Stripe

Fintech · Payments Infrastructure · Financial Software · San Francisco, USA and Dublin, Ireland

Stripe provides programmable financial infrastructure for startups, enterprises, software platforms, and marketplaces. Its products handle online and in-person payments, subscription billing, invoicing, tax, fraud prevention, payouts, card issuing, and embedded financial services. Stripe earns revenue through transaction and product-usage fees, subscriptions, and custom enterprise packages.

In 2025, more than five million businesses used Stripe directly or through platforms, generating $1.9 trillion in total volume. Stripe has also expanded into stablecoin infrastructure and agentic commerce, including tools developed with OpenAI for transactions initiated through AI interfaces.