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Stripe

South San Francisco, CA & Dublin, Ireland Founded 2010

Builds payments and financial infrastructure for internet businesses.

fintech and paymentsFinancial TechnologyEnterprise / fintechFintech
Domainstripe.com
Indexed investors9
Named founders2
Evidence policySource-linked
Products

What Stripe builds

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01

Payments

Global online and in-person payment acceptance, optimization and money movement.

02

Billing

Subscriptions, invoicing, usage-based billing and revenue workflows.

03

Connect

Payments and financial infrastructure for platforms and marketplaces.

04

Issuing

Programmable commercial-card issuing and spend controls.

05

Financial services

Treasury, tax, fraud, identity and embedded-finance infrastructure.

Company intelligence

Principal founders & key executives

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Patrick Collison, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer at StripeFounder & executive

Patrick Collison

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

Co-founded Stripe and leads company strategy, product direction and long-duration platform development.

John Collison, Co-founder & President at StripeFounder & executive

John Collison

Co-founder & President

Co-founded Stripe and leads major company, product and ecosystem initiatives as president.

Will Gaybrick, President, Technology & Business at StripeExecutive

Will Gaybrick

President, Technology & Business

Leads Stripe’s technology and business organizations across platform development and customer growth.

Steffan Tomlinson, Chief Financial Officer at StripeExecutive

Steffan Tomlinson

Chief Financial Officer

Leads finance, planning and capital-allocation execution.

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Founding team

The people who started it

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Capital relationships

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