Best In Store Retail Tech Companies in Japan
The 36 best In Store Retail Tech companies in Japan in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: STORES.
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Ranked: Best In Store Retail Tech companies in Japan
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | STORES Provider of omnichannel software solutions for in-store retail businesses | $75M | 73 mo ago | Series E | Yusuke Sato CEO | 2012 | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+17 | — | — |
| 2 | AdInte Provider of IoT-enabled customer engagement solutions for retail industries | $46M | 55 mo ago | Series B | Shinji Togawa CEO | 2009 | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | 13 patents Data-driven marketing analytics and location-based advertising platforms | — |
| 3 | FULL KAITEN Provides AI-driven software solutions for optimizing sales | $16M | 33 mo ago | Series A | — | 2012 | WordPressMySQLSalesforce+40 | — | — |
| 4 | ROMS Provider of retailer and retail chain services | $9M | 12 mo ago | Series A | — | 2019 | STUDIOFirebaseNode.js+21 | 7 patents Integrated automated material handling and logistics software for warehouse sorting and distribution | — |
| 5 | Tamecco IOT based personalization solution for retailers | $4M | 129 mo ago | Deadpooled | Koichiro Tsujino Founder & CEO | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Smapo App for earning rewards for shopping | $2M | 172 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Yo Shibata Founder | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Toypo Provider of mobile marketing solutions for e-commerce stores | $2M | 6 mo ago | Series A | — | 2019 | NotionSuper BuilderTurbopack+20 | — | — |
| 8 | Liaro Provides AI-driven software solutions for the fashion industry | $530K | 95 mo ago | Seed | Kento Hanada CEO | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 9 | VAAK Cloud-based theft prevention solutions for offline retailers | $450K | 101 mo ago | Seed | Ryo Tanaka Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — | — |
Top 12 In Store Retail Tech companies in Japan
#1
Series A · Fukuoka, Fukuoka · founded 2019 · 20 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Provider of mobile marketing solutions for e-commerce stores. The app feature includes automatic distribution & notifications, coupon & deals management, customer analysis, mobile ordering solutions, subscription management, and more.
- Mar 2026Series A$1.8M
- Jul 2021Seed—
#2
Series A · Shinagawa, Tokyo · founded 2019 · 32 employees$8.8Mraised▾
Provider of retailer and retail chain services
- Sep 2025Venture Debt—
- Sep 2025Series A$8.8M
- Sep 2022Seed—
#3
Series A · Osaka, Osaka · founded 2012 · 14 employees$16.5Mraised▾
FULL KAITEN provides AI-driven software solutions for optimizing sales. The software allows businesses to manage inventory stocks through purchase optimization, increase in sales, inventory reduction, and measure optimization. Using AI-driven forecasting technology the software allows businesses to understand sales & purchase of products in the market & also helps stock keeping units to manage their orders.
- Nov 2023Convertible Debt$2.3M
- Jun 2023Series A$5.8M
#4
Series B · Kyoto, Kyoto · founded 2009 · 123 employees$46Mraised▾
Provider of IoT-enabled customer engagement solutions for retail industries. Its offering includes AI-powered beacons and an analytics platform. It provides online-to-offline marketing solutions to identify consumers, utilises data to entice and advertise on-shop. It also provides in-store analysis, and store visit measurement.
- Jan 2022Series B$25.2M
#5
Series E · Shibuya, Tokyo · founded 2012 · 65 employees$75Mraised▾
Provider of omnichannel software solutions for in-store retail businesses. The solutions provided are storefront solutions for the creation of online stores for in-store businesses, POS management, inventory management, stock management, online reservation system, and more. It also offers a mobile application-based platform for store operation management, purchase information, store traffic analysis, customer experience management, and customer retargeting.
- Aug 2020Series E$66M
- Oct 2018Series A$7.1M
#6
Deadpooled · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2012$3.7Mraised▾
Tamecco has developed IOT based personalization solution for retailers. It uses various geo-spatial technologies inlcuding beacons, wifi and other techlnologies into its SDK that can be integrated in the retailer's app to provide reatime personalization in terms for push messages, coupon delivery etc to shoppers. It also uses machine learning and analytics on app interaction, POS, consumer, location data etc to enrich the personalization delivered to consumers. Started as a app development company, its personalization solution has found traction among restaurant chains in Japan.
- Dec 2015PE$2.7M
- Mar 2014Seed$1M
#7
Acqui-Hired · Shibuya, Tokyo · founded 2011$1.9Mraised▾
Smapo is an app developed by Spotlight. The app automatically detects visits made to stores by shoppers and rewards them points for shopping and other in-store activities. They install detectors inside stores that enables detection of shoppers over WiFi when they enter the stores. Shoppers just need to tap "check-in" in the app. They can redeem the points at the POS. Few retailers who have registered with Smapo includes Parco, Follie Follie, New Balance, etc.
- Apr 2012Seed$1.9M
#8
Seed · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2014$530Kraised▾
Liaro provides AI-driven software solutions for the fashion industry. The software offers features that include automatic tagging of products & search for similar products through image recognition, product recommendations, offline or online data integration, real-time analysis of consumer behavior, demand identification through trend patterns, and more.
- Oct 2018Seed$530K
- 2016Seed—
#9
Seed · Chiyoda City, Tokyo · founded 2017 · 30 employees$450Kraised▾
VAAK provides cloud-based theft prevention solutions for offline retailers. Its technology platform uses AI-techniques to analyse in-store video data. It analyses persons' attributes like face, clothes, movement, crime rate, weather and predicts suspicious human actions. It helps retailers in crime prevention, marketing and operations management. The company also provides security cameras for in-store video data collection.
- Apr 2018Seed—
- Seed$450K
#10
Seed · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2017—raised▾
Provider of store operation management solutions for retail businesses. Its solutions include employee engagement, sales strategy development, organization design, and recruitment.
- Jan 2024Seed—
- Sep 2023Seed—
- Apr 2022Seed—
#11
Seed · Chiyoda City, Tokyo · founded 2013 · 4 employees—raised▾
Locarise is a retail analytics solution provider. It provides in-store analytics with various data points such as day and time of visit, footfall traffic, staffing , loyalty and enegement and helps brick and mortar stores in optimizing their marketing and operations efforts by providing actionable insights like repeating customers ratio, customer segmentation by in-store behavior, etc. The clients include BMW, LACOSTE, etc.
- Oct 2020Seed—
- May 2014Seed—
#12
Seed · Shibuya, Tokyo · founded 2014 · 20 employees—raised▾
Provider of customer analytics solution for in-store retailers. The company uses IoT sensing technologies such as BLE beacons, WiFi, cameras, and RFID for user behavior and product contact in the store. In addition, the store visit detection technology enables to accurately grasp user visits and in-store behavior in real-time and implement effective measures. It also offers a solution like counting the number of visitors, attribute (age/gender) analysis, and more. The company offers the solution on the subscription-based policy.
- Dec 2017Seed—
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