CSC Generation

CSC Generation is an AI-native holding company that acquires well-known but technologically outdated retail brands and rebuilds them around proprietary software. The firm targets banners with strong consumer recognition and pairs them with its Genesis operating platform, which combines a Data Fabric, an Automation Engine and shared services to modernise operations, improve customer experience and widen margins. Artificial intelligence and machine learning sit at the centre of the model rather than in a support function: portfolio companies serve as live environments in which the company's own systems operate as the core business engine.

Genesis is deployed across 13 brands in the portfolio, including Sur La Table, Backcountry and One Kings Lane, spanning home retail, outdoor retail and e-commerce. Together these businesses generate more than $1 billion in annual revenue, giving the technical teams a substantial, multi-brand data and operations footprint across the United States and Canada. Growth is pursued through strategic acquisitions, with each addition folded onto shared technology and services.

The company is venture-backed, with investors including Altos Ventures, Maveron and Khosla Ventures. It maintains six offices, in Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Seattle and Toronto. Relevant technical domains include artificial intelligence, machine learning, data fabric architecture, automation, data-driven strategy, omni-channel retail technology and shared services platforms.