Six Batches - One Mission: Change the Face of Retail Forever
20 startups have been hand-selected for Batch 6 of Plug and Play Brand & Retail
Aug 23, 2016, 11:00 ET
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Plug and Play announces another elite batch of Brand & Retail startups to join them on their path to retail disruption. These twenty startups will be a part of a 3-month accelerator program designed for emerging retail technologies.
The Plug and Play model allows startups to engage with the entire retail industry at once – from retailers, brands, CPGs, mall operators and solution providers – to scale their technology across the entire industry. Partners of the program play an active role in forming the program's focus, as well as working to identify ways to integrate the relevant batch participants into their core technology. Notable partners include: Panasonic, Colgate-Palmolive, Simon Venture Group, Henkel, Clorox, and over 30 other industry leaders.
"Being selected by Plug and Play is an exciting opportunity for SwiftIQ to further partner with some of the world's top brand and retail thought leaders to solve complex data analytics issues," says Jason Lobel, CEO of SwiftIQ.
The Brand & Retail program runs two batches per year, each sourcing over 800 applications, with only a 3% acceptance rate.
"We truly believe that the next breakthrough in retail is happening right here under our roof. It's the type of environment that allows innovative entrepreneurs to actually collaborate with industry leaders," says Pouya Tehranian, Director of Brand & Retail.
The startups for this batch include:
| Startup Name |
Quick Blurb |
| 6d bytes |
Revolutionizing fast food using robotics. |
| Benchmark Intelligence |
Benchmark Intelligence is SaaS that helps retail chains measure and improve the customer experience of all their locations. |
| Cheerfy |
Cheerfy enables personalized contextual customer experiences at physical stores. Cheerfy uses Wi-Fi as a beacon to recognize customers on arrival, empowering businesses to provide an online-type of personalization (a-la Amazon). |
| Chute |
Chute is the first end-to-end user-generated content marketing solution that streamlines UGC search and discovery, curation, rights management, and publishing. |
| EMOTIV |
EMOTIV is a bioinformatics company advancing understanding of the human brain using electroencephalography (EEG). Our mission is to empower individuals to understand their own brain and accelerate brain research globally. |
| Visual search engine for shopping fashion and furniture using Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality. |
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| Gravy |
Gravy is the only location intelligence platform identifying consumer interests based on verified local event attendances. |
| Kwik |
The kwik.me IoT commerce system allows people to re-order products and services with a simple push of a button. |
| MemoMi |
The creators of the Memory MirrorTM the world first Digital Mirror platform providing countless user experiences and a new generation of in-store data analytics. |
| Oak Labs |
Oak believes the future of retail will be software-driven. Starting with an interactive fitting room mirror that enables customer requests, lighting changes, and checkout, Oak is building the ultimate intelligent store platform. |
| PrivMe |
Using A.I. and predictive analytics on spending and social data to form a real time consumer behavioral snapshot, PrivMe creates the world's most easy to use and powerful customer acquisition and retention platform. |
| QueueHop |
QueueHop is an apparel store mobile self-checkout solution with an RFID-enabled anti-theft tag that unlocks after a payment is made via an app. |
| Smartzer |
Smartzer's interactive video player turns videos clickable and gives brands access to detailed video engagement analytics. |
| Sparo |
Sparo is a patented application that allows merchants to leverage their corporate social responsibility campaigns into higher online sales and increased brand loyalty by marrying e-commerce and charity at the check-out page. |
| SwiftIQ |
SwiftIQ offers an advanced analytics, supplier collaboration and predictive application platform for large retailers and their vendors to collect, analyze and share insights on demand across billions of basket-level transaction and customer records. |
| Talkable |
Refer A Friend Platform for e-commerce companies. |
| Tilofy |
Tilofy's SaaS trend forecasting platform automatically identifies trends in their infancy, long before they reach the mainstream. |
| Umbo CV |
Umbo CV is an artificial intelligence startup developing event recognition systems for the professional video security space. |
| Vintra |
Vintra makes software that helps enterprises optimize marketing spend, generate new revenue, and drive operational performance by mining visual content for hidden, key insights and then recommending corresponding actions. |
| Von Bismark |
Von Bismark runs The Mall on Xbox One – a brand marketplace for tens of millions of 18-45 year old males on Xbox One. |
Plug and Play Retail runs 3-month programs twice per year. Plug and Play's venture team, VC Partners, and corporate partners select the startups that are accepted into the program. Learn more about the program: http://plugandplaytechcenter.com/retail
See these startups graduate the program and pitch to an audience of top investors and corporate partners at Plug and Play's EXPO on October 27th. Register here: http://bit.ly/oct27expo
About Plug and Play Tech Center
Plug and Play Tech Center is the world's largest global technology accelerator and venture fund. Since inception in 2006, our program has expanded worldwide to include entrepreneurs from 24 countries, providing necessary resources to succeed in Silicon Valley. With over 400 startups and 100 corporate partners, we have created the ultimate startup ecosystem. Plug and Play provides active investments with 180 leading Silicon Valley VCs, and more than 365 networking events per year. Companies in our community have raised over $3.5 billion in funding, with successful portfolio exits including Danger, Dropbox, Lending Club, PayPal, SoundHound, and Zoosk. For more information, visit: http://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com
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