Alok Ahuja

Co-Founder & CEO

Alok has been deeply rooted in ecommerce for 18 years, working from a basement built startup that capitalized on first party cookies back in 2006; which was taken public on the TSX and then acquired by Microsoft. After 5 years with Cactus Commerce; he went over to local startup 'Shopify' to help scale Shopify Plus and build the Plus Partner ecosystem globally. He worked to educate large digital agencies that PLUS was a viable solution for enterprise merchants and that it didn't just have to be Hybris or Sitecore. After launching the Plus Partner program, he then set his sights on helping to connect the dots through the Shopify Plus Marketplace. This is where Plus merchants would have the opportunity to be connected with Plus Partners and work together in solving the merchant needs.

After a successful tenure at Shopify, Alok decided to step away from ecommerce and focus on his family as a father of two young kids and as a son who needed to take care of his father; who at the time was battling cancer.

It was during this time that he quickly realized his father always needed items delivered to the house, with many merchants not being able to offer that delivery service. He set out to build a platform that would allow any local SMB to outperform Amazon on local delivery and leveled the playing field for all merchants across Canada.