Northbeam vs Shopify
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Marketing intelligence platform for ecommerce attribution. Founded 2019, El Segundo CA. Raised ~$32M total. Privacy-first cross-platform attribution using first-party data. Private.
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Northbeam is a marketing intelligence platform founded in 2019 and headquartered in El Segundo, California. Led by CEO Austin Harrison, the company helps DTC and ecommerce brands measure the true impact of advertising spend across platforms like Meta, Google, and TikTok. Its core product uses first-party data and machine learning for cross-platform attribution, media mix modeling, and incrementality testing.
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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