Retail Tech Startups

Fazla builds technology-based services that help companies reduce and manage surplus products and waste across categories like food, textile, packaging, and chemicals, connecting suppliers of surplus goods with parties that can reuse them in a circular economy. It serves manufacturers, distributors, retailers, the food-service sector, and individual consumers across the supply chain, and is based in Turkey.

6 investors

Firmly provides a platform that connects merchants and their commerce stacks to AI agents through a single integration, supporting agentic protocols such as UCP, ACP, MCP, AP2, and TAP without engineering work. Its product, firmly Connect, makes merchant products shoppable across multiple AI agent channels, embedding checkout at the point of product discovery.

6 investors

Five develops instant identity recognition technology that authenticates users for everyday interactions. The company serves organizations seeking to accelerate and secure identity verification processes.

6 investors

Flam's Connect product builds humanlike AI visual agents that use natural language understanding and low-latency streaming to deliver real-time conversational experiences based on a company's knowledge base. The agents can be embedded into websites, apps, or shared via links for use cases such as product explainers, brand ambassadors, customer support, and sales representatives.

6 investors

Fleek operates a global online marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of wholesale vintage clothing, providing transparency and protection in an otherwise fragmented supply chain.

6 investors

FloorFound is an operational sales platform that connects premium furniture brands with independent dealers, handling inventory management, dealer targeting, and transaction execution for closeout and recovery inventory.

6 investors

Freshflow provides an AI replenishment and demand-forecasting layer for fresh produce departments in grocery retail, using 120+ signals (weather, holidays, promotions, seasonality) to generate order proposals that account for actual saleable inventory. It sits on top of retailers' existing ERP/replenishment systems and serves independently operated stores such as EDEKA and Carrefour across Europe.

6 investors

Fuse is an inventory operations platform for tracking landed costs, import duties, and tariffs across multi-level bills of materials. It serves CPG brands managing tariff-exposed sourcing, computing per-component duties and rolling them into weighted-average landed unit cost and COGS.

6 investors

Glimpse consolidates retail sales data and uses AI agents to automate revenue recovery, cash application, and dispute management for consumer brands.

6 investors

GoKwik is a commerce growth platform for direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, offering software across the customer journey on brand websites—covering shopper acquisition, checkout, conversion, shipping, and post-purchase retention. It focuses on the Indian e-commerce market and states it is used by over 15,000 brands.

6 investors

Hetal uses computer vision and AI applied to in-store aisle recordings to diagnose planogram compliance and shelf conditions for consumer brands. The platform ties shelf data to sales data to support merchandising decisions, category management, and measuring sales lift.

6 investors

Ibotta operates a cash-back rewards platform that helps U.S. consumers save money on groceries and other purchases, working with brand and retail partners such as Walmart, Butterball, Campbell's, and Coca-Cola. Based in Denver, it runs consumer campaigns like Free Thanksgiving offering cash back on grocery bundles.

6 investors

iPrice Group operates a price comparison and shopping platform that helps consumers find the cheapest online prices by aggregating offers from e-commerce partners across Southeast Asia.

6 investors

Jet.com was a Hoboken, New Jersey e-commerce marketplace founded by Marc Lore in 2014 and acquired by Walmart for $3.3 billion in 2016; the site was folded into Walmart.com in 2020.

6 investors

Katapult offers a lease-to-own financing platform that lets consumers apply online and shop at over 200 retailers for furniture, electronics, appliances, and similar goods, making payments over time. It provides fast approval decisions without a traditional credit check as an alternative to conventional credit.

6 investors

Kickfurther provides inventory funding for businesses through a consignment model, purchasing a company's inventory and consigning it back so that it is not recorded as debt or a liability on the balance sheet. The offering serves businesses seeking to finance inventory purchases to support growth.

6 investors

Kidsy is an online retailer that sells discounted baby and children's products, including toys, strollers, furniture, and learning essentials, sourced from open-box, overstock, and returned inventory. The company serves parents and gift-givers seeking affordable, safety-inspected gear from established brands.

6 investors

Leap operates a platform that launches and manages retail stores for consumer brands, providing location selection, store design, operations management, and data analytics to reduce expansion risk and cost.

6 investors

Locus provides a logistics optimization and dispatch management platform that helps enterprises make decisions across order-to-delivery operations. It serves Retail, FMCG/CPG, and related industries with analytics-driven tools for last-mile and logistics efficiency.

6 investors

Loop provides a unified platform for managing returns, exchanges, tracking, and order workflows for e-commerce brands. The system helps reduce return rates and increase customer retention through connected post-purchase experiences.

6 investors

MakerSights provides consumer preference insights and AI-driven validation for product teams, merchants, and designers in the retail industry. The platform helps brands optimize assortment, pricing, and product decisions by combining expert-led research with continuous AI testing to reduce excess inventory and waste.

6 investors

MasonHub offers a platform and order fulfillment services that give commerce brands visibility into their omnichannel supply chains, storing and shipping goods while tracking inventory through to delivery. It serves retail and e-commerce brands managing multichannel fulfillment.

6 investors

Mswipe provides payment acceptance solutions for merchants in India, including smart POS terminals, payment soundboxes, a payment gateway, and pay-by-link tools, along with a merchant app and portal for tracking transactions and settlements. It is an RBI-approved payment aggregator serving retail, restaurant, and other businesses of varying sizes.

6 investors

OlaClick provides a point-of-sale and delivery management platform for restaurants, including AI-powered menu creation, order management, and loyalty programs. The platform serves restaurants in Brazil and Latin America with commission-free direct-to-consumer sales capabilities.

6 investors