Stripe’s valuation has climbed 74% to $159 billion, underscoring renewed investor confidence in the fintech sector. The company's customers include Elon Musk-led social media platform X, Amazon, car rental firm Hertz Global, and grocery delivery app Instacart.
On Tuesday (February 25, 2026), Stripe announced that its latest secondary transaction valued the company at $159 billion. Investors buying the shares include Thrive Capital, Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, and Stripe itself.
"Stripe remained robustly profitable, allowing us to continue investing heavily in product development as well as acquisitions," co-founders John Collison and Patrick Collison said in their annual letter.
Stripe has timed this news with its annual letter from founders Patrick and John Collison, which showcases its year of product releases and offers insights into global usage of its products over the past year. In February 2025, Stripe announced its previous tender offer, which valued the company at $91.5 billion.
The company, headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, enables companies to accept payments, make payouts, and automate financial processes. Beyond payments, Stripe's revenue suite is set to hit an annual run rate of $1 billion this year, the company said.
Analysts believe ample financing is allowing late-stage startups to remain private longer, as it offers them an alternative to public markets that have remained volatile in early 2026.
According to Stripe, stablecoin payments’ volume has doubled worldwide to around $400 billion in 2025, 60% of which it estimates comes from B2B payments. That growth is one reason Stripe has invested heavily in crypto foundations recently, acquiring crypto wallet service Privy in July, and unveiling its own blockchain for payments, Tempo, in September.
“As for Bridge, the stablecoin orchestration platform that Stripe acquired last year, it saw its volume more than quadruple,” the company said.
"We believe Stripe's lead will only expand across the future of money movement due to their leadership in agentic commerce, stablecoins, and more," said Kareem Zaki, partner at Thrive Capital.