Stripe (company)

Stripe is a financial technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size, ranging from new startups to public companies use Stripe's software to accept payments and manage their businesses online.

Stripe was founded by John Collison and Patrick Collison and it provides a global online payment system for people and businesses to send and receive money. The company offers all necessary tools and infrastructure for creating online e-commerce platforms such as e-commerce stores, on-demand marketplaces, and crowdfunding platforms. Well-known companies using Stripe include Kickstarter, Instacart, Lyft, Shopify, OpenTable, and Slack.

Stripe provides businesses the needed tools and technology that help to build better. It provides industry-leading documentation and extensive client libraries that contain everything a business needs to build a custom integration in a fraction of time.

Stripe offers support for the developer community by actively contributing to open-source projects and giving back to the community through development, patches, and sponsorships.