Shoptalk 2019 Startup Pitch Competition Recap: 15 Retail Technology Disruptors

Executive Summary

The Coresight Research was in Las Vegas attending and participating in the Shoptalk 2019 conference, March 3-6. 

• To kick off this year’s conference, Coresight Research Founder and CEO Deborah Weinswig emceed Shoptalk’s Startup Pitch competition. 
• The competition featured 15 early-stage technology companies, which we classified into four categories: merchandising and marketing solutions; physical retail solutions; fulfillment and post-purchase operations; and, retail e-commerce experiences. 
• There were two winners, one chosen by a panel of judges and the other through audience voting. 
• The judges picked Chatter Research, a company that makes a conversational commerce tool tailored to collect consumer post-purchase feedback.
• The audience chose smartphone-based self-checkout solution Rapitag.