BigCommerce Pty Ltd

BigCommerce Pty Ltd, commonly known as BigCommerce, is a publicly traded software-as-a-service (SaaS) e-commerce platform. Founded in Sydney, Australia, in 2009 by Eddie Machaalani and Mitchell Harper, the company is now headquartered in Austin, Texas, with additional offices in San Francisco, Sydney, and London. Since its initial public offering on NASDAQ in August 2020 under the ticker symbol BIGC, institutional investors hold a significant majority of its shares. The company reported an annual revenue of approximately $330 million to $350 million in 2024 and 2025, with an employee count generally ranging from 700 to over 1,000.

BigCommerce provides a comprehensive platform for businesses of all sizes to create, manage, and scale online stores. Their offerings include online store creation, search engine optimization (SEO), hosting, marketing, and security features. The platform supports both business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) commerce, offering tools for storefront design, payment processing, inventory management, multichannel sales, and integrations with third-party systems.

BigCommerce operates as an operating company, developing and providing its e-commerce platform. Its patent litigation posture reflects that of an operating company defending against patent infringement claims. The company has been a defendant in one tracked case, HyperQuery LLC v. BigCommerce Pty Ltd, filed in the Eastern District of Texas. This aligns with a historical pattern of BigCommerce defending against patent infringement suits in the Eastern District of Texas, a venue known for patent plaintiff-friendliness.

Beyond the currently tracked case, BigCommerce has faced patent infringement suits previously, including actions by Diem LLC and Express Mobile, Inc., also in the Eastern District of Texas. A separate case involved Mov-Ology, LLC suing BigCommerce in the Western District of Texas over features related to tracking and analyzing user activity, particularly conversion rate optimization and form analytics tools. These instances underscore BigCommerce's position as an operating company consistently defending its products and services against patent assertions.