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Zilliant and the price that got away
A price list is a promise. Ten million manual discounts can make it fiction. Zilliant sells the machinery that keeps B2B pricing attached to reality.
Vistaar and the art of keeping the price you set
A bottle of bourbon can lose its margin long before it reaches the shelf. Vistaar builds the software that follows the money through prices, deals, promotions, and rebates.
Revenue Management Solutions: The price of being average
Denny’s had more than 350 pricing codes. Revenue Management Solutions helped replace them with a more awkward, more useful idea: each restaurant deserves its own answer.
Peak finds the money hiding on the shelf
The Manchester AI company turns inventory and pricing data into commercial decisions. Now owned by UiPath, it is taking the next step: helping businesses act on them.
The $440 Million Pricing Brain That Came Back to Run the Grocery Aisle
DemandTec spent 25 years teaching retailers what a price change might do. Now, independent again, it wants retailers and suppliers to stop arguing from different spreadsheets - and put every trade dollar on one shared record.
Dynatron Software, Inc.
The quiet profit center inside a dealership is the service lane. Dynatron turns its messy repair-order data into pricing discipline, warranty revenue and measurable action - pairing software with coaches who keep the dashboard from becoming wallpaper.
Pricemoov
Pricemoov is a Paris-based B2B SaaS company that builds a cloud-native price management and optimization platform. It combines data science, automation, and competitive market intelligence to help retailers, distributors, and enterprises set, govern, and optimize prices across channels - protecting margins and lifting revenue. Founded in 2016 by Pierre Hebrard, Francois Aubert, and Jean Saglio, the company raised a $10M Series A in 2023 and serves customers across auto-parts, grocery, retail, distribution, and rental industries.
Spresso.AI
Spresso.AI is a New York-based enterprise SaaS company that uses AI, machine learning and reinforcement learning to help retailers, brands and CPG companies set profit-maximizing prices at the SKU level. Spun out of the online wholesaler Boxed, Spresso packages its Pricing Intelligence, Enterprise Commerce Suite and Spend Management tools into a modular platform that continuously tests price points and allocates customer traffic toward the most profitable one. Led by CEO Jared Yaman and backed by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, the company serves roughly 15 enterprise customers, including AEON Group and Fortune 500 brands.
Jared Yaman
Jared Yaman is the CEO and a co-founder of Spresso, a New York-based AI company that builds pricing intelligence and price-optimization software for retail, CPG, and ecommerce businesses. A three-time founder with a University of Michigan law and economics background, he previously co-founded and served as COO of Boxed, the online wholesale retailer that competed with Walmart, Costco, and Amazon, weathered the pandemic, and went public before winding down. At Spresso he is turning the pricing engine built inside Boxed into a standalone product, arguing that AI should supplement rather than replace human judgment.
Pierre Hebrard
Pierre Hebrard is the CEO and co-founder of Pricemoov, a Paris-based SaaS platform that helps enterprises set, govern, and optimize prices using AI. He started the company in 2016 after a career that took him from investment banking in London and trading in Hong Kong to running Jumia's operations across Kenya and Nigeria. In April 2023 Pricemoov raised a $10 million Series A led by ISAI and Bpifrance Digital Venture.
Mark Chrystal
Dr. Mark Chrystal is the CEO and co-founder of Profitmind, a Pittsburgh-based agentic AI startup that gives retailers a team of AI analysts for pricing, inventory, assortment, forecasting and competitive intelligence. A 25-year retail operator who ran analytics, supply chain and e-commerce at rue21, David's Bridal, American Eagle, Disney Store and Victoria's Secret, he was recruited by AI pioneer Andrew Ng to build software 'for retailers by retailers.' The company, formerly known as Netail, has raised roughly $14 million to date, including a $9 million Series A backed by Accenture Ventures, with partnerships spanning Accenture and Microsoft.
Ronak Sheth
Ronak Sheth is the CEO of Pricefx, the cloud-native pricing software company, where he has pushed a disciplined 'smart growth' playbook and an aggressive bet on AI pricing agents. He arrived in 2021 as President and Chief Revenue Officer and took the top job in 2022. Before Pricefx he co-founded and led Label Insight, a B2B data SaaS company acquired by NielsenIQ. A Northwestern-trained industrial engineer with a Washington University MBA, he is a fixture of the St. Louis startup scene, sitting on boards and mentoring founders through Arch Grants.
Tryolabs
Tryolabs is a Montevideo-born AI and machine learning consultancy that builds custom data and AI solutions for companies worldwide. Founded in 2009, it pairs deep engineering with applied research across computer vision, NLP, generative AI and MLOps, and is known for open-source tools like Norfair and Luminoth. Its clients range from MercadoLibre and LATAM Airlines to Halliburton, Allianz and UNICEF, spanning retail, insurance, manufacturing, telecom, oil and gas and transportation.
Vendavo
Vendavo is an enterprise software company that helps B2B manufacturers and distributors price, quote, and sell more profitably. Its commercial platform unifies price optimization, intelligent CPQ (configure-price-quote), and rebate management with pricing science and explainable AI, aiming to capture 1 to 3 percent of incremental gross margin from complex commercial processes. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Vendavo is backed by Francisco Partners and Accel-KKR and serves global industrial customers.
Pricefx
Pricefx is a cloud-native, AI-powered pricing platform that helps enterprises set, manage, and optimize prices. Founded in 2011 in Germany, it offers a modular suite spanning price analytics, price setting, quoting (CPQ), rebate and agreement management, and AI-driven optimization. Today it serves enterprise manufacturers, distributors, and B2B leaders, and is recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for B2B Pricing and Rebates Optimization Software.
Profitmind
Profitmind (operated by Netail, Inc.) is a Pittsburgh-based retail decision-intelligence company that builds agentic AI to help merchandising teams make faster, more profitable pricing, assortment, inventory, promotion, and marketing decisions. Founded by retail veteran Dr. Mark Chrystal and incubated inside Andrew Ng's AI Fund/Landing AI ecosystem, its platform unifies a retailer's strategy, internal data, and external competitive signals into prioritized, explainable recommendations - serving retailers from $20M to $100B in revenue across three continents.
Andy Ballard
Andy Ballard is the CEO and co-founder of Wiser Solutions, Inc., the San Mateo-based omnichannel retail intelligence platform he built through the 2017 merger of Quad Analytix and Mobee. A Harvard undergrad and Stanford MBA, Ballard spent nearly a decade at Hellman & Friedman where he sat on the boards of DoubleClick, Getty Images, Internet Brands, and Catalina Marketing before launching Quad Analytix in 2012. Today he leads a 510-person company that tracks billions of online and in-store data points for over 750 global brands and retailers, while also serving on the boards of Domino's Pizza and Etsy, and running Figtree Partners, his software-focused investment firm.