Top Retail Startups in 2026

We have mobile apps to connect consumers to retailers via two distinct platforms. Our platforms give retailers the ability to harness the power of mobile applications by providing branding/content on our platform, which we translate to a branded app in the App Store and Google Play Store. Our Retail Media Network platform serves brand content inside the mobile app directly to consumers.

Bonobos is an e-commerce driven apparel brand renowned for exceptional fit, fun style and superb customer experience. Bonobos apparel features innovative cuts and designs to accommodate the bodies of real men for a more tailored profile that finally fits better. Bonobos designs and markets high quality chinos, dress and casual shirts, suits, blazers, denim, swim, outerwear, knits, and accessories that are famous for fresh colors and bold patterns. In addition to great style, Bonobos makes shopping an easy and hassle-free experience. Using technology and data science with college-educated “Ninja” customer service teams, Bonobos is better serving the consumer living in the digital age.

With its recent Unicorn status, o9 Solutions is one of the fastest-growing AI-powered digital transformation companies in the world today. Our high-energy environment drives us to grow and aim 10x. The o9 platform, or “digital brain”, is the premier AI-powered, the cloud-based platform behind the digital transformations of major global enterprises. These include Google, Walmart, and Starbucks, among others. Our headquarters are located in Dallas, and we currently have offices in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bangalore, Tokyo, London, Paris, and Seoul.

Our mission is to become the most trusted name for truly one-of-a-kind ring designs. We're well on our way. We started CustomMade for people who wanted to create something personal— people who see value in a ring that reflects their own love story. Our team’s mission is to guide them through a process that’s as thoughtful as the ring itself, with real people listening, collaborating, and delivering consistently meaningful results. Because trust isn’t just about what we make—it’s how we make it, every time. Our company: custommade.com

WorkJam is the only employee engagement suite on a mobile-first platform, empowering the digital workplace with shift-based and hourly workers to manage and optimize their entire employee-employer relationship life cycle with dynamic mobile schedule management, on-demand training and assessments, streamlined communication, employee recognition and reviews. WorkJam increases sales conversion, drives down labor costs, lowers attrition rates, improves compliance, optimizes labor in relation to demand, and improves the customer experience through a more motivated and engaged staff. For employees, WorkJam delivers more control over their schedule providing work-life balance, as well as the opportunity to develop skills, improve sales acumen and maximize their earnings and advancing their economic well-being. Learn more about WorkJam at WorkJam.com.

Americans have more debt than they do savings. We believe that debt shouldn’t hold people back in life, so we started Spinwheel to democratize intelligent debt solutions. Spinwheel provides the core infrastructure that popular apps and services can use to embed the payment, management, and application of loans. By increasing access, choice, and transparency, Spinwheel helps to alleviate the burdens of living with debt and improve outcomes for all borrowers. Spinwheel makes it easy to offer full-featured debt use cases in any app or service, starting with student loan debt. Read and write consumer debt API's and drop-in modules offer robust and comprehensive capabilities not available anywhere else. As the leader in embedded consumer debt tech, our customers launch in hours with our no-code drop-in modules and build custom solutions quickly with our modern APIs and developer tools.

Martal Group is a top lead generation & sales agency servicing B2B tech companies. We are a turnkey solution sales partner generating qualified leads, providing support staff and sales streamlining services, right through to signed contracts. Our team specializes in creating leads for SaaS, IT services and IOT vendors who cater enterprise software, location-based services, search relevance, data annotation, video analytics, consumer insights, sales performance management, cloud backup, fleet management, AI powered applications and other products. We provide managed services for outbound sales, our fractional sales executives, marketing leaders and account managers will help your team in sourcing deals, pitching prospects and winning new business. Our U.S. and Canada based executives serve as an extension of your sales and marketing team; they are sourced to fill your sales teams’ calendar with new business, accelerate your growth and fill gaps in your process. We build weekly prospect lists enriched by intent data. We target decision makers using multiple touch points - email marketing, linkedin messaging, cold calls and trade shows.

Since 2001, Chit Chats has been transforming Canadian businesses. By drastically reducing shipping costs by as much as 74%, we help deliver your packages to anywhere in the world. Expand your marketplace by offering low-cost, fully tracked shipping to your customers. Chit Chats is the preferred shipping solution used by thousands of online sellers that makes shipping easy and delightful!

Havi.co (हवि डॉट सी ओ) makes robotic toys and DIY kits that engage kids and grownups into creative Play. We design toys, own IP and make everything in India. Built to scale globally through D2C channel and school partnerships, we have already shipped to 10 counties. While our toys are being used by age 5 and age 85 with equal joy, engagement and learning opportunities, kids of age 7 to 14 use them the most. Our toys and kits are built around Havi Elements, a collection of beautiful, easy-to-use, intuitive, colorful, snap-fit, durable, and fun electronic blocks that can be used and reused to create hundreds of robotics and STEAM creations. Playing and creating with Havi elements helps learning fundamentals of STEAM, robotics and electronics. Kids learn problem solving, creativity, curiosity, and execution ability as they build and play with havi elements. Havi Elements are widely used at homes as DIY kits and at schools for Robotics and STEAM education. Know more on havi.co

Staples is the world’s largest office products company, 3rd largest internet retailer and a trusted source of office solutions, we’re a recognized name across more than 26 countries. By expanding our product assortment and making shopping and saving easier than ever, we’re helping customers make more happen every day. And it’s our mission to make more happen for associates, local communities and even the planet — through programs, policies and the values we live by. Staples has been making it easy for businesses for nearly 30 years with thousands of associates worldwide. Headquartered outside of Boston, Staples operates throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. More information about Staples (Nasdaq: SPLS) is available at staples.com/media.