Formance vs Shopify
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Paris open-source fintech infrastructure with programmable ledger and payment orchestration at 10x revenue growth; YC $21M PayPal Ventures/Portage Series A serving Doctolib and Liberis competing with Modern Treasury for fintech ledger-as-a-service.
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Formance is a Paris, France-based open-source financial infrastructure company — backed by Y Combinator with $21 million raised in a Series A in January 2025 co-led by PayPal Ventures and Portage Ventures after 10x revenue growth, with prior investment from Hoxton Ventures and Axeleo Capital — providing fintech companies, vertical SaaS platforms, and financial institutions with programmable open-source ledger infrastructure (Formance Ledger), payment orchestration (Formance Payments), and transaction reconciliation automation, positioning as the "AWS for fintech infrastructure" with a developer-friendly platform that removes the need to build custom financial data management systems from scratch. Founded in 2021 and serving customers including Doctolib, Liberis, Booksy, and Btech, Formance is growing from 20 to 50 employees by end of 2025 and opening a New York office.
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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