Garage vs Shopify
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SF marketplace for government emergency vehicle procurement with AI appraisals and integrated financing; $18M Infinity and Initialized-backed modernizing fire department and municipality fire truck and ambulance buying.
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Garage is a San Francisco-based B2G marketplace digitizing the procurement of emergency vehicles and equipment for municipalities, fire departments, and government agencies — providing AI-powered vehicle appraisals, virtual inspections, integrated freight logistics, warranties, and financing for fire trucks, ambulances, aerial platforms, and rescue equipment that cost $500,000-$2 million per unit and were previously transacted through manual, relationship-based processes. Founded by Martin Hunt and Alaz Sengul and backed with $18 million raised including a $13.5 million Series A led by Infinity Ventures and a $4.5 million seed led by Initialized Capital, Garage modernizes a market where municipalities relied on dealer relationships and opaque pricing.
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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