Zynstra

Zynstra is a software company that builds technology for the retail edge, meaning the servers and devices inside shops rather than in a central data centre. Its founders are experienced technology entrepreneurs, and it has backing from Octopus Ventures.

What Zynstra offers

• Virtualised store — back-office and front-office store systems run on software.
• Virtualised POS — till software delivered through the same platform.
• Line-busting POS tablets — handheld devices to shorten queues.
• Virtualised self-checkout — self-service tills managed centrally.
• PCI-DSS compliance support — help meeting card-payment security rules.

Who it works with

Large, widely spread retailers that want business-class IT in every store without complex set-up.

Key facts

• Backer: Octopus Ventures
• Compliance: Tier 1 PCI-DSS
• Focus: software for the store edge, not the data centre