Best Retail Companies in Brighton, United Kingdom
The 43 best Retail companies in Brighton, United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: MPB.
Ranked: Best Retail companies in Brighton
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MPB Online marketplace offering used photography equipment | $91M | 65 mo ago | Series D | Kat Mitchell Co-Founder | 2006 | ContentfulElasticsearchNode.js+30 | — |
| 2 | Giggling Squid Operator of Thai restaurants offering dine-in and takeout options | $10M | 74 mo ago | Series A | Pranee Laurillard Co-Founder | 2002 | Cart FunctionalityWordPressMySQL+20 | — |
| 3 | Percept Imagery Provider of augmented reality solution for retail industry | $424K | 46 mo ago | Series A | Akshay Saswade Co-Founder | 2014 | — | — |
| 4 | Prsnt Online gifting platform offering multi-category gifts | $247K | 64 mo ago | Seed | David Parr Co-Founder | 2019 | SentryReactReact Router+5 | — |
| 5 | HISBE Supermarket providing multi-category food products | $50K | 31 mo ago | Seed | Amy Anslow Founder & Director | 2010 | — | — |
| 6 | Faace Internet-first brand offering vegan facial care products | — | 30 mo ago | Seed | Jasmine Wicks-Stephens Founder | 2019 | Cart FunctionalityShopifyElement UI+37 | — |
| 7 | 15gifts Provider of customer experience management software solutions for e-commerce businesses | — | 44 mo ago | Seed | Tom Cox Founder & CEO | 2010 | — | 1 award |
| 8 | Sellar Management platform for breweries to manage trade | — | 98 mo ago | Seed | James Tuck Co-Founder | 2017 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+17 | — |
Top 9 Retail companies in Brighton
#1
Series D · Brighton, England · founded 2006 · 345 employees$91Mraised▾
Online marketplace offering used photography equipment. The product catalog includes DSLR cameras, lenses, drones, lightings, adapters, and other photographic gear.
- Mar 2021Series D$69.1M
- Jul 2019Series C$11.3M
- Feb 2018Series B$7.3M
- 2017Series A—
#2
Seed · Brighton, England · founded 2010$50Kraised▾
Supermarket providing multi-category food products
- Jan 2024Seed$50K
- Feb 2020Conventional Debt$594K
#3
Series A · Brighton, England · founded 2014 · 3 employees$424.1Kraised▾
Percept Imagery provides augmented reality solutions for the retail industry. Its product Sprie is an augmented reality platform for enabling its customers to visualize products in a real-world environment.
- Oct 2022Series A—
- May 2021Seed$424.1K
- Oct 2020Seed—
#4
Series A · Brighton, England · founded 2002 · 689 employees$9.7Mraised▾
Operator of Thai restaurants offering dine-in and takeout options. The restaurants provide a variety of Thai dishes, including vegetarian and vegan options. They emphasize a welcoming and energetic atmosphere. Customers can choose to dine in at the restaurants or order food for home delivery. The company also offers gift cards and caters to private dining events.
- Jun 2020Conventional Debt$6.3M
- Feb 2017Series A—
- Nov 2015Series A$9.7M
#5
Seed · Brighton, England · founded 2019 · 2 employees$247.4Kraised▾
Developer of a peer-to-peer gift exchange platform intended to send gifts with personalized video or text messages as nice gestures or to celebrate an occasion. The company's platform helps users to unwrap the gift digitally with their fingers and also sends back a message to say thank you for keeping the moment of unwrapping the gift alive, enabling users to acknowledge someone for multiple reasons and occasions.
#6
Seed · Brighton, England · founded 2019 · 1 employees—raised▾
Internet-first brand offering vegan facial care products. The products are offered for various skincare issues like menopause, period, tiredness, sweaty face, etc, and it also offers hair clips. The products offered are cruelty-free.
- Feb 2024Angel—
#7
Seed · Brighton, England · founded 2010 · 64 employees$25.2Mraised▾
Provider of customer experience management software solutions for e-commerce businesses. The solutions provided are a customer buying recommendations, sales assistance, search engine solutions, optimization of online sales using machine learning, and an engine to generate customer profiles that reveal their buying motivations.
- Dec 2022Seed—
#8
Seed · Brighton, England · founded 2017 · 11 employees—raised▾
Management platform for breweries to manage trade. It provides breweries with an online trade store for receiving orders from trade customers. It also provides stock update, customer pricing, order history, and more.
- 2018Seed—
#9
Seed · Brighton, England · founded 2008 · 1 employees—raised▾
ParcelGenie is an instant gift messaging service that enables people to send real products using just a mobile number, and without needing a delivery address. The company has services on iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7, and social media channels. Company primarily partners with third-party fulfillment companies, but also has its own warehouse. Expanded to US in 2012( branded Hoita). Backed by angel investors from FSE Investor Network members. Won Vodafone’s Europe-wide Mobile Clicks competition 2011, PepSico 10 Winner.
- Mar 2012Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Retail coverage by sub-theme.
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Funding & growth over time
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