Stripe, the online payments company founded by Limerick brothers Patrick and John Collison has announced additional $90 million dollars in Series D funding, doubling its valuation from the last round to $3.5bn (€2.83bn). In January Stripe raised $80m at a $1.75bn valuation. They have also partnered in new payment initiatives Apple Pay and Twitter Buy. […]
GAAGO, RTÉ and the GAA’s online streaming service for Gaelic Games outside of Ireland, announced today at Web Summit that payments disruptor Stripe has been selected as the long-term payments partner of GAAGO. Since the service was launched in May this year, Gaelic Games fans in over 150 countries have been enjoying the new reality of […]
On Monday Twitter announced that they are testing a ‘Buy button’, with a limited introduction beginning in the US. Stripe, founded by the Collison Brothers from Limerick, is one of five companies providing payment services for the new Twitter feature. On Tuesday, Apple revealed an NFC-based payment functionality for the new iPhone 6 and iPhone […]
Y Combinator, the startup accelerator programme based in Silicon Valley, has announced the addition of four partners, including Limerickman Patrick Collision, CEO of Stripe, who will join as a part-time partner. Patrick is a Y Combinator veteran, having brought two companies through the accelerator programme. A former winner of the Young Scientists Exhibition, in 2007 […]
Hot on the heels of the announcement by Intercom that it raised €23m in Series B financing, Stripe, the online payments company founded by Patrick and John Collison, have announced a Series C round of $80m dollars which values the business at €1.75bn dollars. Both companies are founded by Irish people and both are growing […]
Brought to you by Blacknight it’s the technology.ie podcast episode 64 for June 7 2013 with Michele Neylon and Conn O Muineachain. Usually we use Skype to link up to record the show – but this week we experimented with Google+ Hangouts. How did it go? Well, old friends James Larkin and Nebojsa Radovic dropped in, and we also met GadManDubs, a music producer who […]
A topic came up in Podcast #3 the other day. Adrian Weckler of the Sunday Business Post lamented the lack of startup success in Ireland, compared to Silicon Valley. He mentioned the Collison brothers as a case in point. Stripe is their second startup, backed by serious investors and apparently on course for a direct […]
Michele Neylon is unwell, but he soldiers on. Suffering a reaction to vaccinations for a forthcoming trip to Africa, he should really be in bed, but he’s struggled in to his desk at Blacknight HQ to join me for another Technology.ie Podcast. Our guest this week is Adrian Weckler, Digital Editor of the Sunday Business […]
