TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Surfside , a data and marketing platform aimed directly at the cannabis industry, has today announced the close of a $4 million seed round led by Casa Verde. The startup is relatively new, but helmed by two founders experienced in the marketing and data space. to help these brands better understand their customers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Consumers want their packages faster, but not every business has the kind of supply chain technology as Amazon or Walmart. 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 is, until now.

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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

MARCH 11, 2022

including Atlanta’s Nourish + Bloom Market that opened in January. Behind some of that cashierless technology are startup companies like Sensei , Standard Cognition , Zippin , Grabango and Trigo , which all recently took in venture capital to advance their approaches. 4 views on the future of retail and the shopping experience.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Following nearly four years in the prototype phase, Cana Technology is unveiling what it calls the “world’s first molecular beverage printer” after securing $30 million in funding from venture foundry The Production Board. The new funding is being heavily invested into the supply chain and continued technology development, Mahar said.

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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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CIO

APRIL 4, 2024

The layoffs will affect AWS’ sales, marketing, and brick-and-mortar technology development teams. However, the company faces intense competition in the cloud computing market, particularly from Microsoft, which has emerged as a formidable rival. Google also saw an increase in its market share.

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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

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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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. But Nvidia suggests that its loss prevention technology could eliminate 30% of shrinkage.

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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 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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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

AUGUST 10, 2021

consumer investing and trading service Robinhood announced this morning that it will acquire Say Technologies in a $140 million cash deal. Say Technologies is a venture-backed startup, having raised $8 million in 2018, per Crunchbase data. Robinhood has a huge user pool of retail investors who like to trade and invest.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2023

We’ve also brought a federal lawsuit in January of 2023 against Postscript for ongoing and willful infringement of our multiple patents for our two-tap mobile technology, which revolutionized brands’ ability to add customers to their SMS lists in a compliant way.” Postscript is making gains in the market.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

In March 2020, right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the company pivoted from B2C to B2B and used the technology rails it had built to create the e-commerce marketing platform that Givz is today. million retailers that use Shopify as their e-commerce platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

PrimaryBid , which allows retail investors (that is, ordinary and not professional investors ) the ability to invest in new shares issued by public companies, has raised $50 million in new funding of its own. s public companies by providing additional capital and liquidity. . s public companies by providing additional capital and liquidity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

The future of digital retail has arrived in Paris, naturally. Today, SPIN by lablaco, launched its first digitized retail experience called Web3 Fashion: The Origin Story at the famed Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées. Technology is the key to making fashion more sustainable and circular in the long run,” she said. “We

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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

JULY 15, 2021

million seed round boosts Butlr Technologies ’ ability to apply its real-time people-sensing technology beyond commercial real estate and retail uses to monitor falls and other movements for active seniors who are aging in place. We can bring dignity back to the technology world, while also understanding users’ needs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The “native retail” startup announced today that it has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Accel. What a time to take a leap and start a company at the intersection of hospitality and physical retail, two industries that were getting decimated,” he said. Then it’s delivered to your home in a few days.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

MarketForce, a Kenyan B2B retail and financial services distribution startup, has expanded into five additional markets across Africa to grow RejaReja — its retailer ‘super app’ that makes it possible for informal merchants to order and pay for inventory digitally, accept payments for utility bills, and access financing for their businesses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

startup is hoping to fix that with the launch of its new app and platform for retail investors. Sustainable investments have continued to outperform markets since the beginning of the Covid-19 Crisis and we believe this will continue.”.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

How AI and Automation is Changing the Retail Game As the digital landscape continues to evolve, retailers are increasingly turning to AI and automation to gain a competitive edge. Enter AI and automation , two powerful tools that can transform the retail landscape.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

A look at how the use of technology in retail stores are helping them outplay the e-Commerce giants. It’s no secret that retail businesses are going through a pivotal phase; an existential crisis triggered by skyrocketing rate of digital adoption and the burgeoning presence of biggies like Amazon and others. alone in 2020.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Bzaar , a business-to-business cross-border marketplace, is connecting retailers with over 50 export-ready manufacturers in India. buyers did not have feet on the ground in manufacturing hubs, like China, to manage shipments of goods in the same way that large retailers did. Small businesses in the U.S. Traditionally, small U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

TryNow — which provides technology to online retailers that use Shopify Plus to let their customers receive and try out apparel, return what they don’t want and pay only for what they keep — has raised $12 million, funding that it will be using to continue expanding its business. As-a-service, at your service.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Enter Emi , the latest company targeting technology to this portion of the workforce with a conversational artificial intelligence recruiting tool. The technology automates communication between global enterprises and candidates using a conversational interface. Poor onboarding is the enemy of good hiring.

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2024

Healthcare: digital assistants for Dx and Rx The market for healthcare chatbots globally is projected to more than triple to $647 million by 2030, according to Vantage Market Research. billion, according to Verified Market Research. billion by 2032, according to Allied Market Research. billion in 2022 to $6.9

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

E-commerce is an $85 billion business in Latin America, and as that market is poised to essentially double in three years , the current consumer demands to receive orders on time and packaged correctly will only increase. Joining them is JAM Fund and existing investors Flexport, FundersClub and Vast VC.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Grocery store technology hasn’t changed much in decades, so when the pandemic hit, it served as a wake-up call to the industry, highlighting its shortcomings, especially concerning e-commerce. Grocery stores that don’t adapt will most likely lose out on market share. Bagging capital and expanding footprints.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

In 2015, Rehmann teamed up with his longtime business partner Steve Moran to explore Lake Victoria and perform some feasibility studies on how they could use technology to disrupt the country’s cold chain markets. They raised an angel round to start Victory Farms before launching in mid-2016 to serve a market with about a $1.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Contactless grocery store Nourish + Bloom Market opened to the public Friday in Trilith’s Town Centre retail district in Atlanta. Market users download the app and enter their payment information. Prior to opening today, the market was in beta testing for two months.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Pistil Data, a cannabis market intelligence platform , has closed a $6.5 Pistil Data makes market intelligence accessible to cannabis brands and organizes billions of data points to provide customized sales opportunities for cannabis brands. million seed round led by Snoop Dogg’s Casa Verde.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Stonehenge Technology Labs wants consumer packaged goods companies to gain meaningful use from all of the data they collect. This was not a consequence of them not being good marketers or connected to mom, but they didn’t have the technology to connect their back end with retailers like Amazon, Walmart or Hobby Lobby,” she told TechCrunch.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Retailers are pushing their customer service and supply chain systems to new limits in anticipation of record spending this holiday season. Just a year after the release of ChatGPT, gen AI is generating value in many different industries, including retail. Faster resolution times can save retailers time and costs.

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