Talk:Stripe, Inc.

Aiming for NPOV

Hi User:C.Rodrigues95! Thanks for adding so much new material, in "Origins", "Support of Bitcoin", "Projected Business Plans", "Payment Processing", and the rest of the article. These new parts all sound very positive about the company though, and it's important for the article to be neutral (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view). And unfortunately this article already had a problem with sounding like an ad (as tagged in its warning box). It'd be great to have balance for parts where the article talks about claims that Stripe makes - are there any sources that evaluate their claims? Dreamyshade (talk) 19:32, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Stripe fund opposition to proposition to increase housing for homeless

Stripe have given $400,000 to oppose Proposition C in San Francisco, this seems like important information to add to the article but not sure where.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/lyft-drops-100k-sf-tax-fund-housing-homeless/

John Cummings (talk) 18:12, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Products and Services and Investments sections

I converted the former “Product and service development” sub-section into its own section to reflect Stripe’s growing range of offerings and to leave room for future section expansion. The History section is much shorter now, but could (and probably should) be expanded with more general corporate news.

I also added a section on Stripe’s investments, which seemed more numerous to me than typical for a privately-held tech company. The nature of the investments (similarly-positioned or other fintech startups) also suggests they might become acquisitions or otherwise become notable to Stripe’s history at some point in the future. JP Miller1 (talk) 16:31, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Environmental program

Shouldn't their environmental program be mentioned?: https://stripe.com/au/blog/negative-emissions-commitment (86.135.18.17 (talk) 01:13, 16 August 2019 (UTC))

snippet trolled

Just a heads up: I think it's called the 'snippet', the info that appears in the search engine info when I search for 'Stripe'. And I think it's been trolled. Here is the search result I get for Stripe:

Stripe (company) - Wikipedia Zoek op domein en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe_(company)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe_(company) Stripe is a miserable communist financial services and software as a service (SaaS) company dual-headquartered in San Fagsisco, California and Dublin, Ireland. The company primarily offers fraud payment processing software and application programming interfaces (APIs) for e-commerce websites and mobile applications.

Turnover

"In 2020, Stripe had a turnover of about $2 trillion" - this is surely the value of payments processed, not the value of the company's sales to its customers. I'm not an accountant but this doesn't sound like "turnover" to me. Mhkay (talk) 23:45, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Well, I think there's actually a bigger problem here. The source says: It is one of the fastest growing payments companies in a sector with annual revenues of $2tn (£1.42tn), according to McKinsey. i.e., the turnover of the sector, not of Stripe. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 00:09, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

"Link.com" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Link.com has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 March 18 § Link.com until a consensus is reached. Utopes _{(talk / cont)} 06:03, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

What makes Stripe an Irish-American company?

Is that because the owners are Irish? But in that case should Tesla be a South African-American company?

Or because they have headquarters in Ireland? But the company was founded in California, and plenty of companies have headquarters in Dublin including Amazon and Google but that doesn't make them Irish-American companies.

So I'd suggest changing to just an "American company" because that's really what it is, a typical San Francisco-based company. 2A02:6B6B:7C:0:716E:A4E9:CA70:877B (talk) 18:55, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

Stripe is according to their own accounts a dual HQ-ed firm in San Francisco & Dublin.

The Irish HQ has tripled in size recently and so I think “Irish-American” is the appropriate as this is closest to Stripe’s own description. 80.249.245.121 (talk) 10:13, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Added acquisition of Bridge Network

I put two sentences and 3 refs in the Growth section. Is that the best place to mention it? - - - Prairieplant (talk) 12:57, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Edit request, general edits: company, acquisitions, images, and products as of October 2025 (COI disclosed)

Stripe, Inc. is an Irish-American multinational financial services and software as a service (SaaS) company dual-headquartered in South San Francisco, California, United States, and Dublin, Ireland. The company primarily offers payment-processing software and application programming interfaces for online commerce. Stripe is the largest privately-owned fintech company with a current valuation of about $106 billion and over $1.4 trillion in payment volume processed in 2024.

History Irish entrepreneur brothers John and Patrick Collison founded Stripe in Palo Alto, California, in 2010, and serve as the company's president and CEO, respectively. In 2011 the company received a $2 million investment, including contributions from Elon Musk, PayPal founder Peter Thiel, Irish entrepreneur Liam Casey, and venture capital firms Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and SV Angel.

In 2012 the company moved from Palo Alto to San Francisco. In October 2019, the company announced that it would be moving from the South of Market area to Oyster Point in the neighbouring city of South San Francisco in 2021. In February 2021, Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of Canada and of the Bank of England, was appointed to the company's board. He stepped down from the Stripe board when be began his run for Prime Minister of Canada. After re-enabling crypto payins in April 2024, starting with USDC, Stripe acquired stablecoin orchestration platform Bridge in February 2025.

In January 2022, Stripe entered a five-year partnership with Ford Motor Company. Through the deal, Stripe would handle transactions for consumer vehicle orders and reservations. That same month, Stripe partnered with Spotify to help creators monetize subscriptions, accept payments and launch recurring revenue streams. In April 2022, Twitter announced that it would partner with Stripe Inc (digital payments processor) for piloting cryptocurrency pay-outs for limited users in the platform. "The crypto payments will be routed through Stripe Connect, which will also handle KYC requirements", Stripe said. The company announced it was also planning to add options for payment in other cryptocurrencies in the future.

The Wall Street Journal reported in July 2022 that the company's internal share price had fallen, causing its implied valuation to drop from $95 billion to $74 billion. In November 2022, the company announced it intended to initiate layoffs, terminating some 14% of their workforce. In March 2023, Stripe completed its Series I fundraise of more than $6.5 billion at a $50 billion valuation. The funds raised will be used to provide liquidity to current and former employees and address employee withholding tax obligations related to equity awards. The company has said it does not need this capital to run its business.

Throughout 2022 and 2023, the company announced a number of large enterprise customers including Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Uber, BMW, Maersk, Zara, Lotus, Alaska Airlines, Le Monde, and Toyota. The company also announced in March 2023 that OpenAI is working with Stripe to commercialize its generative AI technology, and in October 2024, announced it had depended its collaboration with NVIDIA.

In January 2025, Stripe sent layoff notices to nearly 300 workers, primarily affecting roles in Product, Operations and Engineering. The company experienced controversy when the company sent a cartoon picture of a duck to the laid-off employees. Stripe's Chief People Officer Rob McIntosh later apologized for the mistake.

Products Stripe provides application programming interfaces that web developers can use to integrate payment processing into their websites and mobile applications.[35] The company introduced Stripe Connect in 2012, a multiparty payments solution that lets software developers embed payments natively into their products.[36]

On 14 February 2016, the company launched the Atlas platform to help start-ups register as US corporations, targeting foreign entrepreneurs.[53] The platform was originally invitation-only.[54] In March 2016, Cuba was added to the list of countries covered under the program.[55] Originally, companies registered using Atlas were set up as Delaware-based C corporations. As of 30 April 2018, the option to be registered as limited liability companies was added.[56] Companies set up using Atlas automatically had a business bank account and Stripe merchant account set up.[53]

In April 2018, Stripe released antifraud tools, branded "Radar", that block fraudulent transactions.[37] The same year, it expanded its services to include a billing product for online businesses, allowing businesses to manage subscription recurring revenue and invoicing.[38]

In 2018, Stripe started a publishing company named Stripe Press to promote ideas that support businesses. Titles include High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard W. Hamming, Scaling People by Claire Hughes Johnson, Poor Charlie’s Almanack edited by Peter D. Kaufman, The Scaling Era by Dwarkesh Patel and Gavin Leech, and The Origins of Efficiency by Brian Potter.[60][61]

In July 2018, Stripe introduced Stripe Issuing, a product that allows online businesses and platforms to create their own physical and digital credit and debit cards.[51][52]

Stripe's point-of-sale service called Terminal was made available to US users on 11 June 2019. Terminal had previously been invitation-only.[39] Terminal is currently available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. The service offers physical credit-card readers designed to work with Stripe.[40][41]

On 5 September 2019, Stripe launched a merchant cash-advance scheme called Stripe Capital. The scheme allows Stripe merchants to request an advance on future payments they expect to process through their Stripe merchant account.[42]

In 2019, Stripe began offering loans and credit cards to businesses in the United States. The company stated that loans are approved automatically using machine-learning models, with no human intervention.[62] In October 2020, Stripe announced Stripe Climate, a service for businesses to fund atmospheric carbon research and capture.[64]

Link,[57] a consumer product for saving and auto-filling payment details when paying via Stripe, was launched by Stripe in May 2021.[58][59] Link saves payment credentials to a single account that consumers can use to checkout quickly. The service supported payments in over 185 countries and Stripe reported plans to make it available to platform businesses through its API.[59]

In June 2021, the company launched Stripe Tax, which lets businesses automatically calculate and collect sales tax, VAT, and GST in over 30 countries and all US states.[43]

In May that year, Stripe introduced Payment Links, a no-code product allowing businesses to create a link to a checkout page and begin accepting payments on social platforms or direct channels.[44]

Stripe Identity, launched in June 2021, enables online businesses to verify user identities and is built on the same infrastructure used for Stripe's own risk and compliance program.[66]

In May 2022, Stripe launched Stripe Apps to allow businesses to simplify operations and combine fragmented workflows.[49] Stripe also announced Financial Connections to help businesses connect to their customers’ bank accounts for verifying bank accounts, checking balances, and confirming account ownership.[67]

In January 2022, Stripe agreed to acquire Terminal manufacturing partner BBPOS, allowing the company to bring the hardware development of Terminal readers in-house.[45] In February, it was announced as Apple's first partner on in-person Tap to Pay, which enables businesses to accept contactless payments using an iPhone and a partner-enabled iOS app.[46]

In May, Stripe announced Data Pipeline, a tool for Stripe users who store data with Amazon Redshift or Snowflake Data Cloud. Data Pipeline syncs Stripe data and reports with Amazon Redshift or Snowflake Data Cloud, where they can be queried in combination with other business information.[47] That month, the company also introduced Stripe Financial Connections, enabling businesses to establish direct connections with their customers’ bank accounts to verify accounts for payments and pay-outs, check balances to reduce payment failures, and cut fraud by confirming bank account ownership.[48]

In 2022, Stripe started a new subsidiary called Frontier that would direct spending on carbon removal. It announced $925 million in funding from major Silicon Valley companies to fund start up companies performing carbon capture to kick-start the industry.[65]

In September 2023, Stripe announced that its optimized checkout suite allowed businesses to offer their customers more than 100 payment methods.[49]

In May 2025, Stripe announced a new AI foundational model for payments, and introduced stable-coin powered accounts.[50]

In May 2022, Stripe announced the launch of an App Marketplace allowing users to customize Stripe with third-party app integrations. At launch, the Marketplace had over 50 apps including offerings from DocuSign, Dropbox, Intercom, Mailchimp, Ramp, and Xero. While the marketplace was launched in May, app installations were not available immediately.The move followed Stripe's acquisition of OpenChannel, a company which built app ecosystems for businesses, in December 2021.

Growth In May 2011, Stripe received a $2 million investment from venture capitalists Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Sequoia Capital, SV Angel, and Andreessen Horowitz. Stripe launched publicly in September 2011 after an extensive private beta.

In 2020 Stripe expanded its services to five new European markets: the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Malta.

On 15 October 2020, Stripe acquired Paystack, a Nigerian payment processor, in a deal reportedly worth over $200 million, with the aim of expanding its services into Africa.

In December 2020, Stripe announced plans to expand in Southeast Asia, China, India, and Japan. It increased its staff in the region by 200 employees.

In March 2021, Stripe raised another $600 million, reaching a valuation of $95 billion, aimed towards expanding their European headquarters.

In April 2021, Stripe acquired TaxJar, a provider of cloud-based tax services based in Massachusetts. Whilst details of the acquisition were not made public, the deal is thought to have been in the region of $200M.

On 15 July 2024, it was reported that major Stripe investor Sequoia Capital offered its limited partners a chance to sell up to $861 million worth of shares in Stripe. This move, indicating confidence in Stripe's future despite the delayed IPO, was driven by Sequoia's efforts to provide liquidity to its investors amid a dry IPO market. Stripe's latest 409A valuation stood at $70 billion, solidifying its position as one of the most valued start-ups globally.

On 26 July 2024, Stripe acquired a Merchant of Record services start-up Lemon Squeezy.

On 4 February 2025, Stripe announced it had acquired Bridge. The acquisition of the two-year-old stablecoin platform company is valued at $1.1 billion.

In June 2025, the company acquired Privy, a platform that provides tools for e-commerce businesses.

Investments

Stripe is reported to have participated in two funding rounds for Monzo, a "challenger bank" based in the U.K. Stripe's first investment in Monzo was reported on 6 November 2017, with a second investment in Monzo's Series E fundraising round reported on 10 October 2018. Monzo's valuation grew from approximately $350 million to $1.27 billion through these two rounds of fundraising. Stripe participated in a third round of funding for Monzo on 24 June 2019, which raised approximately $144 million in funding for Monzo at a valuation of approximately $2.5 billion.

Stripe has invested in companies offering similar services as themselves, but in different geographical regions. In August 2018, Stripe invested in PayStack, a Nigerian payment processor, and, in September 2019, invested in PayMongo, a Philippine payment processor. In February 2021, Stripe invested in Safepay, a Pakistani payment processor.

On 6 June 2019, Stripe led a $22.5 million fundraising round for Step, a financial services start-up offering fee-free bank accounts to teenagers.

On 26 March 2020, Stripe led a $20 million Series A fundraising round for Fast, a company creating a universal, one-click checkout service. Subsequently, Stripe led a $102 million Series B fundraising round for Fast on January 26, 2021. Fast shut down in April 2022.

On 3 November 2021, Stripe led a $4 million Series Seed fundraising round for Archive, a social listening and user-generated content platform.

In April 2022, Stripe Inc., Alphabet Inc., Shopify, McKinsey & Company, and Meta Platforms announced Frontier, a $925 million advance market commitment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from companies that are developing CDR technology over the next 9 years. CianStripe (talk) 13:14, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Edit Request: Add image to Infobox (COI disclosed)

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**Disclosure:** I am an employee of Stripe, as disclosed on my user page. I am proposing this image addition. **Proposal:** Please add the file File:The Stripe Office in Example City.jpg to the top of the article infobox. **Caption:** A neutral caption, such as: "Stripe's headquarters in Example City." **Rationale:** This image is available under a free license on Wikimedia Commons and is the most current visual representation of the company for the infobox. ~~~~ CianStripe (talk) 13:56, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Not done: This request looks to have been wholly generated by an LLM without verifying the output. - Umby 🌕🐶 (talk · contribs) 01:57, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Request for basic clarifications

Greetings! I work at Stripe and have been working on suggestions for improvements to this article. I wanted to note here that I had posted an edit request on my user Talk page, which was partially implemented by User:MetalBreaksAndBends. I realize I should have posted the request here. Moving forward, I will do so. CianStripe (talk) 07:38, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

Request updated stats for Payment processing

Greetings! I work at Stripe and have been working on suggestions for improvements to this article. Given feedback from editors previously, I have familiarized myself with Wikipedia's rules for conflict of interest editors to make my requests in line with best practices. Below is an improvement I propose to this article.

Proposed change:

• In the Payment Processing section, please add the following:

By 2025, Stripe's platform powered more than 5 million businesses directly or via platforms, including 90% of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, 80% of the Nasdaq 100, and 25% of all newly incorporated Delaware corporations through Stripe Atlas.^[1]

CianStripe (talk) 11:07, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Partly done See my edit here focusing on number of businesses serviced; language like "Stripe's platform powered..." sounds promotional. Best, Spencer^T•C 07:07, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for reviewing. Noting your "Stripe's platform powered" justification. For the remaining proposed wording, could you share some insights as to why it is not considered? This will help to inform future requests by us. For example, could the following be considered "90% of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, 80% of the Nasdaq 100, and 25% of all newly incorporated Delaware corporations" omitting "through Stripe Atlas." in line with your earlier rationale? CianStripe (talk) 08:08, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

IMO the other statistics border on promotional-sounding trivia, numbers that can change frequently year-to-year, and also was a near word-for-word copy of the original quote in the article. Spencer^T•C 17:43, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

Understood, thank you for your feedback. CianStripe (talk) 07:31, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

Image of Dublin HQ available

Greetings! I work at Stripe and have uploaded a new image of the company's dual headquarters in Dublin (File:Stripe Dublin office.jpg). I'm curious if editors will consider adding the Dublin office image in addition to the San Francisco image to the infobox, perhaps using Template:Multiple image.

Stripe, Inc.

San Francisco headquarters Dublin headquarters
Type	Private
Industry	Financial services Payment processor
Founded	2010 (2010)
Founders	Patrick Collison John Collison
Headquarters	South San Francisco, California, U.S. and Dublin, Ireland
Services	Payments Billing Connect Sigma Atlas Radar (fraud prevention) Issuing Terminal Crypto Usage-based billing Tax
Revenue	US$5.1 billion (2024)[1]
Number of employees	8,500 (2025)[2]
Website	stripe.com

References

1. Weinberg, Cory (26 March 2025). "Stripe Minted More Than $2 Billion in Cash Last Year. Why Go Public?". The Information. Retrieved 13 August 2025.
2. Mann, Jyoti (21 January 2025). "Leaked memo: Stripe lays off 300 employees, mostly in product, engineering, and operations". Business Insider. Retrieved 22 January 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

Thanks. CianStripe (talk) 08:37, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Partly done The infobox template looks a little overloaded with 2 images, so in the history section, I added a line about the opening of the Dublin Headquarters in October 2025, and the image in line there. See my edit here. Let me know what you think. Best, Spencer^T•C 17:51, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

Addition of Magic Quadrant mention

Greetings! I work at Stripe and have the following request.

• Proposed change: I would like to request the addition of our recognition in Gartner's 2025 Magic Quadrant report in the History section of this article. In the report, it says that "Stripe is a Leader in this Magic Quadrant because it delivers good recurring billing capabilities, is very easy to deploy, and has leading market share". Since this wording is too promotional for Wikipedia, I suggest adding the following sentence:

Stripe was recognized as a leader in Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for Recurring Billing Applications.^[1]

Thanks. CianStripe (talk) 08:52, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

 Not done This appears to be promotional content without independent secondary coverage. Wikipedia generally should not catalog awards, rankings, or vendor recognitions unless reliable independent sources show that it is due. ◦ Sibshops (talk) 17:10, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@Sibshops: I have seen other accolades listed in cases where the recognition itself is notable, such as Gartner's Magic Quadrant. Two independent trade publications that have no ties to Stripe or Gartner (Fintech Marketing Hub and nocash.ro) have written about it, if these sources are helpful. Let me know if this changes anything, and I appreciate you taking a look here. ~2026-30716-67 (talk) 08:17, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

These don't appear to be generally agreed upon reliable sources. Independent secondary sources which would support inclusion would include books, news media, or scholarly works. ◦ Sibshops (talk) 11:49, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Additional services in the Technology company section

Greetings! I work at Stripe and have the following request.

• Proposed change: I'd like to suggest adding a few more of our main AI-related services to the article, specifically under the Technology company section. I think these would fit best if we organized them into clear subsections, but am open to editor feedback on the placement of them in the article:

Thanks CianStripe (talk) 07:31, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

Addition of sentence about Stripe Radar

Greetings! I work at Stripe and have the following request.

• Proposed change: I would like to add the following sentence after the sentence that says "The same year, it expanded its services to include a billing product for online businesses, allowing businesses to manage subscription recurring revenue and invoicing". New information explains an essential function of Radar within that paragraph. I suggest adding: In May 2026, Stripe announced that Radar will also be used to prevent token theft.^[1]

Thanks CianStripe (talk) 08:33, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Thought I would ping you here Spencer, since you were interested in a request I made previously. Thanks CianStripe (talk) 08:05, 24 June 2026 (UTC)