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YC Retail Companies

81 Y Combinator retail startups with verified founder contacts, batch info, and company data.

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Company	Batch	Description	Status	Location	Team	Founders	Reveal
Lexius	W26	AI Crime Detection	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	3	David Elskamp, Liam Webster	Reveal
Return Signals	W26	AI luxury concierge for E-commerce brands	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Ilya Valmianski, Alejandro Zaniolo	Reveal
Luca	W23	The Modern Pricing Engine for Retail	Inactive	San Francisco, CA, USA	6	Tanvi Surti, Yonah Mann	Reveal
Compra Rápida	W22	One-click checkout and AI sales assistant for LatAm.	Active	São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil	10	Mario Marcoccia	Reveal
CrediBook	W22	Faire for Indonesia	Active	Jakarta, Indonesia	53	Gabriel Frans, Dekha Anggareska, Christian Lie	Reveal
Fleek	W22	A B2B marketplace for wholesale second hand fashion	Active	London, UK	100	Abhi Arora, Sanket Agarwal	Reveal
Lizza	W22	AI-assitant for managing creator-brand partnerships	Active	Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico	7	Julian May	Reveal
Avocado	W21	Restaurant POS with built-in AI agent	Active	Austin, TX, USA	4	Nick Evans, Shayan Guha	Reveal
boitas.com	W21	Largest B2B eCommerce platform for SMBs in Latin America.	Inactive	Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico	35	Raul Maldonado, Marcelo Galvan	Reveal
Fountain9	W21	Helping food brands and retailers reduce food wastage	Acquired	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India	8	Niki Khokale, Rajas Lonkar	Reveal
Seer	W21	Sell beyond the store.	Active	Menlo Park, CA, USA	4	Christina Czap, Felipe Saint-Jean	Reveal
SwiftSku	W21	Management and analytics software for convenience stores	Active	New York, NY, USA	35	Mit Patel, Daniel Mazur	Reveal
The Third Place	W21	Subscriptions for neighborhood businesses	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Vivien Sin, Glen Wang	Reveal
ZOKO	W21	Better Business on WhatsApp	Active	Bengaluru, Karnataka, India	18	Arjun Paul	Reveal
Bikry	W20	Bikry: Helping SMB's in India go online	Active	Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India	25	Abhishek Bhayana, Himanshu Garg	Reveal
borong	W20	borong is a SaaS-enabled marketplace that connects brands like…	Active	Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	80	Lennise Ng, Aizat Rahim, Haslinda Rasip	Reveal
Eze	W20	The easiest way to track, buy, and sell your company’s tech — all in…	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	32	David Iya, Joshua Nzewi	Reveal
Tajir	W20	The one-stop shop for mom-and-pop stores in Pakistan to buy inventory.	Active	Lahore, Pakistan	50	Babar Khan, Ismail Khan	Reveal
Turing Labs Inc.	W20	AI for R&D of consumer brands like P&G to develop better products	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	5	Manmit Shrimali	Reveal
Valienta	W20	Helping Dropshippers in Colombia run the business and increase sales	Inactive	Medellín, Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia	20	Juan Camilo Vallejo, Juan M Botero, Jose Tamura	Reveal
Vori	W20	Vori is a modern operating system for supermarkets	Active	East Palo Alto, CA, USA	29	Brandon Hill, Tre Kirkman, Robert Pinkerton	Reveal
Aura Vision	W19	Visitor analytics for physical retail stores using existing security…	Active	London, UK	10	Jonathon Blok, Jaime Lomeli-Rodriguez, Daniel Martinho-Corbishley	Reveal
Aura Vision	W19	Visitor analytics for physical retail stores using existing security…	Active	London, UK	10	Jonathon Blok, Jaime Lomeli-Rodriguez, Daniel Martinho-Corbishley	Reveal
Maitian.ai	W19	We make $1,000 Amazon Go stores.	Inactive	Singapore	5	Wenfeng Xia, Ye Xia	Reveal
Meitre	W18	Opentable for the world's top restaurants; we help them increase…	Active	Palo Alto, CA, USA	9	Juan Caviglia, Luis Caviglia	Reveal
Sourcify	W18	Sourcify helps brands manufacture products in Asia.	Active	San Diego, CA, USA	15	Nathan Resnick	Reveal
Bulletin	W17	Helping retailers discover and shop the best brands on the planet	Acquired	New York, NY, USA	15	Alana Branston, Ali Kriegsman	Reveal
Faire	W17	The global online platform empowering independent retail.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	900	Max Rhodes, Marcelo Cortes, Daniele Perito	Reveal
Caper	W16	Plug-and-play cashier-less retail powered by computer vision and AI	Acquired	—	15	Lindon Gao, Ahmed Beshry, Yilin Huang	Reveal
flexEngage	W16	Dynamic transactional communications for physical stores to help…	Acquired	Orlando, FL, USA	25	Tomas Diaz, Jay Patel	Reveal
Podium	W16	Get more leads. Make more money.	Active	Lehi, UT, USA	1000	Eric Rea, Dennis Steele	Reveal
Bizzy	W15	Bizzy is omni-channel marketing for ecommerce businesses.	Acquired	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Jennifer Kessler, Chiara McPhee	Reveal
Dealyze	W15	Dealyze helps national retailers build exceptional customer and…	Inactive	San Francisco, CA, USA	6	William Baron, Mark Salpeter	Reveal
Mashgin	W15	Self-Checkout using Computer Vision.	Active	Palo Alto, CA, USA	75	Abhinai Srivastava, Mukul Dhankhar	Reveal
Meadow	W15	Point of Sale and Compliance SaaS for Cannabis Dispensaries	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	14	David Hua, Rick Harrison, Scott A Garman, Harrison Lee	Reveal
Moltin	W15	eCommerce building blocks through simple APIs for websites & apps.…	Acquired	Boston, MA, USA	32	Adam Sturrock, Jamie Holdroyd	Reveal
Beetailer	W11	Facebook stores.	Inactive	Mountain View, CA, USA	2	Laura Valverde, Juan Gallego, Miguel Martinez Trivino	Reveal
TalkBin	W11	Consumer to business messaging.	Acquired	Mountain View, CA, USA	0	Qasar Younis, Sunny Dhillon, Michael Ma	Reveal
Fabricly	W10	—	Inactive	New York, NY, USA	2	Ari Helgason, Tom Riley	Reveal
Mertado	W10	—	Acquired	Redwood City, CA, USA	1	Vijay Chittoor, Mehul Shah, Rajiv Bhat	Reveal
Channel3	S25	Database of every product on the internet	Active	New York, NY, USA	5	Alexander Schiff, George Lawrence	Reveal
Anglera	S24	AI-Powered Product Data Enrichment	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	5	Amay Aggarwal, Ray Iyer	Reveal
Handled	S24	Automating post-order operations for e-commerce brands and 3PLs	Active	New York, NY, USA	2	Audrey Djiya, Peter Nsaka	Reveal
Presti AI	S24	Helping furniture companies create product visuals with AI	Active	—	25	Nabil Toumi, Saad Bencherif, Hamza Bennis, Abdellah Lamrani Alaoui	Reveal
Promi	S24	Optimizing ecommerce pricing with dynamic, personalized discounts	Active	—	2	Peter Moot, Jiaxin Lin	Reveal
Rastro	S24	The fastest way for retailers to launch product catalogs.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	3	Baptiste Cumin, Augustin Baudoin, Papa Sougou Wele	Reveal
SureBright	S24	Apple Care-like warranty program for every retailer	Active	New York, NY, USA	20	Manish Chauhan, Sanket Munjal	Reveal
Airgoods	S23	Wholesale marketplace for food & beverage	Active	New York, NY, USA	9	Aaron Farr, Paolo Carroll, Elian Haddock	Reveal
Branch AI	S23	AI Overview Search, as a Service	Inactive	Singapore	3	Govind Chandrasekhar, Ishan Agrawal	Reveal
CraftOS	S23	Inventory Management and POS for the Wine industry	Inactive	San Francisco, CA, USA	3	Wael Al Sallami	Reveal

Batch Distribution

WW262 WW231 WW224 WW217 WW207 WW193

Status Breakdown

Active57 Inactive13 Acquired10 Public1

Top Locations

San Francisco19 New York10 London4 Bengaluru4 Singapore4 Mountain View3

About YC Retail Companies

Y Combinator has funded 81 retail companies since its founding in 2005. These startups span from early-stage pre-launch to publicly traded companies, making YC one of the most prolific backers of retail innovation globally.

57 of these companies are currently active. 10 have been acquired. 1 have gone public. VCBacked tracks verified founder contact information, team sizes, and company status for every YC retail startup.

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