Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities
Chicago global edge cloud platform deploying apps across 35+ regions in Firecracker microVMs; $111M EQT-backed at $11.2M revenue competing with Render and Cloudflare Workers for developer infrastructure.
Fly.io is a Chicago-based cloud infrastructure platform enabling developers to deploy and run containerized applications globally at the network edge — distributing applications across 35+ regions worldwide so user requests route to the nearest data center, reducing latency compared to single-region cloud deployments. Founded in 2017 by Kurt Mackey and backed with $111 million raised including a $70 million round led by EQT Ventures in July 2023, Fly.io achieved $11.2 million in revenue in 2024 (up from $7.6 million in 2023) with 72 employees, serving developers and startups building latency-sensitive applications that benefit from geographic distribution.
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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