Stripe is financial infrastructure for the internet. Businesses use it to accept payments, run billing and subscriptions, issue cards, and build their own revenue models on top of the API.

Customers named on the homepage span hyperscalers and AI labs (Amazon, Google, OpenAI), marketplaces and mobility (Shopify, Uber, Instacart, Hertz), and a long bench of newer companies (Figma, Linear, Substack, Supabase, ElevenLabs, Lovable, Runway). Coverage runs to 160 countries and 135+ currencies and payment methods.

Founded and led by Patrick Collison. Public scale signals from the site: 500M+ API requests per day, 200M+ active subscriptions managed through Stripe Billing, 99.999% historical uptime.

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