Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Mar 30, 2026
Stripe is a privately held financial-technology company that builds programmable financial infrastructure for internet commerce. It enables businesses and platforms to accept payments, manage billing and taxes, move money, prevent fraud, issue cards, incorporate companies, and use newer rails such as stablecoins. Stripe reported that businesses on its platform processed $1.9 trillion in payment volume during 2025 and that it served more than 5 million businesses directly or through platforms.
Primary product
A global programmable payments and financial-infrastructure platform, centered on Payments/Checkout/API products and extended by Billing, Connect, Tax, Radar, Treasury, Capital, Issuing, Terminal, Atlas, and crypto/stablecoin products.
Founded
2010
Headquarters
South San Francisco, California, United States; dual headquarters with Dublin, Ireland
Team size
Approximately 8,000-10,000+; public estimates vary materially. A current third-party company profile reports 10,338 employees, while Stripe’s own older jobs page reported more than 8,000.
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Financial technology / technology, information and internet
Sub-industry
Payments infrastructure, fintech APIs, billing and revenue infrastructure, embedded finance
Offices
Business model
Stage
Late-stage private / privately held, profitable; no public IPO
Total raised
$9.8B
Latest round
Employee-liquidity tender offer / secondary transaction (not primary operating financing) · Feb 2026
Series I — April 8, 2024 ([Stripe coverage reported])
Apr 2024 · Not specified in public release
Mar 2023 · Consortium led by existing investors (detailed investor list available in coverage)
Mar 2021 · Not specified
Series G — March 25, 2020 ([Reported coverage of Series G])
Mar 2020 · Not specified
Series G — September 19, 2019 ([Coverage and investor lists aggregated])
Sep 2019 · Not specified
Series E — January 25, 2019 ([Reported Series E tranche])
Jan 2019 · Not specified
Series E — September 21, 2018 ([Reported Series E tranche])
Sep 2018 · Not specified
Conventional debt — November 25, 2016 ([Reported debt facility])
Nov 2016 · JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners
Series D — November 22, 2016 ([Reported Series D tranche])
Nov 2016 · Not specified
Series C — December 2, 2014 ([Coverage of Series C])
Dec 2014 · Not specified
Series C — January 22, 2014 ([Reported Series C tranche])
Jan 2014 · Not specified
Leadership
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder and President
Vice Chair
Chief Revenue Officer
Founders
President of Stripe ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe,_Inc.))
CEO of Stripe ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe,_Inc.))
Investors
Stripe describes its culture as mission-driven, rigorous, collaborative and fast-moving, with emphasis on speed and craft, ownership, curiosity, kindness, technical quality, and changing one’s mind when evidence warrants it. It presents itself as a high-bar environment with early ownership and impact-based progression. Office-assigned roles commonly have an in-office expectation of at least 50% of the month, while some roles are explicitly remote; requirements vary by team, country and site.
Work style
Hybrid
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public US job postings provide role- and location-specific base-salary ranges and may include equity, company bonuses or sales commissions, retirement benefits, health benefits and wellness stipends. Stripe’s immigration program and job postings indicate that it supports US and global immigration processes, but sponsorship is role- and location-dependent rather than universal.
Benefits
Pricing
Primarily pay-as-you-go percentage-plus-fixed-fee transaction pricing for standard payments, with product-, country-, payment-method-, volume-, contract- and risk-dependent pricing. Billing and other products can use recurring subscription, per-account, usage-based or negotiated enterprise pricing; custom enterprise pricing is available.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approximately $6.8B for 2025, with a roughly $8B annualized run rate cited from Q1 2026 reporting; private-company estimate, not an audited public disclosure.
Stripe completed its acquisition of Metronome, expanding into usage-based billing and revenue infrastructure. The strategic opportunity is significant, but integration and execution risk accompany the expansion beyond payments.
SourceStripe completed its acquisition of Bridge, a stablecoin orchestration platform, increasing exposure to the still-evolving regulatory and competitive stablecoin market.
SourceStripe acquired Privy, which provides programmable wallets, to support crypto and agentic-commerce initiatives. The move increases product and regulatory complexity.
SourceStripe and Advent International were reported to have offered more than $53 billion for PayPal; this was a reported, unsuccessful or unresolved bid rather than a completed acquisition.
SourceStripe · Jul 2026
Ramp selected Stripe infrastructure for stablecoin payments and accounts, illustrating Stripe’s push into stablecoin-based money movement.
CNBC / Reuters · Jul 2026
Reuters reported that Stripe and Advent offered more than $53 billion for PayPal; this remained a proposed transaction, not a completed acquisition.
Stripe · Jun 2026
O’Mara moved to vice chair and Tyler Bryson became CRO, marking a major go-to-market leadership transition.
Stripe Dev Blog · Apr 2026
Stripe announced 288 products and features across payments, revenue, money management and AI/agentic commerce, and published a product roadmap.
Stripe · Feb 2026
Stripe reported $1.9 trillion in 2025 payment volume, more than 5 million businesses, a $1 billion Revenue-suite run rate, robust profitability and a $159 billion tender-offer valuation.
665 jobs at Stripe