Executive Summary

The Coresight Research team attended XRC Labs’ Cohort 6 Demo Day at Parsons School of Design, New York City, on September 27.

• Pano Anthos, Founder and Managing Director of XRC Labs, kicked off the event with his talk on how the store—as a format and an experience—is evolving and how retail is in a dramatic state of change.
• Cohort 6 is a mix of startups from the artificial intelligence (AI), second-hand retail, personalization, health and wellness, interactive tech and digital marketing sectors.
• The 10 participating startups provide solutions that use data analysis for better decision making and for improving customer experience. These startups were: Fabulyst, Holi Chow, IRL, Mayawell, RELOVD, RetailDeep, Simplista, VirtualAPT, VisuWall and eat2explore.