Stripe
also invests · investor profileUnicorn · $159BYC S09YC Top CompanySan Francisco, US · Founded 2009 · Delaware corporation · 7,000 employees · Hiring · 73 known investors
Stripe provides financial infrastructure for businesses to accept payments, offer financial services, and implement custom revenue models across international markets in 135+ currencies.
Also known as Stripe, Inc. · Stripe, LLC
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S09)
Stripe was founded in 2009 by John Collison and Patrick Collison.
Board
Investors · 73
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Also in the syndicate · 6
Reported raises · per SEC filings
Form D private placements$9.6B disclosed across 13 of 23 rounds · 2011–2024
▶$694.2MraisedApr 2024 · 17 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
- Jonathan ChadwickDirector
- Mark CarneyDirector
- Diane GreeneDirector
- Luciana LixandruDirector
- Patrick CollisonExecutive Officer, Director
- John CollisonExecutive Officer, Director
- Patricia WalshExecutive Officer
- Robert McIntoshExecutive Officer
- Steffan TomlinsonExecutive Officer
- Matt HuangDirector
- Kevin KellyDirector
- Christa DaviesDirector
- Offering amount
- $694.2M
- Amount sold
- $694.2M
- Proceeds to insiders
- $694.2M
- First sale
- Apr 2024
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$6.9BraisedMay 2023 · 103 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
- Michael MoritzDirector
- Patricia WalshExecutive Officer
- John CollisonExecutive Officer, Director
- Christa DaviesDirector
- Diane GreeneDirector
- Carmel GalvinExecutive Officer
- Mark CarneyDirector
- Jonathan ChadwickDirector
- Matt HuangDirector
- Patrick CollisonExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $6.9B
- Amount sold
- $6.9B
- Sales commissions
- $29.5M
- Proceeds to insiders
- $4.1B
- Placement agents
- Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
- First sale
- Mar 2023
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$597.8MraisedMar 2021 · 85 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
- John CollisonExecutive Officer, Director
- Patrick CollisonExecutive Officer, Director
- Michael MoritzDirector
- Diane GreeneDirector
- Patricia WalshExecutive Officer
- Mark CarneyDirector
- Jonathan ChadwickDirector
- Dhivya SuryadevaraExecutive Officer
- Christa DaviesDirector
- Offering amount
- $597.8M
- Amount sold
- $597.8M
- First sale
- Mar 2021
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$631MraisedMay 2020 · 20 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
- Diane GreeneDirector
- Michelle WilsonDirector
- Michael MoritzDirector
- John CollisonExecutive Officer, Director
- William GaybrickExecutive Officer
- Jonathan ChadwickDirector
- Patrick CollisonExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $631M
- Amount sold
- $631M
- First sale
- Mar 2020
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$250MraisedOct 2019 · 18 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
- Diane GreeneDirector
- Michelle WilsonDirector
- Jonathan ChadwickDirector
- William GaybrickExecutive Officer
- Michael MoritzDirector
- John CollisonExecutive Officer, Director
- Patrick CollisonExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $250M
- Amount sold
- $250M
- First sale
- Sep 2019
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$2MraisedSep 2019 · 2 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
- John CollisonExecutive Officer, Director
- Patrick CollisonExecutive Officer, Director
- Michael MoritzDirector
- William GaybrickExecutive Officer
- Jonathan ChadwickDirector
- Michelle WilsonDirector
- Diane GreeneDirector
- Offering amount
- $2M
- Amount sold
- $2M
- First sale
- Aug 2019
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$100MraisedFeb 2019 · 3 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
- Michael MoritzDirector
- Michelle WilsonDirector
- Patrick CollisonExecutive Officer, Director
- William GaybrickExecutive Officer
- John CollisonExecutive Officer, Director
- Diane GreeneDirector
- Jonathan ChadwickDirector
- Offering amount
- $100M
- Amount sold
- $100M
- First sale
- Jan 2019
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$245MraisedOct 2018 · 6 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
- Michelle WilsonDirector
- John CollisonExecutive Officer, Director
- Patrick CollisonExecutive Officer, Director
- Jonathan ChadwickDirector
- Michael MoritzDirector
- William GaybrickExecutive Officer
- Offering amount
- $245M
- Amount sold
- $245M
- First sale
- Sep 2018
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Valuation · disclosed
Disclosed eventsSource: SEC prospectus filings, and round valuations the company or its investors disclosed — follow each entry's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Stripe is a multinational financial services and software-as-a-service company that supplies payment-processing software and APIs for e-commerce websites and mobile applications. It is dual-headquartered in South San Francisco, California and Dublin, Ireland, and describes its offering as financial infrastructure that lets businesses accept payments, offer financial services, and implement custom revenue models. Its product set spans Payments, Billing, Connect, Sigma, Atlas, Radar (fraud prevention), Issuing, Terminal, Crypto, usage-based billing, and Tax.
Beyond core card acceptance, Stripe sells adjacent products: Connect for platforms and marketplaces to embed payments and route funds across multiple parties; Terminal for in-person point-of-sale; Capital for merchant cash advances; Tax for automated sales tax, VAT and GST calculation and filing (available in 102 countries as of 2025); Issuing for physical and virtual card programs; Radar for AI-based fraud screening; and stablecoin/crypto acceptance and payouts. Stripe Atlas helps founders incorporate and set up banking and payments, and the Stripe Startups program provides benefits and resources to early-stage companies. The company also markets professional services, certified consulting partners, and tiered support plans.
Stripe positions itself as the largest privately owned financial technology company, reporting a valuation of about $159 billion and $1.9 trillion in payment volume processed in 2025 for 5 million businesses. Its customer base spans startups and large enterprises, including Amazon, Shopify, Airbnb, Uber, Ford, Salesforce, BMW, Maersk, Instacart, Hertz, URBN, Le Monde, and AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
Compiled by commissioned research from 14 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Founder mafia
The Stripe mafia →91 people who came through Stripe went on to found or lead other companies.
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Competitors · 10
by search overlap
Companies competing with Stripe for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 22
launches, deals, and filingsBloomberg and the Wall Street Journal reported Stripe agreed to acquire the AI model-routing platform OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, above five times OpenRouter's $1.3 billion post-money valuation from its May 2026 Series B and about 30% below the ~$10 billion previously reported. Stripe declined to comment.
$7B source ↗
$53B source ↗
Agentic commerce protocol co-developed with OpenAI.
Acquisition of the two-year-old stablecoin platform valued at $1.1 billion, following Stripe re-enabling crypto pay-ins with USDC in April 2024.
$1.1B source ↗
Real-time usage tracking and billing platform for AI companies; OpenAI and Anthropic were customers prior to the acquisition.
Cuts primarily affected Product, Operations and Engineering roles; the company faced criticism for including a cartoon duck image in the notices, for which Chief People Officer Rob McIntosh apologized.
Proceeds used to provide liquidity to current and former employees and cover employee withholding tax obligations on equity awards rather than to fund operations. Goldman Sachs was sole placement agent; J.P. Morgan acted as financial advisor.
$6.5B source ↗
Stripe to handle transactions for consumer vehicle orders and reservations.
Automated sales tax, VAT and GST calculation and collection, initially in 30 countries and all US states; available in 102 countries as of 2025.
Round led by primary investors including Allianz X, Axa, Baillie Gifford, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Sequoia Capital and Ireland's NTMA, to fund European operations, the Dublin headquarters, enterprise demand and the Global Payments and Treasury Network.
$600M source ↗
Former governor of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England joined the board; stepped down in 2025 to run for leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Achieved the highest scores of any company ranked.
First acquisition; Kickoff was a chat and task-management application.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structureIn the news
Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripetechcrunch.com · Jul 2026
Applications close in 48 hours — here’s everything Australian founders need to know about Stripe x Startup Battlefieldtechcrunch.com · Jul 2026/Paypal%20's%20headquarters%20in%20Silicon%20Valley_%20_By%20michelmond.jpeg)
Stripe Wants to Buy PayPal. How You Should Play PYPL Stock Right Now.barchart.com · Jul 2026
Fintech Funding Surges 23% In H1 2026 As Investors Concentrate Their Bets On AI And Financial Infrastructurenews.crunchbase.com · Jul 2026
Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in fundingtechcrunch.com · Apr 2024▸Research sources · 14
primary sources listed
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Stripe do?
- Stripe provides payments APIs and financial infrastructure for online and in-person commerce in 135+ currencies.
- Who founded Stripe?
- Stripe was founded by John Collison, Patrick Collison in 2009.
- Who are Stripe's investors?
- Stripe's investors include 500 Global, Advaita Capital, Aglae Ventures, Air Street Capital, Alkeon Innovation, Andreessen Horowitz, Base Partners, BoxGroup and 59 more.
- How much funding has Stripe raised?
- Stripe has disclosed $9.6B raised across 13 of its 23 known rounds.
- Where is Stripe headquartered?
- Stripe is headquartered in San Francisco, US.