Executive Summary

The Coresight Research team attended the XRC Labs Cohort 5 Demo Day event in New York City on April 19 at the Parsons School of Design.

• Pano Anthos, Founder and Managing Director of XRC Labs, kicked off the event by discussing how the store format is evolving and how retail is in a dramatic state of change.
• The XRC Labs accelerator program’s fifth cohort included a mix of startups in the e-commerce, retail, design, interactive tech and 3D-printing sectors.
• Nine startups that provide solutions designed to analyze data for better decision making and to improve the customer experience participated in the Demo Day event: Clark, Convrg, Fillogic, Frenzy, Hemster, KiraKira3D, LexSet, StoreDNA and Viveat.