dunnhumby

dunnhumby is a prominent customer science company that specializes in analyzing data to enhance customer experiences across digital, mobile, and retail channels. With insights derived from over 660 million shoppers worldwide, dunnhumby helps businesses build customer loyalty, providing them with a competitive edge and promoting sustained growth. The company employs nearly 3,000 professionals across its offices in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, collaborating with notable clients such as Tesco, The Kroger Co., Coca-Cola, Macy's, Procter & Gamble, and PepsiCo. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in London, dunnhumby operates as a subsidiary of Tesco Stores, Ltd. Additionally, dunnhumby Ventures supports startup businesses that leverage data to innovate within the consumer purchasing journey, aiming to drive transformative changes in the retail landscape.

Guillaume Bacuvier

CEO

Joanne Wilson

CFO

25 past transactions

Aptaris

Corporate Round in 2016
Aptaris connects the entire marketing and promotions management process for seamless omnichannel customer communications. Aptaris streamlines systems, processes, and data - from the moment of deal initiation through implementation to settlement and post-promotion analysis. Retailer merchandising, marketing, advertising, and store operations departments work better together to quickly identify opportunities, improve communications, get more from budgets and drive profitability. In a world of fewer resources and growing complexity, Aptaris helps marketers do more with less

Label Insight

Series A in 2014
Label Insight collects, aggregates and analyzes CPG label data to allow the government, retailers, manufacturers and app developers a comprehensive view of food labels. This includes allergens, additives, ingredient, and claims analysis.

Label Insight

Series B in 2016
Label Insight collects, aggregates and analyzes CPG label data to allow the government, retailers, manufacturers and app developers a comprehensive view of food labels. This includes allergens, additives, ingredient, and claims analysis.

The Shelf

Seed Round in 2014
Shelf, Inc. operates a platform that connects brands and fashion/beauty/lifestyle influencers from all over the world. The company offers an influencer marketing platform for brands; an actionable content analytics tool to help brands evaluate and utilize the content produced on social networks; a database for agencies; and a directory for finding relevant influencers. It also provides insights for planning campaigns. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

KSS Retail

Acquisition in 2010
KSS Retail Ltd. provides science-based pricing intelligence, optimization, and modeling solutions. The company offers PriceStrat, which models, forecasts, and optimizes retail prices for regular and promotional pricing by using tools that integrate price modeling and optimization into the daily work-flow of a merchant. It also provides consulting, implementation, price zone and store clustering, market basket analysis, competitor analysis, strategy development, and category role definition services. KSS Retail serves grocery, convenience, chain drug, wholesale, specialty stores, online retail, consumer product goods manufacturers, and general retail industries. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Florham Park, New Jersey. KSS Retail Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Eurovestech Plc. As of December 31, 2009, KSS Retail Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Dunnhumby Limited.

Askuity

Series A in 2016
Askuity connects retailers and product suppliers with insight and analytics for improved collaboration, planning and retail execution. No more cumbersome spreadsheets. No more archaic reporting systems. No more missed opportunities. Askuity. See What’s in Store.

Askuity

Series B in 2017
Askuity connects retailers and product suppliers with insight and analytics for improved collaboration, planning and retail execution. No more cumbersome spreadsheets. No more archaic reporting systems. No more missed opportunities. Askuity. See What’s in Store.

GrocerKey

Private Placement in 2018
GrocerKey, Inc. develops and provides an e-commerce grocery solution for retailers. Its products include GrocerKey, an end-to-end technology that delivers user experience and back-end management system, as well as a mobile application for e-commerce grocery operations. It offers a mobile-optimized e-commerce store and native mobile applications, a management dashboard to oversee store-level operations and update settings in real time, and a pick, pack, and fulfill mobile operations application that provides operational efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin.

Humanyze

Seed Round in 2015
Humanyze helps companies improve by understanding their people. Performance cannot be reflected solely by a balance sheet. With unmatched technology from the MIT Media Lab, we combine wearable sensors and digital data to deliver people analytics and insights to our customers.

GrocerKey

Venture Round in 2018
GrocerKey, Inc. develops and provides an e-commerce grocery solution for retailers. Its products include GrocerKey, an end-to-end technology that delivers user experience and back-end management system, as well as a mobile application for e-commerce grocery operations. It offers a mobile-optimized e-commerce store and native mobile applications, a management dashboard to oversee store-level operations and update settings in real time, and a pick, pack, and fulfill mobile operations application that provides operational efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin.

Coherent Path

Series A in 2014
Coherent Path’s science-driven personalization empowers retailers to build meaningful relationships with their customers – increasing revenue and differentiating their brand today, while maximizing lifetime value. We go far beyond first-generation recommendation tools by helping retailers identify the best path ahead for each customer. Using this groundbreaking approach, retailers of all sizes can personalize the customer journey through any channel with multi-step offers that increase revenue, drive engagement, and inspire loyalty.

Pulsate

Seed Round in 2015
Pulsate enables direct communication with customers based on their location, context, interests and behaviours. Pulsate allows you to design and push rich media content directly to customers devices. Deepen the relationship by establishing a customer dialogue. Allow users to reply to your campaigns, provide feedback and keep complaints outside of social media. Maximize foot traffic by targeting street level or competitor locations. Combine with segmentation for optimal results. iBeacons:tm: enable you to understand indoor customer location and context with incredible accuracy. Easily manage deployment and configuration of iBeacons:tm: with the Pulsate cloud platform. Gain a deeper understanding of your mobile customers and a comprehensive view of each mobile campaign.

Content Analytics

Series A in 2014
Content Analytics is an e-commerce optimization platform for brands. The company's machine-learning based item optimization platform helps brands get found among the more than 1 Billion SKUs now available online. Brands can store and catalog content, syndicate it to retailers and optimize their business to increase sales. Investors include Almaz Capital, Joe Schoendorf and Nancy Schoendorf, Eric Hahn, Cameron Myhrvold, Visionnaire Ventures and Zetta Venture Partners.

Label Insight

Series A in 2014
Label Insight collects, aggregates and analyzes CPG label data to allow the government, retailers, manufacturers and app developers a comprehensive view of food labels. This includes allergens, additives, ingredient, and claims analysis.

Pulsate

Venture Round in 2016
Pulsate enables direct communication with customers based on their location, context, interests and behaviours. Pulsate allows you to design and push rich media content directly to customers devices. Deepen the relationship by establishing a customer dialogue. Allow users to reply to your campaigns, provide feedback and keep complaints outside of social media. Maximize foot traffic by targeting street level or competitor locations. Combine with segmentation for optimal results. iBeacons:tm: enable you to understand indoor customer location and context with incredible accuracy. Easily manage deployment and configuration of iBeacons:tm: with the Pulsate cloud platform. Gain a deeper understanding of your mobile customers and a comprehensive view of each mobile campaign.

Coherent Path

Seed Round in 2013
Coherent Path’s science-driven personalization empowers retailers to build meaningful relationships with their customers – increasing revenue and differentiating their brand today, while maximizing lifetime value. We go far beyond first-generation recommendation tools by helping retailers identify the best path ahead for each customer. Using this groundbreaking approach, retailers of all sizes can personalize the customer journey through any channel with multi-step offers that increase revenue, drive engagement, and inspire loyalty.

Numerator

Series A in 2013
Numerator is a market intelligence firm that brings together omnichannel marketing, merchandising and sales data to make pursuing new possibilities simple for brand, retail and agency clients. Owned by Vista Equity Partners, Numerator is uniquely able to link what people buy to the reasons and influences behind their purchases, combining the power of the InfoScout OmniPanel, which to-date has captured over 500 million brick-and-mortar and ecommerce purchase receipts, and the advertising, promotion, ecommerce pricing, and digital shelf messaging that influence the path to purchase. Numerator is a primary source of real-time, path and purchase data for industry leaders such as Nike, Unilever, Samsung, Procter & Gamble, and MillerCoors.

Pulsate

Private Placement in 2018
Pulsate enables direct communication with customers based on their location, context, interests and behaviours. Pulsate allows you to design and push rich media content directly to customers devices. Deepen the relationship by establishing a customer dialogue. Allow users to reply to your campaigns, provide feedback and keep complaints outside of social media. Maximize foot traffic by targeting street level or competitor locations. Combine with segmentation for optimal results. iBeacons:tm: enable you to understand indoor customer location and context with incredible accuracy. Easily manage deployment and configuration of iBeacons:tm: with the Pulsate cloud platform. Gain a deeper understanding of your mobile customers and a comprehensive view of each mobile campaign.

Askuity

Seed Round in 2014
Askuity connects retailers and product suppliers with insight and analytics for improved collaboration, planning and retail execution. No more cumbersome spreadsheets. No more archaic reporting systems. No more missed opportunities. Askuity. See What’s in Store.

Aptaris

Acquisition in 2018
Aptaris connects the entire marketing and promotions management process for seamless omnichannel customer communications. Aptaris streamlines systems, processes, and data - from the moment of deal initiation through implementation to settlement and post-promotion analysis. Retailer merchandising, marketing, advertising, and store operations departments work better together to quickly identify opportunities, improve communications, get more from budgets and drive profitability. In a world of fewer resources and growing complexity, Aptaris helps marketers do more with less

Pulsate

Venture Round in 2018
Pulsate enables direct communication with customers based on their location, context, interests and behaviours. Pulsate allows you to design and push rich media content directly to customers devices. Deepen the relationship by establishing a customer dialogue. Allow users to reply to your campaigns, provide feedback and keep complaints outside of social media. Maximize foot traffic by targeting street level or competitor locations. Combine with segmentation for optimal results. iBeacons:tm: enable you to understand indoor customer location and context with incredible accuracy. Easily manage deployment and configuration of iBeacons:tm: with the Pulsate cloud platform. Gain a deeper understanding of your mobile customers and a comprehensive view of each mobile campaign.

Netomi

Seed Round in 2016
Netomi develops an conversational artificial intelligence platform for commerce that enables brands and business on mobile messaging applications to make product recommendations, field questions about product availability, and provide assistance with purchases. Netomi was formerly known as msg.ai. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

Sociomantic Labs

Acquisition in 2014
Acquired by Tesco. Sociomantic labs offers real-time bidding solutions for eCommerce advertisers, helping its clients drive incremental sales on a global scale

Kevel

Series C in 2024
Kevel offers the infrastructure APIs needed to quickly build custom ad platforms for sponsored listings, internal promotions, native ads, and more. We are committed to the vision that every online retailer and publisher should be able to add user-first ad revenue streams and take back the Internet from Google, Amazon, and Facebook. Customers like Ticketmaster, Yelp, Strava, Mozilla, and many more have already launched successful ad platforms on Kevel.