Payment processor Stripe raised $6.5 billion, largely to provide liquidity to current and former employees, but at a sharply discounted $50 billion valuation.
Payment processor Stripe raised $6.5 billion, largely to provide liquidity to current and former employees.
The financing round values the company at $50 billion, down by almost half from its peak of $95 billion two years ago. The company will acquire current and former employees' shares with proceeds from the non-dilutive raise.Jacques Demarthon | AFP via Getty Images, a sharp discount from its record valuation of $95 billion in 2021.
"Stripe does not need this capital to run its business," the company said in a press release. The cash raise — with contributions from Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, , and Temasek — will instead go towards providing liquidity to "current and former employees" and tax obligations associated with equity awards.
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