Internet payment infrastructure — APIs for online commerce
Stripe processes payments for millions of online businesses including Amazon, Google, Shopify, and OpenAI. Hit $159B valuation in February 2026 via employee tender offer. The Collison brothers have resisted IPO for 16 years but 2026 is increasingly seen as the inflection point.
Fintech📍 South San Francisco, CAFounded 2010
Current Valuation
$159B
as of 2026-02
CENTURION
QL Price
$149B
-6% vs last round
QuantLogix's current estimate for Stripe, published 2026-09-17 — below the last disclosed round of $159B (2026-02).
Confidence
medium
Basis
blended
What backs this price
Last disclosed round
$159B
2026-02
weight 0.65
Secondary market print
$185B
2026-06-27
weight 0.87
Public-company comparables
$25B
2025
weight 0.31
How this price has held up
No round has priced for Stripe since QuantLogix began publishing a price for it, so there is nothing to grade yet. The claim above is on the record from 2026-09-17 and will be graded against the next priced round. See the full accuracy record →
Which publicly-traded funds already hold it, what $10,000 buys, and whether any route is open to you.
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IPO Outlookrumored
Is Stripe going public in 2026?
An IPO is rumored for 2026, with nothing filed. Stripe remains private and the date is not the company's.
What is Stripe's valuation in 2026?
Stripe is valued at $159B as of Feb 2026, set by its Tender offer ($4.0B, Feb 2026). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Stripe filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Stripe as of 09/17/2026; the IPO is rumored.
No. Stripe is a private company — its shares are not listed on any exchange and there is no ticker. The routes to exposure are pre-IPO secondary marketplaces and funds (accredited investors), employee tender offers when the company runs one, and public companies with read-through exposure. QuantLogix maps every route it can verify for Stripe on its Pre-IPO Access Desk.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Step-up compares disclosed post-money valuations. Round / post-money is a financing-size ratio, not an ownership or dilution estimate.
Secondary Market
Implied price / share
$72.85
Last round price / share
$62.47
vs last round
+16.6%
Open interest
41
Last round price vs secondary price
Secondary price return by period
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →
Growth & Valuation
Valuation across funding rounds
Valuation step-up per round
Capital raised per round
Estimated revenue trend
Charts built from publicly disclosed funding rounds and revenue estimates. Approximate, not real-time, not investment advice.
Funding History
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Tender offer
—
Feb 2025
Sequoia / Goldman Sachs
$92B
Series I
$6.5B
Mar 2023
Andreessen Horowitz
$50B
Series H
$600M
Mar 2021
Sequoia / Fidelity
$95B
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
▶ Hiring steady
+9% vs 2026-08
Open roles
631
via greenhouse
Product-build share
37%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
balanced build + GTM — 37% builders vs 63% go-to-market/G&A — scaling both sides.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by function
■ product-building ■ go-to-market / G&A
Abuse Research EngineerAI EngineerAndroid BSP EngineerAndroid Engineer, TerminalAndroid Engineer, Terminal OS PlatformARG Engineering Manager
Counted from Stripe's live job board as of 2026-09-15; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Founders & Key People
Patrick CollisonJohn Collison
Investors
Sequoia · a16z · Founders Fund · Thrive Capital · Tiger Global · GV
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2026-02. Refreshed quarterly.