SHERIDAN, WYOMING – Feb. 17, 2025 – EuroCIS, The Leading Trade Fair for Retail Technology, is set to once again become an innovation hub from February 18 to 20, 2025. The EuroCIS Start-up Hub, located in Hall 10 of the Düsseldorf Exhibition Center, will feature emerging companies presenting their groundbreaking developments and solutions designed to enhance both technological efficiency and the customer experience in retail. From AI applications to intelligent labeling technologies, the Start-up Hub highlights the diversity and potential of the start-up ecosystem. Companies will showcase their innovations not only at their stands but also through presentations and real-world use cases on the Black Stage in Hall 10.
Featured Start-ups at EuroCIS 2025
The following are brief profiles of the start-ups participating:
Active Label
Active Label is a start-up developing intelligent labeling solutions for monitoring temperature-sensitive products, such as food and pharmaceuticals. The label is activated using AV light and continuously records environmental variables like temperature and humidity during transport and distribution. These labels are free of electronics, cost-effective, environmentally friendly, and easily integrated into logistics processes. Data is captured via a reader and stored in the cloud for real-time access. www.activelabel.it.
bitHuman
bitHuman focuses on the interaction between humans and technology through AI-driven, lifelike agents that synthesize emotions and movements in real time. These innovative agents are used in industries such as retail, hospitality, and healthcare to enhance customer experience and streamline processes. Using state-of-the-art AI technology, bitHuman enables the development of autonomous agents that independently perform tasks and offer natural, human-like communication. www.bithuman.io
BRAME
BRAME, a SaaS MarTech company, offers solutions in the field of gamification marketing. With its drag-and-drop gamification builder, BRAME allows users without programming or design skills to quickly implement elements like scratch cards and quizzes in marketing campaigns. This increases customer engagement, conversion, and loyalty in contests, content, promotions, and loyalty programs. www.brame.io
Bretton Woods digital AG
Bretton Woods digital specializes in developing secure, efficient, and legally compliant solutions in the field of digital assets. The focus is on the tokenization of gold, enabling companies and institutions to conduct digital gold payments in real-time worldwide. This solution is aimed not only at the public but especially at FinTechs, DeFi platforms, and payment infrastructure providers who want to benefit from a physical asset like gold without sacrificing fast and digital transaction capabilities. www.brettonwoods.digital
Buybuddy
Buybuddy is an AI-driven retail platform that helps retailers and brands make smarter decisions by transforming complex data into clear, automated actions. Smart tags placed throughout the sales floor enable optimized product analysis. This, in turn, improves efficiency and lowers operating costs. From sales insights to planogram compliance, Buybuddy optimizes in-store operations, ensuring that the right actions are automatically taken at the right time. www.buybuddy.co
DANAK AI
DANAK AI combines modern kiosk systems and displays with intelligent AI assistants to provide customers and visitors in stores, shopping centers, and other locations with targeted information about products and services. The multimodal system supports both voice interaction and touch operation, allowing users to speak, listen, and view visual information. Retailers can add new content with minimal effort, ensuring a fast and cost-effective market launch. www.danak.ai
Freshflow
Globally, about 40 percent of food is wasted, and retailers lose 15 percent of fresh produce due to poor forecasting. Freshflow aims to replace guesswork with precise predictions while achieving measurable financial and operational improvements. This allows grocery retailers to increase profits and reduce the write-off of fresh products. Freshflow's AI-driven solution optimizes ordering and replenishment, reducing waste by up to a quarter. www.freshflow.ai
HB Concepts
Choosing a POS or ERP system is always a decision for several years. HB Concepts accompanies customers throughout the entire lifecycle of the system – from planning and consulting to implementation and ongoing optimization, as well as training and support. www.hb-concepts.de
hellomateo
With over 60 million users, WhatsApp reaches almost every customer – with opening rates of up to 98 percent. hellomateo provides the technical basis for e-commerce or retail companies to integrate WhatsApp into their customer journey. Whether automated marketing messages via WhatsApp, retrieving abandoned shopping carts, or classic WhatsApp newsletters – all of this can be implemented with hellomateo. www.hellomateo.de
Isarsoft
Isarsoft develops AI-based software solutions for intelligent video analysis, enabling companies to measure and optimize people and traffic flows in real-time. With Isarsoft Perception, occupancy, line counting, dwell time, speeds, geolocation, alarms, and much more can be captured. The software is designed to help make better decisions, increase efficiency and customer satisfaction, and enhance security. www.isarsoft.com
Kurant
Kurant was founded in Austria in 2017 to make access to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies easy and secure for everyone. To lower entry barriers into the world of digital currencies, Kurant has built a network of over 320 Bitcoin ATMs in Germany, Austria, and Spain. The company aims to be a user-friendly and trustworthy alternative to complex online platforms by enabling the purchase of Bitcoin with cash. Kurant describes itself as the market leader in Europe and focuses on personal customer service and secure transactions. www.kurant.net
PAYLIN
PAYLIN develops innovative self-checkout systems based on computer vision and AI that fully automate the checkout process. With over six years of experience and two patented technologies, PAYLIN eliminates manual scanning, minimizes human errors and product losses, and increases customer satisfaction. www.paylin.tech
Pelora
Pelora offers an indoor localization solution that enables high-precision tracking of Bluetooth devices, including smartphones. Tracking is possible both with and without special apps on customer devices. This allows retailers to gain real-time insights into movement patterns to optimize product placement. At the same time, they can offer location-based services and marketing via an app. Tracking scanners or goods via tags can also improve operational efficiency and security in the store. www.pelora.io
Pi-xcels
Pi-xcels is a technology company specializing in the digital issuance of receipts, offering retailers, businesses, and other organizations that use receipts an environmentally friendly alternative to paper receipts. With just a tap, brick-and-mortar retailers can issue paperless, interactive electronic receipts to their customers via smartphone. www.pi-xcels.com
Quinyx
Quinyx offers software for workforce management. The cloud-based solution supports companies in workforce scheduling, time tracking, internal communication, as well as onboarding and task management. Through automation and AI-based forecasts, plans are optimized, saving labor costs and time. www.quinyx.com
retailflow
With retailflow, brick-and-mortar retailers selling products that require explanation can independently create a "digital sales assistant" that educates customers about all product details via smartphone and facilitates the purchasing decision. The software consists of a content management system (CMS) and a web app. The content entered into the CMS is automatically used to generate a web app for customers. www.retailflow.app
TareTag
TareTag digitizes the flow of goods from the manufacturer to the home kitchen. Any container can become legally compliant packaging for any product in any quantity. All containers or cloth bags are equipped with a QR code, allowing consumers to access information about the content and container via an app. This allows suitable disposable containers to be refilled multiple times. www.taretag.com
vaibe
By gamifying retail KPIs, vaibe helps companies achieve their goals more efficiently. The white-label gamification app allows software providers to expand their offering with a solution that promotes engagement, fun, productivity, and efficiency among employees. The platform easily integrates with existing systems and transforms routine tasks into engaging, goal-oriented activities. www.vaibe.com
EuroCIS 2025 Information
EuroCIS 2025 will take place in Halls 9 and 10 of the Düsseldorf Exhibition Center and will be open to trade visitors from Tuesday, February 18, to Thursday, February 20, 2025, from 10 AM to 6 PM. Online day tickets cost 28 euros, season tickets are 50 euros, and discounted online tickets are 15 euros per day.
Tickets and further information about the fair can be found at: www.eurocis.com