Retail Tech with XRC Labs Program October 2020
in partnership with XRC Labs
On October 15th and 16th, VentureOut is excited to host our virtual Retail Tech Conference and Startup Showcase in partnership with XRC Labs. The conference will feature keynotes and expert panels with NYC's top retail innovation organizations and corporate innovators supporting retail startups.
Our amazing retail cohort will be showcased throughout the conference and featured at our Investor Pitch Event. The Investor Pitch Event will include a panel of top retail tech investors providing valuable feedback for our cohort. Stick around after the Investor Pitch Event for a special happy hour to mix and mingle with our cohort and cyber enthusiasts around the world.
Schedule
Exact times and locations for the sessions of this program are available to confirmed participants and program partners only, upon entering an access code.
Startup Orientation
Startup Orientation with Fay and Nathan
Session 1
Welcoming Keynote
Introduction Session
Session 2
The Luxury of Retail Innovation
Fireside Chat
Session 3
Solving Big Consumer Problems and the Role Big Companies Play
A Fireside Chat
Session 4
Sustainable Success in Retail Startups
Fireside Chat
Session 5
Rethinking Retail PR Strategies
Hear from Corporate Decision Makers on their Retail Concerns and Needs
Session 6
Pitch Like a Retail Tech Rockstar
Tips and Tricks to Slay Your Next Investor Pitch
Session 7
Pitch Prep
One-to-One Pitch Practice with VentureOut and Our Mentor-in-Residence
Session 8
The Future of Retail
Fireside Chat
Session 1
Scaling hacks For Retail Startups
Strategic insight
Session 2
Stories From the Trenches
Insights From One of NYC's Most Successful Startup Advisors and Venture Tech Lawyers
Session 3
Retail Tech Pitch Event
A Retail Startup Demo Day
Session 4
Networking Happy Hour
Breaking Barriers in Breakrooms, a Virtual Networking Happy Hour
Session 5
Speakers & Mentors
Nathan Coffey
Program Manager
VentureOut
Nathan joined VentureOut in February of 2020, after finding success in New York building a number of hospitality businesses. He brings a unique skillset to the team, with a background in economics and mathematics, and a varied career that focused on leading diverse teams in many different industries.
Originally from Perth, Australia, Nathan more or less accidentally ended up in New York City, cultivating a creative energy and a willingness to take risks. Outside of the office, he can be found in local coffee spots in Brooklyn with a Frisbee or skateboard in hand, pining for a beach in Sydney.
Nathan studied a Bachelor of Economics at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is looking to apply and accelerate his operational and management skills in the tech industry.
ventureoutny.comFay-Louise Hayden
Program Director
VentureOut
Fay-Louise is the Program Director at VentureOut, overseeing strategy and operations for all accelerator programs. A veteran startup advisor, Fay joined VentureOut after eight years working with investors and startups on cross-border and global market strategy across Latin America, Asia & North America. In her role at Venture Out, Fay manages all programming, supporting the startups, mentors, and clients related to those programs, and is a key member of the executive team.
Prior to VentureOut, Fay worked for several years in Private Equity where she managed a portfolio of alternative assets with Acquisition Group Inc and she played a key role in leadership and operations while working as a strategy analyst at Global Impact. Fay has also traveled to over 52 countries and is passionate about working with international startups.
Fay-Louise studied Economics & Political Science at University of Sydney.
https://ventureoutny.comBrian Frumberg
CEO & Founder
VentureOut
Brian is the CEO and founder of VentureOut, which he launched in 2012 while working at Gotham Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund. He started VentureOut as a vehicle to help bridge the gap between the innovators around the world and the opportunities available to them in the New York and San Francisco technology ecosystems.
Brian is also a proud advocate of the New York City's vibrant technology community, a role he plays as a speaker, a mentor, on the Board of Directors of the NYC Innovation Collective, Founding Member of NYC Tech International, a member of the FWD.us Innovation Council and as the Founder of the Chaminade Alumni Entrepreneurs Association.
Prior to VentureOut, Brian’s career has spanned venture, at Gotham Ventures, consulting, supporting early-stage tech startups in NYC, business development, at OTR Global, and sales, as the youngest institutional salesperson globally at Standard & Poor's. Brian received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Richmond.
https://www.ventureoutny.comBonny Morlak
Serial Entrepreneur and Founder Coach
Tiltsta
Founder Coach specializing in Seed to product-market-fit.
Serial Entrepreneur with mobile ecommerce focus - UX/UI visionary.
Samuel Newbold
Partner
CSG PC
Sam Newbold has been supporting VentureOut companies to secure US visas since 2013. He is experienced in a wide range of employment based, family based, and investment based immigration issues, working closely with the global startup and tech communities, representing cutting edge companies and talented individuals who comprise New York’s rapidly growing Silicon Alley.
Mr. Newbold also works closely with foreign investors seeking nonimmigrant or immigrant status through EB5 or E-2 investments, and he is also experienced in helping foreign business owners receive L visa status through establishing New Offices in the United States.
www.csglaw.comJoe Daniels
Partner, Co-Chair
McCarter & English
As a business lawyer, Joe represents startup to publicly-held technology, life science and consumer companies, venture capital and private equity funds and investment banks in a wide range of seed and venture financings, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and other public offerings. Joe regularly advises a broad range of startups, venture-backed companies and VC funds, and have led hundreds of venture and strategic financing transactions. He has helped companies and private equity firms handle scores of merger, acquisition and disposition transactions. Additionally, he has represented issuers and underwriters in dozens of IPOs and follow-on public offerings involving companies in the technology, life sciences and consumer sectors, including leading investment banks such as Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley and Oppenheimer.
Joe also serves as outside general counsel for numerous companies, assisting them with everything from day-to-day business transactions to multinational strategic alliance transactions ranging from technology and distribution partnerships to joint ventures. He focuses on representing clients involved in high-growth sectors, and have experience with a broad range of industries, including adtech, AI, biotech, blockchain, cleantech, consumer, cryptocurrency, digital media, ecommerce, energy, IoT, fintech/financial services, life sciences, mobile, semiconductor, software, UAVs and telecommunications. He frequently speaks at events addressing a wide range of topics critical for fast growth companies, including Fintech Connect, Founder Institute, Fundingpost, Health 2.0, Quake Capital Accelerator and TiE.
Specialties: IPOs & other Public Securities Offerings (including equity and debt), Venture Capital & Strategic Financings and other Financing Transactions, Private Equity, Mergers and Acquisitions, Joint Ventures and Strategic Partnerships, Recapitalizations, General Corporate, International Transactions, Public Company Corporate Governance and Compliance
www.mccarter.comJoy Fairbanks
Managing Principal
Fairbanks Venture Advisors
Joy is an experienced founder, investment evaluator, and advisor to high growth innovative companies across sectors seeking to scale sustainably. She advises on partnerships, business modeling, go to market strategy, operations, and financial modeling. Joy has advised dozens of companies across geographies from M&A and strategic planning to process improvement and supply chain management.
Joy is an active advisor across accelerators and university startup communities including VentureOut, Techstars, I2F CyberNYC, Cal Hacks, and Columbia University’s Entrepreneurship Design Studio. Joy is an alumna of Columbia Business School, The London School of Economics, and UC Berkeley.
Jay Norris
Co-Founder & CEO
Guesst
Some would say Jay is an innovative strategic dealmaker, experiential marketer, cultural currency developer & disruptive platform builder with over 20 years of experience. Jay thinks of himself as a consummate serial entrepreneur and visionary with the sincerest empathy for all go-getters!!
Jay is a systemic leader, organized team player with excellent communication and negotiation skills, well abreast with the knowledge of innovative and sustainable solutions for maximum ROI and the biggest DTC ( Direct to Consumer) advocate on the planet!
guesst.coAaron Luo
Co-Founder & CEO
Caraa Sport
Fashion executive with global supply chain, operations, corporate finance background and experience creating innovative consumer brands and services.
Based in New York City, USA, I am currently focused on building CARAA as the leading luxury accessories brand within the Athleisure market.
I am also spending time with Terracotta Partners, a boutique design, development and production firm based across New York City, Shanghai and Guangzhou, China specialized primarily in managing production for fashion apparel and accessory brands both in the US and overseas. We chartered our company in NYC with the mission of helping emerging and growing fashion labels to gain production scalability.
Previously, I had the pleasure of working at General Electric Company (GE) for almost a decade, where I had the opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best world class leaders in multiple businesses across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia.
caraasport.comStephen Kuhl
Co-Founder & CEO
Burrow
Stephen herniated two discs in his back while rowing in college. So when he and Kabeer teamed up at Wharton to start Burrow, Stephen made sure that their couches would be ergonomically perfect for multi-hour Netflix binges. From his hair to his shoes, Kabeer pays close attention to style, and insisted that Burrow sofas be equally as fashionable. Kabeer is often ashamed to be seen with his co-founder in public.
www.burrow.comPhillip Raub
CEO
b8ta
Phillip Raub is the CEO of b8ta, a software-powered retailer designed to make physical retail accessible for product makers and exciting for consumers. In his role at b8ta, he oversees the day to day operations of the company.
Previous to b8ta, Phillip held executive roles at Nest, where he lead the Global Channel Marketing team. Prior to Nest, Phillip spent six years at Nintendo during the height of the Wii phenomenon. In his role as Director of Retail Marketing, he was responsible for bringing Nintendo’s brand to life across retail, with partners like Walmart, Target, Best Buy and Amazon.
In addition to his years of experience at Nest and Nintendo, Phillip held various leadership roles in Marketing at Gap Inc.
b8ta.comOlga Orda
Partner
Silicon Matter
Former tech startup CEO / angel and senior PR advisor with over thirteen years of experience growing and scaling tech companies in NYC and the Bay Area. Mentor at WeWork Labs, ff Venture Capital, XRC Labs and Voyager.
www.siliconmatter.comKelle Jacob
Founder and CEO
Balanced Beauty
Kelle Jacob, a cycle three American's Next Top Model contestant and beauty veteran with experience in development and marketing for Estée Lauder, is accordingly leveraging this potential of wellness market, alongside her knowledge of self-care and holistic approaches to wellbeing. Founding a unique, clinically tested CBD skincare and lifestyle brand called Balanced Beauty Inc, Jacob is working to reinvent how we approach skin wellness.
Mark Friedman
President
Details Interactive
I have been a senior executive in a number of different wholesale and direct to consumer businesses throughout my career. I have been a part of a catalog start-up, I have worked for two large, multi-brand direct marketing companies on the marketing side of the business and I have worked as the CMO and General Manager of a multi-channel retailer with 150 stores. I have also served as the Chief Digital Marketing Officer at Warnaco (now part of PVH) where I ran the web businesses for Speedo, Calvin Klein Underwear and Calvin Klein Jeans.
Most recently, I spent 7 years as the President of E-Commerce for Steve Madden where I had full P&L responsibility for the Steve Madden US site as well as other company managed sites. I was responsible for all traffic being driven to the sites, site conversion and optimization and the day-to-day and strategic operations of the business. We recently launched, SM Pass, an enterprise level, cross channel rewards program that after only 3 months has won an industry award for Best Customer Engagement.
I am a collaborative leader who works hard to teach and to learn. I am comfortable in matrix-managed organizations or in a more direct reporting relationship.
I mentor a number of start-up and early stage companies in the retail and digital industry.
Specialties: E-Commerce Marketing, ROI Analysis on Marketing Programs, Database Marketing, Research, Brand Building, E-Commerce Design, Print and Paper Buying, Circulation, Promotion, Credit Marketing, Paid Search, SEO, Affiliate Marketing, Comparison Shopping, Social Media, Business Development, Mobile Applications, Project Management, Vendor Selection, Financial Management, Loyalty Programs, Cross-channel marketing, Strategic Direction, Life time value, Near term value, Marketplace management, Analytics, Reengineering, Digital Diagnosis, Low Hanging fruit, Details.
detailsinteractive.comJoseph Satre
Partner
Bleu Capital
Venture capital investor @Bleucap - curious crossborder mind, passionate about retail, data, artificial intelligence and impact
Joseph is a Partner at Bleu Capital. After a few years in the French startup scene, he spent five years in China managing finance for Evian at the Asia Pacific level and then sales for the Chinese market.
http://www.bleucap.comDavid Goldberg
Director
Corigin Ventures
Corigin Ventures is a Manhattan based investor of early-stage capital and support. Leveraging operational expertise and cross-industry relationshipswe seek tech-enabled startups in high-growth markets led by inspirational teams. Free of limited partners or sector constraintsCorigin Ventures focuses on Seed and Series A investments."
http://www.vcramblings.comLily Bernicker
Investment Associate
Collaborative Fund
From Ashoka, She joined FSG, an advisory firm founded by Michael Porter, to support companies in creating “Shared Value.” She advised public companies, in industries ranging from pharmaceuticals to media and entertainment, on how to deploy investments capable of boosting profits, while increasing access to vital products among underserved populations. Shared Value could be considered a cousin to Collaborative Fund’s original concept: companies that sit at the intersection of for-profit and for-good are positioned to become the most successful businesses.
www.collaborativefund.comSapna Shah
Principal
Red Giraffe Advisors
Sapna Shah is an angel investor, retail expert and three-time entrepreneur. Through Red Giraffe Advisors, Sapna makes angel and early-stage seed investments in retail, fashion and consumer start-ups and offers advisory services to early-stage companies. Sapna is also the founder of Retail X Series, a retail startup boot camp program for pre-seed stage founders who are revolutionizing the future of retail. Sapna has also served on the Board of Directors of New York Angels, one of the most active angel groups in the world.
http://www.redgiraffeadvisors.comAlexis DeSalva Kahler
Commerce & fashion analyst/public speaker
Mintel
Alexis has a background in corporate retail merchandising, with specific knowledge of the apparel industry. She has previously held merchant and analyst roles at major retailers and has experience in building strategic and innovative assortments and providing insight to assist in merchandising decisions. Alexis also has a love of storytelling, both by bringing ideas to life through creating assortments and by sharing her voice in the written form, spotlighting the latest trends in retail and fashion. She brings product knowledge, analytical perspective and a genuine passion for retail and fashion to her work.
www.mintel.comLauren Thaman
Director of Communications
Procter & Gamble Ventures Studio
Lauren Thaman, Senior Director Communications for P&G Ventures, is responsible for strategic communications, influencer marketing and credentialing across P&G Ventures. P&G Ventures, the startup studio within Procter & Gamble, works with experts, innovators and entrepreneurs to create brands and businesses in product categories where P&G does not provide solutions today. Within this fast-learning, startup-like environment, Lauren and her team are building and experimenting with better ways to use communications in both direct-to-consumer and traditional bricks and mortar businesses. Lauren created the scientific communications organization for P&G over a decade ago and continues to be passionate about using communications to drive connections and deliver business results. Lauren was named in the Holmes Report Innovator 25 Americas 2019 and is member of P&G’s Brand Mastery Society that recognizes the less than 1% of the top brand builders within P&G.
www.nationalgeographic.com/its-our-home-2020John Gregory
Global Retail Category Development Officer
Spotify
Retail specialist with unique industry experience in client marketing, media agency and digital publishing sectors focusing on the transition of traditional media spend to digital strategy and innovation in customer experience
www.spotify.com/kr-ko/why-not-availableThe Startups
Savitude
Savitude is an AI retail technology company with a unified solution to encourage confidence while making buying decisions. Their technology guides the shopper as it automatically curates goods into personalized collections to make the buying decisions easier and satisfying. Savitude provides an improved ROI to the retailer and increased sales for the brands.
savitude.comSocialangel
Socialangel is a data-powered digital solution built to successfully promote businesses on Facebook in a simple and affordable way. They built the first virtual social consultant that leverages AI technology to establish best practices and automate the process of Facebook posting and advertising.
This allows companies to rapidly scale their social media marketing activity at a fraction of the cost of an agency or a consultant. Their Web and mobile app provide clients with a step-by-step guide, enabling them to create meaningful, relevant content to posts on Facebook, engage and optimise the most relevant targets and be as effective as an experienced social media manager. They are looking to fill a void in the marketplace, allowing limitless economic benefit through a low cost solution for customers. For the cost of a coffee per day, They already helped over 100 companies grow revenue >30% while slashing the costs of social media consultants by >90%.
Next Orbit
NextOrbit is an AI and ML enabled SaaS platform for pricing and demand prediction. NextOrbit helps Retailers, e-commerce companies and CP Brands through AI & Machine Learning to address demand planning & price optimization. NextOrbit models demand and price-elasticity for every product, and category that a Retailer/Brand carries, through an intelligent platform, helping Retailers optimize and maximize metrics that's paramount to stay ahead of the competition. From this intense analysis and deep understanding of demand and customers, NextOrbit gives Retailers the knowledge they need.
nextorbit.comCOMERZZIA
Since our beginings in 2009, a large team of developers, deployers and business consultants with extensive expertise in the retail sector has worked to offer highly competitive solutions for medium and large Food and Non-Food retailers.
Our goal is to achieve a fast and efficient ROI through flexible solutions, offering the same competitiveness as the world leaders TI providers.
The growth experienced by comerzzia in recent years is produced by M&A of either TI companies, that allow us to carry out advanced software developments, and allow us a more efficient territorial expansion like in Europe, Latin America, Emirates and Asia.
Our solution, comerzzia offers your customers the most enhancing and simplest shopping experience, making it easy for customers to buy what they want, when they want.
Tier1
TIER1 is an IT company integrator focused on integrate software and IT projects for Retail and Industry sectors
Visual Click
www.visual-click.com es la primera optica online de España y de las primeras de Europa, distribuimos nuestros productos en mas de 100 paises, siendo Estados Unidos unos de los paises de mas ventas. Contamos con un sofware propio, que crea un marketplace del sector optico, permirtiendo la venta online de productos opticos a las opticas tradicionales, generando una sinergia entre la venta off y online. Nuestro sofware permite en poco tiempo hacer que una optica tradicional pueda vender sus productos en mas de 100 paises.
www.visual-click.comVowsmith
Customization is a deep trend for the millenials. They are willing to pay subsantial amount of money to get a unique product that fits their need. We address this issue by offering a web based
www.vowsmith.comChic Marie
Chic Marie is a clothing-rental company, based on a subscription model. For $55/month, women can receive up to 9 different items of clothes, that they can wear and return, to receive new ones.
chicmarie.com/enXTND
XTND is a European technology startup headquartered in the Czech Republic that focuses on making premium electric products. We see the future of transportation in electric vehicles and we would like to contribute to making sustainable transport system that uses clean and renewable sources of energy. XTND combine technology and creativity to design products that make transportation easier. Our first product is premium electric skateboard which is exceptional in every way.
CashOrCard
CashOrCard POS gives retailers everything they need to run their business end-to-end and to unlock the power of their data. Free to download and use, it brings together inventory management, transaction processing, daily / weekly / monthly reporting, advanced analytics and insights and full Point of Sale (“Till”) functionality. Best of all, it’s built using existing eCommerce platforms (Magento, SEOShop, etc.) as the back-end, providing unlimited add-ons including our own innovative Buzzoek loyalty platform. CashOrCard can be accessed from anywhere in the world giving business owners a full overview of their store’s (or stores’) performance... across online and offline, and a single place to manage inventory and operations, with deep insights into their customers and their business’s performance.
http://cashorcardpos.comSweeber
Sweebr.com offers a 100% HTML5 POS-system that truly just needs a browser and thus (opposed to 95% of the 2.0 POS-startups that depend on iOS) to enable real time retailing. Its software runs on 6 years old Windows touch screen PC's, iPads, Android tablets - any OS.
sweebr.comVirtusize
Virtusize is a virtual fitting solution helping online retailers to illustrate size and fit online. With Virtusize consumers can compare a garment they want to buy with a garment they already own, and thereby remove the guesswork from online shopping. The fit solution is currently available at online fashion retailers across Europe and Asia
http://www.virtusize.com/siteWrapp
Wrapp is a social gifting service for celebrating friends' occasions with free and paid gifts from attractive brands.
www.wrapp.comKuspit
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IVS
VS develops image analysis solutions and extraction of intelligent information. They are specialized in machine learning, neural programming, artificial intelligence and data mining.
Their product, focused on the retail sector, IVStore, is tthe equivalent of google analytics for physical stores: a plug and play solution using video analysis to detect, recognize and analyze customer’s behaviors in-store.
http://www.ivsoftware.frFITIZZY
Fitizzy helps customers find the right size when shopping for clothes.With its innovative technologies, Fitizzy helps brands and retailers solve the problem of size and improve the shopping experience of their customers.Our widget placed on our partners brands websites and our mobile application used in their stores, give the customers the right size along with some fitting recommendations. Our solution is based on an algorithm that compares the products dimensions to the body measurements of the users. It is a really reliable and accurate solution, which makes us the leader on the French market.
www.fitizzy.comVEKIA
Vekia is an early stage company creating machine learning-based software solutions that optimize control and management of retailers’ supply chains. Initially focused on retail clothing, DIY and furniture in the French market, the Company’s products have allowed management to reduce inventories up to 20%, reduce stock-outs by 50%, and reduce end-of-season overstock in warehouses by 10% for clothing retailers. This has created significant financial and customer relationship advantages for Vekia’s customers along with rapid payback (up to 3 months) of initial software system acquisition costs. Vekia’s revenue is already $2,300,000 is now developing its sales in France, UK and will be soon addressing the US market.
http://www.vekia.frBluum
Mauz & Mauz
Mauz and Wauz is a premium dog food company that provides quality food for pets. Mauz & Wauz delivers a surprise box with accompanying premium online shops to cat, dog and small animal owners on a monthly subscription base with carefully selected products and presents.
http://www.mauzundwauz.comCrealytics
Crealytics supports leading international e-commerce companies to drive performance in product advertising and paid search.
http://crealytics.comStilnest
Stilnest connects the most inspiring fashion professionals and their communities through the power of 3D printing. Get exclusive access to fine statements that are designed to spread from Berlin to New York, from Capetown to London – wherever you are.
http://stilnest.comGrapeAgents
Grape Agents is offering outstanding wines from all over the world. With the distinct and high-level selection available it is becoming straightforward for trade customers and wine lovers to find premium wine.
grapeagents.jimdo.comPremano
Premano is a self-financed e-commerce start-up base in Germany and China that specializes on data
driven product development and the establishment of own brands in the market place economy. A data driven product framework enables the build in of Search engine optimization and customer relevant features at the product development stage. As of now the company has 10 team members, 1,75 Mio. € net revenue (past 12 months), 3 brands, 70 active SKUs, is financed with 0.3 Mio € in traditional bank loans (goods financing) and operates profitable. The brands are placed in global billion-dollar industries (kitchen,bathroom etc.)
Unikatoo
The idea behind UNIKATOO is simple: We want to provide people with a high quality awareness and sense for the beautiful sides of life around the world a marketplace where they will find unique products from different theme worlds. We work every day for this mission.
When choosing our products, two main questions are in focus. First, what makes this article so special and why does it hit the nerve of our target audience? Second, how well does he fit in with our claim "Unique in style - selected with a passion for the extraordinary?"
So we are on a daily basis for our customers looking for exceptional products that simply have "that certain something". From design classics to trend products with a high degree of innovation - people across our borders can find what they can not find elsewhere - or whose existence they did not even know anything about.
In our lifestyle blog and social media, we keep our community constantly up to date on the latest developments in our offering and the exceptional goods market.
Soundscape Factory
Cadouu
Think 'Zola' but for any gifts! Cadouu makes organizing group gifts simple. Our web-based platform combines payment, e-commerce and social networking in a novel way. We take the hassle out of coordinating people and chasing contributions - it's a sleep at night mobile gifting solution that has proven to be incredibly popular across European friends.
cadouu.comSPAtacular
Flatout Technologies
Flatout Technologies is revolutionizing the smart home industry.
http://www.flatout-technologies.comJaiyou
Jaiyou combines fashion and technology to design the most effective & fashionable body braces. Jaiyou know that one size and one style does not fit all anymore. People deserve thoughtful products and high-quality items and feel special and better. JAIYOU aims to combine fashion, and technology into orthotics, sports medicine, and functional wearables.
www.jaiyou.comMellon
Mellon is an app that helps people who want sell, rent, buy, even give away their pre-loved stuff in a trustworthy community made only by real friends (phone contacts and Facebook friends), and their friends.
http://www.mellonapp.com/enMilkyWay Bikes
On MilkyWayShop.com all fans can purchase technical equipment from the best brands and products to high value technological MilkyWay trademark owner. MilkyWayTribe.com is a platform where, for free, every rider can register, declare the position and upload their own spot - ie the places where sports. MilkyWay continually hears your feedback and suggestions from the community every day and we facilitate the aggregation of fans and practitioners of extreme sports thanks to a completely new social experience that rewards the rider who play sports in real life.
http://smartlandlife.comPromoQui
Promoqui operates a search engine that allows shoppers in Italy to access promotional offers, flyers, and discount coupons on goods online. It offers its services as a Website and as a downloadable application for iPhone, iPad, Android smartphone, and windows phone.
Promoqui began operation on August 2, 2011. Its headquarters is in Naples in Italy.
www.promoqui.itAji Digital
AJI DIGITAL is a startup providing a digital package (device + software) linked to a digital publishing platform for interactive walls. Their goal is to make digital and interactive walls accessible to any business. To make this possible, Aji digital has set 2 major points: - A marketing approach with a very attractive monthly offer "all included". - Assistance provided to the users in the process of their digital content creation. The platform can publish components for any kind of activity. It allows basic users to create media on their smartphones and automatically transfer them to our cloud and to their walls. Then, walls could be created in a few minutes with our "ready to use" templates and components.
aji.digital/frPixelBug
Pixelbug is an MIT award-winning, Silicon Valley VC backed augmented reality company. Using our patented technology, we merge the physical with the digital to empower and engage.
Our mission is to allow people to easily create compelling augmented reality experiences that add magic to the world, for you to truly unleash the power of your creativity by fully dissolving the boundaries between imagination and reality. We strive to help you grow by harnessing data and driving conversions in every market we operate in.
http://pixelbug.comPepper
Another Garde
Feather & Bone
Marketman
iTellio
Founded in 2011, iTell.io is a digital place-based advertising exchange. Our core product connects brands with targeted demographics and revives revenue streams for ATM operators.
We provide news, help, insights, and information in order to erase the mundane from people's daily lives.
Our unique advertising capabilities allow us to transform a traditional Automated Teller Machine into an interactive digital place-based advertising platform by way of the ATM screen as well as use of a digital touchscreen ATM topper.
http://www.itell.ioTiltsta
Tiltsta turns fashion videos into mobile shopping experiences
- Impulse buying at the flick of the wrist.
- Watch a vertical full-screen video inside your social app (ie. Instagram)
- Fall in love with that dress you are seeing
- Add it to your list without any interruptions and keep watching
- Browse your shortlist and check-out
- You are still in your social feed where you left off
http://www.tiltsta.comJibsLife
Brazilian perforated leather shoe Ecommerce and wholesale brand. Made in Brazil, raised in NYC, travelled worldwide
jibslife.comShareMyBag
ShareMyBag allows anyone to share their fashion items the the community in their local city. With a focus on accessories, bags, shoes and wedding dresses, ShareMyBag will allow people to transform lost value of their closet into purchasing power for their next trendy "purchase".
http://www.isharemybag.comInspector Cloud
Inspector Cloud is a digital platform for the control of retail stores. The system automatically detects the product on the shelves in the food retail networks and generates reports. This solution shortens the visit time of the merchandiser into a retail store as there is no need to do a manual inventory. This increases the accuracy of the data from the stores, allows to optimize the working time of the merchandiser and supervisor, who don`t need to manually control the work of subordinates on merchandise.
http://inspector-cloud.comNavigine
Navigine is a global provider of integrated positioning mobile technologies that enable advanced indoor navigation and proximity solutions with over 500 client installations worldwide and over 30 public mobile and web applications. Being a comprehensive platform, Navigine is especially well-suited to support digital transformation in Retail industry, not only by providing functions to improve user experience but also ensuring highly granular offline-to-online customer attribution for seamless foot traffic monetization.
navigine.comSailPlay
SailPlay is a b2c marketing automation platform that helps retail companies to build best-in-class omnichannel loyalty programs. Founded in 2013 in Moscow, Russia, SailPlay expanded to NYC in 2015 and is growing by more than 300% annually.
sailplay.netAzoti.com
Azoti.com enables hyperlocal food sourcing and sustainability for major foodservice & retail buyers via a unique planning and ordering SaaS solution that complements & enhances the existing food value chain reducing food waste, costs while increasing profits for all.
Cloosiv
Cloosiv is a mobile solution that will change the way consumers engage the buying process. We are a merchant-agnostic, customer driven tool that enables you to pay for goods and services from a single app on your phone, regardless of who you are, where you are, or what you're buying.
www.cloosiv.comDezignable
Growing 300% year over year, Dezignable offers a technology-enabled service called Swank that provides end-to-end design, furniture procurement and installation services to residential property management clients. Through our prop tech platform we are able to offer complimentary design services for BtoB clients allowing 100% of budget to go towards furniture procurement. At present, we have a sales team in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle/ Portland) and southern CA. We plan to expand our tech platform to a BtoBtoC resident design platform in 2018.
shop.dezignable.comStoreMe
Here's not just two, but a few! In January 2017, my partners and I launched Blender Workspace for high-caliber professionals and teams in New York City. Blender is serving a higher end segment in a maturing market, and is enjoying significant success. In January 2009, my partner and I started the first food truck business in Washington DC, know as the Fojol Bros. With Fojol, we were first to market in DC, had an amazing business concept/brand, and after 8 months were featured in a GQ article on the food truck industry. Unfortunately, regulation and competition undermined our ability to adapt more
http://getstoreme.comVirtualAPT
We build autonomous robots for visualization content and data collection. We are able to create VR/360° videos that allow you to move as if you are walking, making the content more realistic. The visual content is web-based, can be played in multiple languages, and works on most modern device. As a full-service B2B provider, VirtualAPT works with large clients across the US to create value added and customizable content.
virtualapt.comFloss Bar Inc
Floss Bar is solving the three key reasons why 50% of Americans, across all demographics, are avoiding the dentist: fear, time, and price. It does so by utilizing dentists' spare capacity in off-hours and freelance hygienists to provide the most popular dental services services, all under an appealing brand and prices 50% below market. The freelancers work out of both the affiliated dental offices and as part of mobile teams which can work anywhere - business offices, salons, events. The model is easily adjusted to fit any state's regulation, and is the lowest cost and most scalable model in the $120+ billion dollar dental services industry.
FindMine
Mallzee
In the past 7 months we've seen our active user number more than triple, time in-app double, volume of product interactions reach tens of millions a month, signed up over 25 paying partners, launched two new revenue streams and secured trials for our innovative new insights platform with some of the biggest names in retail.
mallzee.comBrayola
Beauty comes in ALL sizes
http://brayola.comFlyability
Selfnation
Selfnation offers mass customized, perfectly fitting jeans with online 3D visualization technologies and highly automated production processes.
http://www.selfnation.chShoesize.me
Zingword
Solving problems in the professional translation industry and driving profits
with an intelligent, all-in-one shopping experience.
HipSnip
HipSnip is a shopping Q&A and discussion platform.It is embedded into websites enabling people to get advice from product experts and from the website's existing audience
YUYU
YUYU is a sustainable home goods e-commerce brand. YUYU works directly with its own network of sustainable suppliers from around the world and they make their designs in-house. In the US, YUYU will be offering their products online to skip traditional retail markups and offer luxury home goods for affordable prices (40% lower price points than industry standards). In the past year YUYU has sold its products successfully to over 30 high impact retailers in Europe, and has been featured by leading luxury lifestyle magazines. YUYUs team comes from a variety of backgrounds with over 6 years of working experience in supply chain management (FMCG; Sara Lee, Heineken), innovation consultancy, Design and Art Direction (Scotch and Soda), PR (Aman Resorts).
http://www.yuyu-amsterdam.comShape Me
Kim Kardashians' Shapewear brand SKIMS achieved 2 million USD in turnover on the first
day. Our vision is to make shape me the number 1 brand for Shapewear in Europe. In
order to achieve this goal and to continue the positive development at the same pace as
last year, shape me will be the number one brand for Shapewear in Europe.
Xantus
The world's first wristband that allows you to quickly and easily protect yourself
from drink spiking. Almost everyone knows someone who has had experience with date rape drugs! They are no longer a big city phenomenon, but rather widespread. With the Xantus bracelet you can finally protect yourself or your children, siblings and friends!
Capbeast
CapBeast is the number one custom hat website in North America. They make custom snapbacks and hats that are designed by you on their website.
capbeast.comHurrier
Hurrier is Uber for goods. Hurrier unlocks local commerce by providing online access to on-demand delivery of premium goods. Hurrier’s urban logistics platform uses mobile technology to seamlessly connects buyers, sellers and couriers.
www.usehurrier.comEmbed Store
SexyDeal
SexyDeal is the first Coupon site dedicated to the world of adult entertainment.
SexyDeal offers experiences, trips, and products with a bold, sensual, playful and emotional component at a discounted price of up to 90%. SexyDeal differs from the rest of the operators present in the market for the particularity and uniqueness of the offers offered.
http://sexydeal.it
Tonki
Tonki is a cool & eco-friendly frame. It's made of one single sheet of cardboard die cut with a unique design. We print your pictures directly on Tonki's 1 sq. foot front side and then ship it to your home. Just like Tonki itself, the packaging is eco-friendly cardboard with colorful instructions for an easy assembly - the funniest part of it all! You can hang Tonki on a wall or lay it around.
www.tonki.com/it/enWib Machines
Our main mission is to make people happy allowing them to experience a more convenient and exciting customer journey. We make this possible by improving the world of physical automation and seamlessly integrating with the digital universe.
Throughout history, automation and digitalization have improved every single aspect of our lives and we are convinced that the Internet of Things will exponentially contribute to this progress.
http://www.wibmachines.comRaixe
The philosophy behind Raixe is taking the customer back in time, where functionality and durability were a necessity, not a luxury. Raixe is a sustainable brand built around quality and affordability. Our identity is rooted in the region of Veneto (Italy), an area with centuries of history in craftsmanship and tradition. Our aesthetic translates into minimal, simple and timeless. We use simple construction techniques that make our products collectibles as much as conversation starters.
http://www.raixe.comZinbox
Zinbox is an email tool which can convert any inbox into a productive and enjoyable application. Zinbos is smart -- it has a highly visual intuitive user interface and can extract data from emails; understanding texts
http://zinbox.itProgram Partner
XRC Labs
XRC Labs is an innovation accelerator for the next generation of disruptors in the retail and consumer goods sectors.
A venture sponsored by world class retailers and brands as well as founding sponsor organizations Kurt Salmon and the Parsons School of Design at the New School, we have created a first of its kind design-centric innovation ecosystem for the retail and consumer goods industries.
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Our Sponsors
CSG
With great pride borne over 45 years as a regional law firm, Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi, formerly Wolff & Samson, continues to advance our client’s legal and business success through in-depth insight and creative solutions. As respected legal and business advisors, our attorneys play an integral role working closely with clients from a diverse range of industries on matters big and small, on a local, regional and national basis.
www.csglaw.comClarity PR
Clarity PR is an international public relations agency specializing in strategic communications for fast-growth technology companies. The company is known for its strategic approach to PR and its impactful, editorially-driven media relations campaigns. Headquartered in London with offices in New York and Berlin, the Clarity team works with companies ranging from promising new startups to multinational organizations. In 2016, Clarity was ranked among PR Week's Top 150 technology PR firms in the UK.
http://clarity.prMcCarter & English
McCarter & English is a law firm of over 400 lawyers in 9 offices throughout North America with a global practice. McCarter’s Venture Capital & Emerging Companies Group, of which partner Joe Daniels is co-chair, focuses on the formation, financing, growth and exit of fast-growth technology, life sciences and consumer companies for both founders and investors.
http://www.mccarter.com/joseph-f-danielsRent24
Rent24 is a co-working community and venture incubator dedicated to digital start-up companies in NYC. They help tech entrepreneurs develop their business in the US or Europe by leveraging their space and support infrastructure.
www.rent24.com/en
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