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Plaid

91 open29 filled
San Francisco, CA, USAFounded 2013150+ employees$1.3B raisedGrowthPrivate
Last round: secondary market · Feb 2026(9 rounds total)
1 layoff event · Last: Dec 2022
APIs for banking
Backed by(31 investors)
Franklin TempletonNew Enterprise AssociatesAltimeter CapitalGoldman Sachs Investment PartnersIndex VenturesKleiner PerkinsSpark CapitalBlackRockFidelityRibbit CapitalGoalVest Venture CapitalPathlight VenturesCompany VenturesSalesforce VenturesAndreessen Horowitz

Plaid develops financial technology infrastructure that enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts and financial data. The company provides APIs that facilitate secure access to consumer-permissioned banking, investment, and credit information across various financial institutions. Plaid’s platform supports services such as personal finance management, payments, lending, and identity verification.

About the Company

Plaid empowers developers and consumers to control their financial data. That mission still motivates us as we work to lower the barrier to entry into financial services.

Plaid has helped tens of thousands of applications—like Stripe, Coinbase, Venmo, Capital One, and charity: we build secure and user-friendly experiences that empower consumers to use their financial data in new ways. In the last year alone, we connected more than 20 million accounts—and we’re just getting started.

At Plaid, we have diverse backgrounds and skills, but we're all passionate about building a more efficient and inclusive financial infrastructure—together.

Tech Stack

We believe that the key to solving finance’s biggest problems lies in meeting modern user expectations. As the gateway for thousands of applications like Robinhood, Stripe, or Venmo, Plaid’s platform calls for innovative problem solvers interested in tackling the complex challenges that exist in the financial ecosystem and scaling developer and user-facing systems to millions of users.

Most of our back-end core systems are written in Go, but that's not a prerequisite. We pick the right tool for the job and have systems in Go, Node.js, Python, Javascript, and Scala.

Founders

William Hockey
William Hockey
Zach Perret
Zach Perret

Founder of Plaid

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