Irish-founded payments processing company Stripe has achieved a valuation exceeding $50 billion following a tender offer that enabled employees to sell shares, according to a company update released Tuesday. The transaction, which saw participation from investors including Thrive Capital, Coatue, and a16z, valued the company at more than $159 billion (€135bn).
The tender offer allows Stripe employees to gain liquidity from their equity holdings without the company pursuing an initial public offering. Stripe indicated it utilized both external investment and its own capital to facilitate the repurchase of shares. News of the potential valuation first surfaced earlier this month, reported by Axios.
This valuation represents a significant increase for Stripe, jumping more than $30 billion from the $107 billion valuation recorded in September of the previous year. The company attributes its growth to a surge in revenue generated through its platform, reporting a more than one-third increase in 2025, reaching $1.9 trillion in processed payments. Stripe stated this figure equates to approximately 1.6 percent of global gross domestic product.
Founded in 2010 by brothers Patrick and John Collison, Stripe has developed a comprehensive payments infrastructure for businesses, encompassing billing, subscription management, tax compliance, fraud prevention, embedded finance, and global treasury management. Its Stripe Link payments platform currently serves over 200 million users.
Stripe supports more than five million businesses globally, including leading artificial intelligence companies, established blue-chip corporations, major technology firms, and startups. More than half of the novel businesses joining the Stripe platform in 2025 were located outside of the United States, the company reported.
Stripe reported remaining “robustly profitable” but did not disclose specific financial figures. The company continues to invest heavily in product development and strategic acquisitions. Recent acquisitions include Privy, a platform powering over 110 million programmable wallets, and Metronome, which facilitates complex usage-based billing models utilized by companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Confluent, and Nvidia.
The company is actively exploring the potential of stablecoins – cryptocurrencies pegged to the value of traditional currencies like the US dollar – and agentic AI in commerce. Stripe acquired Bridge in 2025 and has expanded the integration of stablecoins into its platform in recent months. Stripe launched a blockchain purpose-built for payments in September, anticipating the growing role of blockchain technology in financial transactions.
“In our view, agents will most likely soon be responsible for most internet transactions, and we will likely need blockchains that support more than one million – or even one billion – transactions per second,” Stripe stated in its update. While acknowledging that agentic commerce has been subject to hype, the company believes it holds “generationally impactful” potential. Stripe noted a shift from speculative discussion to practical implementation and experimentation in the field of agentic commerce, anticipating an acceleration of this trend.
Thrive Capital, led by Josh Kushner, was a key investor in the tender offer, according to Axios reporting. A24, the studio, was recently valued at $3.5 billion following a new investment round similarly led by Thrive Capital.
