TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

When I first wrote about Retail Zipline in 2019, the startup was focused on building a communication platform that would help corporate decision-makers in retail communicate with individual stores. Image Credits: Retail Zipline. Retail will become more complex,” she said. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Kenyan B2B e-commerce company MarketForce has shut down operations in three of its five markets in Africa and is in the early stages of launching a social commerce spinout.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Luca , a startup building price planning and prediction tools for retailers, today announced that it closed a $2.5 ” Mann describes Luca as a “pricing co-pilot for enterprise retailers.” Luca’s platform attempts to optimize retail prices using historical data and other signals. million equity investment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The company, which announced a $200,000 pre-seed last September , said it intends to use the investment to hire talent, build up its processes, structure, and scale into new African markets. Most of them have fintech elements; we are not trying to be fintech — we’re in the retail automation space,” CEO Umechukwu expressed.

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CIO

MAY 2, 2023

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as Azure OpenAI have been drawing attention in recent months, and there is widespread consensus that these technologies can significantly transform the retail industry. How can Generative AI speed innovation in retail?

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CIO

APRIL 20, 2023

Retail organizations face an urgent need to accelerate digital transformation efforts in response to economic insecurity, persistent inflation, and growing consumer price sensitivity. With cloud adoption, retailers have been successful and with emerging artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities on cloud, they can break the barriers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

In 2007, Alan O’Herlihy, who previously worked with large SAP installations as well as retail, set out to find a way to help retailers minimize “shrinkage,” or where a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded inventory. ” Everseen hasn’t always succeeded in this mission. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

But of late, they’re braving a new market shaped by three major trends: stunted online shopping growth, the impact of the latest iOS privacy updates on social media customer acquisition strategies (leading to higher costs) and macroeconomic uncertainty. The new retail challenge. retail sales in Q4 of 2021, down from 13.6%

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

For e-commerce and traditional retailers looking at new ways to connect and engage with consumers, Lucky believes its approach enables them to work together to not only achieve that goal, but give consumers a better shopping experience. Shifting consumer buying behaviors means brands can’t only rely on selling via one channel anymore.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Reliance Retail has led a $240 million funding round in Google-backed hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo as the largest Indian retail chain expands to the instant commerce space, a category that has made inroads in the South Asian market in recent quarters. Reliance Retail is investing $200 million in the round for a 25.8%

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Two of the country’s biggest retailers, Walmart and Walgreens, recently announced they are launching their own financial services. But as the pandemic has forced even traditional retail banks to rethink their business model , launching a financial service isn’t as simple as taking a successful retail model and applying it to banking.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

During the pandemic, retailers were forced to embrace e-commerce. That’s why Purva Gupta launched Lily AI , an AI-powered platform that connects a retailer’s or brand’s shoppers with products they might be looking to buy. ” Prior to co-launching Lily, Gupta served in various roles at Eko India and UNICEF. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Retail investors entered the stock market in droves over the past couple of years. The first time he thought to bring those tactics to retail investors through a new tech platform occurred years later in 2021 after small activist firm Engine No. Troop’s shareholder engagement app Image Credits: Troop.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Over the past three years, it has tagged more than 250 million images and says its increased conversions for its retail customers by 10% on average. She told TechCrunch that one of the biggest challenges faced by online retailers is cart abandonment, often because of poor site search and product discovery.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

including Atlanta’s Nourish + Bloom Market that opened in January. The latest company with an injection of VC is AiFi , which enables retailers to deploy and scale autonomous shopping cost-effectively. AiFi emerges from stealth with its own take on cashier-free retail, similar to Amazon Go.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Marketplaces are the order of the day when it comes to selling online, providing a one-stop shop for shoppers, and for retailers looking to target as many would-be buyers as possible, while also creating more economies of scale in areas fulfillment and delivery. But Amazon is just the tip of the marketplace iceberg.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

“At the same time, these brands and businesses were starting to think about what comes next after being direct-to-consumer, wanting to see their retail and wholesale data all together.” In Crstl’s case, it is providing data connectivity so brands can transact with the largest retailers and distributors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Shipium is building that tech stack so that e-commerce retailers can have that supply chain coordination layer that enables them to have fast and cheaper shipping, too. This comes as the global e-commerce logistics market is poised to be valued at over $3 trillion by 2028. He will also be adding to its sales and marketing teams.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

In Nigeria, POS terminals are used to process card payments at retail locations as well as for agency banking purposes, a branchless banking system where agents act like human ATMs. One of the biggest challenges to the mass adoption of card payments at retail locations is the rate of transaction failures due to poor internet connection.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Over the past two years, Asia’s retailers were forced to do virtual meetings instead of visiting in-person trade shows or conferences to source new brands and products due to the pandemic lockdowns.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

Progcap serves more than 700,000 small retailers, who dot hundreds of Indian cities and towns. The startup extends a revolving credit line of $10,000 to $12,500 to retailers, providing them with much-needed capital to buy new inventories and grow their businesses. The market is completely unorganized and insufficiently addressed.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Fyllo has acquired DataOwl , a company offering marketing and loyalty tools for cannabis retailers. Fyllo said it already works with 320 cannabis retailers across 25 states (plus Puerto Rico and Jamaica). Cannabis marketing company Fyllo acquires CannaRegs for $10M. “In 2020, cannabis came of age,” he said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

India’s market regulator has tightened disclosure norms for firms looking to file for an initial public offering after lackluster performance of more than half a dozen tech startups in the past year and a half. The regulator said the new step is aimed at bringing parity between retail and private equity investors. No problem.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

We last heard from Ometria , an “AI-powered” customer marketing platform allowing brands and retailers to personalize marketing messages, in 2019 when it raised $21 million in a Series B. The hybrid of human-machine and computer intelligence is the only way to serve this need.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Retailers have traditionally onboarded their drop-ship, marketplace and wholesale suppliers using electronic data interchange (EDI), which is a fancy way of saying information that is sent from one company to another electronically. This way, retailers can more easily discover and change out inventory.

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CIO

JANUARY 12, 2023

GPU manufacturer Nvidia is expanding its enterprise software offering with three new AI workflows for retailers it hopes will also drive sales of its hardware accelerators. The workflows are built on Nvidia’s existing AI technology platform. The first non-Amazon supermarket to use the company’s technology opened in Kansas City in December.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Our brand is very disruptive on the shelf, and so we believe that retail is important in our discovery. DTC is going to be a much smaller portion than we expected while we use retail as more of the beginning of a funnel.” “They’re excited to touch and feel and discover new products.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Live shopping is one of the most exciting retail experiences in a long time. As shoppers become increasingly eager to buy via live shopping on social platforms such as Instagram and TikTok, retailers face new challenges: How to capture the shoppers’ attention on social media when the urge to buy hits?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Five years and over four product introductions later, Michaelson and co-founder Calvin Bohn are guiding the company to take matters into its own hands and expand by opening a first-of-its-kind cat café and launching into retail, Michaelson said. This was buoyed by $19 million in Series B funding in a round that closed in mid-2022.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2023

For example, Attentive’s cease-and-desist letter complained about the timeline in Postscript’s marketing, which says that former customer BUBS Naturals was a customer of Attentive for three years when Attentive says BUBs was a customer for roughly half as long. Postscript is making gains in the market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Better.com finally went public The biggest fintech news of the week centered around Better.com’s no good, very bad public market debut. But I’m not sure anyone expected it to be hovering at a share price that gave Better.com a market cap of just $19.14 From Manish Singh are two stories on India retail giant Reliance Retail.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Now with both the direct-to-consumer, national retail and hair color bars doing well, the eight-year-old company wants to establish even more of a local relationship with customers by expanding the number of color bars it operates across the country and having a presence in retailers where they typically shop.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

But for retail businesses, it’s the most critical time of the year. Retail e-commerce channels such as Amazon, Walmart and Instacart, where a majority of all e-commerce happens, will be the real holiday battlefront. The trend will likely continue at other major retailers as we head into the holidays.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Being in control of customer data is one of the ways retailers, like Amazon, Spotify and Netflix, are able to tap into consumer behavior and create customized experiences whenever a user logs in. Particular Audience provides product discovery tools for retailers that are powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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