CIO

JANUARY 5, 2025

Research from Gartner, for example, shows that approximately 30% of generative AI (GenAI) will not make it past the proof-of-concept phase by the end of 2025, due to factors including poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, and escalating costs. [1] 4] On their own AI and GenAI can deliver value.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In 2023, we saw a surge in retail conversion rates during the holiday season, with many shoppers making purchases well in advance of Black Friday. Track customer behavior following failed promo code entries to understand the impact on conversions. Common issues include confusion between similar characters like “O” and “0.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

With many consumers making the switch to online shopping in the last year due to COVID-19 and largely staying active on those platforms even after physical shops and the freedom to move about them have been restored, companies that are enabling those services are continuing to see a lot of business and attention.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

The pandemic has made it all but impossible for a retail company without an online presence to survive. It’s using AI to notify online shoppers when the products they’re looking to buy are fake listings or when reviews they’re reading on marketplaces like Amazon or eBay are a fiction. It also tracks fake upvotes.).

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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. BlackCart raises $8.8M

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2024

Simultaneously, increases in compute power have made it easier to implement AI use cases at the retail edge. That’s a perfect opportunity for some long-awaited retail use cases to turn prime time. RFID has several other beneficial uses in clothing retail.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2021

On an upcoming episode of Extra Crunch Live , we’ll sit down with Emergence’s Lotti Siniscalco and Retail Zipline’s Melissa Wong to discuss all that and more. Siniscalco is a principal at Emergence Capital, investing in early-stage enterprise software companies. The event goes down on Wednesday, June 23 at 3 p.m.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2021

For example, are you using gender-coded or inclusive-coded language to attract inclusion-minded people? This means you no longer need to rely on simplistic “bias checker” software, which tends to be based on outdated research with few controls on data integrity. Remember, the best candidates have options.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Consider a global retail site operating across multiple regions and countries. They have structured data such as sales transactions and revenue metrics stored in databases, alongside unstructured data such as customer reviews and marketing reports collected from various channels. Download all three sample data files.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

On an upcoming episode of Extra Crunch Live , we’ll sit down with Emergence’s Lotti Siniscalco and Retail Zipline’s Melissa Wong to discuss all that and more. Siniscalco is a principal at Emergence Capital, investing in early-stage enterprise software companies. The event goes down on Wednesday, June 23 at 3 p.m.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Services like video streaming, gaming, media-intensive advertising and marketing technology are putting more strain on bandwidth and backend latency than ever before due to the surge of online traffic in the last year. This has created an opportunity for startups building optimization tools.

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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? Caton : CarMax reviews millions of vehicles.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

On an upcoming episode of Extra Crunch Live , we’ll sit down with Emergence’s Lotti Siniscalco and Retail Zipline’s Melissa Wong to discuss all that and more. Siniscalco is a principal at Emergence Capital, investing in early-stage enterprise software companies. The event goes down on Wednesday, June 23 at 3 p.m.

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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. Of that, survey respondents said 26% was due to process or control failures, 29% due to employee or internal theft, and 37% due to external theft.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

So much software is dedicated to helping businesses improve interactions online, whether it be aimed at sales, marketing or customer service. Enter Rillavoice , a new startup with a niche focus: building speech analytics software for field sales teams that sell in person as opposed to via Zoom or over the phone.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Getting inside the mind of customers is a challenge as behaviors and demands shift, but Clootrack believes it has cracked the code in helping brands figure out how to do that. The company is currently working with over 150 customers in the areas of retail, direct-to-consumer, banking, automotive, travel and mobile app-based services.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Cymbio , a Tel Aviv-based startup focused on what it calls “brand-to-retailer connectivity,” announced today that it has raised $7 million in Series A funding. Whereas adding a new market might normally require a cost-benefit analysis (“How much money will it cost me to set up this retailer?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

These employees are often always in demand due to traditionally high turnover rates, and yet, many still rely on paperwork and videos. The past two years have really shown that there’s a huge gap in software built for this deskless, hourly worker,” Desmond Lim, co-founder and CEO of Workstream, told TechCrunch.” There are 2.7

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Three more from the TC+ team: Stretch, drink some water, then hit these items to survive due diligence: A prep checklist for startups about to undergo technical due diligence , by Matt Van Itallie. Use code “DC” for a 15% discount on an annual subscription! Get yer Nutanix! Who’s most likely to buy Nutanix? ,

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

AUGUST 21, 2024

Customer reviews can reveal customer experiences with a product and serve as an invaluable source of information to the product teams. By continually monitoring these reviews over time, businesses can recognize changes in customer perceptions and uncover areas of improvement.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

They eventually left Peixe Urbano and started Tuna in 2019 to make their own payment product which enables merchants to use A/B testing of credit card processors and anti-fraud providers to optimize their payments processing with one integration and a no-code interface. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In the wake of COVID-19 this spring, construction sites across the nation emptied out alongside neighboring restaurants, retail stores, offices and other commercial establishments. Allison Xu is an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, where she focuses on investments in the fintech and property tech sectors. A construction tech boom.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After a challenging year for location-based virtual reality startups due to COVID-19, Sandbox VR , a location-based VR startup, is making a comeback with a plan to expand its operations further across the globe. Sandbox VR currently operates 12 retail locations in the U.S., Sandbox VR raises millions more in celebrity party round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

That’s 5x faster growth than the overall retail market. It’s largely due to the changing cultural and societal value placed on sustainability. Why the sudden recommerce resurgence? We waste a lot of … everything. We’ll explore each below, along with some food for thought for founders building startups in this (re)emerging space.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

Retail organizations that adopted modern AI-powered search reported benefits such as increase in cost savings (39%), profits (35%), and customer satisfaction and engagement (34%), as well as the ability to direct resources to higher-value and/or revenue-generating tasks (25%). The combination of keyword and vector search (a.k.a.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Informal retail is king in Africa, with hundreds of billions of dollars of consumer goods sold through its channels yearly. B2B retail and e-commerce platforms have primarily tried to fix these inefficient supply chains over the last couple of years and have received substantial investor backing since the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

A comprehensive report from Golden Gate Ventures also forecasted a record number of exits , due in part to an increase in B and C rounds. Golden Gate Ventures forecasts a record number of exits in Southeast Asia. I always feel a bit silly using the term “Southeast Asia” because the region is so large and complex. Social commerce.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

It expanded into investing in April with a private wealth management product, and plans a mortgage offering for later this year as part of its effort to be a “one-stop shop for all financial services for Canadians and retailers.” . 50B) due to the network effects it has created with its unique merchant loyalty program.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

The company’s products, in its own words, power payments for online and in-person retailers, subscriptions businesses, software platforms and marketplaces, “and everything in between.” Late-stage tech companies have largely avoided debuting onto the public market over the past year due to general volatility hammering stocks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

That fact inevitably makes it a big part of how millions of brands and retailers sell goods online. Threecolts , a London startup founded by an ex-Amazon exec that builds software for brands and retailers to manage their Amazon sales channel, has picked up some 22,000 customers since it first set up shop in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Small businesses, including retailers and restaurants, were negatively impacted by lockdowns and the resulting closures. The startup, which provides software and payments for restaurants and SMBs, had to step up to help the businesses it serves. They had to adapt quickly to survive. Not only for their sake, but its own. “We

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

DECEMBER 4, 2024

About the NVIDIA Nemotron model family At the forefront of the NVIDIA Nemotron model family is Nemotron-4, as stated by NVIDIA, it is a powerful multilingual large language model (LLM) trained on an impressive 8 trillion text tokens, specifically optimized for English, multilingual, and coding tasks.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Ho argued that those platforms (whether they offer delivery services, user reviews or marketing tools) all have the same underlying model: “They seek to take over a small business’ customer base and then charge them a tax to start reaching those customers.” “The incentives are more aligned,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

The process for retailers and brands to liquidate excess inventory hasn’t changed very much, if at all, and while some retailers were able to build operational infrastructure to service the off-price channels, it continues to be a constant pain point. to develop some sweet inventory-planning software. Syrup Tech bags $6.3M

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

The retail industry has no shortage of cases on display where generative AI has shown tangible benefits. Suddenly, you can create engaging customer-facing videos at the click of a button,” says Oliver Banks, retail consultant and author of Driving Retail Transformation: How to navigate disruption and change.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Paystone , a payments and integrated software company, secured another strategic investment this year, this time $23.8 While most of the company’s peers focus on product companies, Al-Ansari saw how underserved the service side was: their needs are different, and unlike retail, aren’t looking to sell online.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Mirpuri and Jonathan Reid co-launched Insite with the belief there was a large addressable market for brick-and-mortar sales revenue growth management software. It’s true retailers — and by extension, brands — face considerable challenges in this area, particularly as the economy takes a precipitous turn.

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