Stripe
Stripe is a Software Development company headquartered in South San Francisco, United States, founded in 2010.
Stripe, Inc. is a privately held financial infrastructure company that builds programmable financial services for businesses on the internet. Founded in 2010 by the Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison, it runs dual headquarters in South San Francisco and Dublin and supports payments, billing, invoicing, tax compliance, fraud prevention, embedded finance and treasury management in more than 50 countries. Businesses running on Stripe generated 1.9 trillion dollars in total payment volume during 2025, up 34 percent year over year and equivalent to roughly 1.6 percent of global GDP, across more than 5 million businesses served directly or through platforms. Stripe remains private and used a February 2026 tender offer, priced at a 159 billion dollar valuation, to give current and former employees liquidity instead of pursuing an initial public offering. It employs approximately 17,000 people, led by Patrick Collison (Co-founder and CEO), across roughly 17,187 tracked profiles. Firmographics, leadership, tech stack and similar companies are detailed below, as of August 2026.
Firmographics
Recent signals
- Stripe and Advent International offered 60.50 dollars per share for PayPal, valuing it above 53 billion dollars and backed by roughly 50 billion dollars of committed bank financing. PayPal's board turned the price down, and talks were still running in mid August 2026 with no agreement signed. · July 2026
- Tender offer priced at a 159 billion dollar valuation, giving current and former employees liquidity without an initial public offering. Roughly 74 percent above the prior year's level. · February 2026
- Businesses running on Stripe generated 1.9 trillion dollars in total payment volume in 2025, up 34 percent from 2024 and equivalent to roughly 1.6 percent of global GDP. · February 2026
- More than 5 million businesses now run on Stripe directly or through platforms, including 90 percent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and 80 percent of the Nasdaq 100. · February 2026
- Stripe described itself as remaining robustly profitable in 2025, funding heavy product investment and acquisitions from its own operations, with more than 350 product updates shipped in the year. · February 2026
- Acquired Privy, whose technology powers more than 110 million programmable wallets, extending Stripe into wallet infrastructure for agents and crypto-native businesses. · 2025
- Completed the acquisition of Metronome, the usage-based billing platform behind the metering used by OpenAI, Anthropic, Confluent and NVIDIA. · January 2026
- The Revenue suite, which now includes Metronome alongside Billing, Invoicing and Tax, is on track to reach a 1 billion dollar annual run rate. · February 2026
- Stablecoin payment volume doubled to around 400 billion dollars, an estimated 60 percent of it business to business, and volume on Bridge, the stablecoin orchestration platform Stripe acquired, more than quadrupled. · February 2026
- Unveiled Tempo, a payments-specific blockchain incubated with Paradigm, offering dedicated payment lanes, sub-second finality and opt-in privacy, with mainnet launch ahead. · September 2025
- Co-developed the Agentic Commerce Protocol with OpenAI and introduced Shared Payment Tokens, letting agents initiate payments without exposing credentials, usable even by businesses that do not process payments with Stripe. · September 2025
- Launched an Agentic Commerce Suite for selling across AI interfaces from a single integration, with Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters, Etsy, Coach and Kate Spade among the brands onboarding. · February 2026
- Announced 288 launches at Stripe Sessions, spanning agentic commerce in Gemini, Link wallets for AI agents, streaming payments for token-based billing and free instant transfers between US businesses on Stripe Treasury. · April 2026
- Eileen O'Mara moved from chief revenue officer to vice chair and Tyler Bryson, who joined from Microsoft in 2025, was appointed chief revenue officer. · June 2026
- Named a Leader by Gartner for its Billing product for the third consecutive year. · August 2026
- Stripe Treasury launched in Australia, unifying payments and global money management for businesses in the market. · August 2026
- Revenue is reported to have risen about a third to 6.8 billion dollars in 2025, with free cash flow up 52 percent to 3.2 billion dollars. Stripe is private and does not publish these figures itself, so they are press estimates rather than company disclosures. · 2025
Tech stack
Stripe News & media
- Stripe, Advent make $53 billion takeover offer for PayPal, sending stock soaring
Stripe and Advent International bid 60.50 dollars per share for PayPal, about a 28 percent premium, proposing to hold equal stakes and keep the business intact. PayPal later pushed back on the price and talks continued into August.
- Stripe Treasury launches in Australia, unifying payments and global money management
Stripe brought Treasury to Australia, letting local businesses hold, move and manage money globally alongside the payments they already run on Stripe.
- Stripe named a Leader by Gartner for its Billing Product for third consecutive year
Third year running that Stripe Billing has been placed in the Leaders quadrant, as usage-based and hybrid pricing models spread across software and AI companies.
- Ramp uses Stripe to power stablecoin payments and accounts
Ramp built stablecoin payments and accounts on Stripe infrastructure, one of the larger production deployments of the Bridge stack since the acquisition.
- New tools from Stripe allow German businesses to sell globally, including to AI agents
Stripe Tour Berlin brought agentic commerce tooling and cross-border selling features to the German market.
- Eileen O'Mara named vice chair of Stripe; Tyler Bryson appointed chief revenue officer
O'Mara moves to vice chair after building Stripe's global revenue organisation, during which annual payment volume nearly doubled to 1.9 trillion dollars. Bryson, previously head of Americas Revenue and Global Solutions, takes over as chief revenue officer.
- Stripe equips French companies to compete globally in an AI-driven economy
Stripe Tour Paris set out the product set French businesses can use to sell internationally and to AI agents.
- Stripe builds out the economic infrastructure for AI with 288 launches
At Stripe Sessions the company announced 288 launches, including agentic commerce with Google in Gemini, Link wallets for AI agents, streaming payments for token-based billing and a Treasury upgrade with free instant transfers between US businesses.
- Stripe publishes 2025 annual letter and announces tender offer to provide liquidity to current and former employees
Total payment volume of 1.9 trillion dollars in 2025, up 34 percent, more than 5 million businesses on the platform, and a tender offer priced at a 159 billion dollar valuation.
- Stripe completes Metronome acquisition
Metronome's usage-based metering joins Stripe Billing. Its technology already powers billing for OpenAI, Anthropic and NVIDIA.
- Stripe helps power a new shopping experience in Microsoft Copilot
Copilot Checkout lets US users buy from Etsy sellers and retailers including Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie inside the Copilot chat, using the Agentic Commerce Protocol and Shared Payment Tokens, with sellers remaining merchant of record.
- Stripe launches new products to drive stablecoins and agentic commerce into the mainstream
More than 40 launches, including Open Issuance for businesses to launch their own stablecoins with minimal code, and the Agentic Commerce Protocol developed with OpenAI.
Employees (~17,187 tracked)
Distribution estimatedOrg chart
Leadership
- PC
Patrick CollisonCo-founder and CEOdetails → - JC
John CollisonCo-founder and Presidentdetails → - WGWill GaybrickPresident, Technology and Businessdetails →
- STSteffan TomlinsonChief Financial Officerdetails →
- JTJeff TittertonChief Marketing Officerdetails →
- TBTyler BrysonChief Revenue Officerdetails →
- EOEileen O'MaraVice Chairdetails →
- TWTrish WalshGeneral Counseldetails →
- RMRob McIntoshChief People Officerdetails →
Direct contact details are locked (••••@stripe.com). Reveal them in Google Sheets with Derrick.
Similar companies
| Company | Revenue | Employees | HQ | Founded | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ~$2.2B | ~4,500+ | Netherlands | 2006 | Public | |
| ~$32.0B | ~24,000+ | United States | 1998 | Public | |
| ~$24.0B | ~11,000+ | United States | 2009 | Public | |
| ~$3.0B | ~4,000+ | Sweden | 2005 | Public | |
| ~$0.5B | ~2,000+ | United Kingdom | 2012 | Private | |
| ~$0.2B | ~800+ | Netherlands | 2004 | Private | |
| ~$0.3B | ~3,000+ | India | 2014 | Private | |
| ~$0.3B | ~1,000+ | United Kingdom | 2016 | Private |