4/25/2024 11:28:49 PM Stripe is bringing back crypto payments with stablecoins By FinTech Collective Stripe announced that it would let customers accept cryptocurrency payments, starting with just one currency in particular, USDC...
8/4/2023 12:55:10 PM Stripe names Confluent executive Steffan Tomlinson as CFO By Sarah Wolter Tomlinson previously helped take data analytics company Confluent public as its CFO in 2021, which is notable as Stripe has been...
6/15/2023 7:43:56 PM Stripe acquires a (non-fintech) startup and expands its issuing product into credit By Samantha Wulfson Stripe acquired Okay, developer of a low-code analytics software to help engineering leaders better understand how their teams are...
5/16/2023 3:06:15 PM Stripe expands access to its crypto onramp with a new hosted option By FinTech Collective Web3 companies can now direct customers to a Stripe-hosted onramp to buy cryptocurrencies. Both embedded and Stripe-hosted onramps are...
1/31/2023 11:20:59 PM A Tech Giant Closes In on a Pricey Funding Round By Sarah Wolter Stripe plans to raise roughly $2.5b at a valuation of $55b to $60b. The investment, led by existing investor Thrive Capital, would be...
7/14/2022 5:23:51 PM Stripe cuts internal valuation by 28% By Sarah Wolter Stripe told employees in an email Friday that the internal share price was about $29, compared with $40 in the most previous internal...
5/25/2022 12:53:56 PM Stripe launches App Marketplace, scripts and tools incorporating third-party SaaS apps that work alongside Stripe By Sarah Wolter The move potentially represents Stripe's biggest leap yet away from payments. The Marketplace is launching with 50 apps that Stripe’s...
5/5/2022 12:11:37 PM Stripe flexes its fintech muscle with Financial Connections to pull banking data automatically By Sarah Wolter Financial Connections will let Stripe’s customers connect directly to their customer’s bank accounts, to access financial data to speed...
10/29/2021 12:36:34 PM Klarna and Stripe enter strategic partnership By Carlos Alonso Torras Retailers using Stripe can now activate Klarna as the preferred payment method in their checkout within minutes, providing a superior...
10/29/2021 12:34:49 PM Payments company Stripe is kick starting market for carbon removal By Carlos Alonso Torras The technology for removing billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere isn’t ready. Stripe wants to speed things up.
10/13/2021 3:17:36 PM Stripe is hiring a crypto team 3 years after ending bitcoin support By Sarah Wolter The team – described in LinkedIn posts and job listings – will be run by Guillaume Poncin, Stripe’s former head of engineering for...
6/18/2021 3:53:33 PM Stripe launches Stripe Identity, an identity verification tool for online businesses By Carlos Alonso Torras The self-service tool is designed to let businesses deploy a verification flow fully hosted by Stripe as a means of reducing fraud,...
6/11/2021 4:49:25 PM Payments giant Stripe launches Stripe Tax to integrate sales tax calculations for 30+ countries By Carlos Alonso Torras On the heels of acquiring sales tax specialist TaxJar in April, today Stripe is making another big move in the area of tax.
4/28/2021 1:45:10 PM Stripe acquires TaxJar to add cloud-based, automated sales tax tools into its payments platform By Sarah Wolter Stripe will be integrating TaxJar technology into its revenue platform — where it will sit alongside Stripe Billing (its subscription...
4/16/2021 12:00:00 AM Spend management startup Ramp confirms $115m raise at a $1.6b valuation By Faisal Kawar Ramp raised the capital in two tranches, the first of which, a $65m investment led by D1 Capital Partners, valued the startup at $1.1b. A...
4/13/2021 6:17:23 PM How payment processor Stripe became Silicon Valley’s hottest startup By Sarah Wolter The pandemic threatened to clobber Stripe. Instead, it turbocharged the company. Stripe’s revenue last year rose nearly 70%, to about...