Crypto payment processing for merchants, businesses and consumers
Crypto📍 Atlanta, GAFounded 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
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 →
Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Series B extension
$40M
Apr 2018
Aquiline Technology Growth
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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).
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
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2018. Refreshed quarterly.