Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities
AI research assistant searching 138M+ academic papers with sentence-level citations. 2M+ researchers. Raised $33M. Founded 2023 (spun from Ought nonprofit). Private.
Elicit is an AI research assistant spun out in 2023 from Ought (a nonprofit founded in 2017) by CEO Andreas Stuhlmuller. Headquartered in Oakland, California. It has raised $33M total including a $22M Series A (February 2025). Investors include Fifty Years, Basis Set, and angels like Tom Preston-Werner (GitHub) and Jeff Dean (Google).
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.
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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