Exclusive: AI grocery startup Vori raises $22 million to help independent retailers compete with Walmart and Amazon

Brandon Hill’s parents met and fell in love in an independent grocery store. Decades later, the startup founder is trying to make sure stores like that don’t get swallowed up by Walmart and Amazon.

Hill is the cofounder and CEO of Vori, a San Francisco company building “the self-driving operating system for supermarkets.” The company has raised a $22 million Series B led by Cherryrock Capital—led by former TaskRabbit CEO Tracy Brown-Phillbot—Fortune learned exclusively. Greylock Partners...