Stripe Raises $1 Billion In New Financing Round: Stripe Hits $159 Billion Valuation as It Launches $1 Billion Tender Offer for Employees
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Stripe has announced a new financing round that values the payments giant at $159 billion, nearly doubling its valuation from $91.5 billion just a year ago. The company has signed agreements with a group of prominent investors to fund a tender offer that will allow current and former employees to sell shares and cash out a portion of their equity.
Who is backing the deal
Thrive Capital, Coatue Management, and Andreessen Horowitz are among the investors participating in the round. Stripe itself will also use a portion of its own capital to repurchase shares, making this a hybrid deal that combines outside investment with an internal buyback. The total liquidity being made available through the offer sits at approximately $1 billion.
A business growing fast enough to justify the number
The valuation is not coming out of nowhere. Stripe processed $1.9 trillion in total payment volume in 2025, a 34% increase over the prior year. To put that in context, that figure represents roughly 1.6% of global GDP. The company also powers 90% of the companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and 80% of the Nasdaq 100, a client base that signals just how deeply embedded Stripe has become in the financial infrastructure of large enterprises.
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Beyond its core payments business, Stripe’s Revenue suite is now on track to hit an annual run rate of $1 billion in 2026, suggesting the company is successfully expanding beyond transaction processing into broader financial tooling.
What the money means for employees
Tender offers like this one are a common way for private companies to give employees liquidity without going public. Because Stripe remains private, employees have no public market to sell shares on. The deal gives them a structured exit at a price that reflects the company’s current valuation, which has risen sharply over the past year.
Enterprise clients and AI companies driving growth
Stripe co-founder and president John Collison pointed to enterprise giants like Microsoft and Nvidia as increasingly active users of Stripe’s products. He also highlighted a fast-growing group of artificial intelligence companies joining the platform, which tracks with the broader surge in AI-related businesses that need reliable payment and financial infrastructure as they scale.
The cohort of companies that signed on with Stripe in 2025 is, by the company’s own account, the strongest performing group it has ever onboarded, adding further weight to the case that its growth trajectory is holding.
With no IPO announced and a valuation that keeps climbing, Stripe appears content to stay private for now while giving its workforce a way to benefit from what it has built.
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