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One-stop commerce platform for merchants to simplify, scale and provide exceptional customer experiences

Montreal, CanadaFounded 2005Food
Valuation $953M Market cap · Aug/2026
Revenue $1.23B Latest reported FY
EBITDA $13M Latest reported FY

At a glance

Founded
2005
Headquarters
Montreal, Canada
Listing
IPO 2019
Sector
Food
Power Law
Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

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Investors

4 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Series A2 investors entered at this stage

Series B and later2 investors entered at this stage

Talent

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Employees mapped 3,558 incl. 15 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 9 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Alumni founders

5 of 12 startups shown

Former Lightspeed employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

WorkAxleEst. 2017
Chris DefourCanada
Signal score87
GuzcoEst. 2024
Stein van MaasakkerNetherlands
Signal score84
DeliverectEst. 2018
Jan HollezBelgium
Signal score73
INSTANT FinancialEst. 2015
Kevin FalkCanada
Signal score72
LangWatchEst. 2023
Manouk DraismaNetherlands
Signal score69
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
34 countries with
team presence
🇨🇦 Canada41.8%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom8.1%
🇵🇭 Philippines7.6%
🇩🇪 Germany6.6%
🇺🇸 United States5.5%
Top 5 of 34 shown
Web traffic by country
710K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States35.7%
🇨🇦 Canada14.8%
🇩🇪 Germany7.5%
🇦🇺 Australia6.1%
🇳🇱 Netherlands3.2%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$2M

5 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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Investments and acquisitions

Disclosed deals where Lightspeed was the backer or acquirer, 2013–2025. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

36 deals across Lightspeed's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        Lightspeed's portfolio, mapped.

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        36 of 36 deals

        Market sentiment

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        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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