Acquisition
Jan 2026Metronome announced that its acquisition by Stripe was complete; Stripe confirmed the acquisition was completed the next day.
SourceUsage-based billing platform for software companies.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Metronome is a usage-based billing and monetization infrastructure platform for software companies, built to unify metering, pricing, billing, reporting, and customer spend controls in real time. Public sources say it was founded in 2020 by Kevin Liu and Scott Woody, and Stripe completed its acquisition in January 2026.
Primary product
Real-time usage-based billing and monetization infrastructure platform
Founded
2020
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
90-100
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Usage-based billing / monetization infrastructure
Offices
San Francisco, CA (HQ)
New York City, NY
Sunnyvale, CA
Business model
B2B SaaS
Enterprise software
Usage-based billing platform
Monetization infrastructure
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder, CEO
Co-founder, COO
SVP Marketing
Head of GTM
Head of Technology
Head of Product Management
Head of Marketing Operations & Strategy
Founders
Co-founder, former CEO
Work & culture
Public materials describe a collaborative, customer-obsessed, scrappy, growth-mindset culture with strong written communication, pragmatic problem-solving, team-wide ownership, and recurring team events/onsites/retreats.
Work style
Flexible
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
One Medical membership
FSA and HSA options
Life insurance
16 weeks paid parental leave
Home office setup stipend
401(k) match
Flexible PTO
Lunch provided in SF and NYC offices
Product & market
Differentiators
- —Real-time monetization infrastructure rather than batch billing
- —Unified metering, pricing, billing, and reporting in one platform
- —Support for hybrid pricing models and usage-based pricing
- —Customer-facing billing dashboards with alerts and spend limits
- —Centralized pricing changes without manual re-provisioning
- —Built for both product-led and sales-led motions
- —Proven at AI-scale with complex, high-volume customers
Technology
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Go
Ruby
GraphQL
Kafka
Kafka Streams
Spark
Kubernetes
Docker
AWS
Terraform
PostgreSQL
React
SQL
SQS
Hasura
Customers
OpenAI
Anthropic
Databricks
Confluent
NVIDIA
Cribl
Starburst
Fly.io
Luminai
Cockroach Labs
Ideogram
Anyscale
Competitors
Stripe Billing
Chargebee
Zuora
Recurly
Orb
Lago
Maxio
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$10M-$20M
Estimated monthly visits
94.6K
Signals & risks
Latest news
Stripe newsroom · Jan 2026
Stripe said it had completed its acquisition of Metronome, describing Metronome as a leader in orchestrating billing for complex usage-based models.
Metronome blog · Jan 2026
Metronome said its acquisition by Stripe was complete and framed the combination as building broader monetization infrastructure for AI-era software.
BusinessWire · Feb 2025
Press release covering the same Series C financing and noting the company’s first CPO hire, James Brown.
Metronome blog · Feb 2025
Metronome announced a $50M Series C led by NEA, bringing total funding to $128M and highlighting customers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, Confluent, and NVIDIA.
TechCrunch · Jan 2024
TechCrunch reported Metronome’s $43M Series B led by NEA, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst, bringing total funding above $78M at the time.
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