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In their final update for 2025 covering retail tech mapping, FDJ Ventures and France Digitale present new challenges for French retail start-ups. These include financing, slowing company creation...

10 December 2025

Loyalty: Start-up 10% raises €2.4 million to compete with Joko, Shopmium and iGraal

Less than a year after a launch, the start-up specialising in 10% cashback wallets has announced a fundraising of €2.4 million from Speedinvest, Kima Ventures, Fund F, True Capital and Techmind...

22 September 2025

E-commerce: Graas AI raises $9 million to accelerate deployment of AI agents

On August 11, Graas AI, a Singapore-based start-up specialising in AI agents for e-commerce operations, raised $9 million in a pre-Series B round led by Tin Men Capital. Founded in 2022 with...

13 August 2025

Webyn raises €1.8 million to compete with Contentsquare and AB Tasty

Specialising in e-commerce conversion optimisation, Webyn completed a €2.7 million pre-Series A round on Thursday, July 3, including €1.8 million in equity. C.E.O. and Co-Founder Vincent Oliveira...

3 July 2025

Reelevant raises €6 million in Series A

The start-up specialising in marketing message personalisation won 20 clients last year, with contracts worth over €300,000. This funding of less than €4 million in equity will be invested in...

29 April 2025

[mind Retail Exclusive] Faume raises several million Euros in funding

According to information from mind Retail, a new round of financing has been finalised by the second-hand start-up. In 2024, the latter saw its turnover increase by 64% to more than €2 million...

9 April 2025

SaaS Lumi AI raises US$3.7 million in seed funding to simplify access to ERP data

Based in the U.A.E., the start-up Lumi AI raised US$3.7 million in seed funding on March, 25, in a round led by AgFunder, Forum Ventures, Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund ADQ and the...

9 April 2025

Malaysian discounter Eco-Shop wants to raise US$200 million for an IPO

On January 20, 2025, preparing for I.P.O. on the Malaysian Stock Exchange by June 2025, Malaysia’s largest discount retailer by sales Eco-Shop (annual revenue of US$510 million to the end of...

22 January 2025

Saudi repair start-up Zension completes US$30 million Series A financing round

On January 7 2025, Zension, the Saudi Arabian platform specialized in after-sales service for small electrical products (clients include Jarir Bookstore and STC) closed a US$30 million Series A...

22 January 2025

[NRF 2025] Raspberry raises US$24 million to put AI at the service of sustainability

Ten months after an initial round of US$4.5 million, American company Raspberry AI secured US$24 million. Thanks to the AI image generation solution, fashion designers can visualise rendering of...

15 January 2025

Which European retail start-up and scale-up raised funds in 2024?

In Western Europe, 73 retail tech start-up and scale-up raised funds in the first 9 months of 2024. Discover them in mind Retail's barometer, with data from our partner INVYO.

12 December 2024

With US$1.72 billion, Lulu signs the biggest I.P.O. of the year in the Gulf

U.A.E.-based Lulu Retail Holding (2023 sales of US$7.3 billion via 260 supermarkets and 24 malls) raised US$1.72 billion in an initial public offering on the Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange (ADX) on...

6 November 2024

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Refurbished smartphones: why Largo relies on Speeral automation

The start-up founded by the duo behind Teester and Skeepers is accelerating automation of second-hand product flows. The strategy is to use AI to direct products to high-traffic marketplaces such...

9 December 2025

Leroy Merlin and Aroma‑Zone launch in‑store analytics pilots with XXII

French retail tech XXII, which aims to become the Google Analytics and Contentsquare of physical stores, has already signed with 15 retailers and shopping centres, mind Retail learned. A year...

5 December 2025

Already in POC, Dialog’s conversational agent shows up in the search bar

Buoyed by a €3.8 million seed round closed in mid‑November 2025, French start‑up Dialog, specialised in AI‑based conversational e‑commerce, is accelerating. Initially placed on product pages, this...

4 December 2025

E‑commerce: How Hive customises free‑delivery thresholds using customer data

With 500 e‑merchant clients, including Embryolisse, Hindbag, Airup, Hygée or Jacks Beauty Line, German logistics provider Hive is capitalising on data to raise e‑commerce conversion via a finely...

2 December 2025

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Online Advertising: Leroy Merlin and Auchan at the heart of a political controversy

Since November 17, Leroy Merlin has faced controversy after a report from Sleeping Giants, an activist group against online hate speech. The organisation alerted the Adeo group retailer (GMV 2024...

21 November 2025

Payments and e-commerce : which retail tech solutions dominate French websites?

In mid-November 2025, mind Retail analysed 50 French e-commerce websites using Wappalyzer to identify technologies installed on them. The result was 144 solutions were recorded, installed more...

20 November 2025

Payment: a lever for retail innovation

This month, our editorial team highlights how innovation is taking shape around payment. This key stage, enabling turnover to be collected by retailers, is at the heart of numerous pilots and...

28 November 2025

Payments: Wallets accelerate in a fragmented market

As retailers seek to streamline shopping journeys, payment fluidity is becoming a key conversion driver. Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, PayPal: wallets enable retailers to reduce delays and...

18 November 2025

Leroy Merlin and Aroma‑Zone launch in‑store analytics pilots with XXII

French retail tech XXII, which aims to become the Google Analytics and Contentsquare of physical stores, has already signed with 15 retailers and shopping centres, mind Retail learned. A year...

5 December 2025

Adobe bets on GEO with the US$1.9 billion acquisition of Semrush

On November 19 the technology leader Adobe (2024 revenue: US$21.5 billion, up by 11% at constant rates) announced the acquisition of SaaS platform Semrush (2024 revenue: US$376.8 million, up by...

21 November 2025