Aug 17, 2021

Retail Technology & E-commerce: Social Commerce

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Retail Tech & E-commerce

Retail Tech & E-commerce news and trends, straight to your inbox 📩

Happy Tuesday, everybody!

Here’s the scoop on the latest fundings and news over the past week.

For those that expressed interest in learning more about E-commerce Enablement, there’s also a little zoom on Social Commerce to get things rolling. Over the next month we will cover one new sub-topic each week, giving you an overview of the hottest areas within E-commerce enablement, their key trends and applications.

Alice

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💸 'Doing the rounds'

Shopistry bags $2M to provide ‘headless commerce without the headaches’

Canada-based Shopistry wants to turn the concept of headless commerce, well, on its head. The e-commerce startup recently announced $2 million in seed funding to continue developing its toolkit of products, integrations, services and managed infrastructure for brands to scale online.

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E-commerce-as-a-service platform Cart.com picks up $98M to give brands scaling tools

The company provides software, services and infrastructure to small businesses so they can scale online.

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Retail startup Jokr raises $170 million from investors | Retail & Leisure International

German e-commerce pioneer Ralf Wenzel’s quick-delivery retail platform Jokr, which has gone live in seven countries since launching barely four months ago

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💡Social Commerce zoom

*Video* The rise of social commerce with Shopify + Pinterest

Social commerce is set to boom - find out what you need to do to prepare for the explosion

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E-commerce Statistics & Trends Every Marketer Needs to Know (2021)

E-commerce has become a vital part of almost all businesses around the world. We delve into the best e-commerce statistics & trends marketers need to know.

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🗞 News snippets

Tesco gears up London Express store with "just walk out" tech

Tesco has spruced up its Express store in London’s High Holborn as it reopens the site as its first “just walk out” branch.

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‘We want to democratise retail’: Wundermart’s Patrick Dekker wants to enable anyone, anywhere to open up shop

Patrick Dekker and his Wundermart co-founder Laurens de Kleine are on a mission. The mission is to democratise retail itself.

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‘They’re just cashed-up private equity’: Flippa CEO Blake Hutchison on the rise of e-commerce rollups

When Blake Hutchison first launched Flippa in 2009, he was creating one of the first platforms dedicated to helping people buy and sell online businesses.

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Techstars Startup Digest Retail Tech & E-commerce is curated by:

Alice Knibbs
alice.knibbs@startupdigestmail.com

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