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| 07.01.2026 | Returning holiday purchases is ‘part of the overall experience,’ analyst says: How to navigate return policies | After notching a new record for online spending this season, returns were up 4.7% in the days immediately following Dec. 25, according to a new report by Adobe Analytics.
For consumers, returning has become a key component of the shopping e... |
| 26.12.2025 | Why your holiday gift returns might go to a landfill and what you can do about it | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By CALEIGH WELLS and AYA DIAB, Associated Press
The holiday season will soon come to a close, but the busiest time of the year for product returns is just beginning.
The National Retail Federation ... |
| 19.09.2025 | Catena Raises $5M in Seed Funding | Catena, a NYC-based provider of an API for telematics and logistics data, today announced a $5M Seed funding.
The round was led by Floating Point, with participation from Shaper Capital, Teamworthy, Plug and Play, SpringTime Ventures, Liqui... |
| 29.08.2025 | Buy now, return later: Wealthy shoppers rack up more refunds, report finds | Higher-income households have higher rates of retail refunds compared with lower-income shoppers, according to a recent report by the Bank of America Institute.
Wealthier shoppers can afford to purchase “speculatively,” the report notes.
Sh... |
| 25.06.2025 | State of Freight
Retailers are rushing returns back to resale market as Trump tariff costs hit item economics | Companies are relying more on what is known as reverse logistics to get returned products back into the marketplace faster due to tariff costs already paid.
Reverse logistics industry is experiencing significant growth, according to Alix Pa... |
| 08.01.2025 | The rise of returns: making reverse logistics work for your business | - |
| 12.11.2024 | The Future of Returns: Optoro's Innovative Approach to E-Commerce Challenges | In the fast-paced world of e-commerce, returns are the dark cloud hovering over retailers. They are inevitable, costly, and often a headache. Enter Optoro, a company that is turning this challenge into an opportunity. With its innovative so... |
| 12.11.2024 | Want Your Online Returns Picked Up From Your House? This Company Is Already Making It Happen In 40 U.S. Cities. Optoro helps giant retailers like Ikea and Best Buy manage online returns. Now, CEO Amen... | Selling things online is simple. Handling the returns is not. But with veteran software executive Amena Ali at the helm, Optoro is helping some of the biggest retailers — like Ikea, Gap, American Eagle, and Best Buy — create a seamless retu... |
| 11.11.2024 | The Quiet Revolution of Returnless Refunds in Retail | In the world of retail, change often comes quietly. The latest trend? Returnless refunds. This practice allows customers to keep items while still receiving their money back. It’s a win-win, but it’s shrouded in mystery. Retailers are hesit... |
| 08.11.2024 | Business | Many retailers offer ‘returnless refunds.’ Just don’t expect them to talk much about it | Harel, who routinely buys towels and other products from Amazon for her business, said her team reached out to the company’s customer service line. She was pleasantly surprised to hear she would get a refund without having to send back the ... |
| 29.03.2023 | Optoro Partners with Gap Logistics to Accelerate Next-Gen Customer Returns Experience and Reverse Supply Chain Innovation | Optoro’s all-in-one platform supercharges the customer experience, enables instant exchanges, and accelerates processing
Leading returns platform Optoro welcomes Gap as its latest partner to transform exchanges and returns for Old Navy, Gap... |
| 09.03.2023 | Optoro and Locus Robotics Team Up to Deliver Fully Integrated, High-Volume End-to-End Reverse Logistics Solution | Optoro, Inc., the leading technology platform for retail returns and reverse logistics, and Locus Robotics, the leader in autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for fulfillment warehouses and distribution centers, announce a strategic partnership ... |
| 03.07.2021 | Amazon Is Throwing Millions of Dollars In Unsold Inventory Into Destroy Bins, Investigation Reveals | 4 Mins Read
A new investigation has exposed the millions of unsold items being thrown out by Amazon every single year. Going undercover at U.K. Amazon warehouse, journalists from ITV News documented shocking footage of laptops, headphones, ... |
| 22.06.2021 | This Week in Jobs DMV: The Love Buzz Edition | Editor’s note: Every week we ship an email newsletter featuring the region’s most exciting career opportunities. We’ve lovingly called it This Week in Jobs (aka TWIJ — “twidge.”). Below is this week’s edition; it’s meant to live in your inb... |
| 16.06.2021 | Power Moves: Kevin Hanes is the new CEO of Cybrary | Power Moves is a column where we chart the comings and goings of talent across the region. Got a new hire, new gig or promotion? Email us at dc@technical.ly.
College Park, Maryland-based Cybrary has a new CEO.
Secureworks alum Kevin Hanes w... |
| 13.11.2020 | On the Market: Comscore is in search of a new senior manager of software engineering | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight noteworthy job openings. Have a submission? Email us at dc@technical.ly.
Reston, Virginia-based Comscore is looking for a new senior manager of software engineering. The tech company... |
| 20.10.2020 | This Week in Jobs DMV: Final Destination Edition | Editor’s note: Every week we ship an email newsletter featuring the region’s most exciting career opportunities. We’ve lovingly called it This Week in Jobs (aka TWIJ — “twidge.”). Below is this week’s edition. Here’s the last one we publish... |
| 19.01.2020 | Стартапы недели: поиск работы для бывших заключенных, быстрая база данных и другие | А также обзор проектов из прошлогодних выпусков.
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В статье об IPO пытаюсь разобраться, а куда они собств... |
| 07.01.2020 | Australia Is Literally On Fire Because Of Climate Change. So Why Won’t More Governments Act? | 79
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Wildfires in Australia have turned the eastern part of the country into a scene akin to an apocalyptic... |
| 04.12.2019 | D.C. Startup Optoro Lands IKEA Investment and Partnership | Need to return something to IKEA? A D.C.-based startup's technology will soon be there to make it a swifter and less wasteful transaction.
IKEA, the Swedish furniture giant, announced Wednesday that it is partnering with Optoro, a D.C. star... |
| 19.01.2019 | Стартапы дня год спустя: сервис для возврата товаров продавцу Optoro, аналитика читаемости писем Docsend и другие | Директор по стратегии и анализу Mail.Ru Group Александр Горный — о судьбе проектов из рубрики «Стартап дня».
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| 14.01.2019 | What to Watch: Retail’s FashTech Providers | Big show, bigger ideas. Innovation moves at a blistering pace, and as such, there’s not a moment to waste during NRF’s Big Show 2019 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan where retailers, brands, solution providers and indus... |
| 31.07.2018 | Optoro Raises $75M, Plans Hiring | D.C.–based Optoro announced the close of a $75 million funding round this week, as it looks to further expand use of its technology that helps retailers put returned items back into commerce.
The round was led by Franklin Templeton, and inc... |
| 31.07.2018 | Optoro Scores $75M |
WASHINGTON, D.C., Optoro, the leading provider of returns optimization software, today announced that it has closed a $75 million equity funding round.
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| 31.07.2018 | Optoro raises $75M, plans hiring | D.C.–based Optoro announced the close of a $75 million funding round this week, as it looks to further expand use of its technology that helps retailers put returned items back into commerce.
The round was led by Franklin Templeton, and inc... |
| 31.07.2018 | Optoro Raises $75M, Plans Hiring | D.C.–based Optoro announced the close of a $75 million funding round this week, as it looks to further expand use of its technology that helps retailers put returned items back into commerce.
The round was led by Franklin Templeton, and inc... |
| 31.07.2018 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, July 31 | WE-DESIGN
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| 30.07.2018 | Returns Optimization Software Provider Optoro Raises $75M | Optoro, a Washinton, DC-based provider of returns optimization software, closed a $75m equity funding round.
The round was led by Franklin Templeton, with participation from Revolution Growth, Generation Investment Management, and Tenfore H... |
| 30.07.2018 | Optoro raises $75 million more to make it easier for brands to manage and resell returned and excess inventory | As the economy has chugged along, so have retail sales, which last year capped their strongest year since 2014. Online sales have been especially brisk, growing 16 percent between 2016 and 2017 alone, according to the U.S. Commerce Departme... |
| 30.07.2018 | D.C.'s Optoro Raises $75M in its Biggest Funding Round Yet | For retailers, managing product returns is costly. But as more shoppers move online, new technology for processing e-commerce returns has presented a massive opportunity for one local company.
Optoro, a D.C.-based provider of returns optimi... |
| 16.02.2018 | Need a change? Check out these tech jobs in DC | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.FS Card has three openings.
The fintech company that aims... |
| 28.09.2017 | Forbes says Optoro is one of the ‘Next Billion Dollar Startups’ | Optoro, a D.C. company focusing on helping big-name companies figure out what to do with the merchandise that doesn’t sell or is returned, was awarded a spot on Forbes‘ “The Next Billion-Dollar Startups” list for 2017.
Future unicorns: intr... |
| 23.04.2017 | 113 enterprise AI companies you should know | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Enterprise companies comprise a $3.4 trillion mar... |
| 23.04.2017 | 113 enterprise AI companies you should know | Enterprise companies comprise a $3.4 trillion market worldwide of which an increasingly larger share is being allocated to artificial intelligence technologies.
By our definition, “enterprise” technology companies create tools for workplace... |
| 17.01.2017 | 8 #dctech jobs you should probably apply for right now | On the Market is a Technical.ly column (new to D.C.!) where we highlight noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.Local mapping company seeks office dog for... |
| 22.12.2016 | UPS invested in Optoro’s $30 million Series D raise | Lanham, Md.-based Optoro, the company that helps retailers sell excess inventory or inventory that has been returned, announced on Wednesday that it has raised a $30 million Series D. The announcement included a new investor and strategic p... |
| 21.12.2016 | Optoro Closes $30M Series D Funding | Optoro, a Lanham, MD-based platform for returned and excess inventory, closed a $30m Series D funding.
The round included participation from new investor and alliance partner UPS, as well as additional financing from existing investors Revo... |
| 21.12.2016 | Optoro Closes $30M Series D | Optoro, the leading platform for returned and excess inventory, today announced that it has closed a $30 million Series D funding round. The round included participation from new investor and alliance partner UPS, as well as additional fina... |
| 21.12.2016 | Optoro Raises $30M Series D | Optoro®, the leading platform for returned and excess inventory, today announced that it has closed a $30 million Series D funding round. The round included participation from new investor and alliance partner UPS, as well as additional fin... |
| 21.12.2016 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, December 21 | OPEN MIC
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| 21.12.2016 | Optoro Closes $30M Series D Funding |
LANHAM, MD, Leading platform for returned and excess inventory, today announced that it has closed a $30 million Series D funding round.
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| 23.09.2016 | Here are the Coolest Companies of 2016 | Last night at DC Fest, we crowned the winners of our 2016 Coolest Companies Competition.
It wasn’t easy picking 10 companies from the 150 finalists. What makes a company “cool?” It’s not just a cool office, or just great employee perks, or ... |
| 14.06.2016 | Steve Case’s Revolution Growth just closed a new fund with $525 million | This morning, Revolution, a Washington, D.C.-based venture firm founded by former AOL executives Steve Case, Donn Davis and Ted Leonsis, is taking the wraps off its newest growth fund, which it has closed with $525 million.
Revolution — whi... |
| 10.12.2015 | Announcing This Year's 50 on Fire Winners | Tonight, we unveiled the winners of 50 on Fire, a collection of companies, CEOs, startups and entrepreneurs that are driving the District's innovation economy.
From high-powered investors like Revolution to booming restaurant chain &piz... |
| 29.07.2015 | Optoro raises $40M to help retailers sell leftover inventory | Lanham-based Optoro, a company that uses data analytics to help companies sell off their excess inventory, has raised $40 million in debt financing.
Optoro borrowed the funds from two new investors, California-based TriplePoint Venture Grow... |
| 28.07.2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 28, 2015 | Deliveroo took $70M; Kareo pulled in $55M; MacroFab closed $2M
Deliveroo, a food delivery startup based in the United Kingdom, took a $70 million round, according to a report from VentureBeat. The round was led by Greenoaks Capital and Inde... |
| 28.07.2015 | Today’s Funding Roundup: Massive Millions and a Cancer Drug IPO | Tuesday brings with it a whole new cohort of news and announcements, specifically massive amounts of funding for some companies. We also have an IPO from a startup that's developing a promising lung cancer drug out of Cuba. Let us know what... |
| 28.07.2015 | Optoro Receives $40M in Debt Financing | Optoro, a Washington, DC and Maryland-based platform for returned and excess inventory, connecting buyers and sellers worldwide, received $40m in debt financing.
TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corporation and Square 1 Bank provided the fina... |
| 29.04.2015 | Tobin Moore Talks About Optoro’s Sustainable Reverse Logistics Platform | The retail industry is not, as a whole, a very sustainable one. Think of all the products that get returned that are not re-sellable. Much of this returned inventory gets shipped to landfills. You can't completely blame the retailers for th... |
| 02.04.2015 | Biotech firm Vaxin raises $8M [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
Gaithersburg, Md.-based Vaxin, a biotech company focused on developing “novel vaccines,” raised $8 million, the company’s president and CEO Bill Enright told Technical.ly DC. That’s out of a projected $16 million post-... |
| 10.12.2014 | Optoro Closes $50m Series C Funding | Optoro Inc., a Washington, DC and Maryland-based provider of cloud platform for the retail returns industry, closed a $50m Series C funding.
The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and Generation Investment Manageme... |
| 10.12.2014 | Optoro Raises $50M in New Funding Round | D.C.-based Optoro has raised $50 million in a new Series C funding round. There had been rumors about an upcoming big funding round since at least October, but this confirms that the startup, which helps sell leftover and returned inventory... |
| 10.12.2014 | Optoro Raises $50M in Series C |
WASHINGTON, DC, Cloud-based technology company that enables retailers and manufacturers to increase their revenue from returned and excess inventory, has closed a $50 million Series C funding.
>> Click here for more funding data on... |
| 09.12.2014 | [Update] Turning Unwanted Goods Into New Sales, Optoro Raises $50 Million | [Update: Through his own investment fund, Generation Investment Management, former Vice President and KPCB Green Growth Fund partner Al Gore added $10 million to the company’s funding as of early Wednesday morning.]
Optoro has raised $50 mi... |
| 04.08.2014 | 70 Startup Women Show Us What They Wear to Work | After publishing our piece “41 Startup Guys Show Us What They Actually WEAR to Work”, of course we had to follow that up with a piece highlighting the daily wears of startup women (equal opportunity, y'all!).
While Banana Republic's “Startu... |
| 06.01.2014 | 10 DC Startups Destined to Breakout in 2014 | In case you missed it, Tech Cocktail is more region specific than ever. Atlanta, Austin, Boise, Chicago, Dallas, DC, Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, NYC, and San Francisco have gotten their own dedicated pages with their own design, their ow... |
| 25.11.2013 | Optoro Raises Series B Funding from SWaN & Legend Venture Partners | Optoro, Inc., a Washington, DC-based technology company enabling retailers and manufacturers to increase revenue from returned and excess inventory, closed additional Series B funding with SWaN & Legend Venture Partners.
The amount of t... |
| 25.11.2013 | Optoro Gets More Funding, Adds Board Member | D.C.-based reverse logistics company Optoro has has an absolutely stellar 2013 already – they're even a finalist for our upcoming 50 on Fire celebration. But why not push it even further? The company announced Monday that it has extended it... |
| 16.09.2013 | In The Money: Grotech CFO Explains Firm's Investment Strategy, Success | It's displayed all over Grotech Ventures' website: "Early investors in high-potential technology companies," the investment firm's strategy. And it's a successful one, evidenced by Grotech's being named the second highest performi... |
| 13.09.2013 | 6 Big Time DC Fundings You Need to Know About | It's been a mild summer in the Capital, but for a few D.C. companies, it's been hot, with loads and loads of cash thrown their way. And while Labor Day unofficially counts as the end of the summer months, technically fall doesn't start unti... |
| 17.07.2013 | Revolution Growth Fund invests $23.5M in Optoro to find unwanted goods a home | Optoro has raised $23.5 million to smooth the distribution of merchandise sold online. The round was led by Revolution Growth Fund, which was founded by former AOL execs Steve Case, Ted Leonsis, and Donn Davis.
Optoro sells software-as-a-se... |
| 17.07.2013 | Funding Daily: Booze news | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Many different kinds of startups get funding ever... |
| 17.07.2013 | Revolution Growth Fund invests $23.5M in Optoro to find unwanted goods a home | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Optoro has raised $23.5 million to smooth the dis... |
| 17.07.2013 | Optoro raises $23.5M in equity; Riskive takes $2.1M [Startup Roundup] | This is the Startup Roundup. Every Wednesday morning, Technically Baltimore will put together the smaller pieces that make up our startup ecosystem. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.who’s getting funded?
Riskive, based out of the B... |
| 23.05.2013 | $300M+ invested in MD startups, Grotech Ventures raises new fund | Mid-Atlantic investment firm Grotech Ventures closed a fund worth $225 million, its eighth, this month. The size of that raise has bucked a slower funding trend nationwide.
But the timing isn’t quite as consequential as is the potential eff... |
| 16.01.2013 | Optoro Closes $7.5M Series A-1 Venture Funding | Optoro, a Maryland (just outside Washington, DC)-based company that provides retailers with tools to manage and increase revenue from their returned and excess inventory, has closed a $7.5m Series A-1 venture funding.
The round, which bring... |
| 16.01.2013 | Optoro Closes $7.5M Series A-1 |
LANHAM, MD, Technology company helping retailers to better manage and increase revenue from their returned and excess inventory, announced today that it has closed a Series A-1 round of $7.5M in venture funding led by Grotech Ventures.
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| 16.01.2013 | Funding Daily: Purple people eater | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 20.07.2011 | Optoro Raises $3M |
Optoro Inc., an asset recovery platform for retailers and manufacturers, has closed a $3 million offering.
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| - | This couple paid $7,150 for items people returned to Amazon, Walmart and Target—and made $19,500 reselling them | In December 2020, Jamie and Sarah McCauley stumbled into their strangest side hustle yet: Buying pallets of items people returned to Target, Walmart and Amazon.
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| - | Retail returns: An $890 billion problem | Returns in 2024 are expected to be about 17% of all goods sold, totaling $890 billion, according to a new report by the National Retail Federation and return management company Happy Returns. That’s up from 15% in 2023.
The growing amount o... |
| - | ‘Returnuary’ — after the peak shopping season comes the busiest return month of the year | After this season’s peak holiday shopping days, retailers expect their return rate to be 17% higher, on average, than usual.
By the end of 2024, returns are expected to total $890 billion.
The growing amount of returned merchandise is a maj... |
| - | What to Watch: Retail’s FashTech Providers | Big show, bigger ideas. Innovation moves at a blistering pace, and as such, there’s not a moment to waste during NRF’s Big Show 2019 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan where retailers, brands, solution providers and indus... |
| - | Inside the $644 billion business of reselling returned items, from electronics to bizarre finds | Inside Liquidity Services’ 130,000-square-foot warehouse in Garland, Texas, the aisles aren’t lined with typical merchandise. Instead, they’re stacked with returns from Amazon, Target, Sony, Home Depot, Wayfair and more, all in the process ... |
| - | As if! ‘Clueless’ star Alicia Silverstone avoids buying retail to limit environmental toll: ‘It needs to be used first’ | “Clueless” star Alicia Silverstone said she never buys anything new if she can help it. “We are actual opposites,” she said of Cher Horowitz, the character she made famous.
Excessive online shopping, and returning, exacts a hefty environmen... |
| - | Consumers hate paying for return shipping — it tops jury duty and the DMV in annoyance factor, report finds | Nearly one-third of consumers said paying for return shipping was more annoying than jury duty and going to the DMV, according to a recent report.
Here’s why those return fees may only get worse.
As much as consumers love shopping online, m... |
