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FoodHealth Built the Everything App. It Failed. Now It Wants to Score Every Grocery Aisle.
FoodHealth's first nutrition app tried to do everything and did none of it especially well. Two pivots later, its 1-to-100 score is inside major grocers, industry data products and a new GLP-1 shopping app - a useful lesson in saving the engine while scrapping the vehicle.
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.
Shopic
Shopic is a Tel Aviv-based retail technology company that turns ordinary shopping carts into AI-powered smart carts using a clip-on device driven by computer vision. Its platform recognizes items at the individual level in real time, enabling frictionless checkout, targeted in-store promotions, loss prevention, and store analytics without requiring retailers to rip out and replace their existing fleet of carts. Founded in 2015 by cybersecurity veterans, Shopic has raised roughly $56M and deployed with grocers including Israel's Shufersal, Walmart Chile, and Italian and French chains.