Executive Summary

The Coresight Research team attended the Salesforce Dreamforce conference, held September 25–28, and saw three startups vying for the $250,000 Dreampitch grand prize on September 26. These startups were:

• Carserv, a digital platform on which auto-repair shop owners can digitalize their processes and use data to improve customer engagement while increasing revenue.
• Radius8, which localizes retailers’ digital experiences based on information from their physical stores (for example, inventory information) and external metrics such as the weather or events. Radius8’s platform is designed to drive consumers who pre-shop online into stores.
• Draiver, a self-learning logistics platform that moves vehicles by planning, executing, and instructing drivers. The company matches up the vehicles that firms need to move with drivers who can undertake those journeys in a gig-economy model layered with machine learning.