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Column

Nationally chartered developer bank for financial infrastructure builders
Fintech 📍 San Francisco, CA Founded 2021
Current Valuation
$6.0B
as of 2025-Q3
UNICORN

IPO Outlookprivate

Is Column going public?
No. Column is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Column's valuation in 2026?
Column is valued at $6.0B as of 2025-Q3, set by its Secondary tender (Jun 2025). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Column filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Column.
Who are Column's investors?
Column's investors include William Hockey (founder-funded), Annie Hockey.
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.
Column is a nationally chartered U.S. bank built by Plaid co-founder William Hockey and his wife Annie, who purchased Northern California National Bank in 2021 and rebuilt its core infrastructure from scratch. Unlike sponsor-bank competitors that rely on third-party cores, Column owns the entire stack — charter, ledger, payment rails — and exposes them via developer APIs. Sacra estimates Column generated $153.1M in revenue in 2025, up 219% year-over-year, with reporting suggesting a valuation as high as $6 billion.

Company Profile

CEO
William Hockey
Founded
2021
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Employees
~80
Est. Revenue
$153.1M (2025)
Growth
~219% YoY
IPO Status
private

Fundraising Status

Secondary tender · 1y 2mo ago
private

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Secondary tenderJun 2025

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
23
via ashby
Product-build share
9%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
go-to-market push — Only 9% of open roles build product — hiring is concentrated in sales/marketing/ops (7 of 23 open roles are other).
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month23Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionOther7Sales & GTM5Ops & People3Legal & Policy3Marketing2Engineering1Finance & Strategy1Product1
product-building   go-to-market / G&A
Software EngineerProduct Manager, Platform ToolsI don't fit into any of these roles!GrowthPayment Operations (New Grad / Early Career)AML Analyst
Counted from Column'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

William HockeyAnnie Hockey

Investors

William Hockey (founder-funded) · Annie Hockey

Products

  • ACH and wire APIs
  • Card issuing
  • Account creation APIs
  • Lending and BaaS rails
  • FedNow and RTP

Competitors

Cross River Bank · Evolve Bank & Trust · Stripe Treasury · Unit · Bond
FintechBanking-as-a-ServiceDeveloper InfrastructureUnicorn
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2025-Q3. Refreshed quarterly.