Stripe is a privately held company owned by Patrick and John Collison, who started it, a group of venture and institutional investors including Sequoia Capital, and current and former employees who hold equity, according to Stripe's newsroom and funding releases. Stripe does not publish a capitalization table, so no primary source states what percentage of the company any single holder owns.
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What Stripe does publish is a trail of funding and tender offer announcements. Its newsroom information page names Patrick Collison as cofounder and CEO and John Collison as cofounder and president. Its most recent tender offer, announced on February 24, 2026, valued the company at $159 billion, according to Stripe's 2025 annual letter release. The sections below lay out who holds Stripe shares, how those shares change hands without an IPO, and what the public record leaves out.
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Stripe is owned by three broad groups. The Collison brothers started the company and still run it. Venture and crossover investors such as Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital and General Catalyst bought shares across many funding rounds. Employees receive equity awards and can sell some of it in company-run tender offers.
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Patrick and John Collison are the only founders Stripe names. Its company information page lists them as CEO and president and describes dual headquarters in San Francisco and Dublin. Stripe has never disclosed how many shares the brothers hold. Any figure you see for their stake comes from outside estimates, not from Stripe, and this page does not repeat one.
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The investor list is longer. In the March 15, 2023 Series I release, Stripe named Andreessen Horowitz, Baillie Gifford, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, MSD Partners and Thrive Capital as primary investors, with GIC, Goldman Sachs Asset and Wealth Management and Temasek joining as new investors. The March 14, 2021 Series H release named Allianz X, Axa, Baillie Gifford, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Sequoia Capital and Ireland's National Treasury Management Agency.
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Yes. Sequoia Capital appears as a Stripe investor in several of the company's own announcements, spanning at least 2019 through 2024. Stripe has not disclosed the size of Sequoia's position, so the public record confirms Sequoia is a shareholder but does not say how large its stake is relative to other holders.
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Stripe's September 19, 2019 funding release named General Catalyst, Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz among investors in a $250 million round at a $35 billion pre-money valuation. Sequoia Capital is listed again in the 2021 Series H release, which valued Stripe at $95 billion.
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The February 28, 2024 tender offer release quoted Sequoia managing partner Roelof Botha alongside the announcement of a $65 billion valuation. That release is the clearest sign from Stripe itself that Sequoia remained an active holder after the 2021 peak. Press reports about Sequoia offering its own fund investors liquidity in Stripe shares exist, but those describe Sequoia's internal fund mechanics and are not Stripe disclosures.
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Stripe employees receive equity awards as part of compensation. Because Stripe is private, those shares cannot be sold on an exchange. Instead, Stripe runs periodic tender offers where outside investors, and sometimes Stripe itself, buy shares from current and former employees at a set valuation, turning paper equity into cash.
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The 2023 Series I round existed mainly for this purpose. Stripe said in its Series I release that it raised more than $6.5 billion at a $50 billion valuation, and that the money would provide liquidity to employees and cover withholding tax on equity awards, with the retired shares offsetting the new shares issued to investors.
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Later tender offers repeated the pattern. The February 27, 2025 release set a $91.5 billion valuation and said Stripe would repurchase shares alongside investors. The February 24, 2026 release set a $159 billion valuation, named Thrive Capital, Coatue and a16z among the buyers, and said Stripe would also use a portion of its own capital to repurchase shares.
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Stripe's valuation, as stated in its own releases, peaked in 2021, reset lower in a 2023 round, then climbed through a series of employee tender offers to a new high in early 2026. Each event brought in or confirmed a different mix of investors, and none of the releases disclose ownership percentages.
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A tender offer moves existing shares from sellers to buyers without creating new ones. Employees sell, incoming or existing investors buy, and when Stripe repurchases shares itself the total share count falls. The net effect shifts ownership toward institutional investors and toward remaining holders, including the Collisons, as bought-back shares are retired.
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The flow below summarizes the mechanics Stripe describes in its 2026 and 2025 releases.
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This is why tender offers matter for ownership. A company buyback retires shares, so holders who do not sell, including the Collisons, end up with a slightly larger share of a smaller pool. Stripe has not published figures showing how much any buyback changed the share count.
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No. Stripe is private and its shares do not trade on any stock exchange. It files no public annual report with the SEC, which is why its ownership breakdown is not disclosed. Investors buy in through private rounds, and employees sell through tender offers the company organizes on its own schedule.
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Because there is no listing, there is no proxy statement listing beneficial owners above 5%, the document that answers this question for public US companies. Stripe's business scale is disclosed through its annual letters instead. The 2025 annual letter release reported $1.9 trillion in total payment volume for 2025, up 34% from 2024.
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Three gaps limit what anyone can say with confidence about Stripe's ownership. There are no disclosed percentages for the Collisons or for investors. Some tender releases do not name buyers. And outside estimates circulate widely but cannot be checked against a Stripe filing, so they should be treated as unverified.

Patrick Collison and John Collison, per Stripe's newsroom. Patrick is CEO and John is president.
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Stripe has not disclosed the brothers' stake. No primary source states whether they hold a majority.
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Stripe quoted Sequoia's Roelof Botha in its February 2024 tender release, the most recent Stripe release this page found naming Sequoia.
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$159 billion, set in the tender offer announced February 24, 2026, per Stripe.
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Not on a public exchange. Stripe shares are held privately and sold through company-arranged rounds and tender offers.
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Every valuation, investor name and date on this page comes from Stripe's own newsroom, fetched September 30, 2026. No ownership percentage is given because Stripe has not published one.