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Gadget

Serverless stack for ecommerce app developers

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1-20 employees
  • B2B
  • Internal tools
  • Productivity
  • Mobile
  • Automation
  • eCommerce
Chinatown, Ottawa, ON

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Company mission

Gadget's mission is to make development fun again.

Our take

Ecommerce apps are in higher demand than ever before, thanks to the online boom and the growing proportion of users predominantly accessing services over mobile. It has, however, piled pressure on developers, and much of this workload consists of boilerplate and repetitive groundwork. Gadget’s serverless development stack aims to help developers skip much of this, by offering automation tools like defaults for low-level primitives.

It’s a smart offering, and may well prove to be the future of app development. Serverless stacks offer a centralised environment that makes business scaling easier, they’re more time (and therefore cost) efficient, and they free up energy for developers to focus on the innovative business logic coding. So Gadget’s solution, which has yet to go public, will be an interesting one to watch.

Certainly Gadget’s focus on ecommerce app development will likely pay dividends. It’s one of the fastest growing sectors, and is undergoing a period of rapid advance in the way developers approach it. With a highly marketable product, and notable investors including senior parties at Klarna, Shopify, and Open AI, Gadget’s upcoming platform looks set to win big.

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Benefits

  • On-site RMT
  • Lunch and snacks
  • $500 lifestyle spending
  • Stock options for everyone
  • Flexible hours
  • Paid parental leave
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Benefits & healthcare from 1st day
  • Holiday shutdowns
  • $1000 healthcare spending

Company values

  • Self-awareness: You understand how your behaviours and actions impact yourself and others
  • Growth mindset: You believe you can improve through hard work, perseverance, and feedback from others
  • Optimism: You believe that outcomes, in general, will be positive or favorable
  • Inclusivity: You understand the value of perspectives that are different than yours

Funding (2 rounds)

Dec 2021

$8.5m

SEED

Jan 2021

$0.8m

SEED

Total funding: $9.3m

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Leadership

Harry Brundage

(Co-Founder)

Previously a Director of Engineering at Shopify, who moved on to hold a senior software position at Fellow.

Mohammed Hashemi

(Co-Founder)

Held various senior software positions at Shopify, before moving on to work at a boutique product management tech consultancy, then serve as an advisor for Olo.