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Walmart Data Ventures and the secret life of a shopping basket
Every receipt records a decision. Walmart Data Ventures sells suppliers a way to understand it - and, increasingly, a way to do something about 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.
Instant
Instant is a Sydney-founded, AI-powered retention marketing platform for ecommerce brands. It identifies anonymous shoppers, recovers abandoned carts and sends AI-generated email and SMS at the moment of highest purchase intent. After starting life as a one-click checkout tool in 2021, Instant pivoted to retention marketing and grew fast - more than 1,500 direct-to-consumer brands now use it, and the company says its AI-driven flows have generated over $1 billion in incremental revenue.
Shopic
Shopic is a Tel Aviv-based retail technology company that turns ordinary shopping carts into AI-powered smart carts using a clip-on device driven by computer vision. Its platform recognizes items at the individual level in real time, enabling frictionless checkout, targeted in-store promotions, loss prevention, and store analytics without requiring retailers to rip out and replace their existing fleet of carts. Founded in 2015 by cybersecurity veterans, Shopic has raised roughly $56M and deployed with grocers including Israel's Shufersal, Walmart Chile, and Italian and French chains.
QualSights
QualSights is a Chicago-based insights technology platform that helps brands decode real-world human behavior. It blends the depth of qualitative research with the speed of quantitative methods through patented always-on Smart Sensors, a mobile video participant app, and AI-powered analysis - capturing how consumers actually use products in everyday life. Trusted by Fortune 500 brands in CPG, pharma, and technology.