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Nextail's Prescriptive AI Replaces Excel in Fashion Retail

Nextail, a Madrid-based startup founded in 2014, applies prescriptive analytics and stochastic optimization to inventory and allocation decisions in fast fashion. The platform ingests and cleans disparate retail data, produces hyper-local probabilistic forecasts for each SKU-store-day combination, and runs a Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) optimizer to prescribe transfers, replenishment and execution directives into ERP/WMS systems. Nextail reports rapid ROI—inventory coverage improvements up to 30%, stockout reductions up to 60%, 5–10% direct sales increases, and up to 75% merchandising time savings—citing customers including Pepe Jeans, River Island and Guess. Funding milestones include a 2016 seed led by Nauta Capital, a $10M Series A in 2018, and a multi‑million investment in Nov 2024. In 2024 founder Joaquín Villalba moved to Corporate Ambassador and co‑founder Carlos Miragall became CEO as the company prepares agentic and generative-AI integrations and to address upcoming ESPR regulation.

Taptap Digital Appoints Álvaro Mayol as CEO

Taptap Digital, an area-based omnichannel marketing platform that uses location intelligence, has appointed Álvaro Mayol as CEO as part of a completed governance plan. Founder Álvaro del Castillo moves to a non-executive President role where he will continue to provide strategic vision and manage investor relations; he remains the company's sole minority shareholder and a board member. Mayol has worked at Taptap for over 12 years, most recently as global managing director and previously as chief product officer, leading product development, technology and operations. The company highlights investments in an AI framework, hires in machine learning and data science, and an international footprint including Spain, the UK, the US, South Africa, Brazil and LATAM as it pursues expansion and client growth.