Executive Summary

The 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.