Event Coverage 28 minutesRegister for Free AccessShoptalk 2019 Startup Pitch Recap Coresight Research May 3, 2019 Executive SummaryThe Coresight Research team was in Las Vegas attending and participating in the Shoptalk 2019 conference, March 3–6. In this report, we profile the 15 innovative retail-technology companies that competed in Shoptalk’s Startup Pitch. 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. Please Login to read the full report. Not a member? To access this content for free, register for a free account. This document was generated for Other research you may be interested in: High-Tech Retailing—Four Technologies That Retailers Can Use to Enchant Consumers: Insights from the Retail Track at CES 2025Weekly UK Store Openings and Closures Tracker 2025, Week 13: Kingfisher Announces Store Expansion Plans; Whole Foods Opens New London StoreThe Agentic AI Playbook: Insights Presented by Deborah Weinswig at NRF 2025: Retail’s Big Show APACMarket Outlook: US Convenience Store Retailing—Charting New Paths Through Structural Headwinds