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African payments platform acquired by Stripe in 2020; enables 200K+ businesses to accept local and international payments across Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya.
Paystack is a payments technology company enabling African businesses to accept payments from customers worldwide through cards, bank transfers, and mobile money. Founded in 2015 in Lagos, Nigeria by Shola Akinlade and Ezra Olubi, Paystack was acquired by Stripe in October 2020 for over $200 million — one of Stripe's largest acquisitions — in a landmark transaction for African fintech. The acquisition gave Stripe a foothold in Africa while providing Paystack with global infrastructure and capital to accelerate growth.
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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