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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source:https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/05\/11\/everseen-raises-over-70m-for-ai-tech-to-spot-potential-retail-theft\/<\/a><\/br> In 2007, Alan O\u2019Herlihy, who previously worked with large SAP installations as well as retail, set out to find a way to help retailers minimize \u201cshrinkage,\u201d or where a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded inventory. He settled on computer vision as the solution to the problem, and founded a company, Everseen<\/a>, to commercialize the technology.<\/p>\n Everseen \u2014 which uses computer vision to, among other things, attempt to prevent theft at self-checkout counters \u2014 today announced that it raised \u20ac65 million (~$71.32 million) in a Series A round led by Crosspoint Capital Partners, a previous investor in the startup. The new funds bring Ireland-based Everseen\u2019s total raised to nearly $90 million, which O\u2019Herlihy says is being put toward scaling the startup\u2019s business with a \u201ctargeted\u201d roadmap.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re experiencing significant demand for our technology from retailers grappling with the dual impact of declining customer spending and rising operational losses, including shrinkage,\u201d O\u2019Herlihy said. \u201cThe retail industry is also facing challenges such as labor shortages and labor cost inflation, making our technology even more valuable in addressing these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n Shrinkage in particular can be a serious hit to retailers\u2019 bottom lines, to O\u2019Herlihy\u2019s point. In 2017, stores lost an estimated 1.33% of revenues to shrinkage, totaling an estimated $47 billion, according<\/a> to the National Retail Federation.<\/p>\n Everseen uses a combination of ceiling-mounted cameras and computer vision software to \u2014 in theory \u2014 reduce theft at the point of sale in brick-and-mortar stores. According to O\u2019Herlihy, Everseen\u2019s algorithms can detect and track objects (e.g. SKUs) of interest, analyzing how they interact and recognizing \u201cactions of interest\u201d performed by shoppers and sales associates.<\/p>\n Beyond theft, Everseen claims to be able to \u201cknow\u201d when items on a shelf are almost out of stock and \u201cpinpoint processes needing immediate attention to help staff solve issues, improve trends and reduce variances.\u201d The platform, which processes video of hundreds of millions of products and tens of millions of customer interactions every day, can connect with a retailer\u2019s existing tools such as an order management system to provide insights and near-real time analytics.<\/p>\n \u201cAll of these elements serve as input, allowing our solution to \u2018nudge\u2019 a customer to self-correct or instruct a store associate to engage and aid the customer in question,\u201d O\u2019Herlihy explained. \u201cOur goal is to stop and recover loss, enable the retailer to intervene, promote great customer interactions and create fluid processes while improving the overall customer experience and positively impacting the bottom line.\u201d<\/p>\n Everseen hasn\u2019t always succeeded in this mission. Workers at Walmart, which was once a major Everseen customer, told<\/a> Wired in a 2020 that the system often misidentified innacuous behavior as theft and failed to stop actual instances of stealing.<\/p>\n In response to the allegations, Walmart said that it made \u201csignificant improvements\u201d to its Everseen system that resulted in fewer alerts overall. But the relationship between the two companies deteriorated soon after. Everseen sued Walmart, claiming the retailer had misappropriated the Irish firm\u2019s technology and then built its own product similar to Everseen\u2019s. (Everseen and Walmart settled in December 2021.)<\/p>\n
\nEverseen raises over $70M for AI tech to spot potential retail theft<\/br>
\n2023-05-11 22:26:39<\/br><\/p>\n