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'''Competera''' is an [[artificial intelligence]] platform that helps [[online and offline]] [[Retail|retailers]] with portfolio pricing using price recommendations on an SKU and full category level.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Galkin|first=Aleksandr|title=Council Post: From Strategy To Tactics: Why You Need Technology For Better Pricing Execution|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/07/21/from-strategy-to-tactics-why-you-need-technology-for-better-pricing-execution/|access-date=2021-05-25|website=Forbes|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-09-11|title=How the Ukrainian company Competera grew into a million-dollar business without any outside investments|url=https://ain.ua/en/2018/09/11/how-the-ukrainian-company-competera-grew-into-a-million-dollar-business-without-any-outside-investments/|access-date=2021-05-25|website=AIN.UA|language=en-US}}</ref>

= Overview =
Competera was launched on April 23, 2014. The founders are Alexander Galkin, Andrey Mikhailov, and Alexander Sazonov.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Team|first=Startup Info|title=Reinventing Retail Pricing for Global Brands in Times of Uncertainty|url=https://startup.info/aleksandr-galkin-competera/|access-date=2021-05-25|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Shane|title=Venture Investor and Stanford Lecturer, Ph.D. Maciej Kraus Joins Award-Winning AI Startup Competera as Advisor – Guest Post – Feedspot|url=https://www.feedspot.com/fs/post/venture-investor-and-stanford-lecturer-ph-d-maciej-kraus-joins-award-winning-ai-startup-competera-as-advisor/|access-date=2021-05-25|language=en-US}}</ref>

The head office is located in [[Kyiv]], [[Ukraine]] with additional offices in [[California]], [[Singapore]], and [[London]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-17|title=Venture Investor and Stanford Lecturer, Ph.D. Maciej Kraus Joins Award-Winning AI Startup Competera as Advisor|url=https://aithority.com/hot-startups/venture-investor-and-stanford-lecturer-ph-d-maciej-kraus-joins-award-winning-ai-startup-competera-as-advisor/|access-date=2021-05-25|website=AiThority|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Funding ==
Competera has received the first venture investment from the SMRK venture fund..

<nowiki>https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/smrk-vc-fund</nowiki>

Later, the company raised a total of $3M in funding over 2 rounds. 

<nowiki>https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/competera/company_financials</nowiki>

The latest funding was raised on Feb 5, 2019, from a Seed round.

<nowiki>https://startups.eithealth.eu/investors/smrk_vc/portfolio/rounds?rounds=SEED</nowiki>

== External links ==
[https://competera.net/ Official website] 

[https://tw.linkedin.com/company/competera Competera] in [[LinkedIn]] 

== References ==