Stripe is a financial technology company that is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2010 by John Collison and Patrick Collison. Stripe provides a global online payment system for individuals and businesses to send and receive money. The company provides the necessary tools and infrastructure for creating online commerce platforms such as on-demand marketplaces, e-commerce stores, and crowdfunding platforms. Notable companies using Stripe include Kickstarter, Instacart, Lyft, Shopify, OpenTable, and Slack.
Funding
Series E
On September 27, 2018 Stripe closed their series E funding round raising $245 million in funding from Tiger Global Management, Thrive Capital, Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and DST Global.
Timeline
Funding rounds
Funding round
Funding type
Funding round amount (USD)
Funding round date
Investment
250,000,000
September 19, 2019
20,000,000
July 9, 2012
2,000,000
September 30, 2011
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LinkedIn
Adam Ballai
Employee
Aditya Mukerjee
Employee
Alex Kehayias
Employee
Alex Sexton
Employee
Amber Feng
Employee
Amy Seaman
Employee
Andrew Lundsten
Employee
Andy Young
Employee
AnnE Diemer
Employee
Anthony Kline
Employee
Arne Roomann-Kurrik
Employee
Barrington Lloyd-Lovett
Employee
Benjamin Rahn
Employee
Bill Labus
Employee
Brian Krausz
Employee
Brian Sze
Employee
Brian Winter
Employee
Brianna Wolfson
Employee
Brittani Atienza
Employee
Caitlin Carroll
Employee
Carrie Barker
Employee
Charles Hooper
Employee
Chauncey Brooks
Employee
Chelsea Otakan
Employee
Chris Dixon
Investor
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Further reading
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Author
Link
Type
Date
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Ashlee Vance
Web
Online payments company Stripe introduces partner programme
Charlie Taylor
Web
The untold story of Stripe, the secretive $20bn startup driving Apple, Amazon and Facebook
Stephen Armstrong
Web
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Title
Date
Link
How Stripe Became a $10B Challenger to PayPal
August 24, 2018
How To Use Stripe Payment Gateway | Woocommerce Stripe Setup 2018 +NEW
March 16, 2018
What is Stripe? Or Stripe.com - A Comprehensive Overview
February 14, 2014
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Joseph Menn
May 18, 2020
IN
The billionaire brothers who control San Francisco-based online payments company Stripe are spending a quarter of a million dollars to import special sand to a remote Caribbean beach.
Ingrid Lunden
April 23, 2020
TechCrunch
At a time when more transactions than ever are happening online, payments behemoth Stripe is announcing three new features to continue expanding its reach. The company today announced that it will now offer card issuing services directly to businesses to let them in turn make credit cards for customers tailored to specific purposes. Alongside that, it's going [...]
Eric Eldon
April 18, 2020
TechCrunch
Cities around the world have become home this decade to distributed tech teams and homegrown startup successes. Each of these additional layers of experience and specialization help to make each local community stronger, like what began happening in Silicon Valley many decades ago. Now layoffs are striking deep into these fragile, complex ecosystems. Yes, companies [...]
Natasha Mascarenhas
April 17, 2020
TechCrunch
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week the Key Three were back with Danny Crichton, Natasha Mascarenhas, and Alex Wilhelm taking on the news while Chris Gates kept everything perfect. Alex apologizes for the math error you'll hear, naturally. 36 divided by four, [...]
April 14, 2020
WebWire
American Express Company (NYSE: AXP) has declared the following dividends on the Company's Series B and C Preferred Shares: , , , , , , • A quarterly dividend on the Company's 5.200% Fixed Rate / Floating Rate Noncumulative Preferred Shares, Series B, of $12,372.73 per share (which is equivalent to $12.37273 per related Depositary Share). The dividend is payable on May 15, 2020, to shareholders of record on May 1, 2020., , , , , , , , , , • A quarterly dividend on the Company's 4.900% Fixed Rate / Fl...
Alex Wilhelm
April 7, 2020
TechCrunch
Early this afternoon Shippo, a shipping software and services company, announced that it has closed a $30 million Series C. The funding round roughly doubles the capital that the firm has raised to-date, from a little over $29 million to just under $60 million. The round, however, wasn't put together recently. As is often the [...]
Eric Eldon
March 28, 2020
TechCrunch
TechCrunch is out hunting for bright spots in the startup world as we all come to grips with the pandemic -- particularly where checks are actually being written despite everything. D2C is back to the future First up this week, we surveyed top direct-to-consumer investors, and they seemed pretty optimistic despite the struggles of some [...]
Natasha Mascarenhas
March 27, 2020
TechCrunch
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. The three of us were back today -- Natasha, Danny and Alex -- to dig our way through a host of startup-focused topics. Sure, the world is stuffed full of COVID-19 news -- and, to be clear, the [...]
Alex Wilhelm
March 26, 2020
TechCrunch
Early this morning, Fast, a startup building platform-agnostic login and checkout services, announced that Stripe has led a $20 million investment into its business. Prior investors Index Ventures and Susa Ventures took part in the round. Susa previously participated in the company's late-2019 round that Index led. Coming in late March, the new capital is [...]
Ingrid Lunden
March 11, 2020
TechCrunch
CRM software accounts for one-quarter of all enterprise IT spend. But ironically, while a lot of money is spent on platforms like Salesforce or SAP to manage incoming calls and outgoing marketing and sales activity, not a lot of attention is given to the issue of how to help the teams using all that software work [...]
Isabelle Kirkwood
February 21, 2020
BetaKit
Shopify is the latest company to join Libra Association, Facebook's new cryptocurrency initiative.
Meagan Simpson
February 6, 2020
BetaKit
<p>BetaKit has partnered with TradeRev on a new event series investigating the future of Canada's AutoTech industry. Event Schedule 6:00-6:30 pm: Doors Open &...</p>\n
Manas Mishra
December 7, 2019
U.S.
Nearly half of lymphoma patients treated with Gilead Sciences Inc's Yescarta were alive at least three years after a one-time infusion of the CAR-T cell therapy, according to data presented on Saturday.
Jennifer Ortakales
November 30, 2019
Business Insider
Small business loans through payment processors such as PayPal, Square, and Stripe are often easier to get compared to traditional bank loans.
Ingrid Lunden
November 18, 2019
TechCrunch
E-commerce continues to gain momentum -- a trend we'll see played out in the next two months of holiday shopping -- and with that comes more consolidation. Today, Elavon, the payments company that is a subsidiary of US Bancorp, announced that it will acquire Sage Pay, one of the bigger payment processors in the UK [...]
Adrian Potoroaca
November 13, 2019
TechSpot
Last December WordPress owner Automattic released the latest version of the popular content management system with lots of new features and a new, block-based editing experience. The company now wants to lend a hand to the millions of bloggers out...
Boone Ashworth, Michael Calore
November 8, 2019
Wired
In a conversation at WIRED25, the online payments CEO talks about cryptocurrency, government regulation, the housing crisis, and doing business in China.
Ingrid Lunden
October 16, 2019
TechCrunch
Data privacy for apps is typically part of the purview of compliance teams -- a model that isn't always perfect, judging by the number of breaches and the extensive regulation that's been (and still being) put in place to force companies and organizations to behave better. Now, in an effort to improve how apps manage [...]
WIRED Staff
October 15, 2019
Wired
Humanity is facing thorny problems on all fronts. These folks are working to solve them--and trying to avoid the unintended consequences this time.
Rob Thubron
October 14, 2019
TechSpot
Back in June, Facebook confirmed long-running rumors by revealing its Libra cryptocurrency and Calibra digital wallet. But within 48 hours of the announcement, Senate officials announced it would be holding a hearing looking into the proposal.
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2010
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