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DECEMBER 5, 2019

If one were to make a list of products for a cutting-edge fashion brand aimed at capturing the emerging Generation Z market, it is safe to assume that “foxtail keychains” would not make the top 10. Festival and club clothes comprised a rather niche market in 2011 when the brand first began advertising their products.

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JUNE 14, 2017

In a competitive fast-casual and dinner delivery world, how can one brand make its mark? San Francisco chef Anthony Strong launches his new restaurant, Young Fava, today, June 14. Meanwhile, established restaurants are keeping their brand in the spotlight by putting it directly on the food. It doesn’t have a dining room.

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APRIL 9, 2019

On Perennial’s website, the company seeks to make its brand purpose front and center. Neither Bonham nor Taylor are new to the space: Taylor co-founded the plant-based food company Beyond Meat, and Bonham grew her expertise by manipulating plant inputs at the San Francisco-based biotech accelerator and seed fund IndieBio.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

Tencent is a global technology company based in Shenzhen, China, and Dragoneer is an investment firm based in San Francisco. Farfetch will use the capital to continue growing and expanding into new markets, particularly China. Tencent is helping the company reach the market through its WeChat platform. “We

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AUGUST 17, 2016

Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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JULY 17, 2018

Salesforce announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Datorama , a cloud-based, AI-powered marketing intelligence and analytics platform. Salesforce is excited to welcome Datorama’s incredible team to the Salesforce family,” Bob Stutz, chief analytics officer and CEO of Marketing Cloud, said in a press release.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

The company currently has offices in New York, New Jersey, San Francisco and Las Vegas. The combination of DraftKings’ leading and trusted brand, deep focus on customer experience and data science expertise and SBTech’s highly innovative and proven technology platform creates a vertically-integrated powerhouse,” Robins said.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Aura, a San Francisco-based fintech offering affordable loans to low to moderate-income households, wants to partner with banks to offer those loans to consumers who have traditionally been unable to secure them from larger institutions.

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JUNE 23, 2020

TiffinLabs opened in early 2019 and is operating some kitchens in Singapore, including digital-first restaurant brands Publico Pastabar and Hureideu – Korean Fried Chicken. market and assessing what needed to be done in terms of building demand and a network for supply, along with selecting the locations. and Europe.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

There are brands that claim to take the customer experience to the max — and then there are brands that redefine what exactly the max means. Chubbies takes its customer community seriously, and it makes it very clear that this is well beyond a marketing ploy. inch inseam has been making a comeback in middle market retailers.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Diego and California Central Coast customers can order from Smart & Final. Earlier this month, the company said it was launching digital convenience stores, branding the service DashMart. The service is launching on the West Coast and in the Midwest.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The move will bring 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores — just in time for the holiday shopping season. The Market @ Macy’s helps both emerging and established brands reach new audiences by showcasing them in a physical space inside Macy’s. “The

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AUGUST 22, 2019

Williams started The Sock Spot website and started to reach out to brands. Now, he has more than a dozen brands with access to many different types of socks. The unit highlights a selection of more than 40 pairs of novelty socks, which are specialized to San Francisco shoppers. The Market. The Machine.

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JUNE 22, 2019

It seems every firm is trying to find a way into the expansive — and ever-growing — “health and wellness” market. In the last few years, wellness has become a dominant lifestyle value that is profoundly changing consumer behavior and changing the markets.”. As of 2018 health and wellness was a $4.2 The industry now represents 5.3

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MARCH 25, 2019

And some eCommerce brands are bringing the convenience of self-service technology into their brick-and-mortar stores. Rent the Runway’s new store in San Francisco, for instance, was to include “self-service stations” that let members of its subscription service return items and borrow new ones. Approximately one quarter — or 25.3

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

To bolster its subscription business, San-Francisco-based Recurly has notched $19.5 The subscription commerce market is undergoing a dramatic shift as consumer purchasing behaviors are quickly evolving to expect flexible, pay-as-you-go models from their favorite brands,” CEO Dan Burkhart said in a statement per the outlet. “The

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APRIL 13, 2017

A young logistics startup that gives eCommerce brands same-day delivery capabilities just scored a major chunk of venture funding. Founded in May of 2016, San Francisco-based Darkstore offers a platform that enables on-demand, same-day and 2-day delivery options for eCommerce sites. Just recently, the company scored $1.4

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MARCH 11, 2020

The platform allows brands to host live-streamed video trainings where employees around the world can hold interactive training sessions and engage virtual beauty try-ons. The brand uses Instagram to gather information for product development, to make product announcements and to sell online.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Activewear brand Fabletics , which was co-founded by Kate Hudson in 2013, announced plans for a retail expansion across the U.S. The company confirmed that the new locations will bring the brand’s total retail store count to 30 locations throughout the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

the San Francisco blockchain startup, has been bought by Lightyear Corp., ” Blockchain is the technology that underpins the cryptocurrency market. The new company will have a staff of 60 and will be headquartered in San Francisco, with another office in New York City.

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APRIL 22, 2019

Eventually, the company plans to expand to other markets, including L.A. “We We look at Recess’ launch on Uber Eats as another distribution channel for the brand, with Recess IRL [the company’s New York shop] serving as the storefront for on-demand delivery operations,” said Benjamin Witte, founder and CEO of Recess. among others.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

San Francisco FinTech Brex announced a $200 million debt capital raise from Credit Suisse that will be used to expand its eCommerce business and credit offerings to new companies, Brex announced in a press release on Thursday (Dec. Brex deals in business-to-business (B2B) payments with corporate cards tailored to specific industries.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

Employees were axed from the company’s headquarters in San Francisco as well as from Los Angeles, Nashville, Tennessee, and other offices. . “We Postmates co-founder and CEO Bastian Lehmann said last month that Grubhub’s dismal earnings report and one-day 43 percent stock plunge was not an indicator of the food delivery market.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The San Francisco-based digital mortgage and loan platform on Wednesday (Sept. Instead of being loyal to one brand, 71 percent of respondents said they would consider opening an account with a new bank if they were presented with an offer they found relevant. Blend , the home loan tech startup, isn’t done growing.

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JULY 13, 2017

And that enthusiasm for their first product pushed BarkBox to expand more than its user base in its early days; it’s also shifted its brand. Less successful have been enterprises like BarkCare, a concierge vet service that offered house calls in New York and San Francisco starting at $199. BarkBox has since become Bark&Co.,

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Retail performance mobile marketing expert Fidzup recently announced it raised $3.7 Fidzup’s Programmatic & Analytics Platform was developed to enable brick-and-mortar store managers to intelligently direct their marketing campaigns, while accurately measuring their return on investment in their physical stores.

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MARCH 5, 2019

Munchery had said it was planning to focus on its largest market, San Francisco, in an effort to become profitable, but that never happened. The company revealed it will earn $5 million from the sale of its equipment, machinery and San Francisco headquarters.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

So far, the results have been mixed; in China, the market appears to be deflating, while in the U.K. Isn’t Only for Big Brands. Farmhouse Market , a much smaller player in Minnesota, shows how automated retail can be adapted outside of big cities and tech hubs. it is just taking off. What’s the reality so far? In the U.S.,

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MARCH 31, 2017

Following a successful test run in San Francisco, Jack in the Box and DoorDash are now offering delivery options to 229 major cities across the U.S., including Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle and Las Vegas, among a number of others.

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OCTOBER 7, 2018

The report noted Deliverr, which is based in San Francisco, uses machine learning and predictive intelligence to ascertain which warehouses have the clients’ merchandise. The report noted that the startup keeps its packaging brand neutral so that any marketplace can use its services. Most warehouses aren’t going to be full.

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MARCH 16, 2016

“You’ve shared an abundance of marvelous #marriedinmodcloth snapshots on Instagram and a bevy of bridal reviews for our Gilded Grace Dress, plus you had a blast trying it on in our Fit Shop in San Francisco. The expansion also follows staffing upgrades in the San Francisco based fashion startup.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

But the branding came across somewhat differently. The brand was widely accused of being culturally insensitive and appropriating the name of the very shops they were hoping to push out of business with their full-service vending machines. The Washington Post branded Bodega the most hated startup in America.

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JUNE 29, 2016

In a world where sunshine in the news is in something of short supply, the good folks at Thrive Market can add good news for those in need of some to report to the list of things they deliver. You can’t eat it, but after the week the world’s markets have been having, reporting numbers in black ink is pretty delicious.

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OCTOBER 3, 2018

In this next chapter, we will refine and deeply connect our products, allowing marketers and developers to build location functionality into apps, marketing campaigns and measurement and CRM platforms.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Four temporary pop-ups have opened and are opening in New York, San Diego, San Francisco and in the Las Angeles suburb Santa Anita, CNBC reports. billion for retail and marketing in the year 2022, with revenues from VR initiatives expected to increase by 3,000 percent over the next four years. and Europe by 2022.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

Many new brands are positioning themselves as healthier candy options with labels such as “organic,” “all-natural,” “non-GMO,” and “preservative-free.” This market map includes private companies as well as select acquired brands and is not meant to be exhaustive of companies in the space.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In the age of Amazon, achieving success in this market takes dozens of fulfillment centers, advanced logistics and sophisticated enterprise technology. This includes new entrepreneurial businesses like TushBaby , large CPG brands like Bulletproof 360 and top Walmart sellers like Enviro-Log.”.

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