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FedEx leverages advanced technology to make smarter and more sustainable supply chains

FedEx is shaping the future by investing in digital startups. A notable collaboration with Mad Street Den has yielded an improved KYC submission process to streamline the digital experience for FedEx customers. The experience is powered by their Intelligent Document Processing solution, an offering from their orchestration platform. This initiative is part of FedEx’s broader strategy to reduce manual KYC audits and expedite clearance times, underpinning the company’s commitment to digital excellence and customer-centricity.

Mad Street Den raises funding from FedEx arm

FedEx Innovation Lab (FIL), an investment program for startups, has invested an undisclosed sum in Chennai and US-based enterprise AI firm, Mad Street Den. FedEx and Mad Street Den will collaborate to use advanced technology to create smarter supply chains and deliver greater value and experience for customers.

The Future of Retail: Top 6 Retail Technology Trends for 2023

Shradha R, head of product marketing at Vue.ai, an AI solution provider for retailers, elaborated on generative AI use cases for retailers with the example of apparel brands looking to generate imagery of models with different body and skin types. “Brands don't have to take photos of models wearing their products and can completely automate their processes with this form of generative AI,” she said.

Generative AI: The fashion exec’s guide

In March, Meta partnered with AI-focused retail automation company Vue.ai to enable brands to generate AI-powered models in ads that would allow the retailer to display on-model photography on a wider range of models, by digitally dressing fictional people created with AI.

Vue.ai Partners With Meta's Creative Shop To Create AI-powered Models For Inclusive Ad Creatives

Vue.ai is very pleased to partner with Meta’s Creative Shop and participating brands to make size and ethnicity-inclusive presentation of garments a reality. Although AI-based image generation for fashion has long been a compelling use case, convincing garment-on-model imagery requires a level of fidelity to the product and high resolution that has been beyond reach. We are proud that Vuemodel has proven to provide excellent customer response while providing cost savings, convenience, and inclusivity to brands.

AI firm Mad Street Den raises $30 Mn in Series C

Mad Street Den has raised over $50 million to date including $17 million in its Series B round led by Alpha Wave in 2019. It is also backed by Tokyo-based independent venture capital fund Global Brain.

AI firm Mad Street Den raises $30 million led by Avatar Growth Capital

Blox’s ability to solve business problems across industries, use cases while maintaining efficacy at scale and low cost is highly differentiated. Further, its 30-60-90 days framework ensures customers do not need to wait for months to see results. We are very excited to partner with Ashwini, Anand, Costa and the entire MSD team.

Ashwini Asokan on businesses' frustration with AI claims, a new acquisition, and plans at Mad Street Den

Ashwini Asokan, co-founder and CEO of Mad Street Den, talks about how businesses are frustrated with tall claims about AI. Mad Street Den is a Silicon Valley and Chennai-based software company offering AI products that help customers organise and "stitch together" their data and extract useful information.

Retail Tech: New Amazon Robot, Aptean PLM Deal, Mad Street Den Acquires Inturn

Mad Street Den, a computer vision AI solutions provider, has acquired Inturn, an enterprise solution designed to manage and optimize slow-moving or excess inventory.

AI firm Mad Street Den acquires New York-based Inturn

Artificial Intelligence-based Software-as-a-service (SaaS) firm Mad Street Den (MSD) on November 8 acquired New York-based inventory management SaaS company Inturn for an undisclosed amount.

AI platform Mad Street Den acquires inventory management Inturn

This acquisition marks @vue_ai foray into excess inventory management & margin optimization for brands everywhere.

How this retail AI company helps deal with excess inventory

Inturn fits our roadmap like a glove. We’ve been product tagging, providing insights and powering demand and inventory analysis with Vue AI for years now, and the Inturn promise fits the continuum of that workflow by allowing buyers and sellers to connect, sell faster and maximize recovery.

Mad Street Den acquires Inturn, an enterprise software solution for managing slow moving and excess inventory

Mad Street Den has created AI-based solutions, through its Vue.ai business unit, that help retailers grow their business by reducing operational costs through automation and increasing revenue with personalized customer experiences. Combining Inturn's inventory workflow tools and margin optimization capabilities together with Vue.ai's retail AI suite, customers now get the power to not only effectively use AI to optimize supply chain processes and planning but also weave it into customer experiences to create efficiencies across the entire retail value chain.

Dubai CommerCity signs partnership with Mad Street Den centred on AI

Mad Street Den will offer businesses operating at Dubai CommerCity with a comprehensive set of features, including its end-to-end AI stack to clean, create, and connect data across departments, functions, and workflows to deliver exceptional value and revenue growth for businesses operating in the free zone.

Blox launches World's first AI-powered Data Enrichment and Digital Customer Experience Platform in one unified product.

Blox aims to solve this problem by bringing all of this together on one platform. Companies can now build models, use preset models, clean their catalogs of data and manage Customer Experiences in one interface with a single backend - A single AI-Stack for all your Data and CX needs.

Tata Digital taps Mad Street Den as 'AI partner of choice'; Apple supplier plays down lockdown impact; Liminal raises $4.7 mln

Tata Digital has partnered with Mad Street Den, an AI platform provider, to make Tata Neu, the so-called 'super app' it is developing for retail consumers, a more personalised and connected experience for users.

Tata Digital joins hands with Mad Street Den to elevate personalisation experience on the super app

Tata Digital has partnered with Chennai-based Artificial Intelligence provider Mad Street Den (MSD) to use the latter’s Blox.ai platform for a personalised and connected shopping experience on its Tata Neu app.

Tata Neu bets on express deliveries, metaverse and personalisation

Pratik Pal, CEO of Tata Neu felt that the app has been “launched at the right time”. He was speaking at the ‘Rebuild 2022’ event organised by artificial intelligence (AI) company Mad Street Den (MSD) on May 28.

3 Minutes with Ashwini Asokan 🇮🇳
Founder & CEO, Mad Street Den

Ashwini Asokan started Mad Street Den with the aim of bringing computer vision technology from science labs into the hands of people. Today, her AI platform powers retailers and online marketplaces, including MercadoLibre in Latin America, Zilingo in South East Asia, and other companies in North America, the Middle East, and Japan as well as at home in India.

Machine Wears Prada

MAD street Den, a startup based in India and the US, developed Vue.ai, an AI fashion brand that offers end-to-end AI assistance in analysing user searches and providing suitable recommendations. It follows colour, patterns, necklines, sleeves, among other parameters, to help its algorithm.

This Virtual Model Firm Wants to Disrupt China’s Modeling Industry

Since its introduction in 2016, the Redwood City-based Vue.ai’s smart retail tools like personalized journeys creator VueX, data extraction tool VueTag, and AI-generated fashion imagery tool VueModel have been implemented by the likes of Farfetch, Depop, Off-White, Diesel, Rent the Runway and ThredUp in the west.

Fashion’s new battleground: Online product discovery

“The problems of customer attention and retention are problems of product discovery and customer preferences. The more you give your customers what they want, the more they stay, buy, come back and buy more and continue the loop,” says Vue.ai founder and CTO Anand Chandrasekaran.

The tech chief who put diversity at the heart of her group

Ms Asokan, 39, maintains diversity is necessary to break the stranglehold that tech groups such as Google and Facebook have on AI's development and application.

As fashion resets, its algorithms should too

“Brands have come under fire for using creative that is offensive and discriminatory. If your AI has seen that in the data set and thinks it's acceptable, it will most likely reproduce some of that offensive design,” says Ashwini Asokan, CEO of retail automation platform Vue.ai, which works with Thredup and Zilingo.

Facebook research reveals AI tools for improving online clothes shopping

McKinsey estimates that Amazon, which recently deployed AI to handle incoming shopper inquiries, generates 35% of all sales from its product recommendation engine. Beyond ranking, AI from startups like ModiFace, Vue.ai, Edited, Syte, and Adverity enable customers to try on shades of lipstick virtually, see model images in every size, and spot trends and sales over time.

This Experimental Adobe Feature Lets Online Shoppers Virtually Try on Clothes With AI

"Vue.ai’s AI system susses out clothing characteristics and learns to produce realistic poses, skin colors, and other features, generating model images in every size up to 5 times faster than a traditional photo shoot. And both Gucci and Nike offer apps that allow people to virtually try on shoes"

The internet of indulgence

Vue.ai, for instance, formed in 2016, works on personalisation, product digitisation and increases the speed at which you can take a product online, for the fashion industry. It also helps analyse data to increase personalisations, which should eventually lead to conversions.

The Tech Providers Who Are Changing Fashion Retailing

Vue.ai's CEO, Ashwini Asokan is quoted in this piece on the tech providers who are changing fashion retailing, where she provides insight on how the rental industry has found success among today's consumers.

How Artificial Intelligence is Redesigning the Retail Industry

By using our AI, retailers can now understand individual preferences" - Julia Dietmar, CPO, Vue.ai.

Chriselle Lim, Karolína Kurková Among Style Dimension Headliners

Regarding the deployment of artificial intelligence in retail, Julia Dietmar, chief product officer of Vue.ai, Chris Homer, cofounder and chief technology officer of ThredUp, and Eileen Rizzo, chief innovation officer of Ashley Stewart, discussed the impact of these technologies for both consumers and retailers.

Why More Retail Brands Are Launching Visual Search Tools

"Visual search is like a Swiss army knife…there are so many things you can do with it. Investing in the right image recognition tools should be a top priority for online retailers” - Ashwini Asokan, Founder of Vue.ai and Mad street Den.

How thredUP is Driving the Circular Fashion Movement with AI

Vue.ai's Artificial Intelligence is enabling thredUP drive the circular fashion movement forward, and ensures efficiency and scale in the thredUP's operations.

The Technology That Makes the Fashion Rental Business Tick

Dream closets don’t exist — unless one argues that rental and subscription rental models are bolstering gaps in the modern consumer’s wardrobe, so that whatever the desire — there’s a rented option. “The rental economy is here to stay,” said Ashwini Asokan, founder and chief executive officer of Vue.ai.

40 Under 40 Awards: Ashwini Asokan’s Vue.ai helps retailers streamline their inventory process

Vue.ai uses AI to allow retail customers such as Macy’s and Levi’s to streamline the inventory-management process.

Announcing the AI Innovation Awards winners at Transform 2019

"Vue.ai is the winner of VentureBeat’s Transform AI innovation Award for computer vision. Vue.ai’s automation and styling solutions powered by its proprietary Computer Vision technology have generated over 180% increase in revenue per user and reduced time to market by 20% for marquee brands and retailers across the globe.”

Ashwini Asokan — All Raise #WomanCrushWednesday

April is Artificial Intelligence month at All Raise and our third AI #WCW is Ashwini Asokan, co-Founder and CEO of Vue.ai .

Retail Automation Platform Provider Vue.ai Raises $17 Million in Latest Round

"The future of retail is entertainment. The experience economy we see today is the start of that era. Brands are shifting to designing worlds that consumers want to be a part of and that has to integrate with the new ways people shop. Vue is the electricity that powers all these complicated and important retail functions so retailers can focus on the business of entertaining you.”

Vue.ai raises $17M to equip online retailers with AI smarts

Vue.ai, a U.S./India startup that develops an AI platform to help online retailers work more efficiently and sell more.

Meet the Indian women taking the tech industry by storm

“Imagine an AI stylist that can automatically style millions of customers,” says Asokan, who is still as delighted by the infinite possibilities of AI as she was 19 years ago, when she would stay up with her now-husband, dreaming of this brave new world.

Can This AI Really "Fix" Fashion's Data Problem?

Ashwini Asokan is a rare breed of female entrepreneur - the breed that encouraged VC’s to empty their pockets.

Ashwini Asokan, Anand Chandrasekaran

Asokan, the CEO, told Fortune India she saw artificial intelligence (AI) startup Mad Street Den expanding beyond retail into robotics, healthcare, and more.

Out Of The (Subscription) Box: How AI Can Redesign Customer Experience

The company sells a suite of AI tools called Vue.ai, which can use image recognition to tag items and create AI-generated human models. It even adds new tags for attributes such as “retro style” or “animal prints.” This ability to “see” products also allows higher-level functions, including algorithmically piecing together entire outfits based on their color or cut.

This AI Learns Your Fashion Sense and Invents Your Next Outfit

Artificial intelligence might just spawn a whole new style trend: call it “predictive fashion.” In a paper published on the ArXiv.

The Robots Are Coming For Your Wardrobe

Mad Street Den recently raised an undisclosed Series A round of funding from Sequoia Capital India along with another infusion from existing investors Exfinity Ventures and growX Ventures.