stores in the US, Canada, and Australia, and connects with Shopify.

1 investor

STORES is a store operations platform offering cashless payments, POS registers, online shops, reservation systems, and mobile ordering through a single account with a fixed monthly plan. It serves retail, beauty, and food-service businesses in Japan, with over 250,000 shops using its services.

1 investor

STORES is a store operations platform that combines cashless payments, POS registers, online shops, reservation systems, and mobile ordering under a single account. It serves retail, beauty, and food-service businesses in Japan, offering both physical-store and e-commerce tools on a fixed monthly plan.

1 investor

Storeshop is a B2B e-commerce platform for businesses to build online stores with company-specific logins, customer-based pricing, discounts and minimum order requirements. It offers two-way integration with accounting and ERP/logistics systems to automate order flow and synchronize customers and products.

1 investor

StoreSight provides AI-powered retail shelf intelligence, using image recognition on a large network of shelf and display images to measure share of shelf, on-shelf availability, pricing, and display execution. It serves consumer packaged goods firms across retail channels in North America.

1 investor

Store Supply Warehouse is a retail supplier that sells store fixtures and supplies such as retail bags and packaging, clothing racks, hangers, jewelry supplies, and display cases. It serves small businesses, boutiques, and online retailers looking to stock or maintain their stores.

1 investor

Stork is an AI-driven commerce infrastructure platform that digitizes supplier inventory into structured catalogs, matches products with retailers based on live demand and pricing data, and automatically distributes them across marketplaces and retail channels. It serves global retailers, marketplaces, and suppliers, handling payments, duties, and compliance across regions.

1 investor

StrataVision uses AI and computer vision to turn existing on-site cameras into analytics tools, processing video footage on-premise in real time to track customer journeys, employee workflows, and security incidents. Its platform produces dashboards and reports aimed at helping businesses improve customer experience, operations, and physical security.

1 investor

Structural Concepts designs and manufactures refrigerated and heated food display merchandisers for commercial foodservice and retail operators, including cashier-less transactional display systems. Founded in 1972, it focuses on energy efficiency, inventory management, and short lead times for equipment used to display and sell fresh food.

1 investor

Samickmall operates an online store selling home furniture, including beds, mattresses, wardrobes, sofas, recliners, living room and kitchen furniture, student/kids furniture, dressers, and home décor.

1 investor

Style Arcade offers merchandise planning and analytics software for fashion retailers, connecting sales, stock, purchase orders, returns and other signals to support range planning, buying, forecasting, and in-season trading decisions. It aims to improve size accuracy, reduce returns, and grow market share for fashion buying and planning teams.

1 investor

Stylumia provides a fashion AI platform for demand sensing, trend forecasting, demand prediction, and inventory optimization aimed at fashion brands and retailers. Its products—including consumer intelligence trend forecasting, the Apollo prediction engine, and the ImaGenie predictive design tool—use machine learning on images and textual attributes to help retailers select products, forecast demand, and optimize assortments.

1 investor

Subscribfy is a Shopify Plus-native retention platform that combines memberships, subscriptions, loyalty programs, and analytics to help DTC brands increase customer lifetime value and recurring revenue. It targets ecommerce merchants in apparel, beauty, and lifestyle and pairs its software with white-glove onboarding and ongoing retention support.

1 investor

SumUp provides payment tools and a business app for small businesses such as shops, stalls, and cafés to accept card payments, track sales, and manage money from a phone. It also offers a personal account with cashback and rewards for customers spending at SumUp businesses, operating in local communities worldwide.

1 investor

EL-Dokan is a headless, API-first ecommerce platform that lets businesses add shopping capabilities to websites, mobile apps, POS systems, and other channels, supporting B2C, D2C, B2B, multi-vendor, quick, and social commerce models. It targets the MENA region and offers 100+ integrations with payment, shipping, SMS, and ERP providers.

1 investor

Superfuel offers an AI agent that rewrites and optimizes Amazon product listing titles and Item Highlights to fit Amazon's character limits and keyword rules, then measures the real sales impact of each change and reverts underperforming edits. It serves Amazon sellers, using their Brand Analytics and sales data to improve product listing rank, click-through and conversion.

1 investor

Sur La Table is a retailer of cookware, kitchen goods, and related products, selling both in physical stores and online. It also offers hands-on cooking classes, in-store demos, special events, and a purchase-based rewards program.

1 investor

SureBright provides AI-powered extended warranty and product protection plans that merchants can offer to their customers through an API integration, covering issues like accidental damage, shipping loss, and power surges across a wide range of product categories. It operates on a revenue-sharing model for online and in-store retailers across North America.

1 investor

SwayBrand provides an AI-powered platform that connects retail brands with local creators to produce hyperlocal digital content for in-store marketing. The service enables brands to quickly generate location-specific content that drives customer engagement and sales.

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Swell is an ecommerce platform for launching online stores that sell physical goods, digital products, and subscriptions from a unified dashboard. It supports subscription billing, product bundling, global shipping, tax automation, direct-to-consumer, and wholesale ordering workflows.

1 investor

Swipii is a consumer loyalty and rewards app that gives shoppers automatic cash-back rewards when they pay with a registered Visa or Mastercard at connected retailers. It operates across UK local businesses including grocers, coffee shops, restaurants, pubs, and retail stores.

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Swyft is an online furniture retailer offering ready-to-ship home furnishings with fast delivery and flexible returns. The company serves UK consumers seeking stylish, durable furniture that can be assembled quickly.

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Swym is a shopper engagement platform that helps eCommerce merchants personalize and optimize the shopping experience on their websites, including features for wishlists, shopper collaboration, and retargeting campaigns.

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