Shopify stories
OpenAI abandons in-chat checkout for ChatGPT, pivoting to web‑navigating shopping agents and referral-led partnerships with retailers.
Gumloop secures USD $50m Series B to scale workplace AI agents, deepen security tools and court larger enterprise customers.
Constructor rides AI retail search boom with 82% customer growth, 116% EMEA revenue jump and 322bn annual product discovery interactions.
Shopify and Klaviyo deepen their partnership with a new integration to power more localised, cross-border eCommerce for global brands.
ShipStation rolls out expanded fulfilment, inventory and returns tools in Australia and New Zealand to unify eCommerce operations.
Legal AI firm Ivo opens London and New York offices and plans to triple headcount, after 600% annual recurring revenue growth.
YouLend seals multi-year deal with Värde, which may buy up to USD $225 million of US receivables to back its embedded lending growth.
Qodo 2.1 debuts an AI-driven rules layer that learns from code history to enforce consistent standards and analytics-led code review.
Qodo launches a beta Azure DevOps integration that embeds its AI-driven, context-aware code review directly into pull request workflows.
Creative agency 30Acres will rebuild Zulu & Zephyr's global eCommerce platform on Shopify 2.0, with a new site launching in Q2 2026.
Synsira launches Kind, an AI desktop app that privately searches users' own files for grounded answers instead of trawling the open web.
OpenAI's Instant Checkout retreat puts retailer sites back in focus, opening a data-led discovery window for fast-moving Australian brands.
Toronto Tech Week 2026 will span 300-plus events citywide, add new digital tools, and move its headline Homecoming show to History.
YouLend opens a Berlin hub as its fastest-growing market powers EU expansion, after reporting FY24/25 revenue of EUR €230 million.
From eCommerce and niche software to AI hardware and flight simulators, five Canadian tech heavyweights quietly power the global economy.
Australian-built Sign Customiser says its online design and pricing tools have powered more than USD $75m in global sign sales.
Levanta's new Shopify integration unifies creator and affiliate programmes across Shopify, Amazon and Walmart to streamline tracking and payouts.
AI-first auto retailer Ever raises USD $31m Series A led by Eclipse to scale its platform and push nationwide across the US market.
Asendia launches SendNow in Australia, giving SME online sellers self-service access to global shipping with no minimum parcel volumes.
Asendia unveils SendNow, a plug-in shipping platform to help Australian SME online sellers export up to 500 parcels a month worldwide.
