2025 was a breakout year for early-stage startups, as founders launched more companies and generated revenue faster than ever. Three shifts stand out: customer bases are more international than ever, time-to-revenue has compressed, and founders are turning their attention to AI agents over AI infrastructure or copilots.
In a new study, we found a strong causal relationship between accepting financing and growing revenue on Stripe. Learn which businesses are most likely to benefit, and how greater access to financing could drive significant GDP growth.
Today, we’re introducing the Agentic Commerce Suite: a new solution that gets your business agent-ready. It enables you to sell on AI agents more easily by making your products discoverable, simplifying your checkout, and allowing you to accept agentic payments via a single integration.
Leading SaaS platforms across industries—from Squarespace to Jobber—are using embedded components to ship payments and finance features with minimal code. We analyzed the data to see which types of platforms are getting the most value.
We recently launched three new features that give you more control to fine-tune your risk and compliance strategy, allowing you to use more of Stripe’s data to inform your approach. Here’s what’s new.
We recently released a series of improvements to expand multiprocessor support, give you more control over your billing and invoicing models, and better tailor your pricing for AI products. Here’s everything that’s new.
Last week, Google announced that Android apps selling digital goods to US customers can now process in-app payments using third-party payment providers. Many customers have turned to Stripe to handle in-app purchases by using multiple products: Stripe Managed Payments, Optimized Checkout Suite, and Stripe Billing. Here’s a closer look at our solutions for app developers.
As businesses expand globally, stablecoins can help them reach a broader international audience more cost-effectively. Now we’re extending these benefits to subscription-based businesses by launching recurring payments with stablecoins.
Last week, we shared how we worked with OpenAI to develop the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), a new specification to help AI platforms embed commerce into their applications and businesses sell through agentic channels without giving up trust or control. ACP is just the beginning. Here are some of the additional steps Stripe is taking to build agentic commerce solutions for AI platforms and businesses.
Open Issuance, from Bridge, is a new platform that allows any business to launch and manage its own stablecoin. With its own stablecoin, a business can control its product experience, mint and burn without limits or unnecessary fees, and earn rewards from reserves.
We announced new agentic commerce capabilities, modular infrastructure for all parts of the crypto stack, including the ability for you to collect subscription payments using stablecoins, and a lot more.
Today, we announced that Stripe is powering OpenAI’s newly launched commerce experience: Instant Checkout in ChatGPT. It is powered by the Agentic Commerce Protocol, a new open standard developed by Stripe and OpenAI that enables programmatic commerce flows between AI agents and businesses.
Our recent survey of 2,000+ global business leaders showed that the fastest-growing companies are approaching pricing differently than their peers. Here are some of the strategies behind their success.
Among global business leaders surveyed, 84% agree that adapting pricing quickly will be a key competitive advantage. Our new real-time analytics system for Stripe Billing helps them spot customer trends just as they emerge.
While businesses are rapidly building AI products, monetization remains a challenge. In this post, we share a framework for building a successful pricing strategy with key decision points on charge metrics, billing models, and guardrails.
Our analysis showed that even with very high two-factor authentication trigger rates—which traditionally add friction to the checkout flow—France, the UK, and Japan still maintain high conversion rates.
Our recent survey of more than 4,000 payments leaders worldwide showed that 47% of businesses now use an AI tool or feature to detect and prevent fraud—making it the most popular application of AI in payments. But adoption isn’t uniform across all sectors. Understanding which types of companies are leading this shift—and why—offers insights into where fraud prevention is heading and which strategies are most effective.
Stripe’s users rely on us to calculate tax correctly and quickly, no matter where a transaction happens. Our new jurisdiction resolution system (JRS) is a faster, less resource-intensive solution to the challenging problem of determining tax obligations in places with complicated, overlapping tax jurisdictions.
AI companies are rewriting the rules of growth. In our new report, Indexing the AI economy, we explore the latest trends and strategies in the AI space.
Stripe Tax is now an all-in-one global tax compliance solution, after adding international registration and filing to round out its tax calculation and collection features.