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AiFi adds new funding into its cart to expand autonomous retail footprint
Contactless stores are gaining traction, more so in Europe, but there are some trickling into the U.S., including Atlanta’s Nourish + Bloom Market that opened in January. In that article, we pointed
Ownit helps brands sell products, at the point of discovery, with one click
Its technology connects social, commerce and payment options at the point of discovery with little interruption to you social media scroll.
New Zealand-based Imagr thinks camera-based AI is the future of shopping trolleys
When it comes to contactless, automated supermarket shopping, Imagr is backing a vision-based approach. But unlike Amazon Go stores, which use cameras and sensors to monitor the shopper as they walk i
Uber’s first head of data science just raised a new venture fund to back nascent AI startups
Kevin Novak joined Uber as its seventh engineer in 2011, and by 2014, he was the company’s head of data science. He talks proudly of that time, but like all good things, it ran its course and by
Who’s building the grocery store of the future?
The future of grocery shopping will be a win-win for both stores and customers.
4 views on the future of retail and the shopping experience
While the present is largely bleak, preparing for the future has retailers adopting technologies faster than ever. Their resilience and innovation means retail will look and fee different when the wor
Autonomous retail startup Standard Cognition acquires competitor Checkout Technologies
As cashiers across the country take precautions to limit interactions with customers in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s hard to think of a better time for the rollout of an Amazon Go vi
To beat Amazon Go, Standard Cognition buys cashierless DeepMagic
Valued at $535 million, autonomous retail startup Standard Cognition has emerged as a soon-to-be tech giant and the best hope for merchants to compete with Amazon Go. Cashierless checkout is poised to
Standard Cognition lands $35M at $535M valuation to battle Amazon Go
European venture capital fund EQT Ventures leads the round for Standard Cognition.
To automate bigger stores than Amazon, Standard Cognition buys Explorer.ai
Standard Cognition helps retail stores stand up to Jeff Bezos’ juggernaut. The $50 million-funded autonomous checkout startup is racing to equip bigger shops with scanless payment technology tha
Standard Cognition raises $40M to replace retailers’ cashiers with cameras
The Amazon Go store requires hundreds of cameras to detect who’s picking up what items. Standard Cognition needs just 27 to go after the massive market of equipping regular shops with autonomous
Standard Cognition raises another $5.5M to create a cashier-less checkout experience
As Amazon looks to increasingly expand its cashier-less grocery stories — called Amazon Go – across different regions, there’s at least one startup hoping to end up everywhere else beyond Am
Standard Cognition gets $5M to build a machine vision-powered checkout
While image recognition in photos and video has become increasingly sophisticated at an incredible rate, Standard Cognition co-founder Jordan Fisher says everyone is chasing autonomous driving — or,