Executive Summary

The Coresight Research team attended XRC Labs’ Cohort 6 Launch Day event in New York City on July 17 at the Parsons School of Design.

• Pano Anthos, Founder and Managing Director of XRC Labs, kicked off the event discussing how the store, as a format, is going through an evolution, and that retail is in a dramatic state of change.
• The sixth cohort included a mix of startups in the e-commerce, retail, design, interactive tech and digital marketing sectors.
• The eight startups participating provide solutions designed to analyze data for better decision making and to improve the customer experience. The companies that took part in the Demo Day included: Curie, Fabulyst, LuvThat, Plannista, RELOVD, RetailDeep, Simplista and VisuWall.