category:
  description: Completed acquisitions, talent acquisitions, announced agreements, and credibly reported deal discussions involving Stripe.
  id: acquisitions
  label: Acquisitions
  order: 3
events:
  - amount:
      currency: USD
      display: More than $7 billion
    confidence: reported
    date: 2026-08-16
    date_precision: day
    details:
      - label: Reported deal state
        value: Finalized deal
      - label: Underlying report
        value: Bloomberg, as cited by TechCrunch
      - label: Stripe response
        value: Declined to comment on rumors or speculation
    id: stripe-reportedly-finalizes-a-deal-to-acquire-openrouter
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - OpenRouter
    source_ids:
      - source-e850972d627be2bcc336
    status: Reported finalized agreement; completion not reported
    summary: TechCrunch, citing Bloomberg, reported that Stripe had finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion. Stripe declined to comment, and the report did not establish transaction completion.
    tags:
      - acquisition
      - artificial-intelligence
      - reported-agreement
    title: Stripe reportedly finalizes a deal to acquire OpenRouter
  - amount:
      currency: USD
      display: About $10 billion (reported)
    confidence: reported
    date: 2026-07-24
    date_precision: day
    id: openrouter-acquisition-talks-reported
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - OpenRouter
    source_ids:
      - source-990ab773c6c0913272f7
      - source-cf513568945a043b22bf
    status: Reported talks; no agreement announced
    summary: Stripe held talks to acquire AI-model marketplace OpenRouter at a price near $10 billion, according to reporting that cautioned the discussions could still collapse. Neither company had announced an agreement.
    tags:
      - reported-talks
      - artificial-intelligence
    title: Stripe reportedly discusses acquiring OpenRouter
  - amount:
      currency: USD
      display: More than $53 billion (reported)
      value: 53000000000
    confidence: reported
    date: 2026-07-15
    date_precision: day
    details:
      - label: Reported price per share
        value: $60.50
      - label: Proposed ownership
        value: Stripe and Advent would own equal stakes
    id: paypal-stripe-advent-offer-reported
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Advent International
      - PayPal
    related_events:
      - paypal-preliminary-interest-reported
    source_ids:
      - source-ab40489a8a581a196987
      - source-d7cf2394464d8451acf0
      - source-f9148b5ae819e1e22054
    status: Reported offer; not accepted
    summary: Stripe and Advent International submitted a joint $60.50-per-share offer for PayPal worth more than $53 billion, Reuters reported. PayPal had not accepted the proposal, and later reporting said its board considered the bid inadequate.
    tags:
      - reported-offer
      - payments
    title: Stripe and Advent reportedly offer more than $53 billion for PayPal
  - confidence: reported
    date: 2026-02-24
    date_precision: day
    id: paypal-preliminary-interest-reported
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - PayPal
    related_events:
      - paypal-stripe-advent-offer-reported
    source_ids:
      - source-8e3a72ba39c49c012923
    status: Preliminary interest reported
    summary: Before the later reported bid, Stripe was reported to be considering an acquisition of PayPal or selected PayPal assets. The inquiry was preliminary and did not constitute an announced transaction.
    tags:
      - reported-talks
      - payments
    title: Stripe reportedly explores buying all or part of PayPal
  - confidence: reported
    date: 2026-02-12
    date_precision: day
    id: partydao-team-joins-stripe
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - PartyDAO
      - Party Protocol
    source_ids:
      - source-a4ec681ae567502b002c
    status: Talent acquisition completed
    summary: Stripe acquired the team behind PartyDAO, the organization that developed Party Protocol. Reporting described an acquihire rather than a purchase of the protocol, which was scheduled for deprecation.
    tags:
      - talent-acquisition
      - crypto
    title: PartyDAO team joins Stripe
  - amount:
      currency: USD
      display: About $1 billion (reported; terms not disclosed by Stripe)
    confidence: confirmed
    date: 2026-01-14
    date_precision: day
    id: metronome-acquisition-completed
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Metronome
    related_events:
      - metronome-acquisition-agreement
    source_ids:
      - source-df868a6dadc87913946e
      - source-796cdb4df88d6b0d4e78
    status: Completed
    summary: Stripe completed its acquisition of usage-based billing platform Metronome after announcing the agreement in December 2025. Stripe said Metronome would continue operating as a product and brand within Stripe.
    tags:
      - completed
      - billing
    title: Stripe completes Metronome acquisition
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2025-12-10
    date_precision: day
    id: valora-team-joins-stripe
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Valora
    source_ids:
      - source-697130054848d78fea4f
      - source-d9f90ac2db539a45e974
    status: Talent acquisition completed
    summary: The team behind mobile crypto wallet Valora joined Stripe to work on stablecoin products. Valora described the move as a team acquisition and said the existing wallet would transition to a new steward.
    tags:
      - talent-acquisition
      - stablecoins
      - crypto
    title: Valora team joins Stripe
  - amount:
      currency: USD
      display: About $1 billion (reported; official terms undisclosed)
    confidence: confirmed
    date: 2025-12-02
    date_precision: day
    id: metronome-acquisition-agreement
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Metronome
    related_events:
      - metronome-acquisition-completed
    source_ids:
      - source-9137103ae91044e460d7
      - source-6e7455b09494678f92f8
    status: Agreement announced; later completed
    summary: Stripe and Metronome announced a definitive acquisition agreement intended to combine Metronome's usage-based billing capabilities with Stripe Billing. The transaction remained subject to customary closing conditions.
    tags:
      - agreement-announced
      - billing
    title: Stripe agrees to acquire Metronome
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2025-07-18
    date_precision: day
    id: orum-team-joins-stripe
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Orum
    source_ids:
      - source-a57c4c8a77e5bed9da3c
    status: Talent acquisition completed
    summary: Stripe acquired the team from instant bank-payment infrastructure company Orum. Orum said the team would join Stripe, while industry reporting characterized the transaction as an acquihire rather than a purchase of the full platform.
    tags:
      - talent-acquisition
      - bank-payments
    title: Orum team joins Stripe
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2025-07
    date_precision: month
    id: privy-acquisition-completed
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Privy
    related_events:
      - privy-acquisition-announced
    source_ids:
      - source-bd6516ac551f19c37d33
    status: Completed
    summary: Stripe completed its acquisition of crypto-wallet infrastructure provider Privy in July 2025. Stripe later said Privy powered more than 110 million programmable wallets.
    tags:
      - completed
      - crypto
      - wallets
    title: Stripe completes Privy acquisition
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2025-06-11
    date_precision: day
    id: privy-acquisition-announced
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Privy
    related_events:
      - privy-acquisition-completed
    source_ids:
      - source-f224d5f90223923cfaf7
    status: Agreement announced; completed in July 2025
    summary: Stripe agreed to acquire crypto-wallet infrastructure provider Privy. Privy said it would remain an independent product inside Stripe, and the announcement described the transaction as subject to customary closing conditions.
    tags:
      - agreement-announced
      - crypto
      - wallets
    title: Stripe announces agreement to acquire Privy
  - amount:
      currency: USD
      display: $1.1 billion (reported)
      value: 1100000000
    confidence: confirmed
    date: 2025-02-04
    date_precision: day
    id: bridge-acquisition-completed
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Bridge
    related_events:
      - bridge-acquisition-announced
    source_ids:
      - source-b5f3dd49770d38d3cc50
    status: Completed
    summary: Stripe completed its acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge after receiving regulatory approvals. The transaction was widely reported at $1.1 billion, while Stripe's completion notice did not disclose financial terms.
    tags:
      - completed
      - stablecoins
      - crypto
    title: Stripe completes Bridge acquisition
  - amount:
      currency: USD
      display: $1.1 billion (reported)
      value: 1100000000
    confidence: confirmed
    date: 2024-10-21
    date_precision: day
    id: bridge-acquisition-announced
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Bridge
    related_events:
      - bridge-acquisition-completed
    source_ids:
      - source-d11e76117c5e0a03a1f2
      - source-dd3581c945230bf4eb86
    status: Agreement announced; later completed
    summary: Stripe confirmed plans to acquire stablecoin infrastructure platform Bridge in a transaction reported at $1.1 billion. The agreement was subject to regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions.
    tags:
      - agreement-announced
      - stablecoins
      - crypto
    title: Stripe agrees to acquire Bridge
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2024-07-26
    date_precision: day
    id: lemon-squeezy-acquisition-completed
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Lemon Squeezy
    source_ids:
      - source-268854c30a2fade4c280
    status: Completed
    summary: Stripe completed its acquisition of merchant-of-record platform Lemon Squeezy. Lemon Squeezy said the companies would combine capabilities while continuing to support its software-business customers; terms were not disclosed.
    tags:
      - completed
      - merchant-of-record
    title: Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2024-03-29
    date_precision: day
    id: supaglue-team-joins-stripe
    metrics:
      - context: At acquisition
        label: Team members
        value: "4"
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Supaglue
    people:
      - George Xing
      - Thomas Chen
    source_ids:
      - source-df395fc3ea62abc206fa
      - source-5026cf90e1d1c99b4ed0
    status: Talent acquisition completed
    summary: Stripe completed an acquihire of Supaglue's four-person team for an undisclosed sum. The team joined Stripe's Revenue and Finance Automation group to work on its reporting platform, data services, and real-time analytics.
    tags:
      - talent-acquisition
      - revenue-automation
      - developer-tools
    title: Supaglue team joins Stripe
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2023-05-31
    date_precision: day
    id: okay-acquisition-completed
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Okay
    source_ids:
      - source-f9f2213f752388778543
    status: Completed
    summary: Stripe acquired Okay, a seven-person startup that built engineering-productivity analytics. Okay's founders confirmed the transaction and said the team would join Stripe; financial terms were not disclosed.
    tags:
      - completed
      - developer-tools
    title: Stripe acquires Okay
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2023-04-11
    date_precision: day
    id: indie-hackers-spins-out-from-stripe
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Indie Hackers
    people:
      - Courtland Allen
    related_events:
      - indie-hackers-acquisition-completed
    source_ids:
      - source-dce3e584b843eb876619
    status: Divested to founder
    summary: Six years after Stripe acquired Indie Hackers, founder Courtland Allen announced that he had bought it back. Stripe remained involved as a seed investor, making the event a reversal of the 2017 acquisition rather than another purchase.
    tags:
      - divestiture
      - community
    title: Indie Hackers becomes independent again
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2022-01-21
    date_precision: day
    id: bbpos-acquisition-announced
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - BBPOS
    source_ids:
      - source-34734b9c0fe2092013a9
      - source-7aebf381a98587d0d180
    status: Agreement announced; completed by April 2022
    summary: Stripe announced an agreement to acquire card-reader manufacturer BBPOS, bringing more Terminal hardware development in-house. The agreement was subject to customary closing conditions; Stripe's April 2022 business update later said it had acquired BBPOS.
    tags:
      - agreement-announced
      - terminal
      - hardware
    title: Stripe announces agreement to acquire BBPOS
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2021-12-06
    date_precision: day
    id: openchannel-acquisition-completed
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - OpenChannel
    source_ids:
      - source-2d5b5463c7b9bca3aaac
    status: Completed
    summary: Stripe acquired OpenChannel, software for building app marketplaces and developer ecosystems. The OpenChannel team joined Stripe to help expand Stripe App Marketplace capabilities; terms were not disclosed.
    tags:
      - completed
      - app-marketplace
    title: Stripe acquires OpenChannel
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2021-10-20
    date_precision: day
    id: recko-acquisition-agreement
    locations:
      - Bengaluru, India
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Recko
    source_ids:
      - source-f3752724710cc37c8ce1
      - source-2d56ebbcddbc67a32ada
    status: Agreement announced; completed in 2021
    summary: Stripe signed an agreement to acquire Bengaluru-based payments-reconciliation platform Recko. The announcement said the transaction was subject to customary closing conditions; Recko's company history confirms Stripe completed the acquisition in 2021.
    tags:
      - agreement-announced
      - reconciliation
    title: Stripe agrees to acquire Recko
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2021-05-14
    date_precision: day
    id: bouncer-acquisition-completed
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Bouncer
    source_ids:
      - source-87dbe8f2a19c4579de12
    status: Completed
    summary: Stripe acquired Bouncer, whose card-scanning and verification technology was designed to reduce fraud during online transactions. Bouncer's team joined Stripe, and financial terms were not disclosed.
    tags:
      - completed
      - fraud-prevention
    title: Stripe acquires Bouncer
  - amount:
      currency: USD
      display: $850 million to $900 million (reported later)
    confidence: confirmed
    date: 2021-04-27
    date_precision: day
    id: taxjar-acquisition-agreement
    metrics:
      - context: At the agreement announcement
        label: TaxJar employees
        value: About 200
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - TaxJar
    source_ids:
      - source-c87c7df4d40a29c6f83b
      - source-fbc1c21181e56c57a806
      - source-7ce1b3c72bdb24dd6010
    status: Agreement announced; completed in 2021
    summary: Stripe signed an agreement to acquire sales-tax software company TaxJar and its approximately 200 employees, subject to standard closing conditions. TaxJar's company history confirms Stripe completed the acquisition in 2021; later reporting placed the price between $850 million and $900 million.
    tags:
      - agreement-announced
      - tax
    title: Stripe agrees to acquire TaxJar
  - amount:
      currency: USD
      display: More than $200 million (reported)
      value: 200000000
    confidence: confirmed
    date: 2020-10-15
    date_precision: day
    id: paystack-acquisition-agreement
    locations:
      - Nigeria
      - Africa
    metrics:
      - context: At announcement
        label: Businesses served
        value: More than 60,000
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Paystack
    related_events:
      - paystack-acquisition-completed
    source_ids:
      - source-5a23bc6e25af01d7594d
      - source-e7d509a0e61e558e9117
    status: Agreement announced; completed in October 2020
    summary: Stripe agreed to acquire Nigerian payments company Paystack, subject to standard closing conditions including regulatory approvals. Paystack served more than 60,000 businesses, and the transaction was reported at more than $200 million before completing later in October 2020.
    tags:
      - agreement-announced
      - africa
      - payments
    title: Stripe agrees to acquire Paystack
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2020-10
    date_precision: month
    id: paystack-acquisition-completed
    locations:
      - Nigeria
      - Africa
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Paystack
    related_events:
      - paystack-acquisition-agreement
    source_ids:
      - source-0270e48f213958f85c53
      - source-4cba29dde5bde54884d6
    status: Completed
    summary: Stripe completed its acquisition of Nigerian payments company Paystack in October 2020. Paystack continued operating as a Stripe company focused on accelerating commerce across Africa.
    tags:
      - completed
      - africa
      - payments
    title: Stripe completes Paystack acquisition
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2019-04-17
    date_precision: day
    id: touchtech-acquisition-completed
    locations:
      - Dublin, Ireland
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Touchtech Payments
    source_ids:
      - source-a2e28913a8773ba035c0
    status: Completed
    summary: Stripe acquired Dublin-based Touchtech Payments, a specialist in strong customer authentication, as European merchants prepared for new authentication requirements. The purchase price was not disclosed.
    tags:
      - completed
      - authentication
    title: Stripe acquires Touchtech Payments
  - amount:
      currency: USD
      display: About $1.2 billion (reported)
      value: 1200000000
    confidence: reported
    date: 2018-10
    date_precision: month
    id: airwallex-acquisition-offer-rejected
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Airwallex
    people:
      - Jack Zhang
    source_ids:
      - source-017ccc0342e03126244e
      - source-ee8d68525578975d8f67
      - source-004d97f1d873b1f8afcc
    status: Reported offer rejected; no agreement
    summary: Stripe offered about $1.2 billion to acquire cross-border payments company Airwallex in October 2018, according to Airwallex cofounder Jack Zhang and later reporting. Zhang initially leaned toward accepting, but he and his cofounders ultimately rejected the offer, and no agreement followed.
    tags:
      - reported-offer
      - cross-border-payments
    title: Airwallex rejects reported Stripe acquisition offer
  - confidence: reported
    date: 2018-03-09
    date_precision: day
    id: index-systems-acquisition-completed
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Index Systems
    source_ids:
      - source-feac6eb0d463593e4ca2
    status: Completed
    summary: Stripe acquired point-of-sale software startup Index Systems as it expanded from online payments into in-person commerce. The companies did not disclose the transaction price.
    tags:
      - completed
      - point-of-sale
    title: Stripe acquires Index Systems
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2017-07-26
    date_precision: day
    id: payable-acquisition-completed
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Payable
    source_ids:
      - source-0056f18e050920188e0c
    status: Completed
    summary: Stripe acquired Payable, which automated contractor onboarding and tax-form workflows for marketplace businesses. Payable's team joined Stripe to improve tax reporting for Stripe Connect; terms were not disclosed.
    tags:
      - completed
      - tax
      - connect
    title: Stripe acquires Payable
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2017-04-11
    date_precision: day
    id: indie-hackers-acquisition-completed
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Indie Hackers
    people:
      - Courtland Allen
    related_events:
      - indie-hackers-spins-out-from-stripe
    source_ids:
      - source-c4f4aea986f46f12cfc1
      - source-600517ef1c307d86cf25
    status: Completed; later divested
    summary: Stripe acquired Indie Hackers, Courtland Allen's community and interview site for independent founders. Allen continued running the site at Stripe until buying it back six years later.
    tags:
      - completed
      - community
    title: Stripe acquires Indie Hackers
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2016-10-05
    date_precision: day
    id: rethinkdb-team-joins-stripe
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - RethinkDB
    source_ids:
      - source-8e85a9534567ebb62542
    status: Talent acquisition; assets excluded
    summary: The RethinkDB company shut down and its engineering team joined Stripe. Stripe did not acquire the database's intellectual property or source code, so this was a talent acquisition rather than a purchase of the RethinkDB project.
    tags:
      - talent-acquisition
      - developer-tools
    title: RethinkDB engineering team joins Stripe
  - confidence: reported
    date: 2016-09-13
    date_precision: day
    id: tonic-runkit-acquisition-completed
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Tonic
      - RunKit
    source_ids:
      - source-c5845822be2fe26f4d98
    status: Completed
    summary: Stripe acquired JavaScript prototyping startup Tonic and kept its notebook product operating as an independent subsidiary. The service later adopted the RunKit name; transaction terms were not disclosed.
    tags:
      - completed
      - developer-tools
    title: Stripe acquires Tonic, later known as RunKit
  - confidence: reported
    date: 2013-03-11
    date_precision: day
    id: kickoff-acquisition-completed
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Kickoff
    source_ids:
      - source-8335c39a9a30da274705
    status: Talent acquisition completed
    summary: Stripe acquired the team behind Kickoff, a task-management and collaboration app. The founders joined Stripe, the Kickoff product remained available at the time, and financial terms were not disclosed.
    tags:
      - talent-acquisition
      - first-acquisition
    title: Stripe makes its first acquisition with Kickoff
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