About Retenza

We believe great support shouldn't be expensive

Retenza started with a simple observation: most Shopify support tickets ask the same questions. We built an AI that answers them — instantly, accurately, and in any language.

2,400+

Active Shopify stores

18M+

Emails processed

83%

Average automation rate

4.9/5

Average customer rating

Our Mission

Make world-class customer support accessible to every Shopify store

Large brands have entire support departments. Small and mid-sized Shopify stores compete on the same product quality — but not always on support speed. Retenza levels the playing field.

Our vision: a world where every customer gets a helpful, accurate reply within seconds — regardless of the size of the store they're shopping from.

Speed is a feature

A customer waiting 4 hours for a reply is a customer considering a refund. We build every feature with latency as a first-class concern.

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AI that respects humans

Our AI assists your team — it never replaces judgement. Low-confidence replies always land in a human inbox first.

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Privacy by design

Multi-tenant isolation, encrypted at rest, GDPR-compliant. Your customers' data is yours — we're just the processor.

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Truly global

Your customers write in French, Polish, Arabic, Spanish. We reply in their language, automatically, from day one.

The Team

Built by people who understand e-commerce

Our team has built, scaled, and sold Shopify stores. We know the pain from the inside.

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Aleksander Nowak

CEO & Co-Founder

Former Head of E-commerce at Allegro. Built and sold two Shopify apps. Passionate about making great customer support accessible to every online store.

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Marta Kowalska

CTO & Co-Founder

ML engineer with 8 years at Google DeepMind. Led the language detection team that now powers Retenza. PhD in Computational Linguistics, Warszawa University.

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Tomasz Wiśniewski

Head of Product

Former product lead at Shopify Plus. Obsessed with workflows that feel obvious in hindsight. Runs a small side store to stay close to the problem.

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Zofia Dąbrowska

Head of Customer Success

Built the support team at a 7-figure Shopify brand from scratch. Knows exactly what it feels like to be drowning in a support queue on a Monday morning.

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Karol Jabłoński

Lead Engineer

Full-stack engineer specialising in real-time systems and AI pipelines. Previously built high-throughput email infrastructure handling 50M+ messages/day.

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Nikola Pérez

Design Lead

Designer with roots in Barcelona and Warsaw. Believes that great SaaS software should feel as good as consumer apps. Formerly at Figma's design team.

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Our Journey

From idea to 2,400+ stores

2023 Q1

The idea

Alek and Marta notice the same pattern in every e-commerce support team they talk to: 70% of tickets are repetitive, templated answers. They decide to build the fix.

2023 Q3

Private beta

First 12 customers. First 10,000 AI-assisted emails processed. Average response time drops from 3.8 hours to 4 minutes. First letter of investment interest arrives.

2024 Q1

Seed round — €1.2M

Closed a €1.2M seed round led by a Warsaw-based fund. Hired the first 4 engineers and the head of design. Moved into proper offices in the heart of Warsaw.

2024 Q3

Public launch

Launched publicly at Shopify Unite. 400 sign-ups in the first week. Featured in TechCrunch, Product Hunt (#2 Product of the Day), and Shopify's own partner blog.

2025 Q1

2,000 stores milestone

Crossed 2,000 active Shopify stores. Launched multilingual support (40+ languages). Expanded the team to 18 people across engineering, success, and sales.

2025 Q4

Series A — €6M

Raised €6M Series A to expand into Germany, France, and the UK. Launched enterprise tier with custom SLAs, SSO, and dedicated account managers.

2026

What's next

Expanding to voice support, WhatsApp, and Instagram DMs. Building the best AI support platform for every channel Shopify merchants use to talk to customers.

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