Stripe

Stripe is a global financial-technology company that builds payment infrastructure for online businesses. It began as a developer-focused online-payments service—businesses could integrate Stripe with a few lines of code to accept payments on websites and apps —and has since expanded into a broader platform serving as financial infrastructure for some of the fastest-growing AI companies, including OpenAI, Cursor, and Midjourney . In the competitive landscape, Stripe is frequently cited alongside European rival Adyen as one of the dominant Western players in merchant acquiring and payment processing, with no comparable Asia-Pacific-born equivalent at scale . The company is also notable in venture discourse for the founding style of the Collison brothers, who are described as exceptionally determined yet receptive to critical feedback . Elsewhere's corpus does not cover Stripe's founding year, headquarters location, or detailed funding history.