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Crop biotech company behind first new banana varieties in 75 years; raised $105M oversubscribed Series C co-led by Forbion and Corteva in March 2026; non-browning banana named TIME Best Invention 2025; demand exceeds supply.
Tropic is a crop biotechnology company that launched the first new banana varieties in over 75 years in 2025, including a non-browning banana named a TIME Best Invention of 2025. The company raised $105 million in oversubscribed Series C financing in March 2026, co-led by Forbion and Corteva — one of the largest crop biotech raises of the year. Demand for Tropic's non-browning banana already exceeds supply ahead of broader commercial deployment in 2027.
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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