GroupBy was founded in 2013 with the vision of creating a fundamentally better eCommerce user experience. Its cloud-native, SaaS-based Product Discovery Platform powered by Google Cloud Vertex AI Search for Retail provides shoppers with the world’s most relevant and personalized B2B and B2C eCommerce search and recommendations experiences.

“We’re proud of our team and our company’s impact on driving the retail industry forward through tech innovation,” says GroupBy CEO Roland Gossage. “The Gold 2022 Merit Award for Technology in the eCommerce category is a testament to our daily hard work and dedication we provide to our customers.”

The Merit Awards recognize the efforts of global industries and the markets they serve, acknowledging that they have contributed to the market’s continued growth worldwide. Merit Awards’ judges include respected journalists, executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, educators, and the Merit Awards staff. Each category has a gold, silver and bronze level recipient.

For more info about the 2022 Merit Awards’ Technology winners, visit https://www.merit-awards.com/winners-technology-category.

TORONTO - GroupBy, a SaaS-based eCommerce product discovery technology leader, announces it will be attending Groceryshop 2022. GroupBy is helping to reshape the online grocery experience with GroupBy’s Product Discovery Platform powered by Google Cloud Vertex AI Search for Retail. The SaaS-based product allows grocers and retailers alike to democratize AI and provide shoppers with the world’s most relevant and personalized B2B and B2C eCommerce search experience that significantly improves revenues.

To help kickoff the event, the company will host Rock & Roll Underground in partnership with Google Cloud and Deloitte on Sept. 19, 2022, at 8:30 p.m. PDT.

Held at the world-famous House of Blues, Rock & Roll Underground will feature executives from Amazon, Deloitte, McKinsey, Saladworks, Nike and Walmart, among many others. Performers will shed daytime personas for their inner rockstar to perform hit songs by the Foo Fighters, Fleetwood Mac, The Cars, Coldplay, Kiss to The Killers and more.

“We’re excited to help open Groceryshop with an entertaining event along with our partners to enjoy each other’s musical talents in an amazing location before we dive into conference sessions,” shares GroupBy CEO, Roland Gossage. “It’s an incredible conference, and we’re eager to reconnect with our peers and colleagues to discuss the latest trends driving the industry’s digital transformation.”

GroupBy is offering a limited number of tickets to this one-of-a-kind event. To review the details and register, interested grocers can click here. The GroupBy team looks forward to connecting at Groceryshop 2022.

GroupBy today announced that Motion (Motion.com), a leading distributor in industrial parts, has chosen GroupBy’s new eCommerce Product Discovery Platform powered by Google Cloud Vertex AI Search for Retail to power their search and recommendations experience. The GroupBy and Google Cloud partnership has made it possible for the development of a comprehensive platform that not only encompasses search, recommendations, personalization, navigation, merchandising, data enrichment, SEO, CMS, and search analytics but also aims to take user engagement to new levels. 

As the first B2B customer to implement the new Product Discovery Platform powered by Google Cloud Vertex AI Search for Retail, Motion is looking to be at the forefront of the digital revolution. With the implementation of the new product discovery platform, which will provide Google-quality search and recommendations results, Motion will be able to get in front of the customer with unmatched results that will ultimately improve the customer experience across all digital channels. 

“GroupBy and Google Cloud are two industry pillars that can accelerate Motion’s plans and bring additional expertise and perspective to the platforms,” said Kevin Stone, VP Corporate Accounts and eCommerce. “Motion is committed to eCommerce excellence and providing a world-class experience to our digital customers. This partnership will result in improved digital experiences for Motion customers and supplier partners.” 

Understanding user intent with current technologies is a massive challenge for eCommerce businesses today. With this platform, Motion will continue to utilize GroupBy’s expertise in leveraging online and in-store data, navigation, merchandising, and business use case optimization while gaining access to Google Cloud’s powerful search and recommendation engine, all from a single platform. 

Google has spent years delivering personalized content across flagship properties such as Google Search, Google Shopping and YouTube. This has helped fuel state-of-the-art machine learning and AI algorithms, that have been trained on significantly more data than traditional legacy systems, and are now available within the highly scalable infrastructure of GroupBy’s Product Discovery Platform powered by Google Cloud Vertex AI Search for Retail. Improved algorithms, together with more data, convert purchase intent across Motion’s digital assets, thereby providing a previously unseen user experience with hyper-relevant results and recommendations that will enable Motion to better understand shopper habits and intent across all channels of their business.

“Customers have a lower tolerance than ever for not being able to find what they want, quickly and easily. In fact, search abandonment, when purchase intent is not converted due to poor product discovery experiences, costs retailers $300B annually in the US alone,” said Amy Eschliman, Retail Solutions Managing Director, Google Cloud. “With GroupBy and Google Cloud, Motion is making it easier for customers to find what they want, resulting in a tangible impact to purchase conversion and brand loyalty.”

“We’re excited to have Motion as the first adopter of this new groundbreaking technology and will have them live on the new platform within weeks,” said Roland Gossage, CEO, GroupBy. “Being able to work within a platform that enables merchandisers to utilize sophisticated, trained and optimized Google Cloud machine learning models to automatically align with business goals will be a game-changer for Motion, putting them at the forefront of the industry as the go-to destination for industrial supply. Ultimately, Motion will be able to better understand their customer’s needs and intent using trained machine learning algorithms further improving their customer experience by delivering fast and accurate search results and personalized recommendations,” said Roland Gossage, CEO, GroupBy.

GroupBy Inc., a leader in eCommerce Product Discovery solutions, today announced the launch of the GroupBy Product Discovery Platform powered by Google Cloud Vertex AI Search for Retail, which encompasses Search, Recommendation, Personalization, Navigation, Merchandising, Data Enrichment, SEO, CMS, and Search Analytics all from a single platform.

For years top B2C and B2B brands like BJ’s Wholesale Club, Swanson Health Products, Signet Jewelers, Motion (Motion.com) and many others have been benefiting from the modern eCommerce search platform that GroupBy offers which appeals to today’s demanding shopper needs. GroupBy’s search platform drastically improves the omnichannel customer experience, resulting in impressive revenue boosts, improved conversions and average order values. In addition to current search capabilities, GroupBy has been instrumental at providing clients with a 360 degree view of their customer behavior by being able to link data from segregated data sources as well as enrich and contextualize incomplete data to create a ‘golden record’.

To further exceed the ever-changing customer needs and outpace the digital transformation era, GroupBy has partnered with Google Cloud to bring a product to market that democratizes AI and focuses on redefining the digital experience by creating personalized and intuitive shopping encounters that help brands retain a loyal customer base.

GroupBy’s Product Discovery Platform will be the first of its kind and first to market to offer retailers and wholesalers access to Google Cloud’s search and recommendations. Search and recommendations results will further be enhanced by GroupBy’s data enrichment, merchandising and business use case optimization capabilities. Through this partnership, retailers will be able to revolutionize eCommerce experience by taking user engagement to new levels, delivering truly personalized experiences, and driving unmatched conversions across their own digital properties.

“Retailers are increasingly looking for new, innovative ways to understand their customers and to deliver exceptional customer experiences,” said Carrie Tharp, VP of Retail & Consumer, Google Cloud. “We’re thrilled to partner with GroupBy and continue providing retailers with the solutions they need to attract and keep customers.”

“Providing quality product discovery through search or recommendations on eCommerce is a huge challenge for retailers today. It is difficult to understand user intent with existing technologies, which is why GroupBy’s partnership with Google Cloud will combine GroupBy’s experience in delivering online and instore data to better understand shoppers, as well as search, recommendations, data enrichment and merchandising capabilities with Google Cloud’s AI, which leverages years of expertise delivering personalized content across flagship properties, like Google Search and YouTube brands,” said Carrie Tharp, VP Retail & Consumer, Google Cloud.

This partnership is helping companies improve their retention efforts to stay ahead of the game and offer shoppers exactly what they need - the right product in front of the right shopper at the right moment. Additionally, GroupBy’s Product Discovery Platform powered by Google Cloud Vertex AI Search for Retail offers clients an easy-to-use Command Center merchandising platform that will further assist companies at reducing the amount of manual intervention needed to run rule-based systems giving more power to merchandising teams to focus on pricing, promotions and inventory.

With a proactive partner like GroupBy and a platform that scales with digital channel growth, companies benefit from the ongoing business support that helps brands improve their bottom line by augmenting internal teams with deep eCommerce domain knowledge resulting in reduced IT/Data Scientist resource costs and providing search specific analytics that go beyond traditional standard metrics to uncover additional business improvement opportunities.

\"In this Digital-first era, now, more than ever, retailers need to focus on transforming the customer experience through technology. Whether you are a B2B or B2C retailer, technology is your differentiator. In order to meet the demands of the digital-first era, GroupBy is bringing the future of eCommerce by setting the standard for Product Discovery in the market and democratizing AI. Being able to work within a platform that enables merchandisers to utilize sophisticated, trained and optimized Google Cloud machine learning models to automatically align with business goals will be a game changer for any eCommerce business. We’ve architected and streamlined our solution to minimize your resource time and costs involved in bringing this to market for your clients. What could potentially take you months and years we’re able to implement in weeks to months. This partnership will also help in emulating the tangible experience customers get from a brick and mortar store and bring it online to create a frictionless shopping experience that's bound to delight, while getting products to customers faster than ever before,” said Roland Gossage, CEO of GroupBy.

GroupBy Inc., a leading provider of eCommerce product discovery solutions, is excited to announce customers can now directly access our product discovery suite via API, exclusively through the Google Cloud Marketplace. Retailers and eCommerce companies can now benefit from this move to quickly deploy and manage GroupBy's solutions on Google Cloud's platform to maximize their cloud investment.

By getting direct access to the latest innovations within Google Cloud and GroupBy, more customers are expected to further enhance customer experience on their eCommerce platform by enabling smooth journeys and improving findability. By purchasing GroupBy's solutions on the Google Cloud Marketplace, customers would also benefit from the go-to-market efforts and expert guidance on helping them scale their business.

Roland Gossage, the CEO, GroupBy, said, \"In our commitment to provide the best-in-class technology and infrastructure to our clients, we have made our solution available exclusively on the Google Cloud Marketplace. With ever-increasing data volumes and complexities, more companies are choosing Google Cloud as their cloud service provider. This partnership will help our clients to simplify their vendor onboarding, leverage their combined cloud spend, speed up deployment times and ultimately help them deliver exceptional digital experiences for consumers.\"

\"We are excited to partner with GroupBy as a new product discovery partner to help vendors enhance their eCommerce capabilities and deliver highly personalized customer experiences. With this partnership, retailers can expect easy implementation of search and personalization capabilities to improve conversions,\" said Chris Colyer, WW Head of Retail Industry Partnerships, Google Cloud.

GroupBy Inc., a leading provider of AI-powered eCommerce search solutions, today announced that Liverpool has partnered with GroupBy to enhance the quality of search results through automated personalization which will maximize accuracy and strengthen the online customer experience at Liverpool and its other eCommerce properties, including Suburbia, Gap, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, West Elm, and Williams Sonoma.

Liverpool selected GroupBy’s Intelligent Search solution that runs on Google Cloud Platform. Intelligent Search will power a more relevant, frictionless, and highly personalized eCommerce experience for Liverpool’s customers through personalization, natural language processing, recommendations, and many more features, all while reducing manual effort.

“Our customers expect to be able to access us from anywhere, at any time, on any device, and we looked for a partner to enhance that experience,” says Sebastian Pucheta Cao, Director of E-Commerce. “GroupBy proved their solution could best help us to modernize our eCommerce offerings and delight our customers.”

“We are excited to work with Liverpool on their digital transformation,” says Roland Gossage, CEO, GroupBy Inc. “Our search solution will give them the ability to create a more personalized shopping experience while supporting their omnichannel requirements.”

About Liverpool

Liverpool, a leader in department stores, has a presence throughout the Mexican Republic through 283 stores, including Suburbia, in addition to 128 specialized boutiques, which also include 28 shopping centers in 15 states of the country. For 172 years it has offered the largest number of quality integrated products and services; from the latest in fashion for the whole family to advice on interior decoration, including food and beverage, home, technology and much more. In addition, it has the best gift table program. Liverpool is one of the best companies to work for in Mexico and employs more than 70,000 people throughout the Mexican Republic. Its commitment is to operate with the greatest efficiency, growth, innovation, prestige, service, profitability and adaptation to specific markets.

GroupBy Inc., a leading provider of eCommerce product discovery solutions, announces today a new Strategic Advisor to the company and its board, Moritz Zimmermann. 

As self-described technology enthusiast and an eCommerce industry veteran, Zimmermann co-founded Hybris Software in 1997 which was sold to SAP.  Zimmermann stayed on to lead pre-sales and eventually assume the CTO role.  

“GroupBy is very excited to have Zimmermann join us as an advisor to both the company and the board as he has a wealth of knowledge and experience in eCommerce. As the founder and CTO of Hybris and subsequently CTO, SAP Customer Experience, we will leverage both his technical, business and management skills to further accelerate GroupBy's growth in the industry,” says GroupBy CEO and Founder Roland Gossage.

Zimmermann comments, \"Search is the first and most important part of an eCommerce customer experience. GroupBy is driving the next generation experience by combining search, recommendations, merchandizing, content management, and SEO.”

Zimmermann’s diverse experience, together with his passion for eCommerce, innovation and technology will assist GroupBy in their growth goals for years to come.

GroupBy Inc., a leading provider of relevancy-focused eCommerce solutions, in conjunction with Authoritas, a leading provider of a comprehensive SEO software platform today announced the launch of their SEO Accelerator and North American reseller agreement.

The new combined solution further accelerates customer acquisition by attracting more customers to an eCommerce site. This cloud-based SEO software utilizes the very best SEO tools and data from a decade of knowledge and development and is now combined with the power of GroupBy’s Page Accelerator to further add value to the GroupBy eCommerce Search Suite.

SEO Accelerator mashes-up crawlers, analytics, ranking, links, social data and the sitemap to help you make the most of your SEO and content marketing efforts.

Authoritas’ European eCommerce customers such as Rakuten have seen their search visibility improve 41% within 2 months of implementing its big-data-science driven content strategy solution. Coupling this unique technology with GroupBy’s eCommerce Search Suite will take these results to the next level.

GroupBy is extremely excited about our partnership with Authoritas and it is already delivering additional value for our clients,” says GroupBy CEO, Roland Gossage. “Our new SEO Accelerator and North American Reseller Agreement will put us at the forefront of eCommerce and Digital conversations.”

“Google has announced a major ‘Page Experience’ algorithm update is coming in 2021. These upcoming changes will have a material effect on millions of sites’ search engine rankings”, says Authoritas CEO, Laurence O’Toole. “Together we can help you attain world-class ‘Core Web Vitals’, identify content opportunities at scale and measure real-world improvements in your site’s SEO and revenue from organic sessions.”

About Authoritas

Authoritas is a comprehensive SaaS SEO platform designed to grow organic traffic that converts. Winner of the European Search Award for Best Software Innovation in 2018, our SEO software and content strategy automation platform is the easiest and most powerful solution to increase your organic visibility and revenue.

GroupBy Inc., a leading provider of relevancy-focused eCommerce solutions, in conjunction with Zesty.io, a leading provider of web content management solutions today announced the launch of Page Accelerator. 

Page Accelerator was developed to solve the slow loading page speed issues all eCommerce vendors face. The solution was developed because commonly used web frameworks will significantly slow down website performance at scale. This occurs when developers rely on the framework to control every aspect of the consumer's experience. When an eCommerce site is in this situation, their customer experience and time to publish new content suffers along with search rankings. The slowdown also affects page load times for consumers and increases bounce rates, which reduces revenue. 

GroupBy’s Page Accelerator service built on top of Zesty.io's WebEngine allows eCommerce companies to maintain the benefits of their existing applications and frameworks by decoupling initially loaded page experience from the application.  The decoupling results in superior page speed which also improves search engine rankings while reducing bounce rates.  Preliminary implementations suggest a minimum 3x improvement in performance metrics and scores above 90 on Google PageSpeed Insights.  The approach also allows for faster development due to a simplified code base and removes dependencies on heavy build processes. Page Accelerator satisfies the demands of marketers, customers, and search engines.

Zesty.io’s native programming language, Parsley, fully integrates with GroupBy’s eCommerce Search Suite resulting in instant page rendering of any product in the database. 

“Page Accelerator is a game changer for eCommerce and will be a must-have for any eCommerce vendor to stay competitive,”  states Randy Apuzzo, Founder and CEO of Zesty.io.  “GroupBy has dominated the eCommerce market by delivering a personalized user experience based on strong product data relationships. When you combine GroupBy technology with Zesty.io’s WebEngine, you get a dream solution for the enterprise that grants speed and search performance to an open canvas of page display opportunities. Together, we are going to reshape how eCommerce teams approach their consumers.”

“We spotted the problem, then worked with the Zesty.io team to leverage our combined technologies to develop much needed solutions for our eCommerce customers,”  says Roland Gossage, CEO of GroupBy.  “It will no longer be acceptable to have slow page speeds.  Companies must solve for this or be left behind. The solution will change the landscape of enterprise eCommerce.”

About Zesty.io

Zesty.io is the next generation of cloud-based web content management systems (WCMS) that serves the needs of mid-market and enterprise organizations. Zesty.io’s unique approach of decoupling the content from the display (headless) enables companies to reach beyond the website while increasing performance and optimizing resources. Zesty.io proudly serves billions of requests a month to consumers across the globe on behalf of both private and public companies such as Sony, Epic Games’ Rocket League, and Hofbrauhaus. Founded in 2010, Zesty.io is VC-funded and headquartered in San Diego, California.

CBD Products Trended Upwards This Black Friday/Cyber Monday 

Year-over-year (2018-2019) online searches for CBD products increased exponentially by 100 times.

AUSTIN, Texas — GroupBy Inc., a leading provider of relevancy-focused eCommerce solutions, today announced its retail customers saw significant year-over-year (YOY) increases in online searches for CBD products during this year’s four day period between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, compared to 2018.

CBD products continue to grow in popularity

According to aggregated data from GroupBy’s customer base, search terms for makeup decreased 30% from 2018, while terms related to CBD on average increased 100 times. This supports evidence of the growing Cannabidiol Oil (CBD) market, expected to reach $20 Billion by 2024, according to BDS Analytics. CBD products are currently being brought to market across diverse industries such as cosmetics, health products, food and beverage, pet products, skin care, and pharmaceuticals

Consumers continue to search with specificity

For the Home and Garden Market, specific product searches for grills increased. For example, consumer searches for the leading vendors of wood pellet grills increased on average by 150%. This demonstrates that consumers are looking for products with more specificity, which is a continuing trend from GroupBy’s findings from this Memorial Day.

Overall revenue increase

Compared to last year, GroupBy retail customers saw a total revenue increase of 13% and an increase in total product views by 15%. Overall, this demonstrates how enriched product data can drive powerful and relevant personalized search results on an eCommerce site.

“This year-over-year search comparison demonstrates that consumers know what they’re looking for, and the search bar is the key to providing relevant results to their queries,” said Roland Gossage, CEO, GroupBy Inc. “With the holiday season in full swing, these trends from Black Friday and Cyber Monday should serve as indicators of how and what consumers will be searching for and purchasing leading up to Dec. 25 and beyond. Retailers should look to optimize their merchandising strategy based on these trends and, likewise, their search capabilities to help consumers find the products they are looking for this holiday season.”

TORONTO – GroupBy Inc., a leading provider of relevancy-focused eCommerce solutions, today announced the company’s inclusion in Gartner’s Market Guide for Digital Commerce Search, published on Feb. 25, 2019. The guide analyzes the eCommerce search market to support those looking for products or services that can support related customer experience initiatives.

Gartner estimates that “by 2020, 30% of customer interactions with technology will be through “conversations” with smart machines.” However, a lack of dialogue capability has consistently posed a challenge to product discovery on eCommerce sites. The guide notes GroupBy’s as a representative vendor for its Searchandiser solution.

Fusing best-in-breed machine learning with hand-curation tools, Searchandiser allows for total merchandising control. Retailers including CVS Pharmacy, Zoro Tools, Urban Outfitters and the Container Store are already experiencing the benefits of features such Search-As-You-Type, Recommendations Manager, Personalized Relevance™ and Responsive Design. With these advanced search capabilities, Searchandiser combats dialogue barriers, accounting for nuances in a customer’s language when they search and providing results that accurately match their queries.

“We are extremely honored to be included in Gartner’s Market Guide for Digital Commerce Search this year” said Roland Gossage, CEO, GroupBy Inc. “Conversational search is the way of the future, and GroupBy's Searchandiser has been built to be customer-centric to help shoppers to find the products they love easily and quickly, so our retailers can benefit from increased conversions and customer satisfaction.”

A copy of Gartner’s Market Guide for Digital Commerce Search can be found here.

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TORONTO  — GroupBy Inc., a leading provider of relevancy-focused eCommerce solutions, today announced its retail customers saw significant increases in eCommerce search during the 2018 holiday season. The company reports its customers saw a total of 2.72 billion searches between Nov. 20 and Dec. 31, a 58% increase, compared to 1.72 billion searches in 2017 during the same time frame. GroupBy customers also averaged 66.8 million searches a day during the 2018 holiday season. “This data demonstrates that more consumers are shopping online than ever,” said Roland Gossage, GroupBy CEO. “With the volume of online purchases continuing to increase, 2019 will be a critical year for eCommerce retailers to ensure that their search and product data is optimized to make the shopper’s buying experience convenient, relevant and personalized, otherwise they will risk losing their consumers to competitors.” In October 2018, GroupBy estimated its retail customers would capture a total of $420M during the five-day period between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, emphasizing the rise of eCommerce sales during traditionally brick and mortar shopping holidays. GroupBy’s Personalization, Product Recommendations, Search As You Type (SAYT) and Intelligent Navigation solutions ensure that eCommerce retailers are equipped with the right tools to make products more findable to shoppers and provide real-time insight into operational performance. What’s more, enhanced product descriptions can lead to an improved shopper experience and increased conversion rates.

Toronto  – GroupBy Inc., a leading provider of relevancy-focused eCommerce solutions, today announced it will be a major sponsor of The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair (The Royal), taking place in Toronto, Ontario, Nov. 2 -11. Now in its 96th year, The Royal is the world’s largest combined indoor agricultural and equestrian event. Since its origins in 1922, The Royal has established itself as a world-leading agricultural event, creating a legacy of excellence in showcasing the “best in breed” in food, livestock, and horsemanship that Canada has to offer. As such, attendees will be able to see Olympians in addition to top caliber riders and horses compete at the highest level in show jumping, indoor eventing, and dressage. During the fair, GroupBy will proudly sponsor two key equestrian competitions, beginning with the “Big Ben” International Challenge on Thursday, Nov. 8, a fan-favorite event in which GroupBy will present the winner with $85,000. As well, on Saturday, Nov. 11, GroupBy will co-present the $205,000 Longines FEI Jumping World Cup, the crown jewel event celebrating The Royal’s top athletes, taking place on the final evening of international competition. “The Royal is not only a unique and integral part of Toronto’s history, but it is also a world-class event that highlights the best in the industry,” said Roland Gossage, CEO, GroupBy Inc. “We are honored to be able to take part in this high-caliber international competition that makes GroupBy’s backyard, Toronto, stand out above the rest.”

 About The Royal

 The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair is the world's largest combined indoor agricultural and equestrian show. Now in its 96th year, The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair runs November at Exhibition Place, Toronto. For more information, please visit http://www.royalfair.org/ 

AUSTIN, TX – GroupBy Inc., a leading provider of relevancy-focused eCommerce solutions, today announced it has hired Julia Cartwright as Head of People and Culture. In her role, Cartwright will help craft, execute and build out GroupBy’s human resources function. Cartwright will be based in GroupBy’s Toronto headquarters. With more than 15 years of experience in HR, communications, marketing and coaching, Cartwright will work with the GroupBy team to ensure the company maintains its inimitable culture while continuing to scale in size over the coming years. “I’m absolutely thrilled to help build GroupBy’s value proposition by focusing on its company culture and values,” said Cartwright. “With an internal focus on creating a robust employee lifecycle experience, including onboarding, training and leadership, we can ensure that GroupBy maintains its entrepreneurial spirit that makes the company so unique.” A certified Adler Coach, Cartwright has served in various HR leadership roles, most recently as Edelman’s SVP of Human Resources for Canada and Latin America. Cartwright also served as HR Director at Aon Hewitt and ADP, where she focused on business strategy implementation, human capital management, organizational/talent management, policy implementation and training.  “Julia’s experience and approachable, open-door leadership style makes her ideal for our company,” said Roland Gossage, CEO of GroupBy. “With Julia, GroupBy will continue to hire the best talent and maintain our exceptional company culture as we grow.”

Intelligent site search and personalization capabilities allow GroupBy to provide customers with elite benefits among thriving digital commerce companies

Austin, TEXAS – GroupBy Inc., a leading provider of relevancy-focused eCommerce solutions, today announced the company’s inclusion in The Gartner Digital Commerce Vendor Guide, 2018 as a leading business for commerce search and personalization engines. Gartner’s analysis of the expanding digital commerce field includes defining key characteristics of this market and identifying growth patterns and trends. The report also categorizes vendors under different functionalities related to digital commerce platforms such as distributed order management, digital and customer journey analytics and marketplace/channel integration platforms. Commerce search with increased accuracy and ease for the shopper in addition to data-driven personalization software are two core components of GroupBy’s offerings to its retail customers. When it comes to intelligent search, the company’s Searchandiser product, powered by best-in-breed machine learning technology, lifts conversion rates from day one of implementation and continues to lift them further over time. In terms of a personalization engine, GroupBy focuses on a unique approach to monitor every action taken on the website. Through Personalized RelevanceTM , retailers have the ability to understand each shopper and suggest more thoughtful recommendations, retargeting and other marketing strategies. “We are extremely honored to be included in Gartner’s Digital Commerce Vendor Guide this year,” said Roland Gossage, CEO, GroupBy. “Digital commerce is at the heart of our industry and we believe Gartner’s acknowledgment of our company as a vendor in commerce search and personalization engines further demonstrates the need for our offerings in the retail realm to help our customers succeed and create a personalized shopping experience for their shoppers.” GroupBy’s search and personalization solutions assist key industry leaders the company partners with including Urban Outfitters, CVS Pharmacy, Sears and Cabela’s. The Gartner Digital Commerce Vendor Guide, 2018 can be found here. (Gartner Subscription required) Gartner, The Gartner Digital Commerce Vendor Guide, 2018, Jason Daigler, Christina Klock, Sandy Shen, Penny Gillespie, Mike Lowndes, Mark Lewis, Dayna Ford, 29 August 2018 Gartner Disclosure Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in our research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. 

AUSTIN, TX  – GroupBy Inc., a leading provider of relevancy-focused eCommerce solutions, today announced that the company has been named one of LinkedIn’s 25 Top Startup Companies in Canada. LinkedIn Top Startups ranks the most sought-after startups making an impact in the professional world as well as creating a company where job seekers want to work. “GroupBy is extremely thrilled to be awarded the distinction of a Top Startup by LinkedIn,” said Roland Gossage, CEO, GroupBy Inc. “Our growth in the past year and continued focus on our company culture, as well as delivering the best solutions to our customers has set us apart from the competition.” The first annual distinction for Canadian companies, LinkedIn Top Startups measures companies based on four core areas: employment growth, engagement, job interest and attraction of top talent. The timeline for measurement was July 2017 through June 2018. GroupBy is continuing to deliver its unique solutions to an expanded and growing retailer base. Since last July, GroupBy has announced Series B funding, and plans to more than double its staff in its Toronto and Austin, Texas headquarters. As well, the company just announced the opening of its first European office in London and plans to open additional offices in Europe by 2019. This year, GroupBy announced a series of C-level appointments, including COO, CFO and CIO, as well as continued customer partnerships with Urban Outfitters, CVS Pharmacy, Sears and Cabela's.

Command Center 3, built on React.js, allows GroupBy to quickly and continuously develop new features to manage eCommerce sites, giving retailers the latest technology to navigate their GroupBy solutions 

AUSTIN, GroupBy Inc., a leading provider of relevancy-focused eCommerce solutions, today announced the release of Command Center 3, the latest version of GroupBy’s admin portal designed for retailers to monitor and make quick and easy changes to their eCommerce solutions without requiring any code deployments to their sites. With Command Center 3, GroupBy is moving away from JSP technology to React.js, allowing the company to speedily develop features that enable retailers to take advantage of configuration areas, which will power their development environments and help them manage multiple eCommerce sites.  Command Center 3 will allow users who create and operate within specific areas of the GroupBy solution suite to make updates without requiring additional data sets. The new technology will also help users test and preview with no cross-pollination or impact to production. All changes that are made within Command Center 3 take effect immediately and can be previewed on the retailer’s site or within the reference view. Additional features of Command Center 3 include:  Managing Reporting with Real-Time Analytics  GroupBy customers can now benefit from access to real-time analytic reports through advanced business intelligence tools and interactive dashboards within Command Center 3, allowing for regular health checks and insights into their operational performance for better decision-making. For example, with GroupBy’s analytics capabilities, customers can identify patterns and areas of opportunity in how they are positioning their GroupBy solutions for consumers, with the ability to instantly take action and create new rules to deliver an optimized customer experience to each and every one of their consumers.  Managing Search and Browse: From Curation to Machine Learning Command Center 3 allows retailers to manage search and browse results at multiple levels of granularity. From specifying exactly which products should show up first to applying machine learning-based relevance scoring, retailers can decide exactly how much manual control needs to be applied. What’s more, retailers also gain the ability to create multiple levels of influence (from site-wide defaults, to category-specific, to even more specific customer journeys), enabling quick changes without requiring the retailer to curate and manage every path.   Managing Relevancy As well, with Command Center 3, retailers have the ability to manage specific search and relevancy tasks including redirects, synonyms, spell corrections, stop words and other standard search engine controls. Retailers can also create relevance scoring based on product-metadata (such as margins, sales volume, newness, ratings and more), product attributes (such as categories) and the customer’s actions.  Managing Navigations Retailers, along with their merchandisers and administrators, can use Command Center 3 to define what kind of refinements should exist - including Value, Range (merchandiser defined and controlled), and Dynamic Range (which enables the creation of price histograms). Additionally, merchandisers can set the default order of navigations, and control which navigations show for any given result page. Additional functionality can be enabled via metadata for retailers’ IT teams, enabling customizing navigations for specific business requirements and shopper needs.  “As today’s retailers continue to create a personalized eCommerce environment for their customers, they need the ability to quickly innovate and deliver responsive features that resonate with them,” said Roland Gossage, CEO, GroupBy Inc. “With Command Center 3, we are putting the power at the fingertips of our retail customers, allowing them to quickly analyze, update and make changes to their solution suite to evolve as quickly as their customers.”    

The Vitamin Shoppe, a leading specialty retailer and manufacturer of nutritional products, will enhance its online user experience with GroupBy’s Cloud platform.

Round of financing from PeakSpan Capital will further accelerate GroupBy’s growth, enhance product innovation in key areas and expand the company’s global reach

TORONTO -- GroupBy Inc., a leading provider of relevancy-focused eCommerce solutions, today announced the company has closed its Series B financing. This round of funding from PeakSpan Capital, a premier boutique growth equity firm, is a validation of GroupBy’s industry-leading eCommerce solution, strong market position and extensive and growing retailer and brand customer base. GroupBy will use the financing to further develop its product innovation and industry partnerships in key areas, expand the company’s reach globally, and meet the increasing demand for GroupBy’s solutions in existing and new markets. GroupBy has a solid track record of solving some of eCommerce’s largest challenges around site search, product recommendations, personalization, SEO, SEM and scale – helping leading retailers and brands to create a fundamentally better user experience with proven business results. The company’s strong executive, sales, product and engineering teams, accelerated growth in 2017 and in early 2018, and its newly formed partnership with PeakSpan, sets GroupBy up to be the independent market leader in the data-driven eCommerce space. “We are delighted to partner with the GroupBy team and support this business in its first institutional financing. From our very first introduction to the company, we’ve been impressed with GroupBy’s innovation and leadership. This was reflected in the quality of their customers and what those customers had to say about the company, its platform and services,” said Phil Dur, Managing Partner and Co-founder, PeakSpan Capital. “In a technically challenging sector where competing organizations have invested hundreds of millions of dollars and, in many cases, struggled to drive disruptive value, GroupBy has scaled efficiently with impressive growth and a world-class customer base. With what GroupBy has on the horizon, combined with an already exceptional eCommerce offering, we are confident the company will continue to excel in both B2B and B2C markets.” “Looking forward, our plans to scale the business with this new investment are well underway, however, it is important as we grow to not lose sight of what got us here. We are firm believers that the customer always comes first, and internally, our order of priorities are people, product, profits,” said Roland Gossage, CEO, GroupBy. “GroupBy bootstrapped the company from day one because we wanted to focus on innovation, quality and customer intimacy unencumbered, and less on a ‘growth at all cost’ model. While there is quite a bit of capital in the market today, GroupBy was seeking a partner that shared in our values around customers and innovation. I am confident to say we found that in PeakSpan and am extremely excited to have them onboard throughout this journey.” PeakSpan Capital PeakSpan Capital is a growth equity firm based in New York City and Silicon Valley, with a focused mission to be the partner of choice for growth stage entrepreneurial teams who are building amazing software targeted at business buyers of all sizes -- from very small businesses to large enterprises. PeakSpan combines deep domain expertise within a select number of themes with a homegrown, proprietary technology platform providing visibility into company and market performance, to help entrepreneurs drive resilient, risk-adjusted value creation. To learn more about PeakSpan Capital and its portfolio, please visit: www.peakspancapital.com.

AUSTIN, Texas, a leading provider of relevancy-focused eCommerce solutions and one of Canada’s fastest growing technology companies, today announced that alphabroder has signed a multi-year agreement with the company to power site search and enhance the overall digital experience at alphabroder.com for its customers.

alphabroder selected GroupBy’s Searchandiser platform to drive an improved experience across the customer journey. The cloud-based Searchandiser solution enables any online retailer to augment their existing legacy systems, including amplified search result relevancy with a fusion of machine-learning and hand-curation merchandising capabilities. “It became evident that the technology and tooling GroupBy brings to alphabroder will drive a greater site experience for all of our customers,” said David Clifton, Chief Marketing Officer, alphabroder. “Our goal at alphabroder is to be the premier destination for promotional products. Continuing to improve our overall customer experience is essential to fulfilling that mission.” “At GroupBy, we are proud to bring an advanced approach to the market by providing online retailers with a seamless way to replace their legacy systems with a powerful solution rooted in data enrichment, intelligent search and that focuses on improving the consumer experience across the entire journey,” said Roland Gossage, Chief Executive Officer, GroupBy Inc. “On behalf of our team, we are thrilled to welcome alphabroder to our roster of clients.” GroupBy anticipates full implementation of its Searchandiser platform to be completed with alphabroder this February. Media Contacts: Liz Bernardo GroupBy Inc. [email protected] Catherine Seeds Ketner Group (for GroupBy) [email protected] 512-794-8876 About alphabroder Founded in 1919, alphabroder is North America’s largest distributor of trade, private label and retail apparel brands and merchandise to the promotional products marketplace. alphabroder offers more than 40 brands including a broad selection of retail and trade brands from Under Armour, Bella + Canvas, Next Level, Threadfast, adidas, Columbia, Marmot, Gildan, Fruit of the Loom, Hanes, and many others as well as sourcing our own Private Brands. https://www.alphabroder.com/ 

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GroupBy Inc., a leading provider of relevancy-focused eCommerce solutions and one of Canada’s fastest-growing technology companies, today announced it has opened its new U.S. head office in Austin, Texas and has nearly doubled the company’s global headquarter’s square footage in Toronto to support the company’s rapid growth and to leverage both cities’ diverse, high-tech talent pools. “Our decision to expand our presence in both Toronto and Austin is a by-product of aligning our growth plans with the incredible talent that we continue to find in both cities,” said Roland Gossage, Chief Executive Officer at GroupBy Inc. “As we continue to execute against our growth strategy, whether through major client signings, our acquisition of Edgecase in June or other successes that are soon-to-be-announced, we are proud to continue to build a team of deep strength to support each of our initiatives.” Based on CBRE’s 2017 North America Scoring Tech Talent Report, Toronto was ranked the fastest-growing tech market in North America. Toronto also ranks second in terms of cost-effective operations for technology companies. Austin has remained in the top 10 of CBRE’s Tech Talent Scorecard for the past four consecutive years and ranks as the fifth most concentrated large market in terms of its tech labor pool as a percentage of its total labor pool. GroupBy serves a rapidly growing client portfolio in Canada, the United States and Europe. The company’s eCommerce-focused data enrichment, search, navigation and merchandising technologies are used by dozens of major digital retailers such as CVS, Urban Outfitters, Lancôme, Jos A. Bank, Crate & Barrel, Columbia Sports and Zoro Tools. GroupBy’s global headquarters is located in Berkeley Castle at 2 Berkeley Street 250 The Esplanade (as of June 2023) in downtown Toronto. The company’s new U.S. head office is located at 720 Brazos St. 801 Barton Springs Rd (as of March 2023) in downtown Austin, Texas.