CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The future of retail is omnichannel The last three or four years have changed retail forever. 1 But despite some of the benefits of online sales, this isn’t all good news for retailers. 2 Dell Developing omnichannel omniscience requires edge data insights Now, more than ever, the edge is valuable territory for retailers.

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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

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

APRIL 21, 2022

For years grocery retailers have been using data driven forecasting to help them predict demand to figure out which products to reorder to keep shelves stocked. ” “And because that is the opinion … until now, for the most part, retailers have just relied upon people to do this part.” That’s nothing new.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2022

Organizations across every industry have been and continue to invest heavily in data and analytics. But like oil, data and analytics have their dark side. According to CIO’s State of the CIO 2022 report, 35% of IT leaders say that data and business analytics will drive the most IT investment at their organization this year.

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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

JULY 27, 2021

million led by Emergent Ventures to launch in the United States and expand in other markets. For example, if a retailer is running a targeted campaign with free shipping in certain areas, they enter that information into a spreadsheet and Rocketium automatically updates the text in the templates. The company announced it has raised $3.2

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Nigeria’s Rensource raises $20M to power African markets by solar. This means that Sabi tries to complement the middlemen ( mainly distributors) in the B2B e-commerce retail chain rather than replace them, a model familiar with other prominent B2B e-commerce retail startups such as Sokowatch, MaxAB TradeDepot and Twiga.

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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

APRIL 5, 2022

Instead of reacting to data-driven analytics, you build products that act in realtime. For instance, you can create realtime analytical dashboards for your customers. Logistics and omnichannel retailers could also benefit from a product like Tinybird. Finally, customers create API endpoints based on those queries.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

For Gareth Hemming, chief distribution officer for UK retail business at Hiscox, AI is currently streamlining the underwriting process in retail and high-net-worth home insurance, with the potential to provide more value to long-term clients.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

From lab to market at lightning speed Not long ago, cutting-edge research might take decades to translate into real-world products. The path from lab to market keeps shortening. Other retailers are rapidly following suit, deploying autonomous robots and piloting delivery drones. Today, that timeline is shrinking dramatically.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

team, expand into global markets, and add products for new business segments. He previously held leadership roles at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, building data analytics solutions for property and casualty insurance carriers. Insurance data analytics platform Planck raises $16 million Series B.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

The company, which was founded in 2019 and counts Colgate and PepsiCo among its customers, currently focuses on e-commerce, retail and financial services, but it notes that it will use the new funding to power its product development and expand into new industries. Image Credits: Noogata. ” Image Credits: Noogata.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

“Soci became an essential partner to brands for this transformation, which led to an increased need for brands to turn to technology to manage their presence in local digital market channels.” Khoury says he was inspired to found Soci by the dearth of options for brands to manage their presence across digital marketing channels.

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2024

As they take stock after the year-end frenzy of shopping the holiday season always brings, retail CIOs attending the National Retail Federation’s annual show, NRF 2024, may be wondering how they can improve their IT systems’ performance over the next 12 months. year on year in the first 11 months of 2023, AI or no AI.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

“By 2024, 60% of the data used for the development of AI and analytics projects will be synthetically generated.” We are repeating this quote here despite its ubiquity because it says a lot about the total addressable market of synthetic data. Last but not least is the time horizon. The tip of the iceberg.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Together, they arrived at the conclusion that while online brands have been built to maximize revenue growth, aided by a surge in tech and marketing solutions, e-commerce is inherently capital-intensive and low-margin. Highbeam’s analytics dashboard for e-commerce. If they have a slow month, they’ll pay back less.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

There’s one issue I have started to see more and more often: Startup founders, in their desperation to show how big their markets are, overstep the mark significantly, claiming numbers for their TAM/SAM/SOM that are unobtainable and absurd. isn’t the market size — this is the size all spending, by consumers, in grocery stores.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

The pace of innovation, the unique trust that the company has developed, and the massive market demand all point to the magnitude and scale of what this team can achieve,” said Katzenberg in a statement. This round is coming less than a year after Placer.ai’s Series B of $50 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

E-commerce marketing automation platform Klaviyo has received a $100 million strategic investment from Shopify, according to documents filed with the U.S. Using Klaviyo, businesses can set up triggers for messages about abandoned carts, product recommendations and more, leveraging an array of templates and predictive analytics tools.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Roughly 75% of that value will emanate from productivity gains across customer operations, sales and marketing, software engineering, and R&D. Standard products include employee copilots, content generation for marketing, back-office automation and enterprise knowledge search. Below are five things to look for.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In today’s mobile-centric world, effective marketing requires reaching customers through their preferred devices. Salesforce Marketing Cloud Mobile Studio empowers businesses to engage customers via SMS, push notifications, and group messaging, ensuring timely and personalized interactions.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Successful CIOs work hand-in-hand with their C-suite peers to ensure that IT initiatives reflect the company’s ambitions—enhancing operational efficiency, driving innovation, or expanding market presence. Too often, companies adopt innovative technologies based on market hype without fully understanding how they contribute to their business.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Recognize IT and business are inseparable IT and business strategies are now fully intertwined, observes Jay Upchurch, EVP and CIO at analytics vendor SAS. Collie believes it’s far more productive to ask business leaders about their own jobs, including their view of market trends and the key business challenges they’re facing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Koko Club is sourcing products directly from manufacturers and manage the inventory through a real-time management system that prevents stockouts, in addition to providing accurate market analytics. Koko Club is a technology-enabled retail platform targeting consumers in low-income neighborhoods. Image Credits: Koko Networks.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

“Users can currently connect to Stripe, QuickBooks Online, WooCommerce, Google Analytics and Admob for apps, which means they can expose their online business performance with one-click, and buyers can seamlessly assess financial and operational performance.”. Online retail, as a share of total retail sales , grew to 19.6%

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014. If you look at the entire retail situation — buying products from a brand, the buy and sell sides need to be balanced,” Hariharan said. “I He exited the company to Lowe’s in 2019.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

When it comes to commerce innovation, physical retail often feels like it gets the short end of the development stick against newer, faster-growing, more quantifiable (and still far from perfect) digital channels. Nexite’s early customer list speaks to a strong start in selling its concept and product to the market.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The company was founded in 2015 by Roy Avidor, Mor Lavi and Gilad Zirke, driven by their passion for eCommerce and a realization of the challenges faced by brands and retailers in digital commerce. The platform was built to connect brands with retailers and/or marketplaces.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 14, 2024

That said, there is a growing category of investors that is still not considered by many founders as a potential source of funding — retail investors. However, attracting money from retail investors has its peculiarities. Regulatory and other limitations abound Attracting retail investors to a private company has its limitations.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The gap in the market that Sendcloud (and would-be rivals like Shippo and Stamps.com) is addressing is a very clear one. It’s a very fragmented market on both ends of that, and so this is about bringing that together in a seamless way so retailers can just search for and pick services that work for their needs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

CEO Marlow Nickell founded Austin-based Clerk in 2016, and while he saw Amazon and Walmart plowing ahead in the marketing and product merchandising spaces, he saw a need from the rest of the space that didn’t have the capacity to innovate there. Whereas the Series A was scaling the market and team, the Series B is a pure growth round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

The other side of the business is a new monthly subscription service for stylists that helps them market their handcrafted wigs, beauty and other digital products and services. Winters explained that the driver for the new funding was technology and product development on the marketplace, marketing and stylist acquisition.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Founded three years ago and launched in 2021, Klasha is tapping into Africa’s cross-border space in a vast e-commerce market worth over $25 billion. Klasha makes revenue via sales commissions and subscriptions merchants pay to use the platform for analytics. Image Credits: Klasha. Backed by Greycroft, Klasha gets $2.4M

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