BigCommerce
BigCommerce is a public technology company and provides a SaaS ecommerce platform. The company was founded in 2009 and has 600+ employees with headquarters in Austin, Texas. [1][2] Its features include customer groups and segmentation, search engine optimization (SEO), web hosting, and more. [3]
Public | |
Traded as | |
Industry | eCommerce |
Founded | 2009 |
Headquarters | Austin, Texas |
Key people | Brent Bellm (CEO) Eddie Machaalani (Co-Founder,Executive Chairman) Mitchell Harper (Co-Founder) Lisa Pearson (CMO) Brian Dhatt (CTO) Robert Alvarez (COO & CFO) |
Products | Hosted Shopping Cart |
Website | www.bigcommerce.com |
History
BigCommerce was founded in 2009 by Australians Eddie Machaalani and Mitchell Harper following a chance meeting in an online chatroom in 2003.[4][5] In August 2009, the two relaunched a hosted version of Interspire Shopping Cart called “BigCommerce”[6] and opened its first U.S. office.
BigCommerce was 100% bootstrapped[7] until July 31, 2011, when it closed $15 million in Series A funding from General Catalyst Partners.[8]
In July 2020, BigCommerce filed for IPO.[9][10]
See also
References
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- Harper, Mitchell (4 November 2009). "Interspire Shopping Cart Hosted (BigCommerce) Pricing Integrated with Interspire.com". Archived from the original on 2015-06-22. Retrieved 2015-06-22.
- Mitra, Sramana (10 March 2010). "Deal Radar 2010: BigCommerce". One Million by One Million Blog.
- Rao, Leena (31 July 2011). "BigCommerce Raises $15 Million To Help Retailers Manage E-Commerce". TechCrunch.
- Wilhelm, Alex (July 13, 2020). "BigCommerce files to go public". TechCrunch. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
- Savitz, Eric J. (July 14, 2020). "As Shopify Rallies, Online Rival BigCommerce Files for IPO". Barron's. Retrieved 21 July 2020.