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Stripe Revenue and Growth Statistics

Backlinko Team

Written by Backlinko Team

How Many People Use Stripe?

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 $91.5 billion.

Below you’ll find the latest available Stripe statistics:

Key Stripe Statistics

  • Currently, 1.5 million live websites use Stripe.
  • More than 100 companies process over $1 billion each via Stripe.
  • Stripe is currently valued at $91.5 billion.
  • Stripe has raised a total of $9.81 billion.
  • Stripe’s gross revenue reached $18 billion in 2024.
  • 17 companies have been acquired by Stripe.

How Many Websites Accept Payments via Stripe?

According to BuiltWith data, 1,507,836 live websites accept payments on their site using Stripe.

1,507,836 live websites accept payments on their site using Stripe

According to Datanyze data, Stripe has a 22.01% market share in the payment processing category when ranked by the number of websites using the software.

Sources: BuiltWith, Datanyze

Where Is Stripe Available Worldwide?

Stripe is available for businesses in 51 countries or territories.

Stripe Atlas, a service for incorporating a company in the US (Delaware), is available in more than 140 countries.

Sources: Stripe, Stripe (2)

How Much Funding Has Stripe Raised?

Stripe has raised a total of $9.81 billion to date.

Stripe has raised a total of $9.81 billion in funding

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 $0.2 million
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: Tracxn, CB Insights, Crunchbase, TechCrunch, PrivCo, Reuters

How Much Is Stripe Worth?

Stripe is currently valued at $91.5 billion after announcing a tender offer for employees and shareholders in early 2025.

Stripe is currently valued at $91.5 billion

Stripe’s valuation is now just a fraction under its all-time peak of $94.4 billion 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
February 2025 $91.5 billion

Sources: TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Crunchbase, CB Insights, CNBC, TechCrunch (2), TechCrunch (3), TechCrunch (4)

How Much Does Stripe Process in Payment Volume?

In 2024, payments made through Stripe totaled $1.4 trillion, an increase of 40% compared to $1 trillion volume in 2023.

How much does Stripe process in payment volume

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
2024 $1.4 trillion

Sources: Bloomberg, TechCrunch, CB Insights, Stripe

How Many Payment Methods Does Stripe Support?

Stripe supports a total of 62 payment methods.

Stripe supports a total of 62 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 11
Bank debits 7
Bank redirects 9
Bank transfers 5
Buy now, pay later 5
Real-time payments 5
Vouchers 4
Wallets 16

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). The 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 Get Latka, Stripe reportedly registered $18 billion in gross revenue (before paying transaction processing costs) in 2024.

Stripe revenue by year

That’s an annual increase of 20% considering Stripe’s 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
2023 $16 billion
2024 $18 billion

Sources: Get Latka, The Information, Forbes, Forbes (2), TechCrunch, CB Insights, Wall Street Journal

Stripe Investments

Stripe has participated in funding other companies as an investor.

As of July 2025, Stripe has made 60 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 6
2025 2

Sources: Tracxn, Dealroom, Crunchbase

Stripe Acquisitions

According to Crunchbase data, Stripe has acquired a total of 17 companies.

Stripe’s latest acquisition (announced in June 2025) was Privy, a user data API platform.

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
Privy June 2025

Sources: Crunchbase, Tracxn, TechCrunch

Stripe Enterprise Growth

Stripe has over 100 companies that process more than $1 billion via Stripe on an annual basis.

The number of large customers processing more than $1 billion each has more than doubled from more than 40 firms reported earlier in 2020.

Sources: Stripe, X

Who Founded Stripe?

Stripe was founded in 2010 by brothers Patrick and John Collison.

As of September 2024, Forbes estimates that the Collison brothers have a collective net worth of $20.2 billion ($10.1 billion each).

Their net worth has increased by over 3x since 2021, when they were each worth $3.2 billion.

The Collison brothers became millionaires in 2008 during their 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 100,000 companies have been incorporated using Stripe Atlas.

Over 100,000 companies have been incorporated using Stripe Atlas

Stripe Atlas charges $500 per setup. So we can assume Stripe has made $50 million from the startup incorporation business — and that’s just from initial fees.

Source: Stripe

How Many People Work at Stripe?

Around 8,500 employees work at Stripe.

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 $168,709 (based on 163 records).

Sources: eFinancialCareers, The Information, TechCrunch, H1B Salary Database

Conclusion

That’s all for my collection of Stripe stats for 2025. 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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