Including Profitmind and Skene: seven retail tech funding rounds you need to know about

RTIH rounds up seven retail tech ventures who have recently secured significant investments in their businesses, including an AI marketing platform that works with retailers and consumer brands in the micro-influencers space, and a startup that automates phone-based engagements for e-commerce brands.

1. osapiens

osapiens has entered into an agreement for Decarbonization Partners, a joint venture between BlackRock and Temasek, to lead a $100 million Series C fundraising round, subject to regulatory approvals.

Decarbonization Partners will join existing investors Goldman Sachs Alternatives, which fronted a $120 million Series B in 2024, and Armira Growth, which headed up a $27 million Series A investment in 2023.

osapiens provides software that enables companies to manage regulatory compliance, sustainability, and operational efficiency across their entire value chain on a single platform. Customers include Coca-Cola North America, Lidl, Carrefour, and OTTO.

The proceeds from the latest investment will be used to accelerate product innovation and fuel growth in existing and new international markets.

2. Skene

Helsinki-based product growth automation platform Skene has closed a €800,000 pre-seed round led by Superhero Capital and with participation from NVIDIA executives. With its first agent now live, Skene CEO Teemu Kinos, Co-Founder of GetJenny, aims to use the funds to cross €1 million ARR and expand the offering to support growth across the full user journey by spring 2026.

“Most legacy products rely on human shaped sticking plasters in the form of sales, CS, and manual workflows to execute growth strategy, yet when it comes to AI agents capable of fixing these problems at scale, they hesitate,” says Kinos.

“The opportunity for exponential product led growth (PLG) is in the hands of AI native teams looking for ways to ship at a speed and scale manual growth strategies can’t match. Skene automates the path to growth at every step, constantly improving user outcomes with every release.”

3. Statusphere

Statusphere, an AI marketing platform that works with retailers and consumer brands in the micro-influencers space, has secured $18 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funding to date to $27 million. Volition Capital led the round, with participation from HearstLab, 1984 Ventures, and How Women Invest.

Brands such as Parlux, Kendo Brands, Express, and LG H&H use Statusphere. It will use the cash to expand its social SEO, generative engine optimisation (GEO) and reporting capabilities to improve product discovery across AI powered search for brands while also building next-generation tools for creators.

“Human generated content is quickly becoming the most valuable driver of brand discovery, but influencer marketing solutions weren’t built to scale for the enterprise,” says Kristen Wiley, CEO and Founder at Statusphere.

“After years of testing different platforms, I built Statusphere to solve that challenge by giving brands a smarter, more automated way to activate creators at scale without sacrificing authenticity. As discovery moves toward AI driven and agentic search, Statusphere is built for this moment. Our Series A positions us to accelerate what’s next.”

4. Unbox Robotics

Unbox Robotics has raised $28 million in a funding round led by ICICI Venture, with participation from RedStart Labs, a subsidiary of InfoEdge, F-Prime, 3one4 Capital, Navam Capital, Force Ventures, and existing investors.

A warehouse automation specialist, it works with companies in the e-commerce, retail, and logistics space across India, Europe, and the USA.

In a LinkedIn post, the company said: “Over the past few years, we’ve scaled rapidly with strong year-on-year growth, achieving profitability, and growing adoption of our swarm intelligence powered robotic systems across Europe, India and the US.”

It added: “This milestone fuels the next phase of our journey: Expanding our presence across key regions globally; Accelerating new product development; Strengthening leadership, business and engineering teams. We’re deeply grateful to our investors, customers, partners, and the entire Unbox team for helping us reach this milestone. Onward and upward.”

5. Profitmind

Accenture is investing an undisclosed amount in Profitmind, which has developed an agentic AI platform designed to help retailers automate decisions across pricing, inventory, and planning.

The pair are also entering into a strategic partnership to expand Accenture’s data and AI capabilities in retail.

“In retail, AI is reinventing how people shop, how businesses operate and how employees work. Retailers are navigating relentless disruption, and nowhere is the impact more acute than in merchandising. Frequently considered the heart and soul of retail, executives are often overwhelmed by massive amounts of data, reports and spreadsheets, leaving little time for effective decision-making,” says Jill Standish, Accenture’s global retail lead.

“Profitmind bridges the gap between insight and action through agentic AI. It mirrors how retailers run their businesses, linking data from multiple sources for clear, prioritised recommendations that can be trusted and executed quickly in response to an increasingly competitive industry.”

6. Consio AI

Consio AI, a startup that automates phone-based engagements for e-commerce brands, has announced a $3.3 million funding round. Its first such round, this was led by RTP Global (early backers of Datadog and Delivery Hero), with participation from Jason Lemkin’s SaaStr Fund, Mu Ventures, the founders of Gorgias, and industry operators from Ramp and Datadog.

Consio was co-founded by Philippe Roireau and Martin Latrille, who were early employees at Gorgias, a customer support unicorn.

“Shoppers making big purchases want real conversations not another email or chatbot,” says Roireau. “Consio picks up every inbound call instantly and places perfectly timed outbound follow-ups, so brands never miss a sale or make customers wait.”

The new capital will be used to accelerate engineering, go to market, and partner ecosystem growth.

“Voice is the most underutilised conversion lever in commerce especially for high ticket purchases,” says Thomas Cuvelier, Partner at RTP Global. “Consio AI unlocks the phone channel as a profitable growth engine. Backing Philippe and Martin was obvious given their unique domain expertise from Gorgias.”

7. Limy

Limy, an infrastructure platform for optimising brand performance in the agentic web, has emerged from stealth, announcing a $10 million funding round led by Flybridge with participation from a16z speedrun. Other investors include Axiom, AnD, Communitas & JRV.

“We’re at the beginning of a seismic shift in how information is organised on the web, and brands have to adapt to the AI powered future,” says Jeff Bussgang, General Partner and Co-Founder at Flybridge, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School.

“Limy is leading the way, turning the black box of AI into a channel for brand discoverability, engagement, and direct revenue. Agentic commerce is the future, and Limy is leading brands there.”

“We’ve been highly impressed with Limy’s distinct approach to AI discoverability, leveraging its proprietary data based on agentic behavior rather than user activity,” said Troy Kirwin, Investment Partner at a16z speedrun.

“We’re excited to be backing Limy, who are at the forefront of AI optimisation and advertising in our emerging agentic web era. We have the utmost confidence in the founding team’s technical prowess and leadership.”