Capi Money vs Shopify
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UK YC S23 cross-border payments for African/LatAm/Asia SMEs at $2.9M revenue 2024; €17.2M Creandum Series A Feb 2025 serving businesses in 4 African countries competing with Flutterwave and Nium for emerging market international supplier payment infrastructure.
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Capi Money is a London, United Kingdom-based cross-border payment platform for emerging market businesses — backed by Y Combinator (S23) with €17.2 million in Series A funding in February 2025 led by Creandum with Janngo, Firstminute, FourCities, Raba, Kara Maiora, Pioneer, Rebel, and Algorithmic, following a $1.52 million seed in May 2023 — providing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Africa, Latin America, and Asia with efficient international supplier payment infrastructure that reduces foreign exchange fees and delays when paying international vendors. Founded in 2023 by Mitch Riley, Scott Liddle, and Tom Watson, Capi achieved $2.9 million in revenue in 2024 — generating multi-million dollar revenue within 13 months of the Y Combinator batch — operating with 19 employees across 4 African countries.
NYSE: SHOP e-commerce platform at $8.88B FY2024 revenue with $292.28B GMV across 4.82M stores; Black Friday $11.5B processing competing with WooCommerce and BigCommerce for small-to-enterprise direct-to-consumer commerce.
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Shopify Inc. is an Ottawa, Canada-based e-commerce platform — listed on NYSE (NYSE: SHOP) — providing 4.82+ million active merchant stores of all sizes (from solo entrepreneurs to enterprise brands) with tools for online store creation, multi-channel selling (web, mobile, social, in-person), payment processing (Shopify Payments, Shop Pay), inventory management, fulfillment, and marketing analytics, generating $8.88 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2024 (+26% year-over-year) with $292.28 billion in gross merchandise volume (GMV, +24%) and 875+ million customers who have purchased from Shopify merchant stores. Founded in 2006 by Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake (started as a snowboard equipment store, pivoted to become the platform), Shopify has become the operating system for independent commerce — the default e-commerce infrastructure for the direct-to-consumer brand economy.
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