Stripe stock & equity tools

Stripe, Inc. is an Irish and American multinational financial services and software as a service (SaaS) company dual-headquartered in South San Francisco, California, United States, and Dublin, Ireland. The company primarily offers payment-processing software and application programming interfaces for e-commerce websites and mobile applications.

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Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in 2010 to solve a problem they had encountered themselves: accepting payments online required weeks of bank integrations and bespoke code. Stripe replaced that with a few lines of API. Today the company processes hundreds of billions of dollars in annual payments volume for millions of businesses worldwide. Its most recent primary funding round closed at $694 million in April 2024; by February 2026 an employee tender offer set its valuation at $159 billion.

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Equity comp at Stripe

• Starting in 2022, Stripe stopped granting ISOs to new hires and switched to RSUs (restricted stock units, where you receive shares directly when they vest, taxed as ordinary income at vest). If you joined Stripe before 2022 and hold ISOs, your grant is fixed: you will not get more ISOs going forward. The AMT + ISO calculator on this page is most useful for planning when to exercise those existing grants. New hires after 2022 should use the RSU sell-vs-hold calculator instead, since they receive no ISOs.
• RSUs use double-trigger vesting. Two things must both happen before the shares are yours: (1) the normal time-based vesting completes, and (2) the company has a liquidity event (an IPO or an acquisition). Until both happen, you do not yet own the shares and you do not owe tax on them.

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Researched 2026-05-06.