Top Retail Technology Startups in 2024

Trail Techworks builds and operates the technology that powers Trail Appliances – Western Canada’s largest independent appliance retailer. Our mission is transformation. We are evolving Trail Appliances from bricks-and-mortar retailers into omni-channel retailers that can serve their customers when, where and how they want. We inspire possibilities, make shopping ridiculously easy and help create special moments at home.

Restaurants are the heart of our communities - where we go to celebrate life’s memorable moments with those we love, and find comfort and familiarity in the world. But while the digital and data revolutions have transformed other parts of commerce and hospitality, restaurants haven’t had the same opportunity. The result has been an industry that’s - on average - had their profit margins shrink by 5x over the past 20 years. Bikky was founded on the belief that restaurants deserve the same access to data as the largest, most sophisticated businesses in the world. We believe that data can fundamentally transform the economic model of the entire restaurant industry - producing better businesses, more jobs, and stronger communities. Bikky is based in New York City and has raised over $15 million in funding to date, most recently with a Series A in Q4 2023. Our founding team has a long history of working together, with intensive personal and professional experience steeped in the restaurant industry and New York City startups. We’re proud to serve thousands of restaurant locations across the U.S., including major brands like Dave’s Hot Chicken, MOD Pizza, Long John Silver’s, and Eggs Up Grill.

Entrupy aims to fight the global problem of counterfeits to become the de-facto standard for instant authentication. Entrupy is a hardware-enabled SaaS company that uses computer vision algorithms and microscopy to bring trust to transactions of high-value physical goods. Currently in use by thousands of secondary resellers and marketplaces worldwide, Entrupy provides the only scalable technology capable of authenticating luxury products from brands such as Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Hermès, among others. The service launched in 2016, following four years of research led by Ashlesh Sharma, Vidyuth Srinivasan and Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Professor at New York University. Investors include DG Lab Fund, deep learning pioneer and Facebook AI Research (FAIR) director, Yann LeCun, serial entrepreneur and investor Zach Coelius, cloud computing pioneer and Google VP of Infrastructure Eric Brewer, and Japanese venture capital firm, Accord Ventures.

Pindrop® Protect provides a risk score and call intelligence to the call center in the first few seconds of each call. The risk score — along with the analysis of the caller’s voice, device, and behavior — is provided to the call center’s fraud analyst team for further investigation. Pindrop’s proprietary machine learning algorithms then use feedback from the investigation to maximize solution performance. Pindrop® Passport evaluates call center interactions in real-time to passively authenticate legitimate customers. Passport runs in the background of every call, combining patented Phoneprinting™ technology with proprietary Deep Voice™ biometrics to determine if a caller has the right device, voice, and behavior to access an account. Whether callers use voice or touch-tone interactions within the IVR — or opt to speak to an agent — Pindrop credentials follow customers across the lifecycle of each call.

Pickcel is cloud based Digital Signage solution. Pickcel is very easy to use and packed with powerful features to drive any digital signage requirement. Supports hosts of signage media player like Android, Chromebox, Fire TV Stick, LG WebOS etc. Pickcel has developed Apps infrastructure to support contents like social media, news, web feeds, weather, live stream and many more. Pickcel can support both enterprise level signage for internal communication and signage for DOOH advertising. For more details visit pickcel.com

Kovo is on a mission to help underserved Americans transform their financial lives. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to experience the rewards of economic independence. By facilitating access to credit through a first-of-its-kind financial empowerment platform, we are committed to helping those who need it most — people with limited or no access to credit because they don’t look like everyone else. Our movement is championing an accessible pathway toward financial inclusion.

We're a leading B2B technology and services company driving the next evolution of inventory monetization for apparel and beyond. By offering rental subscription services alongside traditional business models, we are helping brands meet the needs of today’s consumers who want more flexibility in how they experience and enjoy fashion while also driving their own bottom lines.

mason is a no-code, AI-powered app that helps merchants build and launch high-converting shopping experiences at scale—all on autopilot. Loved by 10,000+ customers worldwide, mason has been awarded NASSCOM Emerge 50 Award as the top new commerce platform to watch out for. mason for Shopify (ModeMagic) is Golden Kitty for eCommerce winner, 2021 as well as Shopify 2020 Commerce Award winner. In 2023, mason made the following Wellfound lists: • Top Tech Startups In Canada • Top Conversion Optimization Startups In North America • Top Ecommerce Startups On Earth

Afresh is on a mission to reduce food waste and increase access to nutritious food globally by transforming the fresh food supply chain. Our AI-powered solutions optimize the multi-trillion-dollar grocery industry's food ordering, production, and merchandising processes. We built the first platform capable of handling all of Fresh food’s complexities. We are relentlessly focused on helping grocers reduce waste, increase profitability, and bring better, fresher food to their communities. Afresh is currently deployed in hundreds of grocery stores across the United States and is on track to reduce 30 million pounds of food waste per year with our existing customers alone. By 2021, we're aiming to reduce food waste by a quarter billion pounds per year. We are a passionate team united by our mission to make an impact. As an Afresh employee, you’ll own meaningful work that will challenge you and change the future of how fresh, nutritious food makes its way through the supply chain. We hope you’ll join us!

Link To Any (formerly ShoppinPal) is building the largest, most open and affordable Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) for the Retail, Food and Hospitality Cloud ecosystem to enable millions of businesses to achieve automated operational data flows and instantly connect any number of apps. Our goal is to automate the operations for 1 Million+ businesses by 2025 which requires a few more exceptional people!