Twenty vs Shopify
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Paris YC S23 open-source CRM with 20K+ GitHub stars as modern Salesforce alternative; $5.5M Runa Capital/HubSpot-Front-Pipedrive execs/Automattic seed Nov 2024 competing with Salesforce and HubSpot for AGPLv3 self-hosted enterprise CRM.
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Twenty is a Paris, France-based open-source CRM company — backed by Y Combinator (S23) with $5.5 million in total funding including a $5 million seed round in November 2024 led by Runa Capital with 50+ investors including executives from HubSpot, Front, and Pipedrive, plus YC and Automattic (creators of WordPress) — providing enterprises and development teams with a modern, permissively licensed (AGPLv3) open-source CRM platform that serves as an alternative to Salesforce, HubSpot, and proprietary CRM vendors, having achieved 20,000+ GitHub stars and 300+ open-source contributors within its first year. Founded in 2024 by Félix Malfait, Charles Bochet, and Thomas Colas des Francs, Twenty offers the customer data management, pipeline tracking, and workflow automation capabilities of commercial CRMs with the data ownership, extensibility, and cost model of open-source infrastructure.
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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