Top 10: last week’s most popular retail technology articles

These are the RTIH retail systems articles that caught your fancy last week, including Contentsquare, Feefo, Starship Technologies and QVALON.

Contentsquare follows big funding round with Hotjar deal

Digital experience analytics venture, Contentsquare, has acquired Hotjar, a product experience insights platform in the SMB market.

This is Contentsquare’s sixth acquisition in two years, following deals to buy Upstride, Dareboost, AdaptMyWeb, Pricing Assistant and Clicktale.

Reviews and CX insights venture Feefo buys competitor Reevoo

Customer reviews and insights platform, Feefo, has acquired rival business Reevoo.

Feefo was founded in 2010 with offices in London and Petersfield. Reevoo launched in 2005 and is based in London.

The two companies currently support 4,000 brands globally, including Kia, BA Holidays, Saga Group, Expedia and Currys PC World.

Former Morrisons boss Dalton Philips joins Starship Technologies

Autonomous delivery services venture, Starship Technologies, has added Dalton Philips to its board.

Philips is currently CEO at daa, whose principal activities include the operation and management of Dublin and Cork Airports, global airport retailing subsidiary ARI, and international aviation consultancy daa International.

He was previously CEO at UK supermarket chain Morrisons from March 2010 to February 2015.

QVALON talks startup life and ambitious growth plans

Andrey Podgornov, CEO, and Boris Shkolnikov, CTO, give RTIH the lowdown on QVALON, which offers a mobile solution for managing retail operational processes.

Ocado Purfleet CFC goes live as M&S celebrates one year of online deliveries

Last week marked one year since Marks and Spencer went live on Ocado.

The move saw the latter begin to sell and deliver food from M&S rather than Waitrose, after M&S splashed out £750 million to acquire a 50% stake in Ocado’s retail business.

“With operations commencing at Ocado's latest fulfilment centre in Purfleet, capacity will soon increase to 600,000 (from around 356,000) orders a week,” M&S tweeted.

The Purfleet site is Ocado’s third customer fulfilment centre (CFC) to launch this year, and up to 1,500 people could work there once it is at full capacity. It will be the company’s second biggest CFC, behind one in Erith.

Peak AI closes mega Series C funding round

Artificial Intelligence startup Peak has announced a $75 million Series C funding round led by new investor SoftBank Vision Fund 2.

There was also participation from all existing backers, including MMC Ventures, Oxx, Praetura Ventures, Arete and Octopus Ventures. This brings Peak’s total funding raised to date to $119 million.

Zebra Technologies announces intent to acquire antuit.ai

Zebra Technologies is set to acquire antuit.ai, a provider of artificial intelligence powered SaaS solutions specific to forecasting and merchandising for the retail and CPG industries.

RTIH reviews the retail technology space in August

RTIH takes a look back at an eventful month for the retail systems sector, including Square acquiring Afterpay, Walmart vs Amazon, and the booming self-checkout and buy now pay later spaces.