At the Live Shopping Days conference this year we organized a Startup Expo where up-and-coming startups had the opportunity to present themselves to the conference participants. The resonance was very positive and the intention is to continue the practice in a similar form for the next LSD conferences.
Here we highlight three startups of particular interest:
UPcload
UPcload wants to revolutionize the online shopping process for clothes. UPcload has developed a technology which allows users to directly measure their body size with their webcam and convert this to clothing sizes for fashion manufacturers.
Not only are returns expected to drop in the ideal case. UPcload has interesting plans for the future of their product. For example, it may be possible to show members of a fashion shopping club what other users with the same body shape have purchased. Or an intelligent filter could be built into eBay which helps to display only offers coming from sellers with the same stature.
With the UPcload ID, users can give access to their body measurements to an entire shopping network affiliated with UPcload.
Should UPcload make it past the first hurdle to get measurements from users via webcam, then this will be a startup to keep an eye on.
Jatuso
Jatuso wants to use a variety of offerings to create a platform which will bring brick and mortar business, e-commerce and end consumers together.
The platform standardizes and coordinates all relevant transaction processes, data formats and information used before and during an end customer order. By doing so it attempts to make the purchase process for all parties easier than ever before.
With Scanme, Jatuso will offer special machines to scan products (or packaging from used up products in the home).
“All product information, special offers or recommendations are stored in a central database and can over all channels (ScanMe home, ScanMe mobile, Webshop, etc) be put into a central and synchronised customer shopping cart (regardless of whether it is single persons or a whole family).”
Jatuso has gone into serial production of the scanning machines two weeks ago. Mobile apps are still in development.
Current cooperation-partners are amongst others: EDEKA Southwest, EDEKA Minden and EDEKA North. According to own statements, any brick and mortar retailer can rollout a Jatuso system within 14 days.
Artflakes
Artflakes considers itself to be “Community Marketplace + Fulfillment”. Artflakes allows independent artists and photographers to offer their work as prints, posters or greeting cards. Artflakes does not only offer an internet showroom to promote products but also takes over the processing of the order, production and fulfillment. Currently Artflakes is still in a closed test phase for the artist's interface.
Artflakes has also launched ArtSticker two weeks ago. Via the APIs from photo sharing sites Instagram and Picplz, Artflakes can take user photos and print them as vinyl stickers. A good example of how APIs can be used in e-commerce.
Originally posted in German by Marcel Weiss, adapted for excitingcommerce.com by Jason Soo.
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