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Best Retail Companies in Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The 66 best Retail companies in Edinburgh, United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Rooser.

66companies tracked
$70.2Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
20have raised

Ranked: Best Retail companies in Edinburgh

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageEmployeesFoundedFounderPatents & IP focusRecent signals
113 design
13 Design provides creative and promotional marketing solutions.
46 patents
Medical fluid injection and transfer devices, plus animal tissue removal apparatus.
2Arcido
Online retailer of carry-on travel backpacks, bags, and packing cubes
Unfunded22015Will
Co-Founder
3Barenaturals
Manufacturer of natural home and personal care products
Unfunded12012Darcey Croft
CEO & Founder
4Dofos Pet Centre
Retail chain of wide range of natural, grain-free, and additive-free dog and cat food products, as well as…
Unfunded31953
5Ecom Brokers
Platform to sell eCommerce businesses
Unfunded2020Ben Leonard
Co-Founder
6EdExchange
Online retailer of women's clothing
Deadpooled2012Chris Howard
Co-Founder
7Gepur
Retail chain of women's clothing collections
Unfunded12010
8GiftRound
Online platform offering gift cards
Unfunded120171 launch

Top 12 Retail companies in Edinburgh

#1
Series A · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2018 · 5 employees
$4.9Mraised

Neurolabs provides AI-based object recognition solutions for retail industry. The solution uses computer vision and deep learning techniques to recognize products for automating shelf management tasks, and uses synthetically generated data to develop object recognition models or train deep learning models. Also offers AI detectors that offer product recognition for grocery retail

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 11.2% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Product Engineer
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2025Series A$7.8M
  • May 2022Seed$3.2M
  • Jul 2020Seed$1.4M
  • 2019Seed$50K
Investors
Fast Track Malmo, Techstart Ventures, 7percent Ventures, Id4 ventures, Lunar Ventures, LAUNCHUB
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font Api
#2
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2024
$772.7Kraised

Sustainable and repairable GPS sports watches are manufactured by the company. They design modular watches with easily replaceable components, promoting longevity and reducing electronic waste. The watches accurately track various sports activities, providing comprehensive health data including heart rate monitoring. A focus on user repairability is achieved through readily available spare parts and repair guides. The company uses USB-C charging to minimize waste from discarded cables.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers — 2.2% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Community Manager
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2025Seed$257.8K
  • Mar 2025Seed$387.6K
  • 2024Grant (prize money)$127.3K
Founders & team
Lewis AllisonFounder & CEO
Investors
SFC Capital, Scottish EDGE
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApple PayCart FunctionalityCloudflare
#3
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2021 · 12 employees
$3Mraised

Internet first brand offering multi-category apparel for women. The product catalog includes dresses, tops, t-shirts, pants, joggers, skirts, sweatshirts, and jackets. The brand claims to provide orders in recycled packaging and swapping of items after use.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 48how this company ranks against its industry peers
Talent
top 28%
Tech
top 31%
Growth
top 35%
Funding
top 45%
Global
bottom 37%
Market
bottom 27%
Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Tech: 52 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 · Observability: Sentry
Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2024Seed$1.6M
  • Nov 2023Seed$846K
  • Jul 2022Seed$1.4M
  • Dec 2021Seed$834.4K
Founders & team
Hilde FrydnesCo-Founder & CCOJamie SutherlandCo-Founder & CTOCally RussellCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Techstart Ventures, Solid Bond, FJ Labs, Sweetspot Capital, Pareto
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAmerican ExpressApple Icloud MailApple Pay
#4
Series A · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2001 · 37 employees
$3.5Mraised

Marketing technology offering on-demand design and print solutions. The platform is designed to help businesses create customizable point of sale materials while maintaining brand integrity and reducing costs. It features creation tools, customizable templates and automated text, and more. It helps sales reps to manage creativity and create beautiful content across menu, point of sale material and social media.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 11k LinkedIn followers — 24.6% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2024Series A$3.5M
Founders & team
Craig LettonFounder & CEO
Investors
BGF
#5
Series A · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2019 · 12 employees
$27.8Mraised

Online marketplace connecting seafood buyers and suppliers. The marketplace offers specific information on each offer, such as species, grade, quality, fishing method, catch location, price, and packing details.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2022Series A$24.8M
  • 2020Series A$3M
Founders & team
Joel WattCo-FounderErez MathanCo-Founder
Investors
Index Ventures, Google Ventures, Point Nine, Eos Advisory, Sas La Perle, Scottish Enterprise
#6
Series A · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2011 · 46 employees
$9.6Mraised

Internet-first brand offering bags. Its range of products includes handbags, totes, backpacks, clutches, crossbody bags, etc. All its products are handcrafted from leather by the artisans.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 22k LinkedIn followers — 49.1% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 3 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum -1 · hiring: Product Assistant, Business Systems Administrator
Activity: 1 product launches · 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2022Series A$9.6M
Investors
BGF
Tech stack
AhrefsAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailApple PayCalendlyCloudflare
#7
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2020 · 7 employees
$1.2Mraised

Platform offering auction solutions for online businesses. The platform offers tools to run an online auction. Its features include live streaming video, auto-bid option, bid log messages, gamification for engagement, and more. It also offers an admin dashboard to add lots, organize the auctions in a calendar, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 92 LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2023Seed$312.2K
  • Sep 2020Seed$668.2K
  • Sep 2020Seed$194.6K
Investors
Techstart Ventures
#8
Deadpooled · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2012 · 23 employees
$7.7Mraised

Mallzee is a personal shopper app available for iOS and Android that provides recommendations for apparel shopping. The app can filter clothing items based on what a user likes, to act as a personal shopper, and has a voting feature for friends. Mallzee allows in-app sharing with friends to get their opinions before users buy a product. Searches over 2M items of clothing from 200+ brands including ASOS, Topshop, Urban Outfitters, River Island, Liberty London, Glassworks, and Oki-Ni.

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2020Grant (prize money)$416.9K
  • Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$435.7K
  • Feb 2018Series A$2.7M
  • Jul 2015Series A$3.9M
Investors
Scottish EDGE, Royal Mail Group, Scottish Enterprise, Par Equity, Europa, South Indian Bank
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesAmazon S3Amazon CloudfrontAws Certificate Manager
#9
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2019
$381Kraised

Online platform for buying and selling pre-loved artworks and accessories. The company claims to offers multiple paintings and artworks from different artists.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2024Seed$381K
Founders & team
Brian McCrindleCo-Founder & Non-Executive Director
Investors
Tricapital, Scottish Enterprise
#10
Acquired · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2016 · 63 employees
$6.9Mraised

e.fundamentals is a provider of digital shelf analytics for businesses. Its an eCommerce analytics platform that provides actionable insight to brand owners. It provides key details on pricing, positioning, and promotion from real-time data.

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2019Series A$6.9M
Investors
Maven Capital Partners, Downing Ventures, Scottish Enterprise
#11
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2014 · 3 employees
$2.5Mraised

Cloud-based platform for authenticating products. Its services are offered to support product and brand security, authenticity, and securing the supply chain through data analytics using blockchain technology. It identifies, tracks, and analyses all assets and components along with every interaction across the whole supply chain.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2017Grant (prize money)$332.7K
  • Feb 2017Seed$2.5M
Founders & team
Richard SteevesCo-FounderBrendan Patrick Crossey
Investors
Europa, TERRA
#12
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2016 · 3 employees
$447.2Kraised

Provider of digital vault to store messages and media. The platform is a secure digital vault to store wishes, memories, social media account credentials, and documents with selective nominees. The users can create an account, set up the authentication access, and verify the identity.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2022Seed$447.2K
Investors
Velocity Capital Advisors, Scottish Investment Bank

Funding & investor landscape

$70.2Mtotal disclosed funding
19companies funded
41disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Scottish EDGE4 rounds
Scottish Enterprise4 rounds
Europa3 rounds
Techstart Ventures3 rounds
BGF2 rounds
SFC Capital2 rounds
24 Haymarket1 rounds
7percent Ventures1 rounds
Allegro Capital1 rounds
Aurinko1 rounds

Notable founders

Lewis Allison
Founder & CEO · UNA Watch
Hilde Frydnes
Co-Founder & CCO · This is Unfolded
Jamie Sutherland
Co-Founder & CTO · This is Unfolded
Craig Letton
Founder & CEO · Hyble
Joel Watt
Co-Founder · Rooser
Erez Mathan
Co-Founder · Rooser
Brian McCrindle
Co-Founder & Non-Executive Director · sell my art
Richard Steeves
Co-Founder · arc-net
Brendan Patrick Crossey
· arc-net
Gareth Claase
Founder · Gecko Glazing
Jill Henry
Founder · Meander Apparel
Steve Henry
Founder · Meander Apparel
Prism market signals · United Kingdom · country-scoped Prism corpus, 2,512,021 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Retail coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

Common questions

How many Retail companies are there in Edinburgh, United Kingdom?
Radar tracks 66 indexable Retail companies headquartered in Edinburgh, United Kingdom that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Retail companies in Edinburgh, United Kingdom?
The Retail companies in Edinburgh, United Kingdom on this list have raised a combined $70.2M in disclosed equity funding across 19 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Retail company in Edinburgh, United Kingdom?
Rooser is the highest-funded Retail company in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, with $27.8M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Retail companies in Edinburgh, United Kingdom are funded?
19 of the 66 Retail companies in Edinburgh, United Kingdom on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Retail unicorns are there in Edinburgh, United Kingdom?
None of the Retail companies in Edinburgh, United Kingdom on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Edinburgh, United Kingdom Retail companies?
The most active investors in Edinburgh, United Kingdom Retail companies on this list include Scottish EDGE, Scottish Enterprise, Europa, Techstart Ventures, BGF.
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