{"id":670464,"date":"2026-05-15T04:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/670464\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T04:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:47:13","slug":"thrive-capital-invests-100-million-in-shopify-betting-on-ai-in-e-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/670464\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrive Capital Invests $100 Million in Shopify, Betting on AI in E-Commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Joshua Kushner\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/8154717Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Thrive Capital<\/a> has taken a stake in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/SHOP:CN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Shopify Inc.<\/a>, according to people familiar with the matter, marking a rare bet by the venture firm on a public company. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Thrive, best known for backing startups like OpenAI, informed its stakeholders that it has invested about $100 million in the e-commerce company, said one of the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity as the information is not public. The investment is framed as a bet on how artificial intelligence could lead to gains in commerce, said the people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joshua Kushner\u2019s Thrive Capital has taken a stake in Shopify Inc., according to people familiar with the matter,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,4348,17557,246987,1829,246985,100,246986,2927,246988,61,6495],"class_list":["post-670464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cloud-computing","tag-e-commerce","tag-figma-inc-cl-a","tag-investing","tag-josh-kushner","tag-markets","tag-shopify-inc-class-a","tag-startups","tag-stubhub-holdings-inc-class-a","tag-technology","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}