Best In Store Retail Tech Companies in North Carolina, United States
The 42 best In Store Retail Tech companies in North Carolina, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: FoodLogiQ.
Ranked: Best In Store Retail Tech companies in North Carolina
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FoodLogiQ Platform offering food traceability, safety, and compliance solutions | $30M | 86 mo ago | Series B | — | 2006 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Ekos Brewmaster Developer of business management software for beverage producers and distributors | $29M | 56 mo ago | Acquired | Greg Forehand Co-Founder & CIO | 2002 | Cart FunctionalityWordPressMySQL+38 | — | — |
| 3 | Cloosiv Provider of self-checkout solutions for offline retailers | $13M | 72 mo ago | Series A | Tim Griffin Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 4 | MaxPoint Hyperlocal targeted advertising platform | $11M | 186 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2007 | — | — | — |
| 5 | The Looma Project Provides digital signage for retail advertising | $11M | 8 mo ago | Series B | Cole Johnson Founder & CEO | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Field Agent Online freelancer marketplace and mobile field intelligence platform | $4M | 23 mo ago | Series A | Kelly Miller Co-Founder & CTO | 2010 | HubSpot CMS HubFacebook LoginLinkedin Sign-in+30 | — | — |
| 7 | Orchard Systems Cloud-based end-to-end software solutions for offline retailers | $2M | 94 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Creative Allies Platform gives designer to produce art and merchandise for rock stars | $463K | 116 mo ago | Seed | Sean O'Connell CEO | 2009 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Myxx Provider of omnichannel marketing platforms that help brands accelerate commerce by interacting directly with… | $400K | 118 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Predictify.me Predictive analytics software for businesses | $305K | 132 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 11 | LoLo Platform that provides shoppers with rewards and enables retailers to build customer loyalty | $250K | 85 mo ago | Seed | Clark Harris Co-Founder | 2012 | ErlangElixirPhoenix Framework+5 | 2 patents Adaptive multimedia presentation generation and media file mixing/composition technologies. | — |
| 12 | iValu8 Cloud-based marketing and engagement platform | $230K | 106 mo ago | Seed | Zohar Alon Co-Founder | 2013 | — | 2 patents Online survey administration platforms for data collection and analysis | — |
Top 12 In Store Retail Tech companies in North Carolina
#1
Series B · Durham, North Carolina · founded 2015 · 44 employees$10.5Mraised▾
Provides digital signage for retail advertising. Its product, a digital storytelling network, provides a network of grocery based tablets. It is designed to play videos to reveal the people, processes, and impact on select brands. It provides digital displays for proximity marketing and customer retention. Its clients are LoneRider, Chapel Hill Toffee, Carolina Brewery and Grill, Mati, and Seal the Seasons.
- Dec 2025Conventional Debt$3M
- May 2025Series B$10M
- Dec 2023Series A$10.1M
- 2021Grant (prize money)$50K
#2
Series A · Fayetteville, North Carolina · founded 2010 · 60 employees$4.5Mraised▾
Online freelancer marketplace and mobile field intelligence platform. It is a crowdsourcing based platform to provides business information on the retail sector. Provides in-store audits, at-home research, opinion surveys, and on-shelf availability of products using photo verification and customer reviews. It allows freelancers to build a profile, select and complete a task and receive payments. Its mobile application is available on Android and iOS platforms.
- Sep 2024Series A—
- Feb 2015Series A$2M
- Mar 2013Seed$2.5M
#3
Acquired · Charlotte, North Carolina · founded 2002 · 80 employees$29Mraised▾
Developer of business management software for beverage producers and distributors. The software streamlines inventory, production, sales, and accounting. It connects and tracks data across operations for informed decisions. The platform offers features such as order management, sales analysis, and enterprise resource planning. Additional tools include keg tracking and reporting for compliance.
- Dec 2021Series B$21M
- Oct 2019Series A$8M
#4
Series B · Durham, North Carolina · founded 2006 · 39 employees$29.5Mraised▾
Platform offering food traceability, safety, and compliance solutions. It enables businesses to track food products across the supply chain, manage supplier documentation, meet regulatory requirements, and respond quickly to food safety incidents. Designed for food manufacturers, retailers, distributors, and suppliers, the platform improves transparency, reduces operational risk, and strengthens trust through real-time data sharing and actionable insights.
- Jun 2019Series B$10M
- Mar 2018Series B$19.5M
- Sep 2017Series A—
- Sep 2015Series A—
#5
Series A · Charlotte, North Carolina · founded 2017 · 5 employees$13.2Mraised▾
Provider of self-checkout solutions for offline retailers. It provides a scan and pay solution to customers shopping at multiple retail stores via a mobile-based app. Customers can use the app to scan barcodes on the items they want to shop for and add them to their shopping list. Payment for the same can be made through the app using credit cards or online payments. The app can be used to carry out self-checkout in other places such as restaurants where customers can scan their bills and can proceed to pay for the same through the app.
- Aug 2020Series A$12M
- Oct 2019Angel$1M
- Jul 2019Seed$150K
#6
Acquired · Morrisville, North Carolina · founded 2007 · 375 employees$11Mraised▾
Maxpoint uses its proprietary "Digital Zip" technology to match products to a digital grid of households called digital zips and create profiles for each Digital Zip. It then uses its customer intent model to predict what products a particular household can purchase then execute cross-channel digital marketing campaigns to reach these buyers.
- Mar 2011Series B$8M
- Sep 2010Series A$3M
#7
Deadpooled · Durham, North Carolina · founded 2015 · 16 employees$2Mraised▾
Orchard Systems provides cloud-based end-to-end software solutions for offline retailers. The company offers two products, Orchard OS and Orchard Office. Orchard OS is a cloud-based point-of-sale solution while Orchard Office helps in back-office management. Its features include order & inventory management, accounting, employee management, reporting & analytics and more. The company also offers solutions for grocery stores, restaurants & cafes and others.
- Oct 2018Seed$810K
- Aug 2017Seed$1.2M
- Jul 2017Seed$50K
#8
Seed · Asheville, North Carolina · founded 2009 · 17 employees$463.2Kraised▾
Creative Allies provide design community, an online platform to upload creations for their favourite rock bands. It enables members to upload their creations, such as T-shirt designs, radio commercials, and posters write show reviews and design original arts of their favourite songs or bands. It also enables members to submit art in official contests for musicians, festivals, and non-profits. In addition, it enables members to upload a clothing design for musicians packaging, print, and logo design and ally arts. Further, it offers a community-building Facebook application that allows bands and brands to set-up, market, and manage design contest via a custom Facebook application, social sharing tools, and a dashboard.
- Dec 2016Conventional Debt$225K
- Apr 2011Conventional Debt$50K
- Apr 2011Seed$463.2K
#9
Acquired · Raleigh, North Carolina · founded 2015 · 12 employees$400Kraised▾
Provider of omnichannel marketing platforms that help brands accelerate commerce by interacting directly with consumers across various channels. It offer software and SaaS solutions to enable seamless consumer engagement and drive purchase velocity.
- Oct 2016Seed$400K
#10
Seed · Asheville, North Carolina · founded 2012$250Kraised▾
Platform that provides shoppers with rewards and enables retailers to build customer loyalty
#11
Deadpooled · North Carolina · founded 2014 · 26 employees$305.3Kraised▾
Predictive analytics software for businesses. The platform collects and combines data from different sources to analyze and predict outcomes. It caters its solution to security, healthcare, education, and retail industries.
- Aug 2015Venture Debt$1.4M
- Jan 2015Seed$305.3K
#12
Seed · Chapel Hill, North Carolina · founded 2013$230Kraised▾
iValu8 is a cloud-based marketing and engagement platform that provides digital marketing campaign services designed and engage customers, build in-store revenue and drive repeat purchases. Campaigns can be deployed through businesses digital marketing channels (social media, CRM, website) or activated in-store/retail. Services are offered directly to business customers or through their Partner Program. Also provides a mobile loyalty+ card. Customers can choose different plans that provide various loyalty and campaign management solutions.
- Oct 2017Conventional Debt$559.8K
- Aug 2013Seed$230K
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