TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

Here’s a fashion rental startup with a twist: London, U.K.-based Curated Loop’s co-founders, Anna Caldana and Rachel Mcluckie, bring a background in (and passion for) fashion to what they hope will be badged as a fresh approach to designer rentals. So the promise is access to unique high-end designs. to rent the look).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Walmart is expanding its array of virtual try-on services for shoppers with today’s news that it’s planning to acquire Memomi , an AR optical tech company and current Walmart partner offering virtual try-on experience for eyewear. With the addition of Memomi, the retailer says the interest was both in the tech and the team.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Seemingly, much of Maisonette’s traction owes to the trust it has built with customers, who see its offerings as high-end yet accessible relative to the many high-end fashion brands that are also increasingly focused on the children’s market, like Gucci and Burberry. “It’s why people liked wedding registries.

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CIO

JANUARY 13, 2025

Click on the TV or stream your latest newscast and there is a good chance youll hear AI mentioned in some fashion. In a world with thousands of categories, millions of products and hundreds of millions of consumers, when an individual walks into a virtual storefront, a company will be able to make remarkably specific predictions.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Startups that deliver sustainable personalization solutions that also improve business for retailers and brands fall into three categories: AR virtual try-on with shade matching. Advanced virtual fitting rooms with VR/AR for fashion. AR virtual try-on with shade matching.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Now, in a spot of perfect timing, a startup out of Talinn, Estonia, called Ready Player Me — which has built a popular platform for creating dynamic, animated avatars to use across virtual worlds built and operated by others — is announcing $56 million in funding to grow its business.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

A startup called Soona , now backed by an additional $35 million in Series B funding, has been tapping into this market with its platform that allows brands to create content for their e-commerce websites and marketing through “virtual” photo and video shoots. “We invite you to join your photo shoot in the browser.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

All over the world startups are piling into the space marked “virtual interaction and collaboration”. Step forward Cosmos Video , which has a virtual venues platform that allows people to work, hang out and socialize together. Cosmos allows users to create virtual venues by combining game mechanics with video chat.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Today, SPIN by lablaco, launched its first digitized retail experience called Web3 Fashion: The Origin Story at the famed Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées. The plan is to host a three-week takeover with Crypto.com, showing consumers how digitized fashion could lay the path toward a zero-waste and more sustainable future.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

They started using data virtualization, which reduced the need for large data warehouses by decoupling data consumption from origination. But Hardy says a better approach is for them to change their data management practices and infrastructure in an iterative fashion.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A company from the creator of Ello and Kidrobot is announcing a new $20 million funding round to build out an imagined virtual world populated with deranged-yet-cute cartoon influencers. “I’m more interested in connecting the real world, not just doing stuff that’s all virtual,” Budnitz said. Ello, Ello?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Does the average person want to shop for apparel in virtual reality (VR)? Enter Emperia , an “immersive” retail startup that — to its credit — has already created virtual stores for brands including Bloomingdales, Dior, Ralph Lauren and Lacoste. A virtual store created with Emperia’s platform.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2021

He also knew he wanted to start with people first, and build a founding team that had deep DNA in the fashion world to pair with his technical background. The second was more pointed: That fashion, at the time underserved by technology, was a discovery process over a direct search process. “Lead with love, and the money comes.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Pixyle AI’s neural networks train its visual AI algorithms to not only identify fashion items in an image, but also categorize them by attribute, like color or pattern, that match the keywords shoppers use when searching for an item. The goal is to “see” images as a human would.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

And we built an experience that effectively is a virtual office. And so it tries to represent the best parts of what a physical office experience might be like, but in a virtual form,” Singh explained to me. Wall Street needs to relax, as startups show remote work is here to stay.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

NFTs could bridge video games and the fashion industry — Real-life fashion brands use NFTs for marketing in virtual worlds like Minecraft, as well as in several Atari and Microsoft video games. Advice and analysis from Extra Crunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Today, TechCrunch is hosting TC Spotlight: Austin — a virtual event highlighting the innovation, investment and entrepreneurship in the region. In true TechCrunch fashion, part two is a pitch-off with an amazing group of of founders from the Texas region.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Kea is a new startup giving restaurants an opportunity to upgrade one of the more old-fashioned ways that they take orders — over the phone. ” Similarly, Ahmad said that for restaurants, paying substantial third-party ordering fees on all of their orders is “not a sustainable long-term strategy.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

This morning, let’s quickly calculate its IPO valuation range, its resulting multiples, and compare the company to a related entity to get a grip on what the market is telling us about the fashion rental unicorn. and virtual (character skins, NFTs, etc). Pricing Rent the Runway. First, a bit of an apology.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

– Tech-enabled, virtual respiratory care provider that makes it easy to take the unknown and unmanageable out of respiratory illness and give control back to the patients suffering from it. Mindset Medical – Delivers a portfolio of proprietary virtual technologies that advance the full continuum of patient care.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Africa’s beauty and personal care market is growing accelerated by its growing young and fashion conscious population, increasing spending power, and urbanization. The market’s potential has in recent years attracted major brands, with Fenty Beauty by Rihanna and LVMH being the latest entrants.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

In April 2022, the company introduced tools that turn retailers’ photos into 3D assets and launched an in-app destination for AR fashion and virtual try-on called “Dress Up.” Amazon also launched a virtual try-on experience for shoes in June 2022, available to consumers in the U.S. and Canada in the Amazon iOS app.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

While books and talks galore have been published on pitching, the reality is that the art of the pitch deck is a constantly changing fashion. The pandemic last year upended notions of how to draft a deck, given that founders had to pitch virtually on shared screens.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Fashion has been a primary focus for “try before you buy” services online, but the model is not limited to it. “Prime Wardrobe has solidified the power of that model for fashion, but we believe it’s much larger. . We think that any purchase that is discretionary should be tried before it is bought.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

That’s the reason why the likes of Amazon have historically struggled to move fashion and home decor items online. A virtual rendition of a refrigerator allows users to open and close the door, for instance. As long as the product images are in at least 1080p resolution, Aluru said, Avataar can stitch a virtual and 3D version from it.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

And for e-tailers it touts an average drop of 39% in shoe returns as online shoppers are able to get a virtual gauge on the best fit and so will be able to pick a better sized pair of kicks for their feet — which it also claims translates into a 20% increase in ARPU (or an additional $0.5/month month per user).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Today, TechCrunch is virtually hosting TC City Spotlight: Columbus — an event shining a spotlight on the innovation, investment and entrepreneurship in the region. In true TechCrunch fashion, part two is a pitch-off with an amazing group of founders from the Ohio region.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Google has selected 30 startups to receive a share of its $2 million Black Founders Fund in Europe, providing these companies with a spot of cash, some valuable cloud services and a bit of good old-fashioned networking among the Google crew. Suvera – Suvera delivers a virtual care clinic for patients with long-term conditions in the UK.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

When the global pandemic hit, they had long-term lease commitments, but with business and leisure travel halted, they pivoted their company into a virtual leasing office using AI to automate the conversion process, which became Zuma, Gettu said in an interview.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 14, 2024

We formulated a Retrieval-Augmented-Generation (RAG) solution that would allow the PGA TOUR to create a prototype for a future fan engagement platform that could make its data accessible to fans in an interactive fashion in a conversational format. To enable quick information retrieval, we use Amazon Kendra as the index for these documents.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The company is also officially launching its first product and service in November after closing over 10 partnerships in Chicago and Seattle, including a collaboration with Fashionbar at Chicago Fashion Week, taking place this week.

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Daffodil Software

AUGUST 2, 2024

With the changing consumer behaviour and desires, the lines between the industries such as retail , fashion , fintech and healthcare are slowly and steadily fading with technology.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

“I’ll always believe that getting things working end-to-end in a timely fashion and iterating on user feedback is the priority. This includes virtual private clouds, which can be useful for companies dealing with privacy and regulatory concerns. “As they say in product teams, K.I.S.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

Virtual reality, Meta style : Meta’s new virtual reality headset technology is going to focus on face-tracking and eye-tracking, features the company calls “social presence,” Ivan writes. Squadhelp CEO and founder Darpan Munjal shut down his previous company, a fashion e-commerce venture, after four years of “solid growth.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Twig , a London-based fintech targeting Gen Z and younger Millennial consumers with an e-money account that gives them instant cash-outs on fashion and electronics they want to sell, has closed a $35 million Series A round of funding. “So we just want to make it much easier for them to trade, essentially.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The Graham & Walker accelerator is a six week virtual program meant to help the participating founders take their early-but-proven businesses to the next level, and to navigate the complexities of fundraising and storytelling. Image Credits: Local,Away. Local,Away. Love the way people dress in New York, or Seattle, or Paris?

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

Also interesting to note is that customers are not returning the clothes — Body404’s return rate is around 2%, much less than the 10% fashion industry average. It’s paid off in that the company is now valued at $50 million after raising $50 million in March. Pitch Deck Teardown: Dutch’s $20M Series A deck. Image Credits: Dutch.

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