Jun 11, 2021

Retail Technology & Ecommerce

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Retail Tech & E-commerce

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

Hello! I’m Alice Knibbs 👋🏼 , a data-driven E-commerce entrepreneur who is obsessed with the future of Retail and E-commerce end-to-end. I’m also your new Startup Digest curator. 🤓

What’s the point of this newsletter? Each week I scout the hottest retail and e-commerce news, market insights and events so you don’t have to.

All you need to do is scroll ⬇️

Let’s kick off, shall we?

Alice

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💸 'Doing the rounds'

This retail tech startup from London pockets £250K to focus on payments - UKTN

London-based Loyalize, a leading white label engagement platform pocketed £250K in pre-seed funding to ramp up platform development.

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Loupe Tech Lands $12M Series A To Connect Sports Card Enthusiasts

Loupe’s livestreaming app combines viewing, purchasing and connecting as a community into one tool.

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Faire: How Digitizing Wholesale Empowers the Future of Retail | by Sequoia

When I first encountered Faire, we were competitors — not for customers, but for talent. I was working at Instacart, and one of our highest-potential team members let me know he was thinking about…

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Pattern, (Formerly Gin Lane), Raises $60M to Acquire D2C Home-Centric Brands; Announces Acquisition of GIR

Pattern, a family of brands with the shared mission of enjoying daily life, announced today that it has raised $60 million of debt and equity capital.

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💡A little deep dive

The Metaverse Will Radically Change Retail

The coming of a collective, persistent, virtual reality will fundamentally transform how we live and shop, writes retail guru Doug Stephens.

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🎧 Worth a listen

HBR Presents after hours: Retail Trends We’re Watching

Listen to this episode from After Hours on Spotify. Youngme, Mihir, and Felix share their shopping habits and the retail trends they’re keeping an eye on.

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