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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
Margin	S23	POS & operating system that makes liquor stores more money	Active	—	10	Param Bidja, Jay Patel	Reveal
Margin	S23	POS & operating system that makes liquor stores more money	Active	—	10	Param Bidja, Jay Patel	Reveal
Santé	S23	All-in-one POS for liquor stores	Active	New York, NY, USA	10	Darren Fike	Reveal
autone	S22	Inventory management SaaS for Retail & Consumer brands	Active	London, UK	70	Adil Bouhdadi, Harry Cheslaw	Reveal
Aleph Solutions (Alephee)	S21	We help automotive aftermarket brands to supply and sell parts online	Active	Buenos Aires, Argentina	60	Gaston Zelerteins, Javier Neumann, Jonathan Saiegh	Reveal
Anakin	S21	We automate pricing for eCommerce and on-demand service companies	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	60	Mohit Prateek, Rashmi Bala	Reveal
Milky Way AI	S21	Mobile app for CPG brands to connect to millions of stores globally	Inactive	Singapore	5	Eunice Wong, Sagar Setu	Reveal
outloud.ai	S21	Building Gong.io for offline retail.	Active	Miami, FL, USA	5	Sasha Miagkyi, Igor Shelvinskyi	Reveal
StrideQ	S21	Automated phone ordering system for restaurants	Active	Mountain View, CA, USA	2	Shreyansh Gandhi, Sreehari Pulikkal Sivadasan	Reveal
Tablevibe	S21	All-in-one digital ordering system for restaurants	Active	Singapore	10	Jeroen Rutten, Guido Caldara, Mathieu Sneep	Reveal
Atomic	S20	API that lets companies embed investment accounts into their services	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	25	David Dindi	Reveal
Awtomic	S20	Dollar Shave Club as a platform.	Active	Seattle, WA, USA	11	Emily Yuhas	Reveal
BIK	S20	Agentic AI CRM for ecommerce	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	55	Sonakshi Nathani, ASHUTOSH SINGLA	Reveal
Cradle	S20	B2B payments network in India	Active	Bengaluru, Karnataka, India	2	Gaurav Mishra	Reveal
Explorex	S20	Ecosystem Platform for Restaurants in India	Active	Bengaluru, Karnataka, India	18	Mainak Sarkar, Pritam Khan	Reveal
Hellometer	S20	Making fast food faster	Active	Los Angeles, CA, USA	2	Alexander Popper	Reveal
MarketForce	S20	The SuperApp for neighbourhood merchants in Africa.	Active	Nairobi, Kenya	400	Mesongo Sibuti, Tesh Mbaabu	Reveal
MarketForce	S20	The SuperApp for neighbourhood merchants in Africa.	Active	Nairobi, Kenya	400	Mesongo Sibuti, Tesh Mbaabu	Reveal
Parrot Software 🦜	S20	The operating system for restaurants in LatAm.	Active	Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico	40	David Villarreal, Roberto Cebrian	Reveal
matagora	S19	Empowering local retailers with tech that works for them.	Active	Montreal, QC, Canada	5	Chris Kyras, Wenjun Zhu	Reveal
Inokyo	S18	We bring physical stores to the digital age with cashierless checkout.	Inactive	San Francisco, CA, USA	10	Tony Francis	Reveal
Shelf Engine	S18	Transforms how grocery stores buy highly perishable foods.	Acquired	Seattle, WA, USA	40	Stefan Kalb, Bede Jordan	Reveal
SPATE	S18	Trends prediction for marketers	Active	New York, NY, USA	15	Yarden Horwitz, Olivier Zimmer	Reveal
OneLocal	S17	OneLocal is a CRM for local businesses.	Active	Toronto, ON, Canada	90	Edward Yao	Reveal
Standard AI	S17	AI-powered checkout for retail.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	150	Jordan Fisher, John Novak, Michael Suswal, David Valdman	Reveal
Haywheel	S16	Haywheel is an artisan food marketplace for restaurants and specialty…	Inactive	New York, NY, USA	2	Daniel Barabander, Mykel Pereira	Reveal
Meesho	S16	Democratizing internet commerce for everyone in India	Public	Bengaluru, Karnataka, India	1450	Vidit Aatrey, Sanjeev Barnwal	Reveal
NeoWize	S16	NeoWize created a new type of machine learning algorithm and uses it…	Acquired	Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel	3	Omer Nevo, Yoav Cafri, Ronen Ness	Reveal
Celery	S12	Celery is a platform for pre-orders (www.trycelery.com). Accept…	Inactive	San Francisco, CA, USA	11	Chris Tsai, Peter Shih, Brian Nguyen	Reveal
Olark	S09	The best live chat software on the planet. We help you build…	Active	Ann Arbor, MI, USA	28	Ben Congleton, Matt Pizzimenti	Reveal
Metreecs	F24	AI-powered demand forecasting for retail	Active	—	6	Martin Dimitrov, Elie Dufeu, Thibaut Pellegrin	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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