Powering local businesses and bringing vibrant communities to life
From managing everyday, in-store transactions to building a digital marketplace – running a business takes drive, determination, and countless systems behind the scenes to bring it all to life. Lightspeed Commerce is helping business owners save time and simplify the complex process by providing technology to help them do more with less and offer exceptional experiences to their customers.
Founded in Montréal, Canada in 2005, Lightspeed Commerce is dedicated to igniting communities through commerce — because when local shops and restaurants thrive, so do the communities around them. Lightspeed Commerce streamlines operations with time-saving tools and integrations, performance-boosting insights and personalized onboarding and support from industry experts who want retailers and restaurateurs to succeed.
How they’re changing the game
Transcript
Narration: Canadian businesses are the building blocks of our economy and communities across Canada. So how do we help them go further, faster?
[Several purple hexagons, of all different sizes, appear on screen. The hexagons come together to form a map of Canada.]
Text on screen: Global Hypergrowth Project
Narration: The Global Hypergrowth Project is a scale-up initiative that’s taking eight of Canada’s most promising home-grown companies and helping them put their global growth into hyperdrive, while also creating new and innovative pathways for other emerging Canadian companies.
[Large, purple-outlined white hexagons appear and disappear, moving from left to right across the screen. Each time a hexagon appears, it contains a symbol, different from the last, representing a Canadian industry, such as pharmacare, healthcare, AI, and manufacturing.]
[The camera zooms out and purple hexagons now form a map of the world. Eight large hexagons appear on top of the map, each containing the logo of a Canadian company participating in the Global Hypergrowth Project: Ada, Clio, Duchesnay Pharmaceutical Group, AlayaCare, Lightspeed, CellCarta, Vive Crop Protection, and Clarius.]
Narration: Now let’s meet one of these game-changing Canadian businesses.
[A hexagon containing the Lightspeed logo – a stylized graphic of a flame, subtly using the letters ‘L’ and ‘S’ from its name – comes to the foreground, while all the other hexagons containing logos disappear.]
Narration: Running a business takes drive, determination, and countless systems behind the scenes to bring it all to life. Lightspeed Commerce provides the technology that connects these systems and helps simplify operations for businesses.
[A person working behind the bar in a stylish restaurant is typing on a laptop.]
[A person is making notes with pen and paper next to a laptop in a dimly-lit storage area.]
[A person is looking around a brightly-lit retail space that has a variety of products on the shelves.]
Text on screen: Dax Dasilva, CEO & Founder, Lightspeed
[Dax Dasilva appears on screen, seated at a desk.]
Narration: Lightspeed is the POS and payments provider that’s really changing the game for retailers and restaurateurs that have real big ambitions for their businesses.
[An employee in a restaurant uses a touchscreen terminal on the bar to input food and drink items]
Narration: We’re giving them the real-time data insights and innovating on automating all of the mundane business tasks that take them away from really being able to change the game in their retail spaces and in their restaurants.
[A photographer takes pictures of someone modelling a large purse. Photos of the shoot can be seen on the screen of a laptop off to the side.]
[A server in a restaurant is interacting with a hand-held device while standing near customers seated at a table.]
[A server in a restaurant holds out a device while a customer taps it with their mobile phone, as if making a payment. A digital checkmark appears to confirm the transaction was completed successfully.]
Text on screen: How does Lightspeed benefit Canada?
[Dax Dasilva reappears on screen]
Narration: Lightspeed was founded in Montreal, and we have our headquarters here in Montreal with additional offices in Toronto. And we’re helping Canadian-based businesses…
[Three people enter a large, empty, street-facing commercial space. They are looking around and exploring the space.]
[A few people behind the counter at a restaurant interact with the point-of-sale terminal, while others interact with the customers.]
[An employee in a retail store shows a customer a piece of clothing.]
Narration: …whether it’s multi-location retailers or award-winning restaurants, Lightspeed is bringing modern commerce technology and innovation to those businesses so that they can build a stronger Canadian economy.
Text on screen: How can the Global Hypergrowth Project help?
[Dax Dasilva reappears on screen]
Narration: We’re excited to partner with the Global Hypergrowth Project to pave the way for future tech companies in Canada to succeed, expand and propel Canada’s innovation economy.
Text on screen: Lightspeed
Powering the world’s best businesses
[The hexagon with the Lightspeed logo – a stylized graphic of a flame, subtly using the letters ‘L’ and ‘S’ from the company’s name – appears on the right side of the screen over top of the map of Canada made up of small faded-purple hexagons.]
Narration: GHP is helping Lightspeed take their growth to the next level. Because when businesses like Lightspeed succeed, we all benefit.
[An animated purple line appears, forming the outline of a maple leaf. Once the outline is complete, the maple leaf turns purple and zooms towards the screen until the entire screen is purple.]
Narration: Follow their journey at canada.ca/hypergrowth
Text on screen: canada.ca/hypergrowth
By connecting the management tools and systems that retailers and restaurateurs rely on, Lightspeed helps merchants save time and hassle by working smarter and more efficiently. From linking online and on-premises sales to automatically updating inventory, merchants can manage every part of their business from a single platform. Further, by leveraging Lightspeed’s embedded payments offering, business owners can capture data from every transaction to deliver valuable and actionable insights on sales and performance trends.
On top of powering local businesses, Lightspeed is committed to creating a better, more sustainable future for all. In partnership with Sustainably Run, Lightspeed created a Carbon Free Dining program that offers an opportunity for restaurants to offset their carbon emissions at no additional cost to the business. The partnership gives customers' diners the ability to offset the carbon emissions associated with their purchase by planting trees, and provides Lightspeed customers with sustainable credits towards purchasing Lightspeed products. The program has resulted in the planting of over 1.4 million trees. In addition to offsetting carbon emissions, these trees provide food, income and education for the communities sponsored to plant them. With the support of GHP, Lightspeed aims to continue their expansion into new markets and to further empower small and medium-sized businesses. By establishing new partnerships and collaborating with government partners Lightspeed is looking to accelerate its mission of powering local businesses to bring cities and communities to life.