Stripe

Stripe is the global internet infrastructure company that has done more than any other organization to make online commerce frictionless, global, and accessible to businesses of every size — from a first-time developer building their first e-commerce project to Fortune 500 companies processing billions of dollars in annual transactions. Founded in 2010 in Palo Alto by brothers Patrick Collison and John Collison, who were frustrated by how needlessly difficult it was to accept payments on the internet, Stripe was built on a single radical insight: that payments should be a few lines of code, not months of integration work. That insight, translated into the most developer-friendly payments API ever created, sparked a revolution in financial infrastructure that continues to reshape the global economy. Stripe's product portfolio has expanded far beyond its founding payments API into a comprehensive platform covering every aspect of the financial infrastructure a modern internet business requires. Stripe Payments handles card, bank transfer, buy-now-pay-later, and local payment method acceptance across 195+ countries in 135+ currencies. Stripe Billing automates subscription management, invoicing, revenue recognition, and churn prevention for SaaS businesses and membership platforms. Stripe Connect enables marketplace and platform businesses to manage complex multi-party payment flows, split transactions, onboard sub-merchants, and comply with regulatory requirements across dozens of jurisdictions. Stripe Radar, the platform's machine learning-powered fraud detection system, blocks billions of dollars in fraudulent transactions annually while minimizing false positives that would block legitimate purchases. Stripe's business banking products — including Stripe Treasury, Stripe Issuing, and Stripe Capital — have extended the company's ambition from processing payments to becoming a comprehensive financial operating system for internet businesses. Stripe Atlas has helped thousands of founders incorporate Delaware companies, open bank accounts, and accept their first payments in a single streamlined process. Stripe's valuation — among the highest of any private technology company in the world — reflects the market's recognition that payment infrastructure is not a commodity, and that Stripe has built a level of developer trust, product quality, and global coverage that will be extraordinarily difficult for any competitor to replicate. For any business that operates on the internet, Stripe is the financial infrastructure partner most trusted to make commerce work reliably, securely, and at global scale.