Investor Overview · Series B
lōcal

The commerce
operating system
for independent retail.

lōcal is building the infrastructure layer that makes every local retailer discoverable, shippable, and competitive in the AI age — starting with the United States, built for the world.

$30M
Series B raise Accredited investors only
The full story below

"We are not building a shopping app. We are building the infrastructure that lets any retailer — anywhere in the world — sell to anyone, anywhere, today."

The untouched market

35 million local businesses.
Invisible to the internet.

$4.9T
U.S. local retail annually — larger than all U.S. e-commerce combined. The money is already there. The discovery layer isn't.
85%
of all U.S. transactions still happen in physical stores. Consumers want local. They just can't find it.
35M
independent retailers in the U.S. with no scalable way to reach customers beyond their block. lōcal changes that.
0
dominant platforms for real-time local inventory discovery. This category is wide open. We are building it.
What lōcal builds

Three layers.
One platform.

Layer 01
🔍
Discovery

lōcal is the search engine for real-time local inventory. 3,500+ retail partners already connected. Consumers search "Nike size 10 near me" and see who has it, in stock, right now — not ads, not Amazon, not guesswork.

🟢 Live in pilot markets
Layer 02
Fulfillment

Three fulfillment modes, one platform. Same-day courier for local delivery. Standard shipping when the store is farther out. Global shipping so a boutique in Chicago can sell to someone in Tokyo. Every retailer, worldwide reach.

🔶 Scaling now
Layer 03
🧠
Intelligence

AI-powered tools that give independent retailers capabilities only Amazon had before. Demand forecasting. Trend alerts. Competitive signals. Automated pricing. The AI age shouldn't leave small business behind. lōcal makes sure it doesn't.

⬜ Building now
The AI opportunity

Every AI assistant
needs a
local inventory index.

When someone asks ChatGPT, Siri, or Google AI "where can I get Nike size 10 near me right now" — there is no good answer. That data doesn't exist in a structured, real-time way anywhere.

lōcal becomes that index. We don't just power our own search — we license local inventory data to every AI platform that wants to answer local commerce questions. That's a data business worth multiples of the consumer app.

You
Where can I get Nike Air Max size 10 near me today?
AI
Powered by lōcal inventory index

I found 3 stores near you with Nike Air Max in size 10, available today:
👟
Nike Air Max 270 — Size 10
Fleet Feet Sports · 0.4 mi · ⚡ 42 min delivery
👟
Nike Air Force 1 — Size 10
Running Co. · 1.1 mi · 🏪 Pickup ready
How we fulfill

Find it locally.
Buy it globally.

It doesn't matter if the store is four blocks away or four states away. We handle the fulfillment. Every retailer in our network can sell to anyone in the world — without hiring a logistics team.

Same-Day Local

Product found nearby. Courier dispatched within minutes. Customer receives it in under two hours. No planning required.

Under 2 hours
📦
Ship Anywhere in the U.S.

Store is in another city? We arrange shipping. The retailer packs it. We handle the rest. 1–3 days, nationwide.

1–3 days nationwide
🌍
Ship to the World

A boutique in Austin. A customer in London. lōcal connects them. 35 million local retailers suddenly have a global storefront. That's the mission.

Global reach
The global vision

The United States
is Phase One.
The world is the goal.

Once the infrastructure works in the U.S. — the retailer onboarding, the inventory index, the fulfillment network, the AI layer — it works everywhere. Every country has the same problem. No platform has solved local retail discovery globally. We will.

Now — Active
United States

3,500+ retailers. Pilot markets live. Series B funds national expansion across all 50 states.

Phase Two
UK & Europe

Same infrastructure. Same AI layer. New market. Independent retail is even more culturally embedded in Europe than the U.S.

Phase Three
Asia Pacific

The largest retail markets in the world. Japan, South Korea, Australia. Local retail culture at massive scale.

The destination
Every Market

Any retailer anywhere selling to any customer anywhere. The commerce operating system for the planet.

"We are not focused on profitability right now. We are focused on planting seeds in businesses that will be very large and will matter to customers and will be meaningful to our company."

Jeff Bezos · Amazon shareholder letter · 1997 · $1.6B market cap at the time
Get involved

The infrastructure
for local retail's
AI era.

We are raising $30M in Series B to scale nationally and begin global expansion. We have the network. We have the technology. We have the traction. We are looking for partners who think in decades, not quarters.

For Investors
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Series B materials including financials, traction data, and the full platform roadmap. Accredited investors only.

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For Retailers
Join the network

Get your inventory in front of local customers — and the world. Founding retailers get priority placement and zero fees for 6 months.

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