Operator of a resale marketplace intended to resell and promote used products directly in the store. The company's marketplace allows customers to promote the used products via social channels to drive new traffic to the store and offers features including brand protection, multiple customizations, and customer support, enabling customers to resell products they previously bought from an online store.
MeliBio, Inc. operates as a wholesaler of food products. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Berkeley, California.
A new way to shop for candles online. Scent Lab is the first candle brand to put invdivuality & personalization at the center of online candle shopping. At scent lab, shopping for a candle is a custom fragrance experience because we know that fragrance isn't one-size-fits-all. Customers can pick their favorite vessel & then create a signature scent with up to three fragrance notes to create a personalized, made-to-order candle.
Returnity is the solution to rising packaging costs and consumer complaints around excessive shipping packaging. Our patented designs save you money, create enhanced consumer experiences, and reduce carbon footprints.
Raydiant, Inc. specializes in creating connected experiences for brick-and-mortar businesses through its cloud-based digital signage technology. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company provides a platform that enables businesses of all sizes, from small cafes to large enterprises, to engage their customers and employees effectively. Raydiant's solutions include a kiosk, virtual agent, and multimedia devices that facilitate the display of announcements, promotions, and menus on any HDMI-equipped TV. Users can enhance their offerings by integrating features such as videoconferencing, in-store music, and menu updates, while also creating presentations using stock footage. The company's services cater to a diverse range of industries, including banking, healthcare, education, and retail, making it a versatile choice for businesses seeking to improve customer engagement and operational efficiency.
Pod Foods Co. develops a software for distribution of food for local retailers and suppliers. It offers products in various categories, including fruits and vegetables, beverages, snacks and branded food. Pod Foods Co. was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.
For Price Sensitive Shoppers, Renovators, and DIY’ers who want maximum savings on consumer electronics and home appliances, who are willing to consider factory seconds or returned merchandise. SAVR is an online marketplace that connects consumers with warrantied, returned, or cosmetically flawed inventory at deep discounts. We remove the friction in shopping this liquidated merchandise for consumers, decrease losses for merchants, and keep as much of this inventory out of landfills as possible. Unlike local Scratch and Dent shops, Ebay, or Craigslist, with unverified or stolen merchandise or auction houses with slow turnaround times, SAVR uses a custom API-first marketplace, proprietary omnichannel search, and years of experience in building marketplaces, to connect our members directly to exclusive inventory from over 50 leading Brands and Merchants.
Rent premium event decor with delivery anywhere in the continental U.S.
For over 3B people experiencing Shelter-at-Home, the new normal is order-ahead and delivery. Businesses have to find whole-new ways of reaching customers because customers are not going to stores. They can no longer rely on foot traffic or visual merchandising. Curie brings the stores home to shoppers. Curie looks to improve the at-home shopping experience as opposed to a list a-la Amazon. Curie brings the store to the home with a Shelf-to-Home Experience. With Curie, customers shop with AR, then make their purchases and receive them via delivery or pickup apps. Shopping has remained nearly unchanged for over 10K years. You go to the store, look around, and buy things. We are trained to look at shelves, the packaging, the prices, and deals. For many, ordering online is broken experience. There’s simply too much cognitive dissonance between the shelf and a mobile app or website.
WEAR is a pioneering non-fungible token platform focused on brands and contemporary artists. As Asia's first luxury platform of its kind, it combines a curated marketplace with purpose-built metaverses, enabling users to purchase and showcase their NFT collections while interacting with a community of like-minded collectors. The platform serves as a comprehensive solution for brand partners, offering them new business models and revenue streams through innovative storytelling channels, activations, and engagement opportunities. By facilitating the creation of products and curated experiences, WEAR aims to redefine digital ownership and enhance the connection between brands, artists, and their audiences.
Mxt operates a marketplace for customized skincare products, focusing on delivering scientifically formulated, clean, and effective solutions. The company's offerings are vegan, cruelty-free, and free from phthalates, parabens, and synthetic fragrances. By emphasizing personalization, Mxt aims to provide consumers with tailored skincare regimens that address individual needs and preferences.
For Gen z’ers who’re constantly discovering exclusive fashion statements, but understand that we only have 7 years to save the planet. Bobblehaus is the regenerative, unisex fashion community brand that offers limited-edition clothing, using only deadstock and recycled fabrics. Unlike Supreme, which caters to men, and Everlane, where sustainable options are restricted to cookie-cutter styles, Bobblehaus is a mission-driven, collective that designs for all.
Lexset.ai LLC specializes in developing artificial intelligence-based visual search tools for the interior design and furniture industries. Its flagship product, LexSet Visual Search, allows customers and designers to input images, identify objects within those images, and receive product recommendations to achieve desired aesthetics. Additionally, Lexset offers LexSet NextGen Tools, which include a mobile cross-platform software development kit that supports real-time object recognition and 3D tracking, as well as a data engine that generates training sets using 3D visualization and simulation technologies. This suite of tools is designed to enhance the capabilities of furniture and home supply retailers, helping them leverage augmented reality and artificial intelligence to boost sales. Founded in 2017 and based in Brooklyn, New York, Lexset aims to provide innovative solutions that streamline the design process and improve product discovery.
Fillogic is a New York-based technology company that provides retail and logistics services. The company is dedicated to maximizing efficiencies for retailers and freight delivery networks via mall-based micro-distribution hubs. It was so-founded by Bill Thayer and Rob Caucci in 2018.
Proper Good Inc, founded in 2019 and located in Bozeman, Montana, specializes in producing ready-to-eat meals and soups that cater to various dietary preferences, including keto, vegan, and gluten-free options. The company focuses on delivering convenient, nutritious meals made with clean ingredients directly to customers' doors. Its diverse product lineup features items such as squash and sausage spaghetti, chicken cordon bleu, potato leek soup, and savory pumpkin tarts, designed to be prepared in just 90 seconds. Proper Good aims to provide delicious and accessible meal solutions for consumers seeking quality and convenience.
Invisit is a privacy management software company that specializes in providing solutions for e-commerce businesses. Based in Brooklyn, New York, the company focuses on enabling marketers to effectively manage e-privacy and optimize data monetization. By offering tools designed to enhance compliance with privacy regulations, Invisit helps businesses navigate the complexities of data management while maintaining consumer trust. Through its innovative software, the company aims to support e-commerce companies in safeguarding user information while maximizing their marketing efforts.
Operator of a resale marketplace intended to resell and promote used products directly in the store. The company's marketplace allows customers to promote the used products via social channels to drive new traffic to the store and offers features including brand protection, multiple customizations, and customer support, enabling customers to resell products they previously bought from an online store.
Allbodies is a platform for modern health education. Better health starts with knowledge.
Clear Health is a skincare brand under Nefaire Skin Health, focusing on providing dermatological services tailored for Gen-Z. The company has developed a telemedicine platform that offers a variety of services, including appointments with doctors and healthcare professionals, online consultations, and dermatology treatments. This platform allows customers to receive skincare products prescribed online and have them delivered, streamlining the process for both patients and healthcare providers by saving time and reducing administrative burdens.
OrthoFX is a San Francisco-based company that developed a dentist-delivered, consumer-driven orthodontic and teeth straightening service, as well as a doctor-friendly financial model.
OrthoFX designs and develops clear aligner products and experiences for doctors and their patients.
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Gather AI, founded in 2017 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, specializes in autonomous inventory management for warehousing. The company offers a software-only platform that automates inventory tasks using off-the-shelf drones, allowing businesses to efficiently monitor and manage their inventory. Its artificial intelligence-driven software operates safely in GPS-denied environments, providing real-time data analytics and inventory insights. Gather AI’s team comprises experts from the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, focusing on autonomous vehicles and vision systems. The company provides a comprehensive service, combining its advanced software with drone technology under various contract or subscription models, enabling customers to optimize their operations effectively.
Sanguina is a medical device and wellness tool company currently focused on the launch of our first product, AnemoCheck Mobile: the first smartphone application for tracking of hemoglobin levels that is completely non-invasive and does not require painful blood draws.
Makeena is a mobile and web-based platform that connects healthy and eco-friendly brands with shoppers who are looking for good for them, good for their family, and good for the planet products. For the Brand, Makeena provides a streamlined, location-aware mobile and web consumer engagement platform for natural and sustainable brands, automating tracking and redemption for the shopper across multiple platforms, brands, and retailers at the point of purchase (online or in-store) for a single shopper account. By pushing location and context-aware incentives to shoppers, then tracking and rewarding their engagement, brands build new shoppers, and increase loyalty and repeat purchases. On the backend, brands upload their own information and decide where, when, and how much to offer. Makeena then collects the shopper data and provides the brands with a way to analyze and manage that data, delivering to the brands deeper shopper insights, where their products are located (in what stores and where on the shelf), and what encourages their shoppers to stay loyal to them.
Nuudii is a producer of a unique featherlight technology that hugs natural shape with supreme comfort while offering maximum versatility. It features a stretch of 360, it's compact and lightweight, it's quick to dry, machine washable, and easy for any travel. Nuudii was founded in 2015, by Rebecca Zuber.
Yuansfer is a cross-border payment gateway for brands and retailers who want to unlock sales opportunities to Chinese consumers. It seamlessly integrates Alipay and WeChat Pay to streamline checkout processes both online and in-store, increasing conversion and reaching new customers.
Axius provides athletes with a functional training tool that helps improve core strength, balance, and joint health. It offers a connected training board, AXIUS Core, which enhances human movement in just 15-minutes per day.
TRILL is an app connects streetwear lovers with unique independent brands and designers from around the world. The app allows them to purchase and easily discover new items that you can’t get anywhere else. TRILL is based in New York City.
Even Prime is a skincare line company that provides affordable products for men. Designed for all skin types, its clinically-tested formulas are simple, safe, and ethical (sulfate, paraben, cruelty-free). The company is on a mission to help men everywhere dive deeper into the concept of ritual and routine. It was established in 2017 and is based in Culver City, California.
Garbi is a smart recycling bin that helps users sort finished products and reorder them at the press of a button . Garbi Recognizes what you throw away, helps sort, and reorders products via 3rd party services.
Returnity is the solution to rising packaging costs and consumer complaints around excessive shipping packaging. Our patented designs save you money, create enhanced consumer experiences, and reduce carbon footprints.
For sales teams who are under pressure to meet and exceed their annual sales targets, Beat processes more than 50 different internal and external data points to make predictive recommendations of optimal orders, promotions and portfolio to sales teams for discussion with the buyer, eliminating lost sales due to out of stock.
Aduri Cushion is a multi-sensory meditation system designed to build users’ consistency and deepen engagement with their practice. Picking up where digital-only apps leave off, the Aduri system consists of a meditation pillow that gently vibrates, integrated on-demand content (guided sessions, music, soundscapes) and group-based sessions + accountability.
Suggestic, Inc. develops an application that provides automated and personalized lifestyle and nutrition coaching. Its application helps users in defining diet plans and provides recommendations for restaurant menu items. The company serves clinicians, nutritionists, patients, and healthcare teams, as well as publishers and authors. Suggestic, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Gather AI, founded in 2017 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, specializes in autonomous inventory management for warehousing. The company offers a software-only platform that automates inventory tasks using off-the-shelf drones, allowing businesses to efficiently monitor and manage their inventory. Its artificial intelligence-driven software operates safely in GPS-denied environments, providing real-time data analytics and inventory insights. Gather AI’s team comprises experts from the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, focusing on autonomous vehicles and vision systems. The company provides a comprehensive service, combining its advanced software with drone technology under various contract or subscription models, enabling customers to optimize their operations effectively.
ShopShops is a livestream shopping platform that connects consumers with brick-and-mortar retailers across the globe, allowing users to shop from diverse stores directly through their mobile devices. Founded in 2016 by Liyia Wu, the company operates from its headquarters in New York City and Beijing. The platform offers an interactive experience, enabling customers to browse efficiently by location and access authenticated products from various brands and stores. By breaking down geographical barriers, ShopShops provides a unique shopping experience that combines curation and interaction, allowing fashion-savvy consumers to explore global retail offerings conveniently and affordably.
Stryx Men, Inc. manufactures and sells skincare cosmetics for men. Its products include concealer stick, moisturizers, tinted face creams, and gel cleanser. It also sells its products online. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Lawrence, New York.
FORMULA is a personalized nootropics company that offers nootropic supplements for peoples' unique needs. The company safely provides improved focus, creativity, energy, and memory in capsule form. The company analyzes clinical trials and conducted research on 127 different ingredients and recommendations supported by the a large data set. FORMULA was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Fitted Laundry is an innovative laundry service company that leverages technology to enhance the customer experience. It offers a unique digital wardrobe platform that allows customers to digitally manage their clothing while utilizing partner cleaners across the United States. This service not only cleans garments but also scans and digitizes them, providing insights into users' clothing choices. Founded in 2018 and based in State College, Pennsylvania, Fitted Laundry focuses on creating a more efficient laundry process through its app, streamlining scheduling, pickup, and delivery services. The company aims to revolutionize the traditional laundry experience by integrating technology and personalized services into its offerings.
Macondo Vision is a company that provides a comprehensive system designed to measure, report, and reward the performance of associates and supervisors in various industries. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the company leverages proprietary software that utilizes machine vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to gather data on the labor force's interactions with machines and products. This innovative platform allows business owners to assess labor force safety and effectiveness, identify gaps between expected and actual performance, and generate actionable insights for improvement. By continuously monitoring task execution, Macondo Vision aims to enhance productivity and safety while minimizing time wastage, ultimately enabling organizations to optimize their operations and achieve better outcomes for their workforce and customers.
Provider of clean beauty and preservative care services platform intended to empower people to live more fulfilling and healthy lives. The company's platform provides various services like curative information, a health calculator beauty care and various other anti-ageing guidelines, enabling women to preserve their beauty and live a healthy and happy lives.
Sanguina is a medical device and wellness tool company currently focused on the launch of our first product, AnemoCheck Mobile: the first smartphone application for tracking of hemoglobin levels that is completely non-invasive and does not require painful blood draws.
For health conscious consumers looking for a low calorie, low sugar option that delivers a functional benefit, Mayawell is a refreshing alternative to Kombucha and fresh pressed juices.
Gender Reveal Game, LLC owns and operates online gaming operations. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.
AI-powered Spatial Intelligence platform using anonymous location data to derive actionable real time insights for operations and marketing.
Billie Inc. is a New York-based wellness company that specializes in manufacturing and retailing shaving products specifically designed for women. Founded in 2015, Billie offers a range of high-quality items, including razors, shaving cream, body wash, body lotion, and accessories like a magnetic holder and razor cartridges. The company is dedicated to providing affordable shaving solutions without the "pink tax," a term that highlights the extra charges often placed on women's grooming products. Billie's mission is to ensure that women receive the same level of attention and quality in shaving supplies that has traditionally been focused on men, promoting a more equitable approach to personal care.
Hemster, Inc. is an on-demand tailoring service founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in garment alteration and hemming services, enabling customers to achieve their desired fit regardless of where they shop. Hemster partners with brand-name retailers nationwide, allowing them to offer tailored sizing solutions from off-the-rack inventory through its Perfect Fit Platform. This approach helps eliminate the common challenge of finding the right size, enhancing the shopping experience for customers. Hemster also operates in key markets such as the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York.
Fabulyst Pvt Ltd. is a Hyderabad-based company that has developed an innovative application functioning as a virtual personal stylist for women in the online fashion market. Established in 2016, Fabulyst utilizes a unique AI engine that addresses modern women's style aspirations by providing personalized clothing recommendations based on individual preferences and goals, such as achieving a sporty look for an evening party while appearing slimmer. This system combines advanced technologies, including deep learning, computer vision, and natural language processing, along with over 40,000 styling rules. Unlike other players in the fashion technology space, Fabulyst offers hands-free, customized advice without manual intervention, aiming to make the benefits of a personal stylist accessible to all women, regardless of their budget. With the fashion e-commerce market in India projected to reach significant revenue figures, Fabulyst positions itself as a pioneering solution in a rapidly growing industry.
Endear is a digital retail platform designed to enhance customer engagement by empowering store associates with tools for personalized communication. The platform enables associates to reach out to customers via email and text, effectively transforming them into digital marketers. By utilizing real-time data, associates can target customers with tailored messages, send personalized communications in bulk, and monitor performance metrics to optimize engagement strategies. Additionally, Endear facilitates the creation of lookbooks and delivers various recommendations, allowing sales personnel to engage with customers remotely when in-person interactions are limited. This innovative approach aims to revolutionize how the retail industry drives and tracks sales.
Terra Kaffe Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in manufacturing and selling automatic coffee machines. The company aims to enhance the in-home coffee experience by offering a fully-automatic bean-to-cup espresso machine. By adopting a direct-to-consumer sales model, Terra Kaffe provides innovative design, exceptional customer experience, and high-quality features at competitive prices. Additionally, the company offers a coffee bean subscription service, making premium in-home espresso coffee both convenient and socially conscious for its customers.
ēdn is on a mission to change the way the world experiences nature - We create products that enable everyone to grow fresh herbs, vegetables, and flowers at the push of a button. We combine advanced automation and app control with a deep understanding of horticulture to grow any type of plant with predictable and guaranteed results. Built from beautiful hardwood and aluminum, our products embody living art with nature as the focus.
Swivel creates a mobile app that help black women find the perfect hairdresser. The company's app lets women of color discover and book a stylists for their individual hair type and desired style, enabling women of color the missing resource for finding the right salon or stylist.
Gather AI, founded in 2017 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, specializes in autonomous inventory management for warehousing. The company offers a software-only platform that automates inventory tasks using off-the-shelf drones, allowing businesses to efficiently monitor and manage their inventory. Its artificial intelligence-driven software operates safely in GPS-denied environments, providing real-time data analytics and inventory insights. Gather AI’s team comprises experts from the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, focusing on autonomous vehicles and vision systems. The company provides a comprehensive service, combining its advanced software with drone technology under various contract or subscription models, enabling customers to optimize their operations effectively.
For health conscious consumers looking for a low calorie, low sugar option that delivers a functional benefit, Mayawell is a refreshing alternative to Kombucha and fresh pressed juices.
VisuWall Technologies Inc., founded in 2015 and based in New York, specializes in advertising services that leverage computer vision technology to analyze consumer engagement in commercial real estate. The company's innovative platform measures traffic and responses to advertising, providing clients with insights into the effectiveness of their campaigns in real time. VisuWall offers a marketplace that showcases eye-level media, enhancing the visibility of advertisements and allowing users to access a dashboard for comprehensive campaign performance analysis.
Get products to consumers in a fraction of the time with significant and trackable savings. It’s time to fully digitize your retail operation with Simplista, a cloud-based B2B product listing platform that can radically improve your business. Maximize efficiency. Currently, retail product listing and upkeep is overly time-consuming with inaccuracies and delays that lead to lost revenue and unnecessary costs. By automating product listing and change management processes, Simplista produces efficiencies that impact your bottom line. Automate. Validate. Simplify. Collaboration, speed, and accuracy are the pillars of the Simplista platform. You’ll get product data right the first time and reap the benefits: transformative savings and increased revenues for both retailers and suppliers. A cloud-based platform that's secure. Simplista allows both traditional and digital retailers and their suppliers to collaborate for rapid product intake and upkeep in a secure manner - all in real time.
Curie is a premium personal care and lifestyle brand. We're a vertically integrated company making clean, affordable personal care products and fragrances. Curie makes plant-based products for healthier hair and skin. We started with everyday essentials including shower staples and an eau du parfum to offer customers better, more attainable choices for daily use. We know that clean products make for healthy bodies and improved wellbeing. After all, personal care is just that: personal. It's time we treat it that way.
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Every one of us now owns a digital identity. A powerful tool for communication, simplifying our lives daily. Viveat was created to give a digital identity to all of the objects that surround us, making them smarter, safer and more interactive.
Billie Inc. is a New York-based wellness company that specializes in manufacturing and retailing shaving products specifically designed for women. Founded in 2015, Billie offers a range of high-quality items, including razors, shaving cream, body wash, body lotion, and accessories like a magnetic holder and razor cartridges. The company is dedicated to providing affordable shaving solutions without the "pink tax," a term that highlights the extra charges often placed on women's grooming products. Billie's mission is to ensure that women receive the same level of attention and quality in shaving supplies that has traditionally been focused on men, promoting a more equitable approach to personal care.
ShopShops is a livestream shopping platform that connects consumers with brick-and-mortar retailers across the globe, allowing users to shop from diverse stores directly through their mobile devices. Founded in 2016 by Liyia Wu, the company operates from its headquarters in New York City and Beijing. The platform offers an interactive experience, enabling customers to browse efficiently by location and access authenticated products from various brands and stores. By breaking down geographical barriers, ShopShops provides a unique shopping experience that combines curation and interaction, allowing fashion-savvy consumers to explore global retail offerings conveniently and affordably.
Lexset.ai LLC specializes in developing artificial intelligence-based visual search tools for the interior design and furniture industries. Its flagship product, LexSet Visual Search, allows customers and designers to input images, identify objects within those images, and receive product recommendations to achieve desired aesthetics. Additionally, Lexset offers LexSet NextGen Tools, which include a mobile cross-platform software development kit that supports real-time object recognition and 3D tracking, as well as a data engine that generates training sets using 3D visualization and simulation technologies. This suite of tools is designed to enhance the capabilities of furniture and home supply retailers, helping them leverage augmented reality and artificial intelligence to boost sales. Founded in 2017 and based in Brooklyn, New York, Lexset aims to provide innovative solutions that streamline the design process and improve product discovery.
Monolith International BV, founded in 2012 and based in Amsterdam, specializes in retail analytics solutions that enhance understanding of shopper behavior. The company has developed the Monolith Actionboard, an augmented reality advertising device that integrates a hardware component utilizing Kinect technology with a proprietary software platform. This device facilitates the creation, distribution, and measurement of augmented reality advertisements while incorporating pattern recognition software to analyze shopper behavior in retail environments. It tracks various shopper characteristics, including gender, age group, and clothing style, and compiles this data into a set of metrics known as Kinegraphics. The Actionboard's cloud-capable hardware allows for ongoing upgrades and provides insights on which content captures the most attention from potential customers. Monolith's platform empowers retailers to optimize their decision-making processes through real-time, actionable insights.
KiraKira3D is a pioneering mobile application focused on 3D modeling, aimed at transforming how girls engage with engineering. The platform offers online classes that teach 3D printing, providing a unique learning experience by combining virtual instruction with tangible rewards in the form of 3D printed objects. KiraKira3D fosters an online community dedicated to learning, creating, and sharing, while equipping users with essential engineering skills and concepts. The lessons cover a range of transferable skills relevant to various STEM fields, including architecture, mechanical and aerospace engineering, and industrial design, thereby broadening the educational opportunities for young learners interested in these disciplines.
CONVRG Technologies, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based company that specializes in an AI-driven messaging platform designed to enhance consumer interactions through voice search. Founded in 2017, the company offers Speakeasy™, a software solution that voice-enables e-commerce websites and mobile applications, streamlining the shopping experience for consumers. By allowing users to shop using voice commands instead of navigating through multiple clicks, CONVRG transforms websites and apps into automated sales associates. The platform is designed to operate with explicit user permission, ensuring privacy while remaining accessible on brand-specific platforms rather than third-party services. CONVRG has partnered with prominent brands such as Estee Lauder, Sephora, and Proactiv, providing tailored conversational experiences that utilize machine learning to adopt brand-specific language and address complex business challenges. As of July 2019, CONVRG operates as a subsidiary of Haptik Infotech Pvt Ltd.
Reefill is a low-cost, environmentally friendly alternative to bottled water. The Reefill network provides members with unlimited access to cold, filtered tap water on the go. Using the Reefill app, members find the nearest station -- conveniently located around town in local businesses like coffee shops and bakeries -- activate it with their phone, and fill their reusable bottle in seconds.
StoreDNA is the integrated decision-making platform which delivers dramatically improved performance through better product assortments, store layouts, visual merchandising, and associate optimization.
Frenzy Labs, Inc. is a technology company specializing in visual search applications that enable automatic monetization of images on websites. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Marina Del Rey, California, Frenzy employs deep learning algorithms and computer vision to analyze website images, identifying brands and products even in the absence of logos. Its self-labeling image technology significantly enhances the efficiency of image dataset scaling, reducing the need for extensive manual labeling. The company's offerings include Fetch, a content monetization plugin for fashion bloggers, and Frenzy Enterprise Solutions, which provides automated catalog management and precise image search capabilities for e-commerce platforms. These solutions streamline content monetization for publishers and improve the overall efficiency of image management in various sectors.
Billie Inc. is a New York-based wellness company that specializes in manufacturing and retailing shaving products specifically designed for women. Founded in 2015, Billie offers a range of high-quality items, including razors, shaving cream, body wash, body lotion, and accessories like a magnetic holder and razor cartridges. The company is dedicated to providing affordable shaving solutions without the "pink tax," a term that highlights the extra charges often placed on women's grooming products. Billie's mission is to ensure that women receive the same level of attention and quality in shaving supplies that has traditionally been focused on men, promoting a more equitable approach to personal care.
MakerBrane is a peer to peer content creation platform that allows anyone anywhere to design, share, and discover new toy worlds. MakerBrane is building the future of toys on a software-first platform. They’re on a mission to democratize and diversify the global toys market by letting anyone anywhere participate in the creation of toys.
TradeMonday, Inc. operates a software-as-a-service machine learning market intelligence platform designed for retailers across various sectors, including fashion, cosmetics, food, electronics, and toys. Established in 2016 and based in New York, with an additional office in Hong Kong, the company offers the Retail Experimental Platform (REP!) which transforms market transaction data into actionable insights. This platform allows retailers and brand owners to simulate business strategies and manage operational risks by analyzing diverse data sources such as product performance, social media, and in-store traffic. Additionally, TradeMonday provides REP Lite!, a mobile application that helps users visualize sales revenue and volume through visual search. The platform enables businesses to uncover insights related to sales patterns, customer behavior, and market trends, thereby assisting in decision-making and optimizing sales margins.
Feather & Bone sells personal care products that are simple, pure and portable.
Kid Things is a machine learning powered, text-based concierge solution for parents of newborns to preschoolers who constantly need to keep up with the changing needs of their children. Parents simply text what they need, from apparel to baby gear, and Kid Things sends over options that fit their budget and brand preferences. Purchases are made over text. Based on a wealth of conversational data, Kid Things curates highly personalized choices for parents, saving them valuable time.
Nimbly is an on-demand 3D-knitting platform that powers the one-off manufacturing of standard-size and custom-fit knit products in the U.S. Unlike the inefficient and slow knitwear supply chains, Nimbly matches supply with demand, making products in less than an hour – with no order minimums. It’s a turnkey solution for innovation-driven apparel brands that want to quickly react to demand and/or empower customer choice, and reap benefits like reducing excess inventory, discounting, lead-times and product development costs.
Wondermile, Inc. is a Boston-based company that offers a proximity shopping platform designed to assist shoppers in discovering and purchasing products available in nearby retail stores. Incorporated in 2017, the company's application enables retailers to showcase their products and current storewide sales, enhancing the shopping experience for consumers.
The Lobby is an innovative video shopping platform that combines the convenience of online shopping with the engagement of in-store experiences. By featuring influencer-created videos, it offers a dynamic shopping environment reminiscent of a QVC-meets-TikTok format, allowing consumers to discover and explore top fashion brands in an inspiring way. The platform enables a seamless transition between digital and physical retail, enhancing the shopping experience. Additionally, The Lobby introduces a unique try-before-you-buy payment option, providing customers with a risk-free method to shop online, thereby addressing common concerns associated with e-commerce.
Cherry Pick AI, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in marketing automation for the beauty industry. Founded in 2017, it develops a platform that harnesses artificial intelligence to analyze social media content, providing valuable consumer insights regarding beauty product purchases. By focusing on predictive solutions, Cherry Pick helps brands and manufacturers gauge product demand before launching new items, thereby enhancing product development strategies. The company aims to transform the beauty business through its innovative approach to understanding consumer purchase intent.
Facenote allows any organization to transform their physical stores customer experience by enabling face recognition personalization and customer service. Simply by providing a selfie, customers can opt-in to be recognized any time they enter the store, before they complete a purchase, providing them with personalized benefits by connecting with the store existing CRM and their previous purchases.
Convey Clothing, founded in 2017 by Steve Zerneri and headquartered in New York, operates a certified apparel-leasing platform designed to enhance the lifecycle of clothing while benefiting brands financially. The platform allows consumers to purchase new garments from participating brands and return them after gentle use in exchange for store credit. This innovative approach not only offers customers a way to refresh their wardrobes regularly but also provides brands with an opportunity to tap into the secondhand market, unlocking additional revenue and fostering customer loyalty. Backed by investors such as XRC Labs, Convey Clothing aims to create a sustainable and profitable ecosystem for both consumers and brands in the fashion industry.
FFORA, Inc. designs and manufactures wheelchair attachable products primarily for the disabled community. The company offers lifestyle products and accessories, including cup holders and tumblers, bags and purses, active bags, attachments, hats, and candles. It markets its products through its online shop. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Dough is a membership community where people can discover and save on products made by women. The company's mission is to drive purchase power and awareness towards women owned businesses to create economic equality. It also build an inclusive movement, representing all female entrepreneurs and the brands that are built to create a society where women are equally represented in the boardroom, c-suite, and beyond.
Dough was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Affinity is an online fashion site that helps retailers start a dialogue with their shoppers. It offers personalized fashion recommendations for brands and retailers.
KiraKira3D is a pioneering mobile application focused on 3D modeling, aimed at transforming how girls engage with engineering. The platform offers online classes that teach 3D printing, providing a unique learning experience by combining virtual instruction with tangible rewards in the form of 3D printed objects. KiraKira3D fosters an online community dedicated to learning, creating, and sharing, while equipping users with essential engineering skills and concepts. The lessons cover a range of transferable skills relevant to various STEM fields, including architecture, mechanical and aerospace engineering, and industrial design, thereby broadening the educational opportunities for young learners interested in these disciplines.
Billie Inc. is a New York-based wellness company that specializes in manufacturing and retailing shaving products specifically designed for women. Founded in 2015, Billie offers a range of high-quality items, including razors, shaving cream, body wash, body lotion, and accessories like a magnetic holder and razor cartridges. The company is dedicated to providing affordable shaving solutions without the "pink tax," a term that highlights the extra charges often placed on women's grooming products. Billie's mission is to ensure that women receive the same level of attention and quality in shaving supplies that has traditionally been focused on men, promoting a more equitable approach to personal care.
ChatQuery Limited, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) software company, provides AI based virtual data analyst that interprets normal language requests into data queries for retailers and e-commerce sites, and analyzes their numbers and data. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Telegraph Bay, Hong Kong.
STOREE operates an online platform that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance retail operations. Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company has developed an AI virtual assistant named Tore-E, which facilitates communication between headquarters and individual stores. This tool translates real-time data into actionable insights, enabling retail managers to address sales floor challenges effectively. Tore-E helps retailers analyze existing data, identify merchandise issues, and autonomously generate relevant tasks tailored to each store's performance and inventory. By monitoring execution, STOREE ensures that stores align with customer demands, ultimately maximizing product value, improving operational productivity, and enhancing the overall customer experience.
Benja is an information technology company that offers an online-based marketplace for branded products such as shoes, shirts, and others. The company specializes in the fields of advertising, e-commerce, and mobile apps. Benja was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Cartogram provides healthcare wayfinding software which enables patients and staff to navigate from anywhere to anywhere - inside, outside, and between buildings. Learn more at https://www.cartogram.com
Artificial intelligence has long been considered the next game changer in process efficiency. But being notoriously computational intensive, artificial intelligence won't be able to deliver unless it runs fast enough and accurate enough. At lacelook, they have developed a network structure that is efficient and scalable enough to process fashion products from the entire internet and every single web store at once and return real-time results to consumers. They are also the only one that can accurately detect fashion products worn on persons in real-life settings, in other words fashion products in user-generated contents, instead of just singulated fashion items in clean stock photos.
Ziel, Inc. PBC, founded in 2015 and based in New York, specializes in the design, manufacturing, and retail of athletic apparel. The company focuses on providing on-demand sports apparel and accessories, leveraging machine learning technology to create custom designs that cater to the specific needs of athletes. Ziel operates as a retail-as-a-service platform, enabling leaders within health and wellness communities to develop and market personalized performance wear. Through this approach, Ziel aims to enhance the fitness experience by offering tailored solutions that support athletes in their pursuit of fitness and well-being.
Snappy App provides Snappy Gifts, an all-in-one enterprise gifting platform that uses the power of experience and delight to connect people around the world. It sources products and experiences from various brands and retailers. Dvir Cohen and Hani Goldstein founded Snappy App in 2015. Its headquarters is in New York City.