Setter vs Shopify
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Toronto digital home maintenance concierge acquired by Thumbtack Dec 2020; raised $20M (Sequoia/NFX Series A 2018) connecting homeowners to vendors with full coordination competing with Angi for home maintenance management.
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Setter was a Toronto, Ontario-based digital home management and concierge platform — backed with $20 million in total funding including a $10 million Series A in 2018 co-led by Sequoia Capital and NFX with DAG Ventures and Hustle Fund — that provided homeowners with a dedicated concierge service accessible via mobile app that handled all aspects of home maintenance: sourcing vendors, scheduling repairs, communicating job requirements, and ensuring completion quality for the full range of homeowner maintenance needs. Acquired by Thumbtack in December 2020, with co-founder David Steckel joining Thumbtack as President of Setter, integrating Setter's concierge capabilities into Thumbtack's marketplace of 250,000+ service professionals. Founded in 2016 by David Steckel and Guillaume Laliberte in Toronto.
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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