{"id":78236,"date":"2023-06-07T16:30:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T16:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=78236"},"modified":"2023-06-08T12:28:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T12:28:36","slug":"new-york-fashion-tech-lab-celebrates-2023-cohort-demo-day","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/new-york-fashion-tech-lab-celebrates-2023-cohort-demo-day\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Fashion Tech Lab Celebrates Its 10th Demo Day Experience with 2023 Cohort"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Janvi Shah, Breana Teubner, Jessie Fu, Yasmin Topia, Lindsay Fisher, Anabel Maldonado<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New York Fashion Tech Lab<\/a> celebrated its 2023 cohort<\/a> with its 10th annual Demo Day Experience in New York City. Each lab company, including Sociate<\/a>, Altr<\/a>, Hue<\/a>, Sparkbox<\/a>, PsykheAI<\/a> and TYB<\/a>, presented their innovative solutions to a crowd of over 100 retailers, brands and media, and showcased their technology, roadmaps and KPIs in their presentations.<\/p>\n

Each company was selected for their work in providing inventive solutions in user-generated content, digital fashion, price optimization, AI-driven chat capabilities, personalization and more. They all participated in a 12-week-long program where they collaborated with NYFTLab\u2019s retail and brand partners to enhance business development. They engaged in curated workshops, weekly sessions and held meetings with investors and senior executives from the Lab\u2019s network of experts.<\/p>\n

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The network featured Saks<\/a>,\u00a0Selfridges<\/a>,\u00a0TJX<\/a>, and\u00a0Wolverine World Wide, Inc<\/a>, who joined for the first time this year, as well as longtime partners including Burberry<\/a>,\u00a0Macy\u2019s Inc<\/a>,\u00a0Levi Strauss & Co<\/a>,\u00a0LVMH<\/a>,\u00a0Richemont<\/a>,\u00a0Vera Bradley Inc.<\/a>\u00a0Accenture<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Fenwick & West LLP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Janvi Shah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The founders of each company presented during the event, held at Lavan NYC<\/a>. Janvi Shah, who founded Hue<\/a> in 2021 with Sylvan Guo and Nicole Clay in Boston, spoke about the company, which enables brands and retailers to embed short-form shoppable user-generated video reviews on their websites.<\/p>\n

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Breana Teubner, Yasmin Topia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yasmin Topia is the co-founder and CEO of Sociate<\/a>, an AI personal stylist that can see and speak to help customers quickly find what they love, making shopping a more curated and effortless experience. At Demo Day, Topia mingled with other founders including Try Your Best<\/a> COO and co-founder Breana Teubner [above], who created the end-to-end community engagement platform allowing brands to directly connect, engage and reward fans with CEO and co-founder Ty Haney.<\/p>\n

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Anabel Maldonado<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PSYKHE AI<\/a> co-founder and CEO Anabel Maldonado was on-hand to speak about the AI and psychology-powered merchandising and personalization platform she created in 2019 to enable retailers to hyper-personalize the customer experience.<\/p>\n

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Jessie Fu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jessie Fu spoke about Altr<\/a>, the digital fashion platform dedicated to unlocking the value of archival and vintage fashion, which she started in 2022.<\/p>\n

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Lindsay Fisher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And Lindsay Fisher, who co-founded Sparkbox<\/a> in 2018 as a platform for data-driven pricing and inventory planning to improve profits and reduce waste, also presented during Demo Day.<\/p>\n

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