Stripe
Stripe's total payment volume reaches $1.4T, fueled by long-standing investments in AI
27 Feb 2025
Stripe’s total payment volume increased to $1.4T in 2024, up 38% year on year and equivalent to around 1.3% of global GDP
Stripe announces tender offer to provide liquidity to current and former employees
27 Feb 2025
Stripe has signed agreements with investors to provide liquidity to current and former Stripe employees through a tender offer at a $91.5B (€87.3B) valuation
Stripe completes Bridge acquisition
05 Feb 2025
Stablecoins offer significant speed, coverage, and cost improvements, which makes them a practical choice for any number of global use cases.
Stripe named a Leader by Forrester for its Billing product
05 Feb 2025
Stripe has been named a Leader in Forrester’s Q1 2025 Recurring Billing Solutions analyst report.
Businesses process more than $31 billion on Stripe from Black Friday through Cyber Monday
03 Dec 2024
From Black Friday through Cyber Monday (BFCM), Stripe processed more than [X] million transactions with a total payment volume of more than [X] billion.
1Password chooses Stripe Billing to power subscriptions
19 Nov 2024
1Password chooses Stripe Billing to power subscriptions
Stripe announces expanded interoperability, major upgrades to Stripe Billing, new partnerships with NVIDIA and Pepsi, and more
09 Oct 2024
NEW YORK - Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, today announced a series of new features to help businesses accelerate their growth.
Stripe deepens collaboration with NVIDIA to enhance Stripe’s AI-powered capabilities and expand global access to NVIDIA’s AI platform
09 Oct 2024
Stripe announced a new collaboration with NVIDIA that will advance AI for Stripe. With Stripe, NVIDIA will expand global access to NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA AI software, by enabling developers and enterprises to prepay for select NVIDIA cloud services.
Stripe expands in Toronto to accelerate Canadian business growth
27 Sep 2024
Canadian companies have grown their payment volume on Stripe more than 50% over the last two years.
Enercare chooses Stripe as its strategic payments partner
18 Sep 2024
Stripe will enable online payments for Canadian home and commercial services provider Enercare
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
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