Affirm (AFRM) stock & equity tools

Public · Fintech · IPO 2021

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About Affirm

Affirm (AFRM) is a public Fintech company, incorporated in Nevada and headquartered in San Francisco, CA. IPO'd Jan 13, 2021.

Last close: $74.69 per share (as of 2026-06-16).

Equity grants at Affirm typically include incentive stock options (ISOs), non-qualified stock options (NSOs), and restricted stock units (RSUs).

Affirm Holdings, Inc. is an American financial technology company and a point-of-sale lender. Founded in 2012 by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, it is the largest U.S. based buy now, pay later (BNPL) financier. As of 2025, Affirm reports nearly 27 million users and processing $37 billion in annual payments.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Buy-now-pay-later financing without compounding interest or late fees is Affirm's core product proposition. Max Levchin, Nathan Gettings, Jeffrey Kaditz, and Alex Rampell founded Affirm in San Francisco in 2012 through the HVF startup studio; Levchin, a PayPal co-founder, became CEO in 2014. The company charges merchants a fee to offer installment options at checkout and earns interest income on longer-term loans, partnering with Amazon, Walmart, and Shopify. Affirm IPO'd on Nasdaq as AFRM in January 2021, with shares more than doubling on the first day of trading.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · news.crunchbase.com

Equity comp at Affirm

  • RSUs use single-trigger vesting: shares become yours as each portion vests on schedule, and the value is taxed as ordinary income at that point. No IPO or acquisition is required.

Researched 2026-05-07.

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