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Cordial and the art of earning the next email
The enterprise messaging company turns shopping signals into reasons to get in touch. Its most useful idea: a campaign should begin with something the customer did.
OnQ gives the store shelf something to say
Inside a former Ohio mall, OnQ builds the displays that help shoppers choose. Its next job is making those displays agree with the stockroom.
Yıldız Tech Has a Useful Head Start: Customers in the Family
Built inside Yıldız Holding, the software company turns grocery orders, delivery routes and factory problems into products. Its advantage is access to businesses that can put the code to work.
Quqo wants the corner shop to keep its middlemen
Vietnam’s small retailers already have suppliers. Quqo’s bet is that better software can make those relationships work harder - from the sales visit to the next stock order.
The UK Launchpad learned to open doors at the right time
Sandeep Arora’s early mistake was introducing clients to opportunities before they were ready. His UK Launchpad now pairs corporate access with the preparation that makes a meeting useful.
Migros One Wants the Whole Shopping List
Groceries, dinner, pet food: Migros One is gathering the household shop into one app. Behind the screen, the Turkish retailer is putting its stores, software and delivery network to work together.
Ocado built the robots. Now comes the hard part.
The British grocery technology company taught machines to pack the weekly shop. Warehouse closures and new customers are teaching it where automation earns its keep.
Visualsoft wants your website and your shop to remember the same customer
The agency that built its own ecommerce platform is betting on Shopify, connected tills and a shop floor full of experiments. Its pitch gets interesting where the customer journey usually gets awkward.
Red Ant and the art of the five-minute checkout
Furniture Village cut checkout from 20–30 minutes to five with Red Ant’s retail software. Behind the faster sale is a bigger ambition: giving store associates the information, tools and credit to serve customers wherever they buy.
Rezolve Ai is buying its way to the checkout
The London company is assembling search, payments and loyalty businesses around a retail AI engine. Its next test is turning acquired customer relationships into better shopping - and a business that pays for itself.
Vypr wants your bad idea caught before it hits the shelf
From bread bags to birthday cards, Vypr lets brands test the small decisions that shape a launch. Its bet: consumer research earns its keep when there is still time to change the product.
Ocado Put the Supermarket on a Grid. Now It Has to Prove the Grid Travels.
The British grocer became a robotics company by solving its own least glamorous problem: picking milk, melons and frozen peas without losing money. After a costly first act, Ocado is making the machine lighter, the software looser and the pitch more practical.
The 14,000-kiosk machine hiding behind your lunch break
From McDonald's orders to Premier Inn check-ins, Evoke Creative builds the screens that quietly move people through the day - then keeps the hardware, software and service under one roof.
HYPERVSN Put a Screen on a Bicycle. Then It Made the Screen Disappear.
The London company turned a rejected bicycle-wheel ad into spinning LED displays used by Nike, Coca-Cola and the Sphere. Its real product is not a hologram so much as a carefully engineered interruption.
Antavo Wants to Make the Loyalty Card Feel Less Like Homework
The London scaleup powers points, tiers, prize wheels and perks for brands from KFC to Hyatt. Its real pitch is less visible: let marketers change a global loyalty program without waiting in engineering's queue.
The 3 A.M. Retail Problems ZakApps Wants to Make Boring
From product keys locked in a digital vault to stock checks that spare retailers another spreadsheet, this Chennai-built company works in the unglamorous layer where commerce either moves - or jams.
Jerry Inman Has Spent a Career Marketing What Comes Next
Before streaming had a supply-chain problem, Jerry Inman was studying how fashion, software and restless consumers turn signals into decisions. That unusual apprenticeship now shapes his work at Whip Media.
Matt Collins Learned Retail at Shelf Level - Now He Markets the Software Watching It
Before he sold the idea of computer vision in the aisle, Matt Collins spent years worrying about what was actually happening there. His route from grocery merchandising to FORM’s C-suite makes him a translator between the shelf and the software.
Jennifer Schiffman Turned an Art-History Eye Into a SaaS Growth Engine
She planned to curate museums. Instead, Jennifer Schiffman learned to curate markets - building software brands through acquisitions, exits and reinventions, while keeping one microphone open for the comic dramas of Pittsburgh suburbia.
Mario Paganini Wants Marketing to Earn the Pause
After helping technical companies explain themselves through an exit, two unicorn journeys, and a string of rebrands, Mashgin’s CMO has reduced his craft to a demanding idea: attention must be earned.
The $93 Billion Club That Wants the Checkout Line to Disappear
Sam Walton's bulk-buying experiment has become a $93 billion retail laboratory. Its sharpest idea is wonderfully mundane: give members their time back.
Noreen Allen Makes Complicated Companies Legible
Across telecom, cloud software and retail technology, Noreen Allen has kept returning to the same hard assignment: find the story inside a complicated business, make it credible, and give people a reason to act on it.
The $880,000 Shelf Bet: InContext Solutions Built a Store Where Failure Is Cheap
Before a retailer resets 22,000 displays, InContext Solutions lets the bad ideas lose inside a digital twin. What began as custom virtual-store research is now a software, services and AI business built around one useful proposition: make the expensive mistake on a screen.
Jeremy Wallace Has Spent Three Decades Turning Friction Into Action
Before retail teams were his audience, the wind was his feedback loop. Jeremy Wallace's route from sailing coach to SaaS founder to Zipline marketing chief is a study in making the next move clear.
Amanda Dyson Wants Marketing to Stop Counting Applause
After two decades inside supply-chain software, Amanda Dyson has a blunt test for marketing: did it move the business? Her new assignment at DemandTec is to make a 25-year-old company’s story catch up with what its software has become.
Rahul Chabukswar Left Microsoft to Fix the Grocery Aisle’s Messiest Problem
He began with a warehouse, learned why supermarket data lies, and built Homesome around a stubborn idea: the neighborhood grocer should own the digital relationship too.
James Moorhead Has Spent a Career Making Boring Things Impossible to Ignore
First he helped turn body wash into internet theatre. Now the former Old Spice marketer runs a network of 8,000-plus key-copying kiosks - a career built on finding drama in the everyday and removing friction where people feel it most.
Mir Aamir Has Spent 30 Years Teaching Grocery Stores to Think
From Safeway loyalty cards to ShopBots behind Whole Foods, Mir Aamir has followed one stubborn question across three decades: can convenience work for the shopper without breaking the grocer's economics?
Mike Micucci Has Spent 25 Years Rebuilding the Machinery Behind the Buy Button
Before AI agents could shop, somebody had to make the catalog, inventory and order systems agree. From GroupSwim to Salesforce Commerce Cloud to fabric, Mike Micucci has made a career of turning that backstage argument into working software.
Corey Moran Is Bringing the Spreadsheet to the Runway
After years translating luxury for Google, Corey Moran has returned to the brand side with a precise brief: make Michael Kors storytelling, customer experience and data behave like one idea.