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Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization

TechCrunch

Sindhya Valloppillil is the founder and CEO of Skin Dossier, a venture partner at Next Gen Ventures, a freelance writer and formerly a beauty industry executive and marketing professor. For big brands and retailers, personalization is expected to be the top category for tech investment this year. Share on Twitter.

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Competition is stiff, but retailers know what it takes to compete

CIO

Changing consumer behavior and expectations, competition from major e-retailers, evolving cybersecurity challenges, inflationary pressures, sustainability and environmental concerns, and the pressure to take advantage of AI are all very real concerns for retailers today.

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Corporate sustainability initiatives may open doors for carbon offset startups

TechCrunch

Commitments to carbon neutrality keep coming from all corners of the business world — over the past few weeks, companies ranging from the fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen to the security-focused networking IT company Palo Alto Networks to the online craft retailer Etsy committed to net-zero carbon emission plans.

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To The Market takes on funding to create ethical, sustainable work environments for women

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Carrie Colbert, founder and general partner of Curate Capital, and Jane Mosbacker Morris, founder of To The Market. What I noted was that retail manufacturing is the largest economies of scale and dominated by women in the supply chain,” Mosbacher Morris told TechCrunch. The company intends to put the funding to use around new growth.

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Clim8 raises $8M from 7pc Ventures, launches climate-focused investing app for retail investors

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startup is hoping to fix that with the launch of its new app and platform for retail investors. Duncan Grierson, CEO of Clim8, said in a statement: “We are launching at an exciting time for sustainable investing. The startup will take advantage of new, higher EU rules around the disclosure requirements for sustainable investment funds.

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Givz raises $3M in seed funding to make donations a marketing tool for businesses

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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. Marketing in 2021 is emotional and not just transactional.

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Pixyle AI wants to make visual search more intuitive for online retailers

TechCrunch

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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