RetailNext

RetailNext

RetailNext was co-founded by CEO Alexei Agratchev and COO Marlie Liu to translate e-commerce style metrics into physical retail environments. The company outfits stores with people-counting sensors, video, and cloud-based analytics, tying foot traffic, dwell time, and conversion data back to staffing, merchandising, and marketing decisions. More than 560 brands deploy the platform globally, with a stated footprint exceeding 100 countries. The platform covers traffic counting, occupancy management, loss prevention, shopper journey analytics, and labor optimization — aggregating data from over 100,000 sensors. Confirmed brand relationships span apparel, luxury, footwear, beauty, and electronics, including Calvin Klein, Ulta Beauty (per the firm's website), Razer, Mizzen+Main, Camper, and The Vitamin Shoppe. The architecture supports both direct sensor deployment and API-based integrations, enabling retailers to combine operational data from other systems. Geographic use cases cited by the firm include deployments across the GCC, Taiwan, and global brand rollouts. In 2025, RetailNext won the VIP award for Best Retail Insights, and earlier the company received a growth investment from Battery Ventures to fund M&A and product development (per the firm, 2025). The leadership team includes CTO Jason Luther, CRO Sergio Gutierrez, and Chief People Officer Andrew Golden alongside the co-founders. The company markets a SOC 2 Type II compliance posture and 24/7 multi-lingual support. RetailNext's structural differentiator is its consolidation of traditionally separate store technologies — traffic sensors, video analytics, and loss prevention — into one cloud platform operated by the retailer rather than through fragmented vendor contracts. This single-vendor convergence replaces point solutions for counting and security, a model the firm claims can reduce costs by about 40% versus separate systems (per its website).