April 27: Stripe’s 2021 Annual Update

Danny Sheridan
Fact of the Day 1
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2 min readApr 27, 2022

Source: Stripe
Published: April 2022

Stripe’s 2021 Annual Update

Stripe is an Irish-American financial services and software company last valued at $95B after raising $600M in Q1 2021. They provide payment processing software and APIs for e-commerce sites and mobile apps.

Stripe’s mission statement is to grow the GDP of the internet.

Excerpts from a letter written by the founders (two brothers) to the Stripe community:

  • 1,400 new companies (and 100 nonprofits) joined Stripe each day in 2021
  • Online spending was only 12% of global spending in 2021
  • 60% of the technology companies that went public in 2021 are Stripe customers
  • Only 48% of small businesses say they have access to all of the financing they need

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