Le Mouvement E.Leclerc has selected the Alkemics platform to facilitate the collection of product and pricing data from suppliers in the European market
May 6, 2019
Starting in spring 2019, Le Mouvement E.Leclerc will launch a new database project via the collaborative digital platform Alkemics, an initiative that includes several thousand suppliers. Their goals are to facilitate and speed up products’ time to market while offering consumers even more product transparency.
Tesco and Ocado adopt Alkemics supply chain collaboration platform
September 14, 2018
UK retailers Tesco and Ocado are embracing the supply chain collaboration platform developed by French tech group Alkemics in order to strengthen their omnichannel strategies.
Business Case: PIM + Alkemics: Bonduelle’s winning approach to ensuring quality product information
September 3, 2018
Five brands and hundreds of products: to ensure quality product information at this scale, Bonduelle uses their PIM system alongside the Alkemics platform. This also helps them make the[...]
Cosmetique Mag : Selective cosmetics simplifies data sharing
May 2, 2018
The selective cosmetics market tries out the Global Data Synchronisation Network (GDSN). The GDSN enables brands and retailers to share product data in a single, standardized format, a valuable[...]
About alkemics
Alkemics is the digital collaboration platform for retail. The cloud-based Saas solution helps retailers and brands digitize, collect and share product data in one single secured place. Alkemics facilitates collaboration and drive operational excellence with automated collection, correction and sharing of high quality product data (GS1 standard). After raising 20 million euros in a Series B funding round in September 2016, Alkemics has seen great success within the retail market in France over the past two years, with more than 6,500 brands and 90% of the grocery e-retailers joining the platform. Alkemics has launched several new retail industries in 2017(beauty and cosmetics, health, Out of Home...).
Alkemics’ three founders are Antoine Durieux (CEO), an expert in statistics and Artificial Intelligence (Polytechnique and Stanford), Antoine Perrin (CTO), a specialist in the design of innovative and complex IT infrastructure (Polytechnique and ParisTech), and Benoît Portoleau-Balloy (COO), formerly at Criteo, Kelkoo, Yahoo!, a specialist in commerce and digital. In September 2016, Alkemics raised EUR 20 million with Cathay Innovation and Serena Capital, Index Ventures in collaboration with Index Ventures, Partech Ventures, and SEB Alliance, investors who have renewed their confidence in Alkemics after a Series A round of $5.6 million in early 2015.
Key facts
70 employees
Alkemics is a collaborative tool built for retail and trusted by 90% of the French grocery e-retail market, over 6 500 brands are already using it.
Worldwide GDSN 3.1 certification from GS1 - Worldwide data pool certification GS1
Investors
Cathay Innovation
Serena Capital
Index Ventures
Partech Ventures
Seb Alliance