Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best New York City based Retail companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Retail industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top New York City Retail Startups
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Authentic Brands Group
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Authentic Brands Group is a brand development, marketing, and entertainment company that manages the value of global brands.
Warby Parker
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Warby Parker is a lifestyle brand that offers designer eyewear while being a socially conscious business.
Capsule
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Capsule is a healthcare technology business rebuilding the pharmacy from the inside out
Casper
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Casper is a sleep startup that launches a comfortable mattress sold directly to consumers, eliminating commission driven, inflated prices.
JOKR
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JOKR is a grocery and delivery platform that provides hyper-local product delivery services.
Rent the Runway
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Rent the Runway is an online e-commerce website that allows women to rent designer apparel and accessories.
JOOR
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JOOR is an online global fashion marketplace, connecting brands and retailers.
Hungryroot
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Hungryroot is a provider of an artificial intelligence-powered personalized grocery service.
Katapult
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Katapult is an omnichannel point-of-sale payment platform for retailers and consumers.
ShopShops
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ShopShops is a livestream, interactive cross-border shopping marketplace that connects retail stores globally with Chinese consumers.
Saks Fifth Avenue
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Saks Fifth Avenue was the vision of Horace Saks and Bernard Gimbel.
Away
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Away is a modern travel and lifestyle brand designed with thoughtful features that solve real travel problems
Material Bank
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World’s largest architectural and design-focused material resource library
Ephemeral Tattoos
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Ephemeral Tattoos is a made-to-fade tattoo creating a world of limitless self-expression, where everybody is a canvas.
Supreme
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Supreme is a streetwear brand that produces and manufactures fashionable clothing and accessories.
Bombas
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Bombas is a comfort-focused apparel brand with a mission to help those in need. One Purchased = One Donated.
Rowing Blazers
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Rowing Blazers is a youthful, irreverent menswear label dedicated to the idea that the classics can be cool.
Pattern
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Pattern is a family of brands that inspire to learn, explore, and lay the foundation for a more present life.
Obsess
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Obsess is a platform for immersive mobile commerce.
Grailed
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Grailed is a NYC-based peer-to-peer marketplace company.
TVTY
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TVTY measures and strengthens TV’s impact on digital and offline outcomes in real-time to unlock advertisers’ full business potential.
SevenFifty
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SevenFifty helps importers, producers, distributors, and retail buyers connect with each other and do business in a modern world.
Moda Operandi
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Moda Operandi is a platform for emerging fashion designers and retailers.
ShopKeep
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ShopKeep® is a cloud-based iPad point of sale system for restaurants and retail stores.
Narrativ
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Narrativ is a subscription technology platform for brands to acquire new customers through trusted creators, not sponsored content or ads.
Dia&Co
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Dia&Co sells plus size clothing and accessories via a try at home model.
KeyMe
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KeyMe is a mobile app that allows users to store, share, and duplicate their physical keys based on a digital image.
Lightspeed
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Lightspeed offers clients access to our proprietary order execution system, Lightspeed Trader, real time risk and margin management
Perch
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Perch’s retail engagement marketing platform detects products customers touch via computer vision to respond with dynamic product content
Bonobos
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Bonobos is an e-commerce driven clothing brand focused on delivering great fit and excellent customer service.
Acquco
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Acquco is an e-commerce platform that focuses on acquiring and growing Amazon Marketplace businesses.
Bulletin
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Bulletin operates as a wholesale marketplace and community that connects premium brands and retailers.
Queen of Raw
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Marketplace for fashion brands and retailers to buy/sell unused textiles, keeping them out of landfills and turning pollution into profit
Marquee Brands
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Marquee Brands is a brand acquisition, licensing and development company
Rockets of Awesome
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Rockets of Awesome is a direct-to-consumer kids’ apparel brand, designing and selling over-the-top clothes.
CUUP
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CUUP is a direct to consumer startup focused on providing the essential bra for women.
Spring
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Spring is a retail company that sells a wide range of items from apparel to home and garden items.
Perfitly
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Perfitly is the only accurate, end-to-end solution that bridges the online divide between a customer and the fitting room experience.
Pair Eyewear
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Pair Eyewear is an eyewear brand designed and made specifically for children.
Andie
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Andie is a designer and manufacturer of one-piece women’s swimsuits and sells them to consumers through its e-commerce platform.
Paloma
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Paloma helps ecommerce businesses sell directly to customers in messaging channels, with automated personal shopping conversations.
ArtSugar
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ArtSugar is the curated e-commerce platform selling eye-catching artwork & home decor objects at an accessible price point.
Fraud.net
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The Future of Fraud Prevention – fraud detection, intelligence augmentation, and live-streaming visualizations.
Primary
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Primary is making better clothes for kids and building a better experience for busy parents to shop for them.
Gilt Groupe
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Gilt Groupe provides a shopping website that includes fashion for women, men, and children; home decor and unique activities.
Camp
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CAMP is a retail chain built to engage and inspire young families.
Tamara Mellon
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Tamara Mellon offers apparel and accessories for women.
Naadam
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Naadam is an American clothing company specializing in affordable, luxury cashmere products.
New Stand
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New Stand is a convenience and engagement platform that blends physical touchpoints with digital perks and location-based media
Singuli
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Singuli is an inventory optimization platform that offers spreadsheet tools for retailers.
Nestig
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Nestig provides modern nursery essentials such as cribs and mattresses.
Happiest Community
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Global Community + Lifestyle Brand on a mission to ‘Make Humanity Happy’™. Our Community and Products sow & grow happiness
CB4
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CB4 is the easiest, fastest, and most rewarding way for stores to sell more product and satisfy shoppers.
James Allen
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JamesAllen.com has pioneered the way consumers shop for fine jewelry online.
Coterie
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Coterie creates smart, innovative baby care products that make parents’ lives easier, starting with its high-performing diaper.
Olivela
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Olivela is an online luxury retail platform with a philanthropic business model.
Bombfell
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Bombfell is an online clothing retail store providing personalized clothes for men.
Eloquii
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Eloquii offers an online plus size clothing store featuring women’s plus size fashion, clothes, and accessories.
kencko
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kencko is a smart food company reinventing organic fruit and vegetable products.
Helix Sleep
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Bringing customization to the sleep category by offering personalized, made to order mattresses at value driven prices.
Hill House Home
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A lifestyle brand for the bed and the home
buywith
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Buywith is an online shopping Livestream platform for brands, retailers, influencers & experts to host live shopping events.
RADAR
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RADAR is an RFID and computer vision platform that automates inventory management, analytics and checkout in physical stores.
BarnesandNoble.com
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Barnes & Noble, Inc., is a Fortune 500 company, the largest retail bookseller in the United States
Stylitics
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Stylitics is a cloud-based SaaS platform for retailers to automate and distribute visual content at scale.
Wandering Bear Coffee
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Wandering Bear makes extra strong organic coffee in multiple formats, including cold brew “coffee on tap” boxes, k-cup pods and grounds
The Lightstone Group
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Lightstone Group is a real-estate investment company that develops, manages and invests in all sectors of the real estate market.
Shoppable
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Shoppable specializes in patented checkout technology and distributed commerce solutions for advertisers, publishers, and merchants.
Wardrobe
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Wardrobe is a peer-to-peer luxury clothing rental app focused on sustainability.
Fluz
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Reinventing cashback to give you more. Get paid when you shop + when your friends shop. Earn Cashback Forever.
CitiXsys
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CitiXsys is a leading provider of software solutions for Retail and Hospitality.
KIDBOX
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KIDBOX delivers personalized experiences through curated premiere brands with an easy and fun way for parents and kids to shop from home.
Sequential Brands Group
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Sequential Brands Group owns, promotes, markets, and licenses a portfolio of consumer brands in the fashion and lifestyle categories.
FINDMINE
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FINDMINE specializes in using machine learning to automate manual and tedious tasks in the retail industry.
CrowdTwist
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CrowdTwist is an industry-leading provider of comprehensive multichannel loyalty and analytics solutions.
Studs
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Studs is a piercing studio meant to appeal to a conscious millennial and Gen-Z customer.
Flieber
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Multi-channel inventory optimization for online retailers
Custora
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Custora is the leader in advanced customer analytics for the retail industry.
ByondXR
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Byond transforms eCommerce through immersive experiences that increase engagement, conversion and ROI
The Inside
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The Inside is a home furnishings brand that unlocks your shortcut to a chic home, for every style and budget.
HookLogic
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HookLogic provides closed-loop marketing for brand advertisers through its partnerships with leading retailers and travel companies.
Pepper
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Pepper makes bras in AA to B cups with band sizes starting at 30 and going to 38 for small-chested women.
Tire Agent
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Tire Agent is an online tire retailer that makes the tire shopping experience more personalized, accessible, and affordable.
Blutag
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Blutag enables a voice based experience for your store. Delight your customers and increase customer engagement.
People10 Technologies
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People10 Technologies Inc. provide Software Services like., Agile and Lean Product development, QA , Application management & many more.
Draper James
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Draper James is an online shopping site selling apparels and home accessories.
Qvalon
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Qvalon – SaaS service for managing company standards, business processes and personnel
R2Net
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R2Net is the product of over 30 years experience within the diamond industry
Localised
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Localised is local-first ecommerce. We are what brands expanding globally do next.
Trendalytics Innovation Labs
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Trendalytics Innovation Labs is a product intelligence engine that surfaces what consumers want today and tomorrow.
Giggle
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Giggle operates as an online multichannel retailer of baby care products.
Saks.com
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Saks.com offers a shopping destination for all-channel luxury.
Allure Systems
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Allure Systems uses AI to produce apparel images for eCommerce.
GPShopper
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GPShopper is a mobile commerce platform and app developer for retailers. Loyalty and eComm integrations, mobile CMS and real-time analytics.
Nomi
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Nomi is an omni-channel marketing platform that helps retailers better engage with their customers.
Uppercase
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Uppercase offers modern retail solution that helps brands to launch stores from the ground up.
