Another year has brought another Stripe tender offer, and once again, the secondary transaction has delivered a major jump in the company’s valuation as investors buy shares from employees.
On Tuesday, Stripe said its newest secondary sale values the payments giant at $159 billion. The investors participating in the share purchase include Thrive Capital, Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, and Stripe itself.
Back in February 2025, Stripe announced its previous tender offer, which set the company’s valuation at $91.5 billion. That means Stripe’s valuation has risen by roughly 74% over the past year. The timing of the announcement is not accidental. Stripe aligned the tender-offer news with the release of its annual letter from founders Patrick and John Collison, which highlights the company’s recent product launches and provides insight into how its tools are being used around the world over the last year.
In that letter, Stripe noted that stablecoin payment volume doubled globally to about $400 billion in 2025, and the company estimates around 60% of that total came from B2B payments. Stripe said the momentum in stablecoins is a key reason it has been investing more heavily in crypto infrastructure. Over the past year, Stripe acquired crypto wallet provider Privy in July and then introduced its own blockchain for payments, Tempo, in September.
Stripe also highlighted growth at Bridge, the stablecoin orchestration platform it acquired last year, noting that Bridge’s payment volume increased by more than 4x.
