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In the news
- The Boston GlobeFormer Wahlburgers CEO Rick Vanzura joins Cambridge retail AI firm
- QSR MagazineGrowthFactor Appoints Rick Vanzura to President Role
- Boston Business JournalA bad location can cost retailers millions. This Kendall Square startup has a new solution.
- The New York TimesNot All Malls Are Struggling
- Poets & Quants2025 Most Disruptive MBA Startups: GrowthFactor, MIT (Sloan)
- MIT Sloan22 MIT Startups to Watch in 2025
- MIT delta v2025 Accelerator Cohort: GrowthFactor
- Radio EntrepreneursThe Future of Retail Site Selection with Clyde Christian Anderson
Press releases
- GrowthFactor Partners with Resimplifi to Bring Live Commercial Real Estate Listings Into the PlatformAugust 25, 2026
- GrowthFactor Launches Market Planning and Becomes the AI Analyst for Commercial Real EstateAugust 3, 2026
- GrowthFactor Launches First Model Context Protocol (MCP) Integration in Site SelectionMay 11, 2026
- GrowthFactor Appoints Veteran Retail Executive Rick Vanzura as PresidentApril 23, 2026
- GrowthFactor Launches with $5.2M Seed Round to Build AI-Powered Operating System for Commercial Real EstateMarch 23, 2026
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About GrowthFactor
GrowthFactor is retail site selection software for multi-unit real estate teams deciding where to open next. It checks every site against the team's own stores in seconds: what it should sell, what it takes from nearby locations, and how it compares with the stores they already run. Every verdict shows the data and the reasoning. Then ask anything in plain English, about one site or the whole network. Teams write their own evaluators, forecasts arrive as a range rather than a single number, and a named data scientist builds the model with your team. Customers include Books-A-Million, Cavender's, and TNT Fireworks. Founded in 2023 by three MIT Sloan classmates, GrowthFactor completed the MIT delta v accelerator and serves 60+ customers.
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- Boston, MA
- Seed funding
- $5.2M
- Customers
- 60+
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