Stripe (company)

Stripe is a 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 and in 2010. The company provides a global online payment system for people and businesses to send and receive money and offers 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 , , , , , and .

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.

Timeline

September 19, 2019

Stripe raises a $250,000,000 series F round from Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst and Sequoia Capital.

July 9, 2012

Stripe raises a $20,000,000 series B round from Aaron Levie, Chris Dixon, Elad Gil, Peter Thiel, Redpoint Ventures and Sequoia Capital.

February 9, 2012

Stripe raises a $18,000,000 series A round from Sequoia Capital.

September 30, 2011

Stripe raises a $2,000,000 seed round from Andreessen Horowitz, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, SV Angel and Sequoia Capital.

Funding rounds

Products

People

Name

Role

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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Documentaries, videos and podcasts

Title

Date

Link

How Stripe Became a $10B Challenger to PayPal

August 24, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeFyTTubjXU

How To Use Stripe Payment Gateway | Woocommerce Stripe Setup 2018 +NEW

March 16, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgru-VoINoY

What is Stripe? Or Stripe.com - A Comprehensive Overview

February 14, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyuYsK809v4

Companies

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CEO

Location

Products/Services

News

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Author

Date

Publisher

Description

F|T: The FinTech Times - Products of a different Stripe | BetaKit

Josh Scott

October 4, 2021

BetaKit

Welcome to the FinTech Times, a weekly newsletter covering the biggest FinTech news from around the globe.

Crunchbase Unicorn Board Leaps To Just Under 1,000 Companies, Reaches $3.4T In...

Gené Teare

September 30, 2021

Crunchbase News

In 2021, the pace of new unicorns has increased considerably, close to 1,000 current private unicorns on the Crunchbase Private Unicorn Board for the first time.

Stripe to open Canadian office in Toronto, announces new products | BetaKit

Charles Mandel

September 28, 2021

BetaKit

Stripe is opening its first Canadian office in Toronto. The San Francisco-based FinTech company also announced the launch of several new products in Canada.

Alternative financing startup Pipe snaps up Stripe and HubSpot execs, expands to UK

Mary Ann Azevedo

September 21, 2021

TechCrunch

Pipe, a two-year-old startup that aims to be the "Nasdaq for revenue," announced today it has snagged former Stripe EIC Sid Orlando and HubSpot's ex-Chief Strategy Officer Brad Coffey to serve on its executive team. The Miami-based fintech also revealed today its first expansion outside of the United States with its entry into the U.K. [...]

Shopify makes strategic investment in Israeli ecommerce startup Yotpo

Charles Mandel

September 9, 2021

BetaKit

Two unicorns, Shopify and Israeli ecommerce marketing startup Yotpo, have signed a multi-year partnership, with Shopify also making an investment.

Sequoia Heritage, Stripe and others invest $200M in African fintech Wave at $1.7B valuation

Tage Kene-Okafor

September 7, 2021

TechCrunch

Francophone Africa has its first unicorn, and if you've been following tech on the continent, you will be very unsurprised to hear that it's coming from the world of fintech. Wave, a U.S. and Senegal-based mobile money provider, has raised $200 million in Series A round of funding. The investment is the largest-ever Series A [...]

Here are all the companies from Y Combinator's Summer 2021 Demo Day, Part 1

Natasha Mascarenhas

August 31, 2021

TechCrunch

Today Y Combinator kicked off the Demo Day cycle for its Summer 2021 cohort. The collection of early-stage startups on day one-of-two alone numbered in the hundreds, meaning that we had to assemble a team here at TechCrunch just to cover it all. But before we get into notes on each company that presented, a [...]

Balance, a Payments Experience Platform for B2B Digital Commerce, Acquires $25M via Series A led by Ribbit Capital

Omar Faridi

August 26, 2021

Crowdfund Insider

Balance, a payments experience platform for B2B digital commerce, acquires $25M via Series A led by Ribbit Capital.

Balance Raises $25M in Series A Funding

FinSMEs

August 25, 2021

FinSMEs

Balance raises $25M in a Ribbit Capital-led Series A to grow its 'consumer-like B2B checkout platform'

Mary Ann Azevedo

August 25, 2021

TechCrunch

Balance, a payments platform aimed at B2B merchants and marketplaces, has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Ribbit Capital. Avid Ventures participated in the financing, in addition to existing backers Lightspeed Ventures, Stripe, Y Combinator Continuity Fund, SciFi VC and UpWest. Other individual investors that put money in the round [...]

Forbes Releases 2021 Cloud 100 List of The Best Private Cloud Companies in The World

August 11, 2021

WebWire

Forbes released its 2021 Cloud 100 List, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, produced in collaboration with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures. "Our Cloud 100 list recognizes the most innovative and valuable private companies in cloud technology," said Alex Konrad, Senior Editor at Forbes. "This year's ranking takes on a truly global perspective, with 12 companies on the list based outside of the U.S. and nine more either co-h...

Search API startup Algolia raises $150 million at $2.25 billion valuation

Romain Dillet

July 28, 2021

TechCrunch

Algolia has raised a $150 million Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of $2.25 billion. Compared to the Series C round from October 2019, the company's valuation has more than quadrupled. It means that Algolia is now a unicorn with a valuation above $1 billion. The company is best known for its search-as-a-service [...]

Search API startup Algolia raises $150 million at $2.25 billion valuation

Romain Dillet

July 28, 2021

TechCrunch

WhenThen's no-code payments platform attracts $6M from European VCs Stride and Cavalry

Mike Butcher

July 21, 2021

TechCrunch

The payments space -- amazingly -- remains up for grabs for startups. Yes, dear reader, despite the success of Stripe, there seems to be a new payments startup virtually every other day. It's a mess out there! The accelerated growth of e-commerce due to the pandemic means payments are now a booming space. And here [...]

Shopify invests in US-based Loop's $65 million round | BetaKit

Meagan Simpson

July 21, 2021

BetaKit

Shopify is among of group of investors in the recent financing round for United States-based customer relationship software company Loop.

WhenThen's no-code payments platform attracts $6M from European VCs Stride and Cavalry

Mike Butcher

July 21, 2021

TechCrunch

The payments space - amazingly - remains up for grabs for startups. Yes dear reader, despite the success of Stripe, there seems to be a new payments startup virtually every other day. It's a mess out there! The accelerated growth of e-commerce due to the pandemic means payments are now a booming space. And here [...]

Dwolla raises $21M to bring more customizable payment and money transfer options to fintechs and brands

Ingrid Lunden

July 21, 2021

TechCrunch

Stripe, with its $95 billion valuation, has been taking on the payment landscape with a whole platform approach, bringing in dozens of adjacent services to snag a wider and deeper set of customers that use these services by way of APIs. But in the world of so-called "embedded finance" there still remains a lot of [...]

Miami twins raise $18M for Lula, an insurance infrastructure upstart

Mary Ann Azevedo

July 8, 2021

TechCrunch

Lula, a Miami-based insurance infrastructure startup, announced today it has raised $18 million in a Series A round of funding. Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures co-led the round, which also included participation from SoftBank, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, Shrug Capital, Steve Pagliuca (Bain Capital co-chairman and Boston Celtics owner), Tiny Capital's Andrew Wilkinson. Existing [...]

Opioid addiction treatment apps found sharing sensitive data with third parties

Carly Page

July 7, 2021

TechCrunch

Several widely-used apps access unique device identifiers that can track users.

UK's Digital Wealth Manager Hargreaves Lansdown Selects Fintech Stripe as Main Payments Partner

Omar Faridi

June 29, 2021

Crowdfund Insider

UK-based digital wealth manager Hargreaves Lansdown has reportedly chosen Fintech Stripe as main payments partner.