5 Fastest-Growing Fintech Companies

2. STRIPE (Private)

Valuation: $115 billion

Stripe is a Fintech company based in San Francisco, California, and Dublin. It was established in 2010 by Patrick and John Collison to offer payment processing software and application programming interfaces (APIs) for e-commerce websites and mobile apps (Read more about Collison brothers in our list of Top 5 Youngest Tech Billionaires). Its latest funding, $600 million, was generated by a number of its previous investors including General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, and GV

The company has acquired Kickoff, a chat and task management app, and recently added Paystack, a Nigerian e-payment platform, to its portfolio. The company also launched Stripe treasury, a platform that allows users send, receive and store funds easily.