Stripe achieves $91.5bn valuation with employee share sale
US fintech giant Stripe has announced it has “signed agreements with investors to provide liquidity to current and former Stripe employees” through a tender offer that will boost the company’s valuation to $91.5 billion (€87.3 billion).
Stripe has now almost returned to its 2021 peak valuation of $95bn
Stripe adds that alongside external investors, it will also repurchase an undisclosed amount of shares as part of the deal.
The news comes just weeks after reports that the company was in talks to carry out an employee share sale at a valuation of around $85 billion.
The company’s new valuation is a notable leap from its previous $70 billion valuation following a similar secondary share sale last year, and is a significant rise from its $50 billion valuation following its $6.5 billion investment round in 2023.
With this share sale, the company has almost returned to its peak valuation of $95 billion, reached after a $600 million funding round in 2021 that made it Silicon Valley’s most valuable private company at the time.
Stripe says that the share sale follows a strong 2024 performance, which saw it process $1.4 trillion in total payment volume, reflecting a 38% increase from the previous year. The company also claims to now serve “half of the Fortune 100”.
