Stripe’s value has been boosted to $5 billion with help from Visa

When you’re trying to expand into the digital payments industry, companies like American Express and Visa are the companies that you want to partner with. That’s exactly what happened to Stripe when it received new funding from both of those financial services giants, as well as Sequoia Capital and a few others, in a funding round that boosts Stripe’s value to somewhere around $5 billion.