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YC Retail startups

125 Y Combinator companies in Retail, 2 of them from the last four batches. Its share of recent batches is 0.3%, up from 0.3% in the four batches before. About 35% are AI companies by YC’s tags.

Signal
Open
Since 2025
4 vs 15 in 2023–24
Acquired or public
22%
Listed as inactive
36%

Share of each batch

Retail companies as a share of each YC batch since 2015.

Newest entrants

Of 100 Retail companies from batches up to 2021, YC lists 20 as acquired, 2 as public, 42 as active and 36 as inactive.

  • Pango S26 · Agentic OS for e-commerce operations
  • Complir X26 · Vanta for physical products
  • Channel3 S25 · Database of every product on the internet

Building in Retail?

Open problems and funding on Questd for niche markets.

Niche Markets problems worth solving

Retail companies, newest first

125 companies

  • Pango

    Agentic OS for e-commerce operations

    AI
    Summer 2026Retail5New York City, NY, USA
  • Complir

    Vanta for physical products

    Spring 2026Retail13Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Channel3

    Database of every product on the internet

    AI
    Summer 2025Retail5New York City, NY, USA
  • Kirana AI

    AI manager for physical stores

    AI
    Spring 2025Retail2New York City, NY, USAAcquired
  • Metreecs

    AI-powered demand forecasting for retail

    AI
    Fall 2024Retail20Paris, Île-de-France, France
  • Anglera

    AI-Powered Product Data Enrichment

    AI
    Summer 2024Retail6San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Handled

    AI teammate for finance and operations teams at consumer brands

    AI
    Summer 2024Retail3New York City, NY, USA
  • Presti AI

    Helping furniture companies create product visuals with AI

    AI
    Summer 2024Retail3Paris, Île-de-France, France
  • Rastro

    The fastest way to launch product catalogs.

    AI
    Summer 2024Retail3London, England, United Kingdom
  • SureBright

    Apple Care-like warranty program for every retailer

    AI
    Summer 2024Retail35New Delhi, DL, India
  • Scout

    AI insights for consumer products

    Winter 2024Retail3San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Airgoods

    The modern distributor for grocers.

    Summer 2023Retail10New York City, NY, USA
  • Branch AI

    AI Overview Search, as a Service

    AI
    Summer 2023Retail3Singapore, SingaporeInactive
  • CraftOS

    Inventory Management and POS for the Wine industry

    Summer 2023Retail3San Francisco, CA, USAInactive
  • Margin

    POS & operating system that makes liquor stores more money

    Summer 2023Retail10New York City, NY, USA
  • Santé

    All-in-one POS for liquor stores

    Summer 2023Retail20New York City, NY, USA
  • Booth AI

    Generative AI Photographer for E-Commerce

    AI
    Winter 2023Retail3San Francisco, CA, USAAcquired
  • Luca

    The Modern Pricing Engine for Retail

    AI
    Winter 2023Retail6San Francisco, CA, USAInactive
  • Vendora

    All-in-One Software for the $1T Grocery Industry

    AI
    Winter 2023Retail4New York City, NY, USA
  • autone

    Inventory management SaaS for Retail & Consumer brands

    Summer 2022Retail70London, England, United Kingdom
  • Compra Rápida

    One-click checkout and AI sales assistant for LatAm.

    Winter 2022Retail21São Paulo, SP, Brazil
  • CrediBook

    Faire for Indonesia

    Winter 2022Retail53Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Fleek

    A B2B marketplace for wholesale second hand fashion

    Winter 2022Retail100London, England, United Kingdom
  • Lizza

    AI-assitant for managing creator-brand partnerships

    Winter 2022Retail7Heidelberg, BW, Germany

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