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FRENCH RETAILTECH HUB - POWERED BY BUSINESS FRANCE
Business France fosters export growth by French businesses, facilitating international investment in France. It promotes France’s companies, business image and nationwide attractiveness as an investment location.
Retail has long been a flagship sector of the French economy, and the growth seen in the French e-commerce market in the past few years has meant that the country’s Retail Tech start-ups, and scale ups have proved their immense value to retailers.
Business France was proud to present 6 exciting start-ups at the Retail Technology Show 2026 who will shape the future of retail technology. Business France also hosted the Retail Connect Rendez-Vous networking evening on 21st April 2026. Attendees had the chance to listen to an insightful panel discussion & network with industry leaders from both sides of the channel.
Agentic AI styling that converts browsers into buyers. Style doubt is the number one driver of cart abandonment. CloZ eliminates it. This agentic AI styling engine integrates directly into e-commerce platforms, automatically curating complete, shoppable looks from the retailer's full catalogue in real time. CloZ boasts a measurable impact on the metrics that matter most to retailers: higher conversion rates, higher average order values, fewer returns and significantly more exposure for long-tail inventory.
Turning AI into measurable performance across the e-commerce journey. Kleep Studio's sizing and fit recommendation engine reduces returns and removes friction at the point of purchase, and it transforms standard product imagery into high-impact visual content at scale. The result: less friction, lower return rates stronger conversion, and a more sustainable retail operation. In short, AI that directly improves digital profitability.
Fewer stockouts. Less overstock. Faster response to demand shifts. Smarter supply chains, built for margin protection. Metreecs goes beyond prediction to drive action. By combining internal data, market signals and granular product attributes its AI platform generates SKU and location-level forecasts. It then turns them into clear recommendations for planning, replenishment and stock rebalancing. The system learns continuously, helping retail and wholesale teams stay ahead of demand shifts before they become costly problems.
Precision footfall intelligence for performance-driven retailers. My People Counter delivers advanced 3D traffic analytics, conversion tracking and real-time occupancy insights across store networks. From visitor flow to staffing optimisation, retailers gain the clarity needed to improve productivity and conversion. GDPR‑compliant and scalable across global networks, My People Counter turns visitor data into actionable intelligence that drives in-store ROI.
AI-driven pricing optimisation delivering measurable margin impact. PricingHUB translates complex consumer elasticity data into clear, actionable pricing strategies. Proven impact: +3.5% average margin uplift across its client base in 2024. In a volatile, increasingly automated market, PricingHUB gives retailers the intelligence to protect profitability and sharpen their competitive edge.
Shopopop is a crowdshipping delivery solution that connects physical stores with a community of individual deliverers. It helps retailers offer a fairer and sustainable delivery service to their customers, who can choose to be delivered differently, in a conscious way. Shopopop optimises everyone’s resources by combining the best of technology and human common sense. Shopopop aims to make crowdshipping delivery the new standard for goods transport and already operates in France, Benelux, Italy and Spain, with over 8 million deliveries and 1.75 million users. Shopopop works with leading brands like Carrefour, Dia, E.leclerc, Eurospin, Auchan and Interflora.