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Stripe

Internet payment infrastructure — APIs for online commerce
Fintech 📍 South San Francisco, CA Founded 2010
Current Valuation
$159B
as of 2026-02
CENTURION
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.

Company Profile

CEO
Patrick Collison
Founded
2010
HQ
South San Francisco, CA
Employees
~9000
Total Raised
$9.3B
Est. Revenue
$18B (2025)
Growth
~30% YoY
Last Round
Tender offer — $4.0B (Feb 2026) · Lead: Stripe (employee liquidity)
IPO Status
rumored

Fundraising Status

Tender offer · $4.0B · 6 mo ago
rumoredTotal raised $9.3B3 disclosed rounds

Tender offer Impact

Round Size
Primary financing announced
Post-Money Valuation
$92B
Company-announced mark
Valuation Step-Up
+83.0%
vs Series I at $50B
Disclosed Funding
$9.3B
Cumulative disclosed rounds
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
Last round vs current secondary price per share$62.47Last round$72.85Current
Secondary price return by period
Secondary market period returns3-month+15.9%6-month+49.4%1-year+52.1%All-time+82.1%
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 growth across funding rounds$95B$92BMar '21Feb '25
Valuation step-up per round
Valuation step-up per round0.5×Series I1.8×Tender offer
Capital raised per round
Capital raised per funding round$600MSeries H$6.5BSeries I
Estimated revenue trend
Estimated revenue trend$14B$18B20232025
Charts built from publicly disclosed funding rounds and revenue estimates. Approximate, not real-time, not investment advice.

Funding History

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Tender offerFeb 2025Sequoia / Goldman Sachs$92B
Series I$6.5BMar 2023Andreessen Horowitz$50B
Series H$600MMar 2021Sequoia / Fidelity$95B

Founders & Key People

Patrick CollisonJohn Collison

Investors

Sequoia · a16z · Founders Fund · Thrive Capital · Tiger Global · GV

Products

  • Stripe Payments
  • Stripe Connect (marketplaces)
  • Stripe Atlas (incorporation)
  • Stripe Issuing (cards)
  • Stripe Tax
  • Stripe Radar (fraud)
  • Bridge (stablecoin payments)

Competitors

Adyen (ADYEY) · PayPal (PYPL) · Block (SQ) · Checkout.com
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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.