Top Retail Startups in 2024

Grove Collaborative makes it easy for busy families to create a healthy, beautiful environment in their homes. We've built the first replenishment service focused exclusively on natural & sustainable home goods. Our subscription-only marketplace features conscientious products from national brands like Seventh Generation, method, Mrs. Meyers, and our own brand, Grove Collaborative. Users quickly create custom subscriptions, personalize their delivery schedule, and receive a personal Grove Guide, who customizes product recommendations and ensures a great customer experience.

Buck Mason is a modern American Brand founded in 2013 by Sasha Koehn and Erik Allen Ford, who were neighbors in Venice, California. At the heart of everything we do is the laid back California ethos of easy living, quality, and simplicity. We are classic. We look to past icons and interpret them with honesty and loyalty. We also look ahead and understand the modernity of future classics and the responsibility of our place amongst them. We champion anyone striving to be better and are honored when we can be a part of it. We claim simple truths and keep our promises. We truly have our customers’ best interests in mind, knowing damn well the value of a hard-earned dollar. We believe we will never be perfect but know that greatness lies in the search to be so. We make clothes. We love what we do. Initially, they set up shop in a 350 square foot garage off Abbot Kinney Boulevard. Sasha built the website and Erik created the brand’s first collection of jeans and tees. Obsessed with quality, they worked closely with a local family factory to create small batch production runs, crafting each piece using old school manufacturing techniques combined with modern technology. Buck Mason makes fashion less complicated, building each piece to last beyond a single season. Each design is a riff on an iconic American staple, combining to make a useful and effortless wardrobe. Consistency in fit, fabric and quality guide this hands on approach. Much of the product is made in the USA, where you can often find Sasha and Erik on the factory floor.

The NewStore Mobile Retail Platform empowers brands to deliver an extraordinary end-to-end shopping experience for consumers. Built entirely from a mobile perspective, it integrates with existing ecommerce platforms such as Salesforce Commerce Cloud, SAP Hybris, Oracle ATG, and Magento. NewStore raises the omnichannel bar with one-touch purchase, scalable clienteling, and on-demand delivery — all optimized for the small screen. Founded by Stephan Schambach, creator of Demandware (now Salesforce Commerce Cloud), NewStore boosts conversion, promotes engagement, unifies online and offline, and modernizes fulfillment. NewStore is headquartered in Boston. For more information, visit newstore.com.

We collect, analyze, and rate product health & sustainability data for consumers, companies (food/cpg/grocery), and investors. Evaluated the dietary, health, & climate impacts of 360K+ products (and counting). Named by Google 1 of the 3 “Best Apps for Good”.

Gr4vy is a cloud payments company that takes the complexity out of running your own payments infrastructure by doing it for you. We can deploy services on our cloud across the globe, deploying on the edge close to your customers. We can even allow you to host our services on your own networks. Centralized reporting, monitoring, and management mean all parts of your business will benefit from a single streamlined system, saving you time and money.

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.

Force Factor is a Boston-based vitamins and supplements brand working to improve global health for a better future. We develop, market, and sell science-backed nutritional solutions that help people around the world change their lives and unleash their potential. Whether for physical or mental performance, we have formulas for every goal.

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.

Zenput is mobile enterprise company building tools for the 80% of the workforce that doesn't work behind a desk. Our initial focus is on helping retailer and restaurant operators on being able to manage key tasks their team members need to get in the field and store level. Our current customers include well known brands like Domino’s, Chipotle, Papa John’s, 7-Eleven, and many others. Operators from these customers use Zenput to coordinate, assign, track and automate all of the tasks that mobile workers complete throughout the day. These tasks cover compliance, operations, and marketing execution across hundreds of thousands of locations.