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Tresl’s Segments Analytics gives small online stores the same data analytics as large sellers

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Tresl ’s flagship product, e-commerce intelligence platform Segment Analytics, is designed to give small brands on Shopify access to the same kind of analytics larger online retailers have. Segments Analytics can be used for advertising across multiple channels, including email, Facebook and Google.

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Retail tech startup Swiftly valued at $1B after bagging another $100M

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If you’re feeling some déjà vu, you would be right: this is the second $100 million the retail technology company has raised in the past six months — and in a tough fundraising market , too. To target the 200,000 brick-and-mortar food retailers in the U.S., To target the 200,000 brick-and-mortar food retailers in the U.S.,

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Location data analytics startup Placer.ai raises $50M Series B

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It’s been a very tough year for Placer.ai ’s core customer segments of retail and commercial real estate, to put it mildly. But the foot traffic and location analytics startup saw growth in new categories, including consumer packaged goods (CPG) and hedge funds that use its tech to perform due diligence.

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Cartona gets $4.5M pre-Series A to connect retailers with suppliers in Egypt

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Year-old startup Capiter announced last week that it raised a $33 million Series A to digitize Egypt’s traditional offline retail market. It’s looking to take a large pie in the budding e-commerce and retail play, where multiple startups are pulling their weight including Cartona, also a year-old startup out of Egypt.

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Microsoft partners with AiFi to launch Smart Store Analytics, a tracking service for cashierless outlets

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In partnership with AiFi , a startup that aims to enable retailers to deploy autonomous shopping tech cost-effectively, Microsoft today launched a preview of a cloud service called Smart Store Analytics. It might sound like a lot of personal data Smart Store Analytics is collecting. million purchases to date.

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Freshflow is helping grocery retailers fight food waste

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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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Inventory optimization startup Flieber bags $12M, aims to help retailers avoid out-of-stock, overstock moments

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Flieber wants to help e-commerce retailers get back to what they do best: selling. His business became one of the top sellers, he said, and he learned the dynamics of the business and online retailing. Optimization makes sure a retailer has the right inventory at any given time to sell what needs to be sold.

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