Full-Time
Global SMB POS and payment platform
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Montreal, QC, Canada + 1 more
More locations: Québec City, QC, Canada
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Lightspeed Commerce provides cloud-based software that helps small and medium-sized retailers and restaurants manage sales, payments, inventory, and customer engagement. Its tools combine POS hardware with software that runs in the cloud, syncing data across locations so businesses can operate, analyze performance, and engage customers online and offline on a subscription basis. What sets Lightspeed apart is its focus on SMBs through an integrated, scalable suite and its global reach. The company aims to transform global commerce by helping small businesses run operations smoothly and grow through technology.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Montreal, Canada
Founded
2005
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Cursor's Adam Ward: kill the "funnel of doom" and go name the ten people you want. Traditional hiring funnels are failing, prompting leaders to identify and pursue specific talent directly, prioritize work-life balance for retention, and leverage social reach over resumes for impactful hires. By Ray with my favorite human, Benjamin Scott. News Brief, Aug 12, 2026 The way you find, keep, and grow product talent shifted this year, and not in one clean direction. A top recruiter is telling founders to throw out the funnel. A London house is betting founders build better when they sleep. A VC just hired a creator out of an Instagram DM. Different moves, one thread: the old scripts for building a team stopped working. Let me catch you up. The deep cut. * Talent chases a person, not a posting. Cursor's Adam Ward calls the inbound funnel the "funnel of doom" and works backward from named people. * Balance is a retention strategy, not a perk. Lift House screens founders for a hobby and fitness to keep them from burning out and leaving. * Reach beats resume for finding people. Lightspeed hired Claire Zau off a DM because 250,000 followers signal a live audience. The funnel is where good hires go to die. Adam Ward, head of talent at Cursor, calls the standard inbound pipeline the "funnel of doom". You post a role, sort a pile of applicants, and settle for the best of who showed up. That is a filter for people who were available, not people who were great. His fix is a three-step loop: scope the role tightly, map the specific humans who could do it, then pursue them without giving up. It flips the work. Instead of screening a crowd, you name the ten people you actually want and go earn them. That takes more time up front and fewer, sharper conversations. For a lead, it means your recruiter's job is research and outreach, not inbox triage. Build so people stay, not so they crack. Six founders in East London built Lift House as the anti-San Francisco hacker house. No 72-hour sprints, no Demo Day countdown. They journal on Sundays, play volleyball on Tuesdays, and to even get in you have to show a hobby outside your company and an interest in fitness. Rowan Aldean's line: "build something that lasts, not necessarily burn out chasing a flash." Treat that as a hiring bar, not a wellness poster. They screen for a life outside work because a person with one lasts longer. John Cutler makes the operating version of this point: the best teams run on "a strong bias for action" and steady tempo, not heroics. A team sprinting flat out is a team you will be backfilling in six months. The DM is the new resume. Lightspeed hired Claire Zau, a creator with over 250,000 Instagram followers, after a direct message. The firm wanted her reach into founders and tech-curious people, and something else: real feedback. Zau said cutting checks on AI felt easy inside the Valley bubble, then she posted about it and learned Gen Z was "quite anti-AI." Call it humbling. It is also a signal you cannot get from a portfolio. The catch is you are hiring an audience, and audiences move. But the lesson holds for your own team. Where a candidate has traction, in a community, a repo, a following, tells you things a resume hides. The pull you can't build with money. Ward's whole model rests on a company being worth chasing. Lift House keeps people by giving them a life. Lightspeed built a media presence so founders come to them. All three are working the same lever: be the place talent wants to be, then the recruiting gets easier. Torres shows the flip side, retention through growth. After breaking her ankle, Teresa Torres went from using ChatGPT "as Google" to shipping a live AI product in three weeks. People stay where they are learning fast. If your team has stalled, that is a leaving risk, whether or not anyone has said it out loud. Three questions for your team. * For your next open role, can your recruiter name the ten specific people they want, or are they still sorting inbound? If it is inbound, you are fishing in the funnel of doom. * What in your team's week signals that a life outside work is expected, not tolerated? If the honest answer is nothing, you are training people to leave. * Where would you spot a strong candidate's real traction, and are you looking there, or only at resumes?
Lightspeed Commerce reported first quarter results on 30 July alongside fresh revenue guidance for 2026 and 2027, confirming a completed share buyback programme. The TSX-listed payments and commerce platform has seen its share price rise 7.99% over 90 days, though five-year total shareholder returns declined 87.73%. The most followed valuation model sets fair value at C$17.57 per share, above the recent C$14.59 close, suggesting the stock trades at a discount. Accelerating adoption of digital payments and cloud platforms in retail and hospitality continues to drive subscription and transaction revenue growth. However, execution risks remain. The company faces rising competition whilst recording losses of $97.27 million. Analysts point to revenue expansion and margin rebuild as key factors supporting the valuation narrative, though investors must weigh these growth prospects against the company's extended period of weak returns.
Lightspeed and NuORDER make waves at Collective Shows 2026. A recap of its activations, conversations, and connections at this year's Collective Shows in California. Discover a better way to run your wholesale. This July, Lightspeed and NuORDER headed to the Paséa Hotel & Spa in Huntington Beach for the Summer West edition of Swim + Active Collective, where retailers came to discover new brands and brands came ready to sell. Two days, one incredible coastal backdrop, and no shortage of great conversations later, NuORDER Inc. is still riding the high. Big crowds in the Blue Room NuORDER Inc. welcomed attendees in the Blue Room with live demos of Lightspeed and NuORDER, plus a custom embroidery bar where attendees could personalize their own beach bag on the spot. A hit with the swim-and-sun crowd, the embroidery bar pulled attendees throughout both days and gave its team a chance to get into real conversations about how retailers are buying and brands are selling. "The embroidery station brought a lot of foot traffic to the booth, the beach bags were very much on theme with the show and people loved it! It sparked a lot of conversations for the Lightspeed team, and enabled our NuORDER reps to engage with existing and prospective clients." - Isabella Amodio, Account Executive, NuORDER With live demos of Lightspeed Wholesale - the seamless integration between Lightspeed POS and NuORDER's B2B platform - its booth became a hub for showing brands and retailers how its connected ecosystem brings wholesale buying and retail operations together in a single workflow. Center stage at the Collective runway show The Collective fashion show was one of the week's standout moments, and Lightspeed and NuORDER were proud to sponsor it. Its own Isabella Amodio took the stage to welcome attendees, thank the Collective team for bringing together such an inspiring community, and to speak to the importance of events like these in helping retailers discover emerging activewear and swimwear brands before they hit the mainstream. Turnout for the welcome was strong, and it was a great opportunity for NuORDER to get in front of a room full of retailers and brands right before the lights went down. A floor full of emerging talent This edition of Collective Shows highlighted a strong mix of emerging and established brands across swimwear, activewear and athleisure. Day one brought a steady rush of buyers to the floor, with energy and appointments both running high. Day two settled into a slower pace, giving its team more time for the kind of deeper conversations that don't happen when a booth is three-deep. NuORDER Inc. met a range of established brands alongside plenty of smaller, growing labels that NuORDER Inc. expect to be ready for a wholesale solution as they scale. That mix is exactly what makes Collective Shows valuable: it brings together the brands shaping what's next and the retailers looking for smarter ways to discover and buy them. Already looking forward to the next one This year's Collective Shows was a great reminder of why in-person moments matter so much for buyers and brands in activewear and swim: the connections that start over a custom tote bag or booth demo have a way of turning into real business. A huge thank you to everyone who stopped by its booth, picked up a bag, or caught its welcome remarks ahead of the runway show. If you missed NuORDER Inc. in California, NuORDER Inc.'d still love to connect. For retailers looking to bring that same sense of clarity and confidence to their own buying season, its assortment tools are built to help. Inside this post
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Bank of America Securities remains a Sell on Lightspeed POS Inc (LSPD). Jul. 31, 2026, 10:05 PM In a report released yesterday, Matt Bullock from Bank of America Securities maintained a Sell rating on Lightspeed POS Inc. The company's shares closed yesterday at C$14.14. * Unlock powerful investing tools with TipRanks Premium to make smarter, more confident investment decisions * Subscribe to TipRanks Smart Investor Newsletter, and discover new investing opportunities with data-backed stock picks Bullock covers the Technology sector, focusing on stocks such as Samsara, HubSpot, and Lightspeed POS Inc. According to TipRanks, Bullock has an average return of -3.5% and a 42.22% success rate on recommended stocks. Currently, the analyst consensus on Lightspeed POS Inc is a Moderate Buy with an average price target of C$16.97. Based on Lightspeed POS Inc's latest earnings release for the quarter ending June 30, the company reported a quarterly revenue of C$314.38 million and a GAAP net loss of C$2.36 million. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of C$304.94 million and had a GAAP net loss of C$49.57 million Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 38 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of LSPD in relation to earlier this year. Read More on TSE:LSPD: