Our 2022 PwC Scale | Retail cohort has launched and we’re excited to be working with our chosen scale-ups to help solve the important problems of today. The programme is focused on Tech or Tech-enabled scale-ups that have solutions for a broad range of sectors within the UK and internationally, and builds on the success of the previous versions run over the last four years. Having assessed over 500 tech companies, we are excited to be working with our cohort of 14, picked to join our twelve week programme for 2022.
What is PwC Scale?
The programme is delivered in collaboration with GrowthBuilders over eight weeks, and is designed to facilitate collaboration between established leaders of industry and high growth tech scale-ups, to drive co-creation, partnerships and tap into new ways of enabling profitability, growth and innovation.
During the programme the cohort will benefit from a world class business curriculum designed to build fast growth, long lasting businesses, covering topics such as sales and marketing, operational growth, fundraising, and leading through growth. They also gain access to experts from across PwC's technology practice. The programme concludes with the Scale | FinTech Executive Events, where the cohort will pitch to industry leaders from PwC’s network on the following dates:
9th & 14th June - Retail Pitch (7 different scale-ups per event)
Meet the Cohort
- Advertima
- Bluechain
- Board
- Dream Agility
- Obsess
- Pricer
- Forter
- Dayrize
- Axonify
- Ecommeleon
- Heyday
- iERP.ai
- Proworx
- Stylumia
Advertima
Advertima offers 3D computer vision technology that transforms physical stores into a new revenue-generating Retail Media channel.
Bluechain
Bluechain is focused on Request to Pay, providing a real time two way communication link between Billers and Payers, removing friction from the receivables process for billers whilst transforming the payables experience for payers and providing more control, choice and insight for every transaction.
Board
Board is a leading software vendor in the fields of Business Intelligence, Corporate Performance Management, and Advanced Analytics. The company offers a unique, unified cloud-based decision-making platform.
Dream Agility
Dream Agility is a suite of proprietary tech which improves online advertising ROI and Sales (typically by 42% and 48% respectively) via optimisation of data, product & ads.
Obsess
Obsess is an experiential e-commerce platform, enabling retailers globally to serve highly interactive, visual and creative digital shopping experiences.
Pricer
Pricer is one of the worlds largest Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) manufacturers and sales organisations, Pricer's ESL's enable automated price updates at the shelf and by using integrated led's on the labels are now delivering additional instore benefits that drive operational excellence.
Forter
Forter offers cloud-based fraud prevention solutions for businesses.
Dayrize
Dayrize is a rapid and holistic environmental and social impact assessment that enables companies to understand their impact at a product level and communicate this to cosumers.
Axonify
Axonify Drives the performance of frontline via learning and communications that can be used at the point of need (on the shopfloor).
Ecommeleon
Ecommeleon simplifies the creation & management of complex product data in line with the requirements of external sales channels such as marketplaces in mind.
Heyday
Heyday by Hootsuite is an AI-powered customer messaging platform that enables brands to deliver personalized customer experiences through 1:1 conversations on social and messaging apps.
iERP.ai
iERP.ai offers an innovative AI-based sales forecasting solution with a multi-layer algorithm approach for high accuracy, support of external and internal factors, and transfer learning capabilities for fast deployment.
Proworx
Proworx Shoprime is a cloud-based marketing asset booking and management platform that helps enterprises digitalise their workflow.
Stylumia
Stylumia using proven proprietary demand-sensing and demand forecasting AI algorithms with data at internet scale.
“The Covid-19 Pandemic accelerated many pre existing trends and increased the need for agility, innovation and better customer engagement to capture a greater share of the consumers' wallet. The Scale programme gives retail and consumer businesses the opportunity to partner with innovative, modern and relevant growth businesses who can help drive better customer experiences, new revenue opportunities and streamlined operations. These scale-up solutions really get to the heart of what is important for consumers and our clients are increasingly engaging with scale-ups to drive better performance in their own businesses.”
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