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MADIC UK went from fixing pumps to running the shop
The former pump-maintenance business now connects tills, stockrooms and head offices. Its next test is making the forecourt work just as hard while drivers wait for a charge.
Tillamook Country Smoker
A backyard smokehouse became a $175 million snack business by keeping the fire real and the ingredients legible. Fifty years on, Tillamook Country Smoker is testing how far an Oregon craft story can travel.
Vontier
The company you have never heard of runs the fuel pumps, tool trucks and traffic lights you pass every day - and it is quietly betting all of them on the messy middle of the energy transition.
Murphy USA
Murphy USA built a $19 billion business around an unglamorous promise: put low-priced fuel where value-conscious drivers already go, move them through quickly, and make every square foot earn its keep.
DTEK.ai
DTEK.ai is a Dubai-based retail AI company whose flagship product, SWIFT, replaces barcode scanning with computer vision: shoppers set their items down on a kiosk, the system recognises them in a fraction of a second, and the transaction closes in about twenty to thirty seconds. Founded in January 2021 as Dukkantek - a cloud point-of-sale and store-management platform for the corner grocers of the Gulf - the company rebranded around late 2023 and rebuilt itself around vision models, adding SIGHT (turning existing CCTV into non-biometric store analytics) and a layer of configurable AI agents for loss prevention and reporting. It has raised $15.2 million across two rounds from investors including Global Founders Capital, BECO Capital, Rocketship and Wamda Capital, and in May 2026 signed its most visible deal to date: a rollout of SWIFT across 50 Oasis by ADNOC convenience stores in the UAE, with ADNOC Distribution citing a target of more than 60 percent faster checkout.
Dollar General
Dollar General is one of the largest discount retailers in the United States, operating more than 21,000 small-box stores that sell everyday essentials - food, cleaning supplies, health and beauty aids, paper products, apparel and seasonal goods - at low price points. Founded in 1939 in Tennessee, the company built its business by placing convenient, value-focused stores in small towns and rural communities that larger chains often overlook, and roughly 75% of the U.S. population lives within five miles of a Dollar General store.
Omnistream
Omnistream is an AI-powered category-management platform that helps retailers build consumer-centric, store-level planograms in minutes. Founded in 2018 by former quant trader Wendy Chen, the company integrates a retailer's sales and product data to generate assortment and shelf-space recommendations tuned to each store's local demand. Its software is deployed across 8,500+ retail locations in convenience, grocery and health & beauty, serving names like 7-Eleven, Watsons and FairPrice, and reports incremental sales gains of roughly 4-11% alongside sharp reductions in waste.