Stripe Revenue and Growth Statistics
Written by Backlinko Team
Stripe launched in 2011 as payment processing software for online businesses.
Initially only available in the US, Stripe has expanded internationally and currently serves businesses based in 50 countries.
Following its public launch in September 2011, it took the startup less than 3 years to achieve a valuation of over $1 billion.
And today, the company is valued at $70 billion. Stripe reported significant increases in payment processing volume during the pandemic but growth rates have slowed since then.
Below you’ll find the latest available Stripe statistics:
- Stripe Statistics (Top Picks)
- How Many Websites Accept Payments via Stripe?
- In How Many Countries Is Stripe Available?
- How Much Funding Has Stripe Raised?
- How Much Is Stripe Worth?
- How Much Does Stripe Process in Payment Volume?
- How Many Payment Methods Does Stripe Support?
- How Does Stripe Make Money?
- Stripe Revenue by Year
- Stripe Investments
- Stripe Acquisitions
- Stripe Enterprise Growth
- Who Founded Stripe?
- How Many Companies Have Used Stripe Atlas?
- How Many People Work at Stripe?
Key Stripe Statistics
- Currently, 1.6 million live websites use Stripe.
- More than 100 companies process over $1 billion each via Stripe.
- Stripe is currently valued at $70 billion.
- Stripe has raised a total of $9.39 billion.
- Stripe’s gross revenue reached $14.4 billion in 2022.
- 16 companies have been acquired by Stripe.
How Many Websites Accept Payments via Stripe?
According to BuiltWith data, 1,597,288 live websites accept payments on their site using Stripe.
According to Datanyze data, Stripe has a 17.10% market share in the payment processing category, when ranked by the number of websites using the software.
Where Is Stripe Available Worldwide?
Stripe is available for businesses in 46 countries.
Stripe’s subsidiary (Paystack) supports another 4 counties which bring a total count of Stripe supported countries to 50, including its extended network.
Stripe Atlas, a service for incorporating a company in the US (Delaware), is available in more than 140 countries.
How Much Funding Has Stripe Raised?
Stripe has raised a total of $9.39 billion to date.
Stripe has raised $694 million in its most recent funding round in April 2024.
We’ve prepared a table on Stripe funding since 2010:
| Funding round, Date | Amount |
|---|---|
| Seed, June 2010 | $200 thousand |
| Seed VC, March 2011 | $2 million |
| Series A, February 2012 | $18 million |
| Series B, July 2012 | $20 million |
| Series C, January 2014 | $80 million |
| Series C – II, December 2014 | $20 million |
| Series C – III, July 2015 | $100 million |
| Series D, November 2016 | $150 million |
| Line of Credit, November 2016 | $250 million |
| Series Unknown, December 2016 | $16 million |
| Series Unknown, March 2017 | $5.05 million |
| Series Unknown, July 2017 | $6.22 million |
| Series Unknown, March 2018 | $38.65 million |
| Series F, September 2018 | $245 million |
| Series F – II, January 2019 | $100 million |
| Series G, August 2019 | $250 million |
| Series G – II, April 2020 | $600 million |
| Series H, March 2021 | $600 million |
| Corporate Minority II – June 2021 | $350 million |
| Series I, March 2023 | $6.5 billion |
| Tender Offer, April 2024 | $694 million |
Sources: CB Insights, Crunchbase, TechCrunch, PrivCo, Reuters
How Much Is Stripe Worth?
Stripe is currently valued at $70 billion following a recent Sequoia Capital investment in the company.
Stripe’s valuation has increased by 50% from its $50 billion valuation in 2023 but remains below the all-time peak of $94.4 billion valuation in 2021.
We’ve charted Stripe’s valuation since 2011:
| Funding round, Date | Valuation |
|---|---|
| Seed, March 2011 | $20 million |
| Series A, February 2012 | $100 million |
| Series B, July 2012 | $500 million |
| Series C, January 2014 | $1.75 billion |
| Series C – II, December 2014 | $3.5 billion |
| Series C – III, July 2015 | $5 billion |
| Series D, November 2016 | $9.2 billion |
| Series E, September 2018 | $19.8 billion |
| Series E – II, January 2019 | $22.4 billion |
| Series G, September 2019 | $35.25 billion |
| Series G – II, April 2020 | $36 billion |
| Series H, March 2021 | $94.4 billion |
| Series I, March 2023 | $50 billion |
| February 2024 | $65 billion |
| July 2024 | $70 billion |
Sources: TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Crunchbase, CB Insights, CNBC, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, TechCrunch
How Much Does Stripe Process in Payment Volume?
In 2023, payments made through Stripe totaled $1 trillion in 2023, an increase of 22.4% compared to $817 billion volume in 2022.
Here’s the table with estimated Stripe processing volume growth since 2015:
| Year | Estimated payment volume |
|---|---|
| 2015 | $10 billion |
| 2016 | $20 billion |
| 2017 | $50 billion |
| 2018 | $100 billion |
| 2019 | $350 billion |
| 2020 | $400 billion |
| 2021 | $640 billion |
| 2022 | $817 billion |
| 2023 | $1 trillion |
Sources: Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Stripe, CB Insights, Stripe, Stripe
How Many Payment Methods Does Stripe Support?
Stripe supports a total of 59 payment methods.
Here’s the breakdown of the number of available payment methods supported by Stripe in each category:
| Category | Number of payment methods |
|---|---|
| Cards | 10 |
| Bank debits | 6 |
| Bank redirects | 10 |
| Bank transfers | 5 |
| Buy now, pay later | 5 |
| Real-time payments | 4 |
| Vouchers | 4 |
| Wallets | 15 |
Source: Stripe
How Does Stripe Make Money?
The Stripe business model is built on charging a commission per successful transaction.
The standard rate that Stripe charges is 2.9% of the transaction + 30 cents (for domestic cards).
That said, custom pricing is available for enterprise clients.
Pricing for Stripe Radar (a fraud protection tool) is charged per screened transaction, with a standard fee of 5 to 7 cents.
To set up a new company via the Atlas product, Stripe charges a $500 setup fee (including government fees). Annual fee to run a business afterwards costs $100.
Sources: Stripe, Stripe Radar, Stripe Atlas
Stripe Revenue by Year
Stripe doesn’t release official data on company revenue.
According to The Information, Stripe reportedly registered $14.4 billion in gross revenue (before paying transaction processing costs) in 2022, while net revenue hit $3.2 billion in 2022.
That’s an annual increase of 20% considering Stripe gross revenue hit $12 billion in 2021.
Stripe’s net revenue grew by 24% to $3.1 billion in 2022 (up from $2.5 billion in 2021).
Here’s the table with Stripe revenue growth since 2014:
| Year | Revenue |
|---|---|
| 2014 | $40 million |
| 2016 | $450 million |
| 2017 | $1 billion |
| 2018 | $1.5 billion |
| 2019 | $2 billion |
| 2020 | $7.4 billion |
| 2021 | $12 billion |
| 2022 | $14.4 billion |
Sources: The Information, Forbes, Forbes, TechCrunch, CB Insights, Wall Street Journal
Stripe Investments
Stripe has participated in funding other companies as an investor.
As of October 2024, Stripe has made 61 investments.
Here’s a breakdown of Stripe’s investments since 2017:
| Year | Number of deals |
|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2019 | 9 |
| 2020 | 9 |
| 2021 | 20 |
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2023 | 3 |
| 2024 (as of October | 4 |
Sources: Dealroom, Crunchbase
Stripe Acquisitions
According to Crunchbase data, Stripe has acquired a total of 16 companies.
Stripe’s latest acquisition (announced in October 2024) was Bridge, a developer of stablecoin API.
Here’s the breakdown of Stripe acquisitions since 2013:
| Acquired company | Date |
|---|---|
| Kickoff | March 2013 |
| Runkit | September 2016 |
| RethinkDB | October 2016 |
| Indie Hackers | April 2017 |
| Payable | July 2017 |
| Index Systems | March 2018 |
| Touchtech Payments | April 2019 |
| Paystack | October 2020 |
| Tax Jar | April 2021 |
| Bouncer | May 2021 |
| OpenChannel | December 2021 |
| BBPOS | January 2022 |
| Okay | May 2023 |
| Lemon Squeezy | July 2024 |
| Bridge | October 2024 |
Sources: Crunchbase, Tracxn, TechCrunch
Stripe Enterprise Growth
Stripe has over 100 companies that process more than $1 billion via Stripe on an annual basis each.
Number of large customers processing more than $1 billion each has more than doubled from more than 40 firms reported earlier in 2020.
Who Founded Stripe?
Stripe was founded in 2010 by brothers Patrick and John Collison.
As of November 2024, Forbes estimates that the Collison brothers have a collective net worth of $14.4 billion ($7.2 billion each).
Their net worth has increased by 2.25x since 2021 when they were each worth $3.2 billion but dropped from peak net worth of $9.5 billion for each in 2022.
The Collison brothers became millionaires in 2008 during teenage years, following the sale of their company Auctomatic for $5 million.
Sources: Forbes, Forbes, Crunchbase
How Many Companies Have Used Stripe Atlas?
According to the company, over 60,000 companies have been incorporated using Stripe Atlas.
Stripe Atlas charges $500 per setup. So we can assume Stripe has made $30 million from the startup incorporation business — and that’s just from initial fees.
Source: Stripe
How Many People Work at Stripe?
Around 7,000 employees work at Stripe.
Earlier, Stripe laid off a few dozen employees (mostly in its recruiting department) in mid-2023 and cut 14% of its workforce in 2022 (when the fintech company had 8,000 employees at a time).
Stripe employees with foreign citizenship on an H-1B visa in the US received a median salary of $156,531 (based on 162 records).
Sources: The Information, TechCrunch, H1B Salary Database
Conclusion
That’s all for my collection of Stripe stats for 2024. Stripe has quickly grown into one of the major players in the fintech industry, processing one trillion dollars annually.
Hopefully, you found these facts and figures interesting. As a private company, Stripe doesn’t disclose a lot of juicy data. But I did my best to collect what was out there.
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