Top Retail Technology Startups in 2026

Flatlay is the end to end social commerce automation platform for brands, creatives & customers. We provide publishing tools that help anyone start a digital storefront in seconds codelessly while empowering brands and retailers to activate community and content loyalty programs. The platform has automation processes around product annotation and content delivery through a publishing scheduler helping both ends monetize the relationship. By aligning incentives with customers, fans and followers - we help to instill a Content Loyalty Program for brands to become digitally native and own the DTC relationship. Flatlay provides a suite of publishing tools allowing users to codelessly create a digital storefront in seconds. Through content driven commerce, the social marketplace network further empowers the creator economy. Users build shop-able collections to generate revenue from affiliate sales with the ability to be sponsored directly by brands for customized content. This is all done through an automated SaaS platform where brands & retailers tap into the campaign work-flow system. Clients effectively match with the right creative brand advocates at scale using the power of machine learning in a self-serve custom relationship management portal. Our vision is to evolve the way commerce is conducted online by removing intermediaries cutting into margins while empowering brands and retailers the most streamlined way to go direct to consumer. By building a social commerce marketplace, we evolve the way that e-commerce is done by placing content at the forefront and eliminating many of the headaches associated with logistics.

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.

People are our product. We service our customers mainly in retail technology.

ThirdChannel is revolutionizing retail for many of the industry's leading players -- billion dollars brands like Oakley, Ray-Ban, New Balance, Fender, Chanel, Michael Kors, and many more. Companies invest millions to build their brands, then the minute that product hits the stores -- the most critical point -- they "go dark." Consumer experience in stores is weak, and sales languish. ThirdChannel's powerful cloud-based technology collects and analyzes real-time data from field teams on the ground, and generates action plans to fix retail execution issues, quantifying results with a measurable ROI. For brands that don’t have a field team to take action instantly, ThirdChannel will match an exclusive, on-brand force to them comprised of individuals who compete to be their dedicated operatives and ambassadors in stores. To learn more, visit thirdchannel.com, read our blog Mind the Store, or follow us on Twitter @ThirdChannel3C.

COOHOM is a leading global B2B SaaS company that enables professional designers, retailers and manufacturers to adopt digital technology, processes, operating models and the ways of working—that will drive their digital supremacy. Coohom’s cloud digital suite our customers capture ideas, engage target customers across social channels, inspire innovation, streamline processes, allow leading organizations to accelerate business transformation, overcome obstacles and create value through digital transformation. And by expertly blending business-led digital strategies with a modern engineering driven design, we help clients capitalize on data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence to optimize E-commerce merchandizing, ERP, Customer Experience and buying journeys that results in improved business efficiency, revenue growth and market expansion.

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!

Luxlock digitizes the most profitable path to purchase across sales channels. A unified vertical SaaS platform providing luxury brands with the customer data infrastructure, sales software, and global payments to sell smarter and catalyze lifetime customer value.

Revelate’s data fulfillment platform provides a suite of capabilities for data sharing and data commercialization for our customers to fully realize the value of their data. We reduce the burden for IT and Data & Analytics teams to distribute data, the way the consumer needs it, in and outside of their organization. Revelate integrates into the fabric of any data ecosystem to prepare, package, and distribute data from anywhere to anyone. Revelate is a platform designed to maximize flexibility for providers and consumers without sacrificing ownership or security concerns. Every time data is accessed, we make sure the consumer or system has permission to do so. We take every opportunity to keep data secure at every step of the distribution process meaning that you can make data self service because of the automation to check entitlements, licensing and access but also create a curated experience for consumers and administrators. Data productization is the best way to increase the quality, traceability, and usability of data. Revelate provides an interface for non-technical users to create and distribute data products. We also have a purpose built ETL and suite of technical services to construct and deliver the most complex of data products.

At Zobaze, we see the untapped potential in small businesses. We understand how familiar and easy traditional methods like pen and paper can be, but we also recognize the immense advantages that modern technology can offer. That's why we're committed to helping small businesses embrace the digital world, so they can work more efficiently and grow faster. We've designed a simple yet powerful app specifically for small businesses. Our app keeps track of key aspects like sales, inventory, customer relations, staff timings, supplier payments, and store expenses. Beyond these functions, it provides straightforward insights into profit margins, sales data, and income vs. expenses, arming businesses with the knowledge they need to succeed. For those ready to extend their reach, our app even sets up an online shop effortlessly. At Zobaze, we believe that modern technology should be accessible to all, not just the few. This belief is reflected in our app, which is both user-friendly and affordable. Our success speaks for itself - we have over 1 million downloads and more than 10,000 businesses from over 100 countries using our paid services. We're proud to be a cash-positive company. This achievement proves that our approach works, and it motivates us to strive for more. We're not just building an app - we're building a brighter future for small businesses in the digital world. If you're passionate about making a significant impact and want to be part of this exciting journey, join us at Zobaze. Together, we can make a difference.

TRANSFORMING THE WAY WE SHOP. INTERACT. CREATE. Bigtthinx AI is an award-winning deep technology company pioneering AI-native infrastructure for the global retail industry. Our AI technologies power digital apparel, synthetic humans, 3D commerce assets, and interactive experiences that redefine how the world shops, creates and engages digitally. We are trailblazing innovators, world-class engineers, and visionary creators - singularly focused and globally acclaimed.