Best In Store Retail Tech Companies in Italy
The 72 best In Store Retail Tech companies in Italy in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Autone.
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Ranked: Best In Store Retail Tech companies in Italy
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Autone Provider of an AI platform for inventory and stock management | $23M | 20 mo ago | Series A | Adil Bouhdadi Co-Founder & CEO | 2021 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Jusp Provider of mobile POS solutions to offline businesses | $6M | 158 mo ago | Deadpooled | Giuseppe Nicola Saponaro ex-Co-Founder & COO | 2011 | — | 3 patents Payment card transaction processing and management systems | — |
| 3 | CheckBonus iBeacon loyalty solution | $2M | 115 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 4 | S5 Tech Internet connected shelf labels | $2M | 160 mo ago | Deadpooled | Pier Doniselli Co Founder & Sales Director | 2008 | — | 46 patents Patents concentrated in construction | — |
| 5 | NearIT SDK based Proximity Marketing Platform | $2M | 118 mo ago | Seed | Luca Locatelli CEO | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Adabra Provider of cloud-based personalized marketing solution using machine learning | $1M | 114 mo ago | Seed | — | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Thinkin Analytics company that serves the retail, healthcare and travel sector | $1M | 53 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | LeafletMicrosoft ASP.NETBootstrap+20 | — | — |
| 8 | GiPStech Provider of geo-based Indoor location and positioning solutions | $727K | 123 mo ago | Seed | — | 2013 | — | 32 patents Indoor magnetic sensor-based motion tracking and individual localization systems | — |
| 9 | QuiCon Proximity experience platform | $450K | 148 mo ago | Deadpooled | Vincenzo Chianese Founder & CTO | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Ultroneo Provider of checkout and payment solutions for in-store retail businesses | $425K | 39 mo ago | Series A | Daniele Fanzutto Co-Founder | 2014 | TypeScriptWindows ServerZone.js+4 | — | — |
| 11 | GetYourBill Business Corporate expense management software provider. | $425K | 125 mo ago | Seed | Daniele Fanzutto Co-Founder | 2014 | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+32 | — | 2 partnerships |
| 12 | Tilby Cloud-based cash management platform | $320K | 140 mo ago | Seed | Francesco Medda Founder & CEO | 2012 | HubSpot CMS HubSalesforceFacebook Login+25 | — | — |
| 13 | Pathflow Retail analytics | $140K | 153 mo ago | Deadpooled | Alberto Gangarossa Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | — | — |
Top 12 In Store Retail Tech companies in Italy
#1
Series A · Milan, Lombardy · founded 2021 · 5 employees$23.4Mraised▾
Provider of an AI platform for inventory and stock management. The platform offers features for replenishment, rebalancing, buying, and reordering to optimize inventory decisions. It provides insights based on forecasts, market trends, seasonal shifts, and buyer influences. The platform aims to simplify stock management and improve inventory turnover.
- Oct 2024Series A$17M
- Oct 2023Seed$4.5M
- Jun 2022Seed$1.8M
- 2022Seed$500K
#2
Series A · Udine, Friuli Venezia Giulia · founded 2014$425.3Kraised▾
Provider of checkout and payment solutions for in-store retail businesses. The solutions provided are the management of electronic invoicing & electronic sales documents, checkout solutions compatible with cash register systems, payment terminals of the store, and collection of electronic & digital payments available on Android portable terminals. The system also retrieves the customers data needed to compile the invoice from certified databases and sends them to the designated intermediaries.
- Mar 2023Series A—
- 2016Seed$425.3K
#3
Seed · Trento, Trentino South Tyrol · founded 2015 · 12 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Analytics company that serves the retail, healthcare and travel sector. Their "retailerin" solution enables retailers to measure and analyse in real-time and accuracy how shoppers move or interact with products in a physical store and turn the insights gained into actionable KPIs for targeted marketing purposes. They offer an interactive dashboard to keep track of the in-store insights, build and understand store heatmaps, measure footfall and dwell time levels and integrate existing apps to offer targeted promotions. Their "healthin" solution enables healthcare facilities to monitor staff and patients in real-time, manage risks based on data evidence, analyse business processes, identify inefficiencies and improve the overall patient experience. The "cruisein" solution enables automatic detection of Man Overboard events and provides advanced entertainment services.
- Jan 2022Seed$1.1M
#4
Deadpooled · Cagliari, Sardinia · founded 2011 · 17 employees$6Mraised▾
Jusp is a provider of mobile POS solutions to offline businesses. Solutions offered by the company are compatible with mobile, tablets, android, apple and windows operating system. Company also offers additional services like MAP ( marketing analytics portal), catalog management, export of details reports and more.
- Apr 2013Series A$6M
#5
Deadpooled · Legnano, Lombardy · founded 2008 · 10 employees$1.8Mraised▾
S5 Tech is an Italian Start-Up company developing of innovative wireless technology solutions for the retail market S5's lcd and graphic labels are used to display real time prices and offers. These labels interact with S5's own transmitter to keep record of prices and to balance energy usage.
- Feb 2013Seed$200.8K
- May 2012Seed$256.9K
- 2011Seed—
- Mar 2011Seed$665.2K
#6
Deadpooled · Milano, Umbria · founded 2013 · 8 employees$2.2Mraised▾
CheckBonus provides beacon based loyalty solutions to stores. It app awards points to customers by them just visiting the stores which can be used for prizes in the catalog. The businesses can push campaigns and content on its app using beacons and use the traffic data for analytics.
- Nov 2016Seed$2.2M
- Sep 2014Angel—
- Jul 2013Seed—
#7
Seed · Bergamo, Lombardy · founded 2016 · 15 employees$1.7Mraised▾
NearIT develops an online platform that enables retail, museums and events to engage their end-users with tools such as proximity marketing, push notifications, passes and/or fidelity cards. Offers a web interface that integrates with existing CRM systems to segment audience and to track the engagement that each specific message generates. Priced based on the number of interactions per each monthly active user.
- Jul 2016Seed$1.7M
#8
Seed · Arezzo, Tuscany · founded 2011 · 17 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Adabra is a provider of cloud-based personalized marketing solution using machine learning. Its an Omnichannel marketing platform to create personalized marketing solutions for physical and digital channels. The web platform that helps retailers to increase eCommerce sales by offering its visitors a customized and personalized shopping experience The platform uses a set of proprietary technologies collecting data from multiple sources, both cross-channel and cross-device. The data, which concerns the actions performed by the users while browsing the retailer's website, is collected, aggregated, and normalized. Based on data, it offers a set of modules for customer engagement including customer engagement, push notifications, customer care service, and more. The company has integrations with eCommerce platforms such as Magento, Prestashop, and Woocommerce.
- Dec 2016Seed$1.1M
- Jan 2016Seed$54.5K
#9
Seed · Rende, Calabria · founded 2013 · 10 employees$727.2Kraised▾
Provider of geo-based Indoor location and positioning solutions. It provides users with indoor positioning that works without infrastructure and with precision. It also provides an algorithm that employs anomalies of the geomagnetic field to locate and track objects and users that are moving in indoor environments. They employ regular smartphones to perform both the initial mapping and the subsequent user's positioning.
- Feb 2016Grant (prize money)$54.6K
- Sep 2015Seed$453.4K
- Sep 2015Grant (prize money)$56.5K
- May 2014Seed$273.9K
#10
Seed · Udine, Friuli Venezia Giulia · founded 2014 · 6 employees$425Kraised▾
GetYourBill is aimed at speeding up billing systems using the POS solution, already present at many retailers. It has built a network of relationships and professionals to develop an software that allows a single gesture the billing and conservation Cloud of all invoices / receipts , even for small amounts. At the PoS terminal, the invoices are generated fast and all the invoices are archived online.
- Jan 2016Seed$425K
#11
Deadpooled · Naples, Campania · founded 2014$450Kraised▾
Proximity experience platform. It allows users to send promotions and information to users near stores through QuiCon technology, which sends a smartphone notification near shops and GPS mode to a distance of 50 km. The platform offers its solutions to retail, events, restaurants, museum, and others. The application offers proximity marketing, clienteling, loyalty, and hosting an interactive interaction experience that increases the engagement of customers in businesses.
- Feb 2014Seed$450K
#12
Funding Raised · Porto Recanati, Marche · founded 2008 · 8 employees$76.3Kraised▾
Grottini Lab provides innovative in-store communicating solutions to the customers. Solutions include Omni-channel retail communication, Digital signage, Interactivity, Mobile proximity, Augmented reality, Insights & Statistics, System integration, and installation and maintenance. These products help in understanding the consumer in real-time and creating better marketing solutions.
- Sep 2021Grant (prize money)$76.3K
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