PARIS—Today marks ten years since Stripe opened its first office in France.

In that time:

• Stripe now works with nearly 800,000 businesses and solopreneurs in France, including more than half of the CAC 40, two-thirds of France’s unicorns, and leading AI companies including Mistral and Hugging Face.
  
• The proportion of French companies’ revenue coming from outside of France rose from 16% in 2020 to 22% in 2025.
  
• In 2025, a third of all customers who bought from French businesses on Stripe came from outside France.
  
• The number of active French platforms on Stripe has grown 3.2 times between 2019 and 2025, and the number of businesses they power have grown 6.5 times over the same period.
  

To mark the anniversary, Stripe is bringing together business leaders shaping the future of the French economy for two conversations at a Paris brasserie. The first one includes leaders from Dust, Wecasa, and OneRagtime. (Watch it here).

The second video, coming shortly, features Le Monde, Accor, and Matthieu Stefani, host of Generation Do It Yourself.