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Proudly founded in Ottawa, Shopify is a leading provider of essential internet infrastructure for commerce, offering trusted tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business of any size. Shopify’s mission is to make commerce better for everyone and currently powers over 1.7 million businesses in more than 175 countries. With a platform and services that are engineered for reliability, to deliver a better shopping experience for consumers, Shopify is the absolute go-to, to start and grow a business.

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), is proud to be building a secure and resilient internet for Canadians through its .CA domain registry, grant programs, and cybersecurity services. As a non-profit organization, CIRA builds programs, products, and services that leverage the internet’s offerings for all Canadians. Through CIRA’s partnership with Digital Main Street, small business owners in the ShopHERE Powered by Google Program have exclusive access to free .CA domain registration.

Yellow Pages has been helping small businesses for over one hundred years. We started with print directories and now offer a robust portfolio of digital and print solutions to help businesses grow. We've built partnerships with other companies like Google and Facebook. Our network and internal experts ensure that we can help an SMB reach their business goals.

Square is a partner of Digital Main Street providing tools and resources to all types of businesses — from pet care shops to salons, home repair technicians to healthcare practitioners and restaurants to retailers. Square is helping businesses to reach buyers online and in person and modernize their operations, helping them to find new and better ways of doing business.

As the demand for digital services continues to increase, digital transformation has become the norm for many small businesses. With frequent lockdowns and stay-at-home orders during the pandemic, many small businesses were forced to close their storefronts and physical locations. For those who have been able to push forward, embracing digital tools and extending services and products in the virtual marketplace has been vital to surviving this extraordinary disruption, and will continue to make businesses resilient for the future.