Best In Store Retail Tech Companies in Melbourne, Australia
The 38 best In Store Retail Tech companies in Melbourne, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Fresho.
Ranked: Best In Store Retail Tech companies in Melbourne
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fresho Provider of order and operations management software for fresh food wholesalers 62Tech top 27%Funding top 37%Moat top 39%Talent top 39% All 9 signals ▾Techtop 27% Fundingtop 37% Moattop 39% Talenttop 39% Markettop 40% Growthtop 48% Globalbottom 37% Partnersbottom 35% Newsbottom 20% Tech: 74 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 Funding: Raised $40.7M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 17 yrs (0.2/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $41M | 21 mo ago | Series B | James Andronis Co-Founder & CEO | 2004 | Craft CMSCart FunctionalitySentry+35 | — | — |
| 2 | Afterpay Provider of buy now, pay later services with flexible options | $35M | 72 mo ago | Acquired | Nick Molnar Co-Founder & CEO | 2014 | Builder.ioSentryZendesk+31 | 8 patents Digital payment platform enabling installment financing and multi‑user transaction linking | 1 launch |
| 3 | Lexer Platform offering customer insights for brand and retailers | $34M | 66 mo ago | Series B | David Chinn CEO & Co-Founder | 2008 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Kepler Analytics Provider of sensor-based traffic analytics solutions for in-store retailers | $26M | 55 mo ago | Series B | David Mah Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | 2 patents Retail customer analytics software for market behavior analysis | — |
| 5 | EQL Cloud-based repair management solutions for e-commerce brands | $19M | 53 mo ago | Seed | James Boysons Co-Founder | 2019 | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+24 | — | — |
| 6 | Zitcha Provider of unified retail media platform enabling omnichannel planning and reporting | $15M | 23 mo ago | Series A | Troy Townsend Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder | 2022 | HubSpot CMS HubAmazon Web ServicesSplide+14 | — | 1 partnership |
| 7 | Localz Platform offering location tracking and customer communication solutions | $7M | 74 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2013 | SentryAtlassian StatuspageApple iCloud Mail+13 | — | — |
| 8 | RateIt Provide of feedback solution to offline businesses | $5M | 84 mo ago | Series A | Michael Momsen Co-Founder & CEO | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | — | — |
| 9 | Brauz App-based online platform for discovering local stores and products | $2M | 109 mo ago | Seed | — | 2014 | Framer SitesReactCloudflare+10 | — | — |
| 10 | Doshii API integration platform to connect Apps and POS | $1M | 115 mo ago | Acquired | Sean O'Meara Founder & CEO | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Till POS Cloud-based mobile point-of-sale platform for restaurant operations | — | 118 mo ago | Seed | Sai Pearala Co-Founder & COO | 2016 | — | — | — |
Top 11 In Store Retail Tech companies in Melbourne
#1
Series B · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2004 · 68 employees$40.7Mraised▾
Provider of order and operations management software for fresh food wholesalers. The platform consolidates orders, picking, deliveries, invoicing, and payments into a unified system. It integrates with existing enterprise resource planning, finance, and logistics tools. The software offers tools designed for use in warehouses, back offices, and on delivery routes.
- Nov 2024Series B$11.1M
- Jun 2022Series A$9.5M
- May 2022Series A$14M
- Sep 2016Seed$230.2K
#2
Series A · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2022 · 26 employees$15.1Mraised▾
Provider of unified retail media platform enabling omnichannel planning and reporting. The platform allows retailers to plan, deliver, and report across their entire network. It offers tools for collaboration, campaign planning, design, delivery, and performance optimisation. The platform unifies retail media across channels and systems, offering automation.
- Sep 2024Series A$10.4M
- Nov 2022Seed$4.7M
#3
Series B · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2015 · 63 employees$26Mraised▾
Kepler Analytics is a provider of sensor-based traffic analytics solutions for in-store retailers. Offerings include foot traffic sensors for business intelligence grade data on a range of customer behavior measures & sales drivers. It provides a dashboard for monitoring the traffic data, demand forecasting & sales associate training, marketing solutions, and more.
- Feb 2022Series B$22M
- Jul 2019Series A$4M
#4
Acquired · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2014$35.4Mraised▾
Provider of buy now, pay later services with flexible options. It facilitates installment payments for purchases. The service allows consumers to acquire goods and services immediately and pay for them over a defined period. It offers options for different regions and languages.
- Aug 2020Post IPO—
- Aug 2020Post IPO$136M
- May 2020Post IPO$254.7M
- Nov 2019Post IPO$135.9M
#5
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2019 · 48 employees$18.6Mraised▾
Cloud-based repair management solutions for e-commerce brands. It allows retailers to sell in-demand products. Its solutions include loyalty and reward, operation management, insights, marketing, and more.
- Apr 2022Seed$18.6M
#6
Series B · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2008 · 91 employees$34.1Mraised▾
Lexer is a platform offering customer insights for brands and retailers. It offers social media analytics software and a customer data platform for businesses to analyze and segment customers. It provides a customer data platform to manage customer profiling and segmentation. It helps organizations to capture data from omnichannel and to analyze and understand customer lifetime value, reduce churn rate and predict the next purchase of customers. It helps customer teams with tools to identify, engage and listen to their customers and send personalized campaigns. It also provides reporting solutions and notification features for real time updates. Its customers include AFL, Seek, Spyder, ING, and others.
- Feb 2021Series B$25.5M
- Series A—
#7
Acquired · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2013 · 50 employees$7.4Mraised▾
Platform offering location tracking and customer communication solutions. The platform enables businesses to easily link locations to applications. The platform features include improving the customer experience and reducing missed appointments, asset tracking, and more. It enables users to real time track the service technician, ETAs, and two way communication.
- Jun 2020Series A$2.7M
- Sep 2017Series A$4.8M
- Sep 2014Grant (prize money)$160K
#8
Series A · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2016 · 8 employees$5Mraised▾
RateIt is a provider of feedback solution to offline businesses. The company offers omnichannel feedback solutions like in-store kiosks, web-based, SMS based, and email-based solutions. It offers features like NPS surveys, text analytics, integrations, bio-metric validation, and customizable reports. The company also offers analytics based on customer feedback.
- Aug 2019Series A$5M
#9
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2014 · 20 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Brauz is an app-based online platform for discovering local stores and products. Its customer engagement app uses VR, IoT and beacon technologies to help customers to connect with nearby stores and brands. It allows users to check the local vendors, products listed, vendor's ratings and more. It caters to multiple local shops including fashion retailers, sales & events, shows, and more.
- Jul 2017Seed$1M
#10
Acquired · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2015 · 12 employees$1Mraised▾
Developer of an application programming interface platform designed to connect developer's applications and payment devices to point-of-sale systems. The company's platform reduces the cost of building and maintaining integrations while providing a robust, safe, and secure experience for customers, enabling clients to access standardized online spaces that are compatible with multiple POS systems.
#11
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2016—raised▾
Cloud-based mobile point-of-sale platform for restaurant operations. It provides digital tools to manage billing, orders, and daily transactions within food service environments. The platform is designed to support restaurants by streamlining front-of-house and back-of-house workflows through integrated POS functionality.
- Oct 2016Seed—
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