Continued growth in e-commerce space, improvements in mobile technology and increasing social media use has not only made retailers re-evaluate the traditional practices, but more importantly, it has forever changed consumers shopping habits. Recognizing the demand for new retail technology solutions, digital savvy retailers are combining traditional practices with new technology helping them serve their customers better.

As we start to hire more and more people - at times, we miss out on getting to know all our employees – and so we constantly make efforts to maintain a tight-knit culture. That’s why it’s crucial for us to find new ways to get to know our expanding workforce by cultivating a close-knit culture through every stage. So here in a series of podcasts, you will get to know a little more about what drives our people to achieve, accomplish and accelerate!

#Arcgatian Anshul

He quit an exciting sea life to settle ashore! A passionate engineer and a data lover, we are glad he found his calling here at Arcgate and was able to move back to Udaipur with his family. After all, it all boils down to what one really wants from one's life and how far one can go to achieve one's dreams.

Our employees strive every day to make a difference and we see for real that our strong relationships do make an important difference. So we want to introduce you to some of our employees. In a series of podcasts, you will get to know a little more about what drives our people to achieve, accomplish and accelerate!

#Arcgatian Prashant:

We admire his coolness very much which is the basic and guiding factor for all his virtues and fine qualities. Having the ability to remain calm is a powerful tool he has, which inspires people to trust him more while at the same time improving his ability to make better decisions and think more clearly under pressure.

Things aren’t quite as clear cut as all of this might sound but there are significant innovations happening in order to have customers chomp down on lab-grown meat. Cultured or lab grown meat and meat alternatives are on a rise and investors are finding many more reasons to invest in this space. Along with that food tech startups and companies are betting big on artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and data analytics to automate their processes for predicting demand, understanding customer preferences, and delivering the orders in the fastest possible time.

Brands that rely on retailers to sell their products to end-users miss out on its consumers shopping preferences due to lack of access to point of sale data. However, as image scanning and OCR (optical character recognition) technologies improve brands can get the full pictures of their consumers behavior and preferences in the stores. Receipt data can help brands launch loyalty programs and promotions based on actual data like time of purchase, place of purchase, items bought in combination, price of each item bought etc. Receipt data can be immensely helpful for marketers and brands in making them understand the shoppers's behavior better.

Real estate tech - a sector once ignore by investors will come to center and forefront in 2018. Real estate tech startups will continue to fight to win share and new businesses will emerge to tackle property management, commercial brokerage, real estate investor services and various other sub-segments.

Successful and emerging food startups are creating enormous food databases to leverage artificial intelligence in analyzing it so when consumers do a quick search on their smartphones, they can make informed and speedy choices about the food they consume. Advancements in artificial intelligence technologies and ever increasing availability of data is playing an important role in helping the food and wellness industry bridge this gap.

Technology has been fairly slow to catch up even though the real industry has grown over the years. Only recently have we seen real estate startups using technology to become a better matchmaker between buyers and sellers of properties by innovating products and tools to better equip brokers, lenders, homeowners and buyers for the complex and ever-changing tasks of buying, selling and developing commercial and residential spaces.

Retail is changing at an incredible pace. As consumers, the way we source, purchase, pay for, collect and receive goods today has changed, also the ways in which retailers communicate with us - whether by enhancing marketing strategies, creating memorable in-store experiences, improving ecommerce services or facilitating faster delivery. And all this has been made possible by innovation in technology which is helping to drive efficiency and quality - and that can only be a good thing.

Real estate has long been an appealing market for investors, and for good reason: there is a lot of money at stake. Tech startups in this space are geared towards changing everything from real estate advertising, peer-to-peer leasing, finding shared living, increasing both the quality and quantity of tech solutions available to CRE brokerages, thus, accelerating the industry to quickly move from tech adoption to tech integration and transformation.