Best In Store Retail Tech Companies in Shanghai, China
The 33 best In Store Retail Tech companies in Shanghai, China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Clobotics.
Ranked: Best In Store Retail Tech companies in Shanghai
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Employees | Founded | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ByPay Mobile payment solution | — | — | Funding Raised | — | 200 | 2010 | — |
| 2 | Cat Cool Technology Provider of mall management solution | — | — | Acquired | Wang Yong CEO | — | 2013 | — |
| 3 | eBest Mobile Provider of field sales management tools | — | — | Unfunded | Ming Cai CEO | 18 | 2000 | — |
| 4 | FairyMo Provider of mobile POS solution for business | — | — | Unfunded | Nora Fang Founder & CEO | — | 2017 | — |
| 5 | Guanhyi Cloud based business management solution for retailers | — | — | Acquired | — | 600 | 2014 | — |
| 6 | i200.cn SaaS for retail stores to manage their operations | — | — | Funding Raised | Guo Rui Founder & CEO | 4 | 2013 | — |
| 7 | Magnet iBeacon based solution and application on WeChat app | — | — | Deadpooled | — | 3 | 2015 | — |
| 8 | Moby Mart Developer of unmanned mobile retail stores | — | — | Deadpooled | Hannah Lina Mazetti Co-Founder | — | 2017 | — |
Top 12 In Store Retail Tech companies in Shanghai
#1
Series A · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2016 · 11 employees$83.9Mraised▾
Provides drone data management solutions. It offers drone data acquisition flight services and a cloud-based data analysis and viewing software solution. It also offers IT consulting and data migration services to enterprise clients. It also provides drone-based wind turbine inspection and monitoring solutions.
- Mar 2021Series A$30.9M
- Jan 2020Series A$10M
- Aug 2019Series A$22M
- Aug 2018Series A$11M
#2
Series A · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2017 · 18 employees$6.5Mraised▾
Cloudpick is provider of a suite of software solutions to offline retailers. The company offers solutions like AI based payment system, smart marketing, theft prevention, digital marketing, and analytics. It also offers omnichannel solutions. It works on subscription based pricing model.
- Mar 2022Series A—
- Jun 2020Series A—
- Apr 2019Series A—
- Jul 2018Series A—
#3
Series A · Xuhui, Shanghai · founded 2017$10.8Mraised▾
Provider of intelligent product recognition systems for offline retailers. Its IoT platform can identify brands, sub-brands, and product SKUs. It can be integrated with smart freezers, smart shelves, and other retail systems. It offers intelligently product check, and automatically generate in-store audit reports through the photo upload operation. The system supports SKU recognition, price tag recognition, price recognition, etc.
- Sep 2021Series A$10.8M
- 2019Seed—
- Apr 2018Angel—
#4
Deadpooled · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2010 · 8 employees$36.6Mraised▾
Appconomy is a mobile based solution for retail stores and brands. It provides various solutions with context-aware mobile app such as indoor positioning, promotions, marketing, loyalty, m-commerce etc. Claims to have raised $10M in Series A round of funding.
- Jul 2015Conventional Debt$1.1M
- Jan 2015Series A$9M
- Jun 2013Series A$3M
- Dec 2012Series A$6M
#5
Public · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2013 · 885 employees$61.4Mraised▾
Manufacturer of terminals, pads, kiosks, and related accessories and services. The company provides operating system and digital store solutions. It offers products such as interactive displays, mobile terminals, payment terminals, and desktop terminals. The business delivers warranty and care support for its products.
- Jan 2019Series C—
- Aug 2017Series C—
- Jun 2015Series B$16.1M
- May 2015Series B$32.3M
#6
Deadpooled · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2017$71.4Mraised▾
Checkout-free convenience store and snack bar. It offers drinks, biscuits, and instant noodles through kiosks installed at office buildings. The company has an app-based platform that customers can use in order to pay by scanning. Once the payment is done, the order gets processed and they can collect the meals from the chosen outlets. It allows customers to pay via mobile payment options.
- Jun 2018Series A—
- Nov 2017Series A$57.4M
- Sep 2017Series A$15M
#7
Series C · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2009 · 230 employees$16.1Mraised▾
Provider of cloud-based video surveillance network solutions for shopping malls. Its features include passenger flow analysis, motion detection systems, storage, and support on all platforms. It caters to the logistics industry, education, and government.
- Dec 2018Series C—
- Jan 2018Series C$12.1M
- 2015Series B—
- 2013Series A$4M
#8
Series A · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2011 · 102 employees$11.9Mraised▾
Yo-ren is developing multiple tech solutions for offline retailers. Its CRM helps offline retailers capture data of its customers and run targetted marketing campaigns. It is also developing a tool to help retailers manage their Weibo and other social networking profiles.
- Mar 2019Series A$11M
- Nov 2016Seed$873K
#9
Series B · Minhang, Shanghai · founded 2015 · 300 employees$20Mraised▾
Shanghai Hao offers retail marketing and advertising solutions. It allows users to manage marketing solutions, manage advertisements, customer solutions, customer services and lifecycle management solutions. It enables users to perform marketing intelligence services and manage customer database and insights to improve the performance of the businesses.
- Aug 2018Series B—
- Dec 2017Series B$20M
#10
Seed · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2017$1.4Mraised▾
AI-based POS hardware solutions for offline retailers. Its product, Senraise R330, is a handheld POS terminal that has features like scan code payment, order management, takeaway printing, and others. The company also offers its products to hotels & restaurants, entertainment, and other sectors.
- Dec 2018Angel$1.4M
#11
Series A · Xuhui, Shanghai · founded 2016 · 150 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Panda payment provides a payment solution to the merchants. The offerings include mPoS hardware and software, marketing solutions, and data analysis etc. It can be integrated with the existing payment methods. The solution enables merchants to accept payments through credit cards payments. Other offerings include rechargeable membership cards, marketing solutions and more. The PoS solutions also serve the purposes of a cash register and order management software.
- Aug 2018Series A—
- Sep 2016Seed$1.2M
#12
Seed · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2011 · 131 employees$793Kraised▾
Likeit develops Point of Sale (POS systems) for retail stores and commercial locations. Offers products for supermarkets, quick service restaurants, meat and sea food shops etc. Its POS tools come as a whole package which includes a monitor, payment system, and a cash register/box.
- Aug 2015Seed$793K
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