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AI powered pricing and revenue optimisation firm Buynomics secures $30 million in Series B funding

Buynomics, a specialist in AI powered pricing and revenue optimisation founded in 2018, has raised $30 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Forestay Capital, with participation from Anais Ventures, VI Partners, and existing investors Insight Partners, Seedcamp, DvH Ventures, and Tomahawk Ventures. The cash will support global expansion, with a focus […]
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Tariffs, Takeovers & Our Encore Interview with Carrie Baker, President-Canada Goose

In this episode of Remarkable Retail, hosts Michael LeBlanc and Steve Dennis break down a high-stakes week of retail headlines before reprising a conversation recorded two years ago with Canada Goose President, Carrie Baker. Carrie touches on the brand’s unique positioning, DTC growth strategy, sustainability initiatives, and product line extensions. Retail News Breakdown: Tariff Whiplash – The Trump administration’s latest on-again, off-again tariffs are […]
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E-commerce delivery platform startup Relay raises $35 million in Series A round headed up by Plural

Relay, which was founded in 2022 and focuses on the backbone of e-commerce delivery for retailers, has announced a $35 million Series A round led by Plural. The round also includes continued participation from its seed investors, Project A and Prologis Ventures, the VC arm of logistics real estate firm Prologis. The new capital will […]
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lululemon goes large in London: these are our most read retail technology articles from last week

Check out the articles on this here website that caught your fancy last week, including Pricer, Focal Systems, FuturMaster, PlaniSense, M-Cube, Dolce&Gabbana, Max Retail, Shopify, Currys, Ikea, and Etsy. lululemon opens largest flagship store in EMEA to date as Regent Street, London location sees double Performance apparel, footwear, and accessories brand, lululemon, is relocating its […]
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Showcasing smart solutions: these are our biggest retail technology articles on LinkedIn right now

We’re big fans of LinkedIn and are busy building an amazing community of retail tech enthusiasts on the social media platform. As we power towards the 25,000 followers mark, these are the articles that are currently on their radars, including Co-op, Deliveroo, Barron McCann, Currys, Deloitte, Pricer, Focal Systems, RELEX Solutions, TPP Retail, Hightouch, NearSt, […]
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Hightouch bags $80m Series C at $1.2bn valuation as it brings AI decisioning to retail marketers

Hightouch, a composable CDP and AI decisioning platform, has raised an $80 million Series C investment round at a valuation of $1.2 billion. This was led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from NVC, Amplify Ventures, ICONIQ Growth, and Bain Capital Ventures. Sapphire Ventures Partner Rajeev Dham will join the Hightouch board. The investment will help […]
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D2C e-commerce startup MarketLeap snags $8.3 million Series A funding round led by Smedvig Ventures

MarketLeap, an AI driven platform that aims to simplify and scale D2C e-commerce, has announced an $8.3 million Series A funding round led by Smedvig Ventures, with participation from Expon Capital, Motier Ventures and business angels including former executives from Amazon, SoftBank, and Unilever.  The capital injection will allow the company to accelerate platform development […]
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Qsic names in-store retail media veteran Marc Walkin as firm’s new Vice President of Marketing

Qsic, an in-store audio platform tapping GenAI audio and data intelligence, reports that Marc Walkin has joined the company as its new Vice President of Marketing. “As retailers look to turn on new revenue streams, in-store retail media is emerging as the next major growth area, presenting a massive opportunity for audio as an advertising […]
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All American eyes on the Trump administration: our most read retail technology articles from last week

Check out the articles on this here website that caught your fancy last week, including Cart.com, Primark, Amazon, Ikea, Reckon.ai, Hugo Boss, Qsic, Outdoor and Cycle Concepts partners, and Pricer. Cart.com research finds retailers prepping 2025 investments in CX, AI, machine learning and data analytics Unified commerce solutions provider, Cart.com, has released survey findings among […]
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Including Wolt, Currys, and Simbe: our biggest retail technology articles on LinkedIn right now

We’re big fans of LinkedIn and are busy building an amazing community of retail tech enthusiasts on the social media platform. As we get ready to cross the 20,000 followers mark, these are the articles that are currently on their radars, including Joybird, 3D Cloud, Retail247, Snappy Shopper, Reckon.ai, Ikea, NewStore, Zelt, Outdoor and Cycle […]
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Strategikon Partners with Sira Sight.AI to Revolutionize Global Clinical Trial Cost Benchmarking

San Francisco, CA — Strategikon, a leading provider of advanced clinical business solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Sira Sight.AI, a pioneer in AI-driven site cost intelligence. This collaboration aims to integrate global investigator grant data with Strategikon’s Clinical Maestro® PORTOFOLIO, creating a comprehensive and cutting-edge platform for clinical trial cost benchmarking. Strategikon and […]
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AI powered in-store audio and retail media specialist Qsic bags $25 million in Series B funding

In-store audio platform, Qsic, has closed a $25 million Series B funding round led by Hedosophia. That brings the total raised to date to $31.7 million. Powering in-store audio and retail media for retailers and QSRs like 7-Eleven, Coles Express and McDonald’s, the company currently reaches more than 100 million shoppers at the point of purchase […]
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Fashion focused generative AI platform Raspberry AI lands $24 million in Series A funding led by a16z

Raspberry AI, a generative AI platform for fashion creatives working with Under Armour, MCM Worldwide, Gruppo Teddy and Li & Fung, has secured $24 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Existing investors Greycroft, Correlation Ventures and MVP Ventures also participated in the round, along with angel investors including Gokul Rajaram and Ken […]
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Waterfront Street Kitchen & Bar near London ExCel taps Sticky NFC ordering tech as it opens doors to public

A new London ExCel Waterfront Street Kitchen & Bar recently opened, with the 400 capacity space offering an all day dining experience at the Immerse LDN district. In a LinkedIn post, Harry Ridley, Head of Technology at Levy UK & Ireland, who worked on the project, said: “Waterfront has received my Tech of the Month […]
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Ocula announces £4 million Series A funding round alongside new AI powered e-commerce solution

UK-based AI driven e-commerce solution provider, Ocula Technologies, has closed a £4 million Series A funding round. The includes investments from NYO Capital and Jose Luis Gomes, and follows a £3.25 million led by Praetura Ventures in August. Gomes brings a wealth of experience from his role leading Google Cloud’s North American Retail & Consumer […]
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  1. Channel: Restaurants

Success in Engaging Gen Z—A Lesson for Restaurants and C-Stores

  Steven Johnson the Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® believe that in a rapidly evolving food and convenience landscape, the ability to tap into new consumer behaviors is essential. Claim, the viral social app targeting Gen Z, is not just reshaping the digital marketing game, but is teaching valuable lessons for restaurants, […]
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  1. Corporate Strategy

Amazon Invests in 3 Nuclear Projects to Expand Renewable Energy Portfolio

Amazon has anchored a Series C-1 financing round of approximately $500 million in X-Energy Reactor Company, which manufactures advanced small nuclear reactors (SMRs). The companies are collaborating to bring more than five gigawatts of new power projects online by 2039; additionally, Amazon has signed deals for building SMRs with Washington State’s Energy Northwest and Virginia’s […]
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Paris and London based AI powered inventory platform Autone raises $17 million from General Catalyst

Autone, an AI powered platform helping retailers with inventory management, has raised a $17 million Series A funding round led by General Catalyst. All existing investors from its seed round also reinvested in the Series A. This includes Speedinvest, YCombinator, Seedcamp, 2100VC, Motier, Financière Saint James, and business angels from LVMH, Sephora and Moncler. The […]
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Retail Transformation as a Calling with Greg Merrill, Nike’s Former Global Head of Digital Transformation

Joining us for the first of our interviews recorded in the Scratch Event DJs remote podcast studio at the Revtech Rev Summit in Dallas is Greg Merrill, most recently global head of digital transformation at Nike.  Greg draws on his extensive start-up experience, board advisory roles, and his just completed tenure at global powerhouse Nike, to […]
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Blueprint for a hypothetical martech “holding company” for a world where aggregation beats consolidation

For 13 years of the ever-expanding martech landscape, conventional wisdom has predicted that our industry would consolidate. That conventional wisdom has failed spectacularly. Or more accurately, the conventional wisdom of the software industry from 10, 20, 30 years ago has been disrupted by new dynamics, in a new environment. The barriers to creating software are […]
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Drug Channels News Roundup, August 2024: My $0.02 on the IRA’s MFPs, UNC’s New PBM, Amazon vs. Retail, Fixing 340B, and Mark Cuban Lets Loose

Another news-laden summer is ending. Time to pack away your bathing suit, send the kids back to school, and cherish these curated curiosities that I combed from the Jersey shore: Some uncomfortable realities of the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA’s) first set of 10 prices Amazon goes after retail pharmacies with an amusing lack of self-awareness […]
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Retail technology veteran Dr. Christian Bock takes on Manager IPO Stores Strategy role at Aldi Süd

Last month, we reported that Dr. Christian Bock was joining Aldi Süd in August where, he said in a LinkedIn post, he was “looking forward to taking the customer experience and shopping experience to the next level together with my new colleagues”. We can now reveal his new job title: Manager IPO Stores Strategy. He […]
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RTIH Innovation Awards winner Cart.com secures $105 million in debt refinancing from BlackRock

Cart.com, a provider of unified commerce and logistics solutions, has secured a $105 million term loan facility provided by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock. The company says that the latest facility, among other things, consolidates its venture debt at competitive terms. “Cart.com is one of the fastest growing providers of commerce and logistics solutions […]
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What’s next for Instacart as CEO Fidji Simo announces decision to join OpenAI as head of applications?

Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is departing the grocery technology company to join OpenAI as its Chief of Applications. In an email to employees, she said: “Let me start by saying this was an incredibly hard decision because I love this company. We are operating incredibly well as our last earnings results have shown. Our strategy […]
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Personalized Disruption: Grocery’s Secret to Breaking Old Habits

There’s no shortage of talk about technology that’s going to redefine, dominate, or transform retail this year. Much of this language boils down to marketing speech, and often, true industry disruption fails to materialize. There is no shortage of tech hyperbole in retail. But then there’s the occasional exception — a technology that genuinely does […]
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State of the Consumer Report

[Week of May 9] Timely insights on consumer behavior, pricing, and retail trends This weekly snapshot highlights the most relevant signals shaping where and how consumers are spending—from e-commerce and inflation shifts to essential vs. discretionary demand. What you’ll get from this week’s report: Cross-border e-commerce slowdown: Learn how tariff pressures are reshaping sales trends […]
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How grocery continues to drive Walmart’s top line

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Grocery continues to be a key financial driver for Walmart, according to the retailer’s newest annual report released last week. The key business segment brought in $276 billion in net sales for Walmart U.S. for its fiscal year 2025, which ended Jan. 31, […]
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