Who owns Shopify?
Shopify is owned by Shopify Inc. (Canada, NYSE: SHOP).[1]
Evidence: Shopify Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-11, SEC EDGAR, 11 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Shopify Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇦 Canada, Ottawa
- Origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada, Ottawa
- Founded
- 2006
- Category
- Internet & digital › Digital services › Website & store builders
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: SHOP
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Shopify
Shopify lets anyone run an online shop on a subscription, and it is the main alternative to selling through Amazon. Merchants keep their own customer relationships and branding, which is precisely what a marketplace listing does not give them. It also runs payments, shipping and lending for its merchants, so the subscription is a smaller part of its revenue than the services layered on top of it.
Ownership timeline of Shopify
Where Shopify sits in Shopify
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands in website & store builders, and who owns them
The 20 brands in website & store builders on Brandtree belong to 6 owners. The largest is IONOS, with 9.
About the owner: Shopify
Shopify is a publicly listed company headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, founded in 2006. Brandtree records 1 brand under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: SHOP.
Shopify began when a German snowboard shop owner in Ottawa could not find software good enough to sell boards online and wrote his own. It now underpins millions of independent shops, which collectively make it one of the largest sellers of goods online without owning any inventory.
🇨🇦 Shopify and other Canadian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 178 brands that began in Canada. 45 of them (25%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Shopify is not one of them.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Shopify?
The parent company of Shopify is Shopify Inc., a publicly listed company headquartered in Canada.
Is Shopify Canadian?
Yes. Shopify originated in Canada in 2006 and its owner, Shopify Inc., is also headquartered in Canada.
Is Shopify still owned by Shopify Inc.?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Shopify is still owned by Shopify Inc. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Shopify Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-11 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 11 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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