EDITED (company)
EDITED (formerly EDITD[1]) is a retail data company headquartered in London, England with an office in New York. The company produces a real-time data analytics software of the same name intended for brands and retailers to monitor the retail market worldwide for apparel, homeware and beauty products.[2] Its software is primarily used by apparel buyers, traders and merchandisers.[3]
Industry | Software |
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Founded | 2009 in London, England |
Founders | Geoff Watts, Julia Fowler |
Number of locations | London, New York City |
Area served | Worldwide |
Services | Retail Analytics |
Number of employees | 110 (2018) |
Website | edited |
About
EDITED is a Retail Decision Platform that uses web crawlers and Artificial Intelligence technology such as Computer Vision to collect product and commercial data on over +2.5 billion SKUs generated by the online retail industry. With over 8 years of historical data, the software allows users to analyze that data in order to gain competitive insights into the market.[3] Some key components of the software are its ability to display product metrics for retail products currently on the market, including items’ pricing and sell out rates.[4] In addition, the EDITED Retail Decision Platform lets its users evaluate competitor assortment and industry-wide trend trajectories. This also includes a communications archive, where brands and retailers can pinpoint peak periods for seasonal updates and promotions. [5] Data can help retailers decide which items to discount.[6]
With a global customer reach across 30 countries, EDITED is used by over 200 leading brands and retailers on six continents in countries as diverse as South Africa, Australia, China, Russia, Italy, Germany, South Korean, the United Kingdom and the United States.[4][7]
EDITED was founded by Geoff Watts and Julia Fowler in 2009. The company is backed by Wavecrest Growth Partners, Beringea UK and Hermes GPE. To date it has raised $34 million.[8][9][10]
In 2012, the company was featured in The Guardian’s list of ‘East London’s 20 Hottest Tech Startups’.[11] In April, 2015 it was included on Business Insider’s list of ‘25 Companies That Are Revolutionizing Retail’.[12] The company also placed third in Fast Company’s 2014 list of ‘The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Style’.[13]
In 2017, it won Retail Week's Retail Tech Supplier of the Year[14], and was ranked one of the Five Best Companies to Work for in Europe by Meritocracy.[15]
References
- Cook, James. "The 14 coolest fashion startups in London". Business Insider. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
- Noyes, Katherine. "What's on trend this season for the fashion industry? Big data". Fortune. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
- Sedghi, Ami. "Editd, using big data to shape and create high street trends". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
- Groth, Aimee. "The "Bloomberg terminal for fashion" tells retailers exactly what consumers want in real-time". Quartz. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
- Banks, Libby. "How to Tell the Fashion Future?". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
- Bradley, Laura. "If You See These Clothes for Sale on Black Friday, It's Because They're About to Be Uncool". Slate. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
- Gibbs, Samuel. "Editd aims to spot the trends the fashion world doesn't". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
- https://news.crunchbase.com/news/edited-raises-29m-in-new-round-led-by-wavecrest-growth-beringea-uk/
- https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/15/edited-raises-29-million-to-optimize-product-pricing-with-ai/
- https://www.standard.co.uk/business/londonbased-retail-data-firm-edited-raises-29m-to-expand-a4415031.html
- Silver, James. "East London's 20 hottest tech startups". The Guardian.
- Lutz, Ashley; Peterson, Hayley. "25 companies that are revolutionizing retail". Business Insider. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
- "THE WORLD'S TOP 10 MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES IN STYLE". Fast Company. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
- "Winners 2017 | Tech awards Retail Week". techawards.retail-week.com. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
- https://blog.meritocracy.is/2017/03/28/5-best-companies-to-work-for-in-europe-in-2017/amp/