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BitPay

Crypto payment processing for merchants, businesses and consumers
Crypto 📍 Atlanta, GA Founded 2011
Current Valuation
Private
as of 2018
PRIVATE

IPO Outlookprivate

Is BitPay going public?
No. BitPay is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is BitPay's valuation in 2026?
No confirmed valuation is on record for BitPay. The roster shows funding and investors where they are public; it does not estimate a mark.
Has BitPay filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for BitPay.
Who are BitPay's investors?
BitPay's investors include Founders Fund, Index Ventures, Aquiline Capital Partners, Menlo Ventures, Virgin Group.
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.
BitPay is one of the oldest crypto payment-processing companies, founded in 2011 in Atlanta by Tony Gallippi and Stephen Pair (current CEO). It lets businesses accept Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and provides a consumer wallet and prepaid card. The company has raised ~$103M total across multiple rounds and has been largely self-sustaining since the 2018 Series B extension.

Company Profile

CEO
Stephen Pair
Founded
2011
HQ
Atlanta, GA
Total Raised
$103M
Last Round
Series B extension — $40M (Apr 2018) · Lead: Aquiline Technology Growth
IPO Status
none

Fundraising Status

Series B extension · $40M · 8y 4mo ago
noneTotal raised $103M

Secondary Market

Implied price / share
$1.28
Last round price / share
$5.09
vs last round
-74.9%
Last round price vs secondary price
Last round vs current secondary price per share$5.09Last round$1.28Current
Secondary price return by period
Secondary market period returns3-month0.0%6-month+20.8%1-year-55.2%All-time-82.9%
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 →

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Series B extension$40MApr 2018Aquiline Technology Growth

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
3
via careers page
Product-build share
0%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
go-to-market push — Only 0% of open roles build product — hiring is concentrated in sales/marketing/ops (2 of 3 open roles are finance).
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month3Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionFinance & Strategy2Marketing1
product-building   go-to-market / G&A
Crypto PayrollBitPay Brand Guide[Crypto Payroll](https://bitpay.com/send/payroll/)
Counted from BitPay's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

Founders & Key People

Tony GallippiStephen Pair

Investors

Founders Fund · Index Ventures · Aquiline Capital Partners · Menlo Ventures · Virgin Group

Products

  • BitPay Checkout (merchant crypto acceptance)
  • BitPay Card (crypto debit card)
  • BitPay Wallet (consumer crypto storage)
  • BitPay Send (mass crypto payouts)

Competitors

Coinbase Commerce (COIN) · Stripe Crypto · MoonPay · Triple-A
CryptoPaymentsFintech
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2018. Refreshed quarterly.