Catenaa, Tuesday, February 24, 2026- Business payment platform Stripe has reached a $159 billion valuation in an employee tender offer, with Investors buying the shares, including Thrive Capital, Coatue, and Andreessen Horowitz.
Co-founder and President John Collison said in an interview with Bloomberg that the valuation is up from the $106.7 billion Stripe secured last year, underscoring its staying power as one of fintech’s most valuable companies even as it keeps investors waiting for any public market debut.
“There are no imminent plans for a public listing,” Collison said.
The latest valuation estimate comes as the company said it processed $1.9 trillion in total payment volume in 2025, up 34% from the year before, according to its annual letter published Tuesday.
“We’re really seeing Stripe be the preferred vendor for anyone building AI applications or all these fast-growing applications,” Collison said. “We’re simultaneously winning a lot of share in the enterprise market,” adding that companies like Microsoft and Nvidia are switching to Stripe.
Stripe said it remained profitable last year while continuing to invest heavily in product development and acquisitions.
The company recently bought stablecoin orchestration platform Bridge and crypto wallet provider Privy as it expands deeper into crypto-related payments.
The stablecoin payment market volume doubled to about $400 billion last year, Stripe said, with roughly 60% of that estimated to be business-to-business transactions. Bridge’s volume more than quadrupled over the same period, according to the letter.
Stripe in January said it acquired Metronome, which provides usage-based billing tools that have become popular with artificial-intelligence companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
