Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best San Francisco 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 San Francisco Retail Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Faire
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Faire is a company that helps retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores.
Stitch Fix
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Stitch Fix is a personal styling platform that delivers curated and personalized apparel and accessory items for women.
Extend
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Extend provides extended warranties as a service to merchants and innovates the broken customer experience associated with them.
Shift
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Shift is an online marketplace for buying and selling used cars.
Roadster
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Roadster provides consumer-driven commerce solutions for today’s modern dealership.
Gap
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Gap Inc. is a global retailer offering clothing, accessories, and personal care products for men, women, and children under various brands.
Standard Cognition
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Standard Cognition provides an autonomous checkout tool that can be installed into retailers’ existing stores.
Bobbie
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Bobbie is a baby formula delivery startup that sells direct-to-consumer and offers a subscription service to parents across the US.
GrubMarket
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GrubMarket supplies local fresh food online with affordable prices and convenient delivery.
Narvar
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Narvar is a customer experience platform that helps retailers inspire long-term customer loyalty, at all steps of the post-purchase journey.
treet
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Treet helps fashion brands own their resale experience by launching their own fully-branded resale marketplace.
RangeMe
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RangeMe is revolutionizing how retailers and brands work together.
Prodigy
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Prodigy digitizes the process to save customers’ time while improving trust and satisfaction.
Madison Reed
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Madison Reed is a beauty company revolutionizing the way women color their hair.
Index
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Index is a retail software company that brings the personalization and measurement of online commerce to the offline world.
Darkstore
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Darkstore is on a mission to make all of the world’s products accessible all over the world.
Tophatter
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Tophatter is revolutionizing the e-commerce landscape with a discovery shopping app that’s truly one-of-a-kind.
b8ta
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B8ta is a software-powered retailer designed to make physical retail accessible for all.
Bossa Nova Robotics
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Bossa Nova Robotics is a provider of real-time, on-shelf product data for the global retail industry.
Brandless
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Brandless is a direct-to-consumer company providing household items.
Skupos
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Skupos is the data platform powering the convenience retail industry.
ModCloth
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ModCloth is an online clothing, accessories, and decor retailer that aims to provide an engaging shopping atmosphere for the user.
Wine.com
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Wine.com is an online wine retailer, offering selection, guidance, and convenience not found in brick and mortar stores.
Zipline
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Zipline is the operations platform that powers retail’s most complex work.
Quince
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Quince is an online retail company that democratizes luxury goods.
Aura Bora
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Aura Bora is a maker of craft sparkling water that features herbs, fruits, and flowers.
Williams-Sonoma
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Williams-Sonoma is a retailer of home furnishings and gourmet cookware that offers products for every room in the house.
MakersPlace
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MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators.
RichRelevance
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RichRelevance is the world’s leading personalization provider.
Everlane
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Everlane designs, manufactures, and sells clothing items for men and women via online e-commerce website.
MakerSights
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Actionable product intelligence. Make more confident decisions about your products and future concepts.
Simbe Robotics
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Simbe Robotics builds automation solutions for shelf auditing and analytics.
Grove Collaborative
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Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first home and personal care products and is the leader in zero-plastic CPG.
SMBX
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SMBX is a funding portal and public marketplace for issuing, buying, and selling U.S. small business bonds.
Huckberry
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Huckberry is an independent online retailer for guys who love adventure.
Stitch Labs
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Stitch Labs provides software that simplifies commerce, decisions, and life for brands.
Dopple
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Dopple is a retail e-commerce platform that offers children’s clothing to reach today’s savvy parents.
Tatcha
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Classic Japanese beauty rituals: Beloved by geisha. Proven by science. Remastered for you.
MIRA BEAUTY™
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MIRA BEAUTY is the world’s first universal store and collaborative library for makeup and skincare.
Senreve
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Senreve is a luxury handbag company for the multifaceted modern woman.
Plexure
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Plexures IoT driven CRM platform delivers seamless customer experiences across multiple digital channels in the real world
Dor
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Dor specializes in providing retail traffic counting solution.
Zira
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Zira designs and develops employee management solutions that leverage technology to empower companies.
Birdies
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The stylish flat that’s secretly a slipper, featuring elevated style and luxurious comfort
Swyft
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Swyft sells great products from leading brands in strategic high profile locations, serving customers.
Dote Shopping
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Dote makes mainstream e-commerce brands one-tap shoppable from a phone.
American Giant
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American Giant is a menswear brand that focuses on manufacturing and retailing apparel.
Prism Skylabs
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Prism is a cloud-based video intelligence platform that transforms video cameras into powerful business tools.
Trumaker
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Trumaker is a new kind of men’s apparel brand where every guy gets a client
Wanelo
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Wanelo (from Want, Need, Love) is an online community and social platform for shopping.
Storr
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The most personalized, social, and easy-to-use remote sales platform. Now available in white label.
HTEC Group
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HTEC Group is a consulting, product development and digital platform engineering company.
Right Rice
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RightRice provides a tasty rice grain that’s made from vegetables.
RageOn!
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The World’s Best Custom Creation Social Marketplace
True&Co
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True&Co is an online retail site allowing shoppers to find perfect-fitting bras by answering a simple quiz.
NorCal Cannabis
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NorCal Cannabis Company functions as a holding company with assets ranging from production to retail.
Hemster
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Hemster is an on-demand tailoring service that empowers customers to create their own size no matter where they shop.
Gigwalk
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Gigwalk helps businesses manage channel execution at scale. Use of 1.2 Million Gigwalkers or Bring Your Own Team. All in one place
Bold Metrics
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Building a sustainable future by reducing product returns and informing better design practices
Via.Delivery
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Integrating e-commerce parcels into brick and mortar supply chain to deliver locally at a fraction of the cost of traditional carriers
Meadow
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Meadow builds connected cannabis retail, delivery, eCommerce, CRM, and marketing software for California’s legal cannabis industry.
Pod Foods Co
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Changing the way food reaches grocery store shelves
Euclid
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Euclid is a spatial analytics platform that uses WiFi signals to understand how people relate to spaces and how spaces relate to each other.
Move Loot
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Move Loot is a convenient way to buy and sell used furniture.
GearLaunch
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GearLaunch offers a sophisticated platform for E2E commerce, a rapidly emerging category that focuses on the full e-commerce value chain.
RestAR
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Cloud-based 3D capturing & better product visualization for e-commerce using AI with any mobile device.
Swarm Mobile
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Swarm Mobile provides solutions for shopper analytics and omni-channel marketing.
Dot & Bo
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Dot & Bo is a uniquely curated shopping experience, making modern design accessible and inspiring you to create your perfect home.
Lolli and Pops
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Lolli and Pops is a retail company that offers candies, gifts, and confections.
Avametric
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Avametric is a digital 3D software platform that provides automated content creation for brands, retail, and e-commerce sales tools.
Weddington Way
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Weddington Way offers a community-based shopping platform for an exclusive collection of fresh + modern bridesmaid dresses.
Sunwink
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Sunwink is a female-founded, plant-powered wellness company.
Twice
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Twice is an online clothing resale store allowing people to purchase clothes at big discounts off the retail price.
Curated
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Curated is a provider of collaborative online shopping service intended to assist shoppers with high-consideration purchases.
Designhubz
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Designhubz enables 3D & Try-On Augmented Reality shopping with an AI recommendation engine across any eCommerce website or app and in-store
Modalyst
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SaaS, Automation, Marketplace, Dropshipping Software
Short Story
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Short Story is the first online retailer and top rated personal styling service focused exclusively on petite women’s sizing.
ZoomSystems
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ZoomSystems is the global leader in automated retail, providing an end-to-end solution including hardware, software and managed services.
Shazura
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AI Visual Intelligence: image recognition & visual search through Natural Learning Fingerprints that mirror the human brain
Spendgo
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SaaS loyalty retention marketing solution for restaurants & retailers.
Reveel Technologies, Inc.
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The first platform that provides audiences an interactive experience from print, digital, video and broadcast media. Explore, learn and buy!
Oak Labs
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Oak Labs is a software company best known for its interactive retail technology.
PivotLink
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PivotLink, a SmartFocus company, develops retail analytic solutions for marketing intelligence and customer-centric merchandising.
Amara Organic Foods
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Amara Organic Foods is a food technology company that offers families the benefits of fresh homemade goods.
NDS Cognitive Labs
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NDS Cognitive Labs makes real-time digital transformation accessible, with fast, affordable automation, analytics, and AI implementations.
Westward Leaning
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Westward Leaning offers sunglasses that celebrate human achievement by integrating unique materials specific to a past or present human.
Vino Volo
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Vino Volo is a wine store that operates wine tasting lounges and retail wine shops at 18 airport terminals and 1 city location.
Fabkids
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JustFab is a fashion retail and styling platform that provides a personalized e-commerce service.
St. Frank
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Luxury lifestyle brand offering a curated line of globally-inspired products made ethically by artisans working in traditional crafts.
Alter Eco
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Alter Eco distributes imported food products through retail chains.
ivee
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Ivee is a Wi-Fi voice-activated assistant that can answer questions, respond to commands, and connect to many smart home devices.
PulpoAR
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PulpoAR is developing integrated augmented shopping technology and AR commerce platforms for retail.
Markhor
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Markhor creates designer-quality, handcrafted footwear at a revolutionary price point.
Re:Store
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Re:Store is a co-working and retail space for cult-favorite online brands.
Pantry
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Pantry provides instant access to fresh food through a network of swipe, grab and go kiosks. Always fresh. Always open.
Plazah
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Plazah is the One-on-One Sales Marketplace where anyone can make money recommending the products they love
Full Harvest
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Full Harvest is the first B2B marketplace for ugly and surplus produce.
Office
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Office is a company that provides services in brand strategy, advertising, packaging, and other areas.
