Porto & Lisbon, Portugal · Accelerator Bright Pixel (formerly Sonae IM) is the technology investment arm of Portugal's Sonae Group, operating as a corporate venture studio from Porto and Lisbon. Founded as Sonae IM and rebranded in 2020, Bright Pixel invests EUR 1-5M at Series A and B in cybersecurity, retail tech, telecom, and fintech companies across Europe and Israel. The firm manages over EUR 200M and has backed companies including Outsystems, Feedzai, and S21sec. Bright Pixel provides portfolio companies with strategic access to Sonae's retail and telecom operations for piloting and commercial partnerships.
Warsaw, Poland · Startup Cosmose AI is a Polish-founded retail-AI company that predicts offline shopping behavior for hundreds of millions of consumers across Asia and integrates with on-device advertising and rewards platforms. Founded by Miron Mironiuk in Warsaw, the company has raised funding from international investors including Tim Draper, Tencent, and Polish operator-angels Brent Hoberman and Paweł Kastory.
Berlin, Germany · Event Pure B2B expo for e-commerce service providers. Price: free with B2B registration and approval. High ROI for startups selling logistics, payments, marketing automation, or retention tools.
Dusseldorf, Germany · Event Retail tech hotspot integrated into EuroShop 2026. Price: about EUR 70 day ticket or EUR 120 full event. Focus on checkout-free stores, AI analytics, and omnichannel payment systems.
Dusseldorf, Germany · Event The world's largest retail trade fair, held triennially in Dusseldorf and attracting 90,000+ visitors from across the global retail ecosystem. Showcases immersive store tech, analytics, digital signage, and next-generation checkout solutions. Day tickets cost about EUR 70-120. Essential for retail tech startups seeking enterprise pilot opportunities.
Szczecin, Poland · Startup IAI (IdoSell) is a Szczecin-based e-commerce SaaS platform that provides merchants with a complete toolkit to run online stores, integrate with marketplaces like Allegro and Amazon, and manage multi-channel order operations at scale. Founded as one of Poland's earliest e-commerce infrastructure companies, IdoSell powers thousands of online shops and processes billions of PLN in gross merchandise volume annually. The platform includes product catalog management, warehouse logistics, payment processing, and cross-border selling capabilities, making it a core part of the Polish e-commerce stack.
Munich, Germany · Event Jewelry and watch trade fair with the Trendfactory forum on retail tech, 3D printing, and wearables. Price: about EUR 34 early online to EUR 79 on-site.
Kraków, Poland · Startup InPost is a Polish logistics company that pioneered the parcel-locker model in Europe, allowing customers to send and receive packages from automated self-service points (Paczkomaty) instead of home delivery. Founded by Rafał Brzoska, it grew into the largest out-of-home delivery network in Poland and expanded into the UK, France, Italy, and the Benelux. InPost went public on the Amsterdam Euronext stock exchange in January 2021 in one of Europe's largest tech IPOs of that year.
London, United Kingdom · Event Retail innovation event at ExCeL London showcasing payments, in-store analytics, loyalty platforms, and omnichannel solutions. Free for qualified retailers; vendors pay for exhibition space. Attracts 10,000+ retail technology buyers and decision-makers. Valuable for retail-tech startups seeking direct access to UK high-street and e-commerce buyers.
Zurich, Switzerland · Startup Scandit is a Zurich-based enterprise software company founded in 2009 by Samuel Mueller and Christian Floerkemeier as an ETH Zurich spin-out. The company built a computer vision and AI data capture platform that enables enterprises to scan barcodes, QR codes, text, and ID documents using standard smartphone cameras, eliminating the need for dedicated hardware scanners. Scandit's SDK is embedded in apps used by logistics companies, retailers, healthcare providers, and manufacturers to power item scanning for picking, inventory management, and patient safety workflows. The company has raised over $150M from investors including Atomico, G2VP, and Swisscom Ventures, and its technology runs in production at DHL, Sephora, the NHS, and hundreds of other enterprise customers. Scandit operates globally from Zurich with offices in London, Boston, and Tokyo, and is one of Switzerland's most prominent B2B enterprise software scale-ups.
Berlin, Germany · Event Executive-level forum for global retail leadership in Berlin, attracting 1,000+ C-suite executives from major retail brands and technology providers. Registration costs about GBP 2500+. Features keynotes on retail transformation, AI-driven commerce, and sustainability. Valuable for retail-tech scaleups seeking strategic partnerships with global retail decision-makers.