Stripe

Stripe valuation hits $70bn in potential fresh Sequoia investment

Collison brothers firm sees valuation edging up once more

Landlords pursue McKillen companies over rent claims

Seen & Heard: Taxman’s planning payment probe; C&C boss’s pay jump; Stripe’s Wilton Park deal; Bakhurst mulls Montrose sale

Stripe weighs deal for new Dublin headquarters at Wilton Park

Global payments giant founded by Collison brothers is eyeing 100,000sq ft at social media giant LinkedIn’s EMEA campus

Could scrambling the weather or sucking carbon out of the air help solve the climate crisis?

Technological solutions could be transformative in containing global temperatures and saving civilisation. But getting it wrong could exacerbate the crisis

Investors in UL programme reported to be spooked by student housing controversy

Seen & Heard: DNG enters the mortgage broker market; Quanta Capital targets Signa assets; and Virgin Media refused €30m for public service broadcasting

Stripe hits $1tn payments milestone in 2023

Irish-founded company was ‘robustly cash flow positive’ last year, and expects to be again in 2024

Stripe to provide payments for Hertz car rental brands

Agreement covers the Hertz, Dollar and Thrifty brands, and includes in-person payments

Cerebral Palsy: ‘It is tough hearing that news, but it is far tougher when you have to fight for the best care for your child’

The Irish Cerebral Palsy Foundation’s programme of excellence aims to achieve diagnosis within three months

Number employed by Government client companies hits record 535,000

Minister for Enterprise Simon Coveney says figures demonstrate strength of State’s economy despite serious challenges posed to international trade

Number of IT workers shrinks by almost 6,000 on back of global downturn

CSO’s latest monthly payrolls data highlights how global tech retrenchment is playing out

Will this be the year that Stripe floats on the stock market?

Tech Crunch notes figures compiled by Caplight reveal an ‘absolute flurry of buyers’ seeking shares in the Collison brothers’ company in recent months

‘I’ve never seen anything like this’: How OpenAI’s dramatic weekend unfolded

Schism owed much to the very different personalities and ambitions of the core group behind the company

State earmarks offices in docklands should it win bid to host EU Anti-Money Laundering Association

Ibec’s podcast sponsorship, Collison’s Abbeyleix charity event, new roles for Altada’s co-founders, NTMA’s land deal in the docks and Digicel’s sports channel in the Caribbean

New York-based Irish firm Imprint raises $75m in funding round

New York-based Imprint was founded in 2020 by Daragh Murphy from Clane, Co Kildare.

Collison brothers invest in home robotics company

Stripe founders back Matic as part of $24m fundraising effort

Web Summit to take place as planned after Paddy Cosgrave resignation

Event management group scrambles to limit damage as departing chief executive concedes comments on Israel-Hamas conflict had become ‘distraction’

Kielys’ ‘temple of opulence’ Ballsbridge apartment put up for sale at €1.75m

Powerscourt and Labour Party conference, Eoghan McCabe and interior design, TG4′s annual report, Stripe’s lobbying in Brussels, Fiona Muldoon’s UK roles and new festival of legal ideas

Losses at European arm of Stripe grow as cost of sales increase

Increase in both turnover and cost of sales put down to growth in business from existing users and expansion into new markets

Stripe’s Irish users hit €20bn as internet economy thrives

Dublin accounts for largest number of customers, but payments growth accelerates outside the capital

Lovely in late season? Massive planet 120 light years away studied by Nasa might have an ocean

Planet Business: Dynamic pricing hits the pint, Wall Street IPOs return and USA Today seeks ‘Taylor Swift reporter’

Accelerators switch on to cleantech opportunities

World’s biggest booster schemes for business start-ups are increasingly focusing on climate ventures

Three in four Irish businesses eyeing international expansion

Online payments giant Stripe reports 28% growth in Irish enterprises selling internationally via digital channels

Marcus Magnier on 50 years of selling homes to the rich and famous

From a small farm in Tipperary to selling Abbey Leix estate, Colliers veteran Marcus Magnier looks back on a storied career

Collison brothers-funded programme aims to halve diagnosis time for cerebral palsy

Tech billionaires among donors behind €11.6m initiative to make Ireland a world leader in CP care within five years

Tiger could change its Stripe position

Start-up backer weighing a move to cash in on some of its success stories

Stripe investor Tiger Global looks to cash in part of $40bn portfolio of private companies

Technology-focused hedge fund aims to return money to investors by tapping secondary market

Here’s how you can tap into changing purchasing behaviour

A simple-to-use app that’s ready to partner with Irish banks can help open your eyes to your carbon consumption and inform usage decisions, writes Ekko chief executive and co-founder Oli Cook

Weston Airport operator secures permission for upgrade of facilities

Stripe co-founder John Collison and group of investors buy majority stake in business

Stripe processes €747bn in payments in 2022

Growth slowed as forecast, company says but it is more bullish for this year, predicting ‘meaningfully larger’ growth

Forbes Magazine in talks with Limerick officials to organise promotional event

Move comes after an online article in 2021 referenced the city as the ‘murder capital’ of Europe

Irish software company Workhuman to cut about 10% of global workforce

Workhuman, which specialises in employee reward and incentive programmes for companies worldwide, employs 600 people in Ireland

Stripe raises $6.5bn in new funding that values company at $50bn

At its peak valuation in 2021, the payments platform was worth $95bn

OpenAI teams up with Stripe to monetise ChatGPT

Irish-founded fintech will also integrate GPT-4 into its products

Number of ICT workers shrinks as tech job cuts feed through

CSO’s new dataset on monthly estimates of payroll employees points to continued momentum in economy

Stripe faces €3.3 billion tax bill as employees’ shares expire

Company plans to use new fundraising round to cover taxes

Pepper’s interest rate hike, Digicel downgrade and Stripe’s fundraising

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Goldman Sachs offers rich clients access to Stripe’s multibillion fundraise

Collison-led payments company is raising funds in part to pay a tax bill

Advertising giant WPP sees 2023 revenue gains above analyst estimates

Experts had predicted flat growth for company

Microsoft to shed 120 Irish jobs, staff and Government told

Company announced global job cuts in January amid a sharp correction in tech

Weighing up Stripe’s strategic IPO news

Potential stock sale is not the surprise - the timing is

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