Shopify is an e-commerce platform founded in 2006 that now has over 600,000 merchants using its services worldwide. It provides tools for merchants to build and customize online stores, and also offers services for payment processing, shipping/fulfillment, marketing and sales. Shopify has offices around the world including its headquarters in Ottawa, Canada and offices in major tech hubs like San Francisco. It aims to make e-commerce simple and empower merchants of all sizes to easily build and grow their businesses online.