Stripe, Inc.

Stripe, Inc.
Company typePrivate
Industry
Founded2010; 14 years ago (2010)
FoundersPatrick and John Collison
Headquarters
Services
  • Payments
  • Billing
  • Connect
  • Sigma
  • Atlas
  • Radar (fraud prevention)
  • Issuing
  • Terminal
RevenueIncrease US$14.4 billion (2022)[1]
Number of employees
8,000 (2022)[2]
Websitestripe.com
Former headquarters in San Francisco

Stripe, Inc. is an Irish-American[3] multinational financial services and software as a service (SaaS) company dual-headquartered in South San Francisco, California, United States, and Dublin, Ireland.[4][5] The company primarily offers payment-processing software and application programming interfaces for e-commerce websites and mobile applications.[6]

Stripe is the largest private fintech company with a valuation of about $65 billion and over $1 trillion in payment volume processed in 2023.[7][8]

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  2. ^ "The Cloud 100 2022". Forbes. Archived from the original on 4 February 2023. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  3. ^ Stripe (4 December 2023). "Stripe UK Tax Strategy". stripe.com (in Italian). Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  4. ^ Burke, Elaine (15 March 2021). "Stripe to add 1,000 jobs in Ireland over next five years". Silicon Republic. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  5. ^ Surane, Jennifer (14 July 2022). "Stripe Tells Staffers Internal Valuation Dropped More Than 27%". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on 21 August 2022. The South San Francisco-based firm told employees...
  6. ^ Carr, Austin (1 February 2012). "Inside Stripe, The PayPal Competitor Backed By PayPal Founders Peter Thiel, Elon Musk". Fast Company. Archived from the original on 13 August 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
  7. ^ Lunden, Ingrid (24 April 2024). "Stripe, doubling down on embedded finance, de-couples payments from the rest of its stack". TechCrunch. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
  8. ^ Corba, Jacqueline (13 March 2024). "Stripe reveals it passed $1 trillion in total payment volume in 2023". CNBC. Retrieved 11 June 2024.