Pittsburgh, PA. March 11th, 2026: Eileen Inc. the next-gen retail technology platform, today announced it has closed a $1 million pre-seed funding round. The funding round was led by Top Shelf Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on the CPG, alcohol and vice categories. The capital will be used to scale the company’s retail insights and execution platform, which bridges the gap between real time store insights and operational execution for CPG brands of all sizes.
Eileen’s core innovation is its Performance Hub, a centralized platform that integrates store level data captured by its own network of “Shoppers”, paired with AI-driven analytics to act upon data on-the-ground at scale.
“Retail execution is the single most critical, and often most broken, part of the CPG supply chain,” said Jordan Karcher, Founder and CEO of Eileen Inc. “Brands spend billions on marketing and distribution, only to lose at the shelf because they have no visibility into what’s actually happening in-store. We built Eileen to fix that by giving brands an on-demand, real-time view of the shelf at a fraction of the cost of legacy solutions. "
The company plans to use the new capital to:
● Scale the AI Infrastructure: Enhancing the Performance Hub to handle high-frequency data from omni-channel sources.
● Expand Technical Talent: Hiring key engineers in predictive analytics and retail AI.
● Accelerate Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy: Hiring key sales and success personnel to drive adoption and scale revenue.
“Eileen is solving a massive, persistent problem with an elegant and scalable solution,” said JasonSherman, Managing Partner at Top Shelf Ventures. “The CPG industry loses billions of dollars every year to out-of-stocks and poor shelf execution, and the existing tools to address this are expensive, slow, and inaccessible tomost brands. Eileen flips that model entirely by delivering real-time, photo-verified shelf data at a fraction of the cost. We believe Eileen has the potential to become the definitive data layer for retail execution intelligence, and we are thrilled to partner with Jordan and his team.”
About Eileen Inc.
Eileen Inc. is a retail technology company headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA. Eileen provides a high-performance retail execution engine designed for the modern brand. Bycombining AI-driven prescriptive analytics with a seamless Performance Hub,Eileen helps brands instantly bridge the gap between store floor insights and operational execution.
About Top Shelf Ventures
Top Shelf Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in the best early-stage brands and technologies across the CPG and vice categories including alcohol, nicotine, cannabis-adjacent beverages, and the technologies that support them. The firm leverages deep domain expertise and an extensive industry network to identify breakout opportunities and add meaningful value post-investment.
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