Caper builds intelligent shopping carts, powered by deep learning and computer vision, to detect and identify items (with cameras mounted in the cart) as they are added to the basket. Caper costs less than 1% of Amazon Go's infrastructure, and it is a plug-and-play integration for stores. Caper is the fastest growing retail automation technology company, with already launched pilots and a rapidly expanding customer base. E-commerce is only 8% of total retail, and Caper is innovating the other 92% of the untapped potential.
Location: United States, New York
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $10M
Founded date: 2017
Investors 7
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 26.09.2019 | Series A | $10M | Lux Capita... |
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| 14.07.2020 | Amazon's new grocery store will have a smart shopping cart that lets you skip the checkout line | Amazon has announced a new smart shopping cart for the grocery store it plans to open in Woodland Hills, California, later this year. The cart can tell which items you place in it and allows you to skip the checkout line by automatically ch... |
| 18.09.2019 | Caper Receives $10 Million In Funding To Scale Its AI Checkout Platform | AI-powered shopping cart company Caper announced that it closed $10 million in Series A funding led by Lux Capital Caper — the first AI-powered shopping cart that uses computer vision to enable a seamless grab-and-go retail experience — ann... |
| 11.09.2019 | Caper Raises $10m in Series A Funding | Caper, a NYC-based AI-powered shopping cart that uses computer vision to enable a quick retail experience, closed a $10m Series A round of funding. The round was led by Lux Capital with participation from First Round Capital, Y Combinator, ... |
| 10.09.2019 | Caper Announces $10M Series A | Caper, the first AI-powered shopping cart that uses computer vision to enable a seamless grab-and-go retail experience, announces that it has closed a $10 million Series A round of funding led by Lux Capital. Following Caper's Seed funding,... |
| 10.09.2019 | Caper Announces $10M In Series A Funding | Caper, the first AI-powered shopping cart that uses computer vision to enable a seamless grab-and-go retail experience, announces that it has closed a $10 million Series A round of funding led by Lux Capital. Following Caper's Seed funding,... |
| 10.09.2019 | Smart grocery cart startup Caper bags $10 million | Caper wants to deliver a major update to the self-checkout aisle without keeping its dreaded catchphrases, i.e. “Unknown item in the bagging area,” “Please place the item in the bag.” The New York startup is tapping some of Silicon Valley’s... |
| 12.01.2019 | How automated supermarkets are shaping up for 2019 and beyond | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Barely a week into 2019, and we’re already spotting some of the big technology trends of the year. True to form, the consumer electroni... |
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