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Stripe

Facilitator · Own-brand manufacturer · PSP

USUSFounded 2009Manufactures in-house
Revenue
$6.8Bas of 2025
Employees
~8,500
Headquarters
South San Francisco, US / Dublin, Ireland
Website
stripe.com

What it does

Programmable payments infrastructure sold to businesses from solo founders to global enterprises: online checkout, the Terminal readers for the counter and more than 100 payment methods. It says it holds local acquiring in 46 markets, and in Europe its Irish entity is an electronic money institution authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland to acquire payment transactions.

Deals

  • Apr 2019·acquired Touchtech Payments — Stripe announced on 17 April 2019 that it had acquired Touchtech Payments, a Dublin software company providing SCA-ready authentication technology to card issuers such as fintechs and challenger banks, with no price disclosed. Touchtech kept developing its products from Stripe's Dublin engineering hub.
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