Qopius
Qopius digitizes shelves to help retailers measure shelf performance, increase productivity and reduce out-of-stock scenarios. They are constructing the world’s biggest AI-powered image recognition engine for digitizing supermarket shelves, that means detecting and recognizing every consumer goods product from images and video, to finally achieve the fully connected store. The Qopius Retail Pulse platform helps the biggest names in FMCG, retailers and manufacturers, to track the behavior of their products on the shelves and take corrective action in real-time to insure the shopping experience is at its best. Their mission is to transform the way of shop. A seamless shopping experience in an automatically functioning store, with no waiting in line, and the right product at the right place. Their dedicated team and their ever-growing artificial intelligence engine will help get them there.
Qopius
Qopius digitizes shelves to help retailers measure shelf performance, increase productivity and reduce out-of-stock scenarios. They are constructing the world’s biggest AI-powered image recognition engine for digitizing supermarket shelves, that means detecting and recognizing every consumer goods product from images and video, to finally achieve the fully connected store. The Qopius Retail Pulse platform helps the biggest names in FMCG, retailers and manufacturers, to track the behavior of their products on the shelves and take corrective action in real-time to insure the shopping experience is at its best. Their mission is to transform the way of shop. A seamless shopping experience in an automatically functioning store, with no waiting in line, and the right product at the right place. Their dedicated team and their ever-growing artificial intelligence engine will help get them there.
TL;DR
Headquarters: Paris, France
Product: AI-powered shelf monitoring and retail analytics (Retail Pulse)
Founded: 2015
Acquisition: Acquired by Trax (announced Feb 2020)
Select investors: SAP.iO, 360 Capital, Bpifrance
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Retail operations and shelf management (FMCG/consumer goods retail analytics).
Founded
2015
Industry
Retail technology / Computer vision
Funding Track Record
Reported seed round in July 2017 (sources list investors including 360 Capital Partners, Bpifrance, Plug and Play).
Last disclosed financing event listed as Non-equity Assistance on Apr 19, 2019.
Investor Signal
“SAP.iO, 360 Capital, Bpifrance”