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Plaid Revenue, Valuation, Funding & Investors
Plaid is valued at $8B as of February 2026, a 18.6x multiple on its last reported $430M revenue.
Last Plaid valuation
$8B
Secondary · Feb 2026
Last Plaid funding round
$575M
Undisclosed stage · Apr 2025
Plaid revenue
$430M
Secondary · Feb 2026
Key investors in Plaid
New Enterprise Associates
Spark Capital
Andreessen Horowitz
GV
Index Ventures
Kleiner Perkins
About Plaid
San Francisco-headquartered Plaid is a financial technology provider offering APIs for secure connections to bank accounts, investments, and credit data across 12,000 U.S. institutions. Founded in 2013, its infrastructure powers personal finance apps, payment processors, lending platforms, and identity verification services like those from Venmo and Coinbase.
Founded
2013
HQ
Website
Status
Privately held
Customer focus
B2B
Revenue model
Subscription, Usage-based
Revenue
$430M (Feb 2026)
Valuation
$8B (Feb 2026)
Plaid Valuation
Plaid is currently valued at $8B, based on its secondary sale in February 2026.
Plaid's valuation has grown 3.0x from $2.6B at its Series C in December 2018 to $8B in February 2026, across 4 priced rounds.
Plaid valuation by funding round
Revenue multiple| Date | Stage | Valuation | Revenue Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2026 | Secondary | $8B | 18.6x |
| Apr 2025 | Undisclosed stage | $6.1B | - |
| Apr 2021 | Series D | $13B | 78.8x |
| Dec 2018 | Series C | $2.6B | 37.9x |
Plaid Revenue
Plaid's latest recorded revenue is $430M, as of its secondary sale in February 2026. At a $8B valuation, that implies a 18.6x revenue multiple.
Revenue grew from $70M in December 2018 to $430M in February 2026, while the revenue multiple moved from 37.9x to 18.6x.
Plaid revenue by funding round
| Date | Revenue * | Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2026 | $430M | $8B | 18.6x | Secondary |
| Apr 2021 | $170M | $13B | 78.8x | Series D |
| Dec 2018 | $70M | $2.6B | 37.9x | Series C |
* Revenue (or ARR) figures are the values recorded alongside each funding round. Typically run-rate revenue at the time of the deal, or a reported LTM (last 12 months) revenue.
Plaid Funding History
Plaid has raised a total of $1.3B across 6 funding rounds, plus 1 secondary share sale.
Plaid's first fundraising round was a $3M seed round in September 2013. The most recent completed round was a $575M undisclosed-stage round in April 2025.
Plaid funding rounds
| Date | Stage | Investors | Raised | Valuation | Deal Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2026 | Secondary | - | - | $8B | Plaid is a fintech infrastructure company founded in 2013 that enables consumers to connect and share their financial data with banks and applications. The company has evolved from its core bank-linking business to offer a comprehensive suite of services including payments, lending, identity verification, credit reporting, and anti-fraud capabilities. Plaid completed a tender offer in February 2026 that valued the company at $8 billion, providing liquidity for employees to sell shares. This valuation represents a 31% increase from the $6.1 billion valuation achieved in April 2025 when Plaid raised $575 million in a separate funding round. Plaid has raised approximately $1.3 billion in total funding over its lifetime. The company's valuation has fluctuated significantly; it peaked at $13.4 billion in 2021 during the fintech boom, declined substantially as market conditions shifted, and was nearly acquired by Visa in 2020 for $5.3 billion before regulatory concerns blocked the deal. Plaid generated $250 million in revenue in 2021, demonstrating strong market traction in fintech infrastructure. The company has recently positioned itself as relevant to the artificial intelligence wave, noting that AI firms comprised 20% of newly onboarded customers in the prior year, and has developed a foundational AI model as part of its strategy for intelligent finance applications. |
| Apr 2025 | Undisclosed stage | Putnam Premier IT (lead); Pathlight Ventures; Fidelity; New Enterprise Associates; Ribbit Capital; BlackRock | $575M | $6.1B | - |
| Apr 2021 | Series D | Altimeter Capital (lead); Raed Malek; Silver Lake; Index Ventures; Kleiner Perkins; Spark Capital; New Enterprise Associates; Hercules Capital; Andreessen Horowitz; Ribbit Capital; Thrive Capital | $425M | $13B | Plaid, a San Francisco-based fintech providing APIs to connect consumer bank accounts to third-party financial apps like Venmo, Robinhood, and Square Cash, raised $425 million in a Series D funding round on April 7, 2021. The round was led by Altimeter Capital, with new investors Silver Lake and Ribbit Capital joining, alongside existing backers including Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, New Enterprise Associates, Spark Capital, and Thrive Capital. Valuations reported across sources ranged from over $13 billion to $13.5 billion post-money, marking more than double the $5.3 billion value from Visa's aborted acquisition attempt in January 2020, which was blocked by the U.S. Department of Justice on antitrust grounds. Plaid reported strong growth traction, with customer count increasing 60% in 2020 and headcount up 20% in Q1 2021, connecting over 4,500 fintech apps to 11,000 financial institutions. The company committed to shifting 75% of its volumes from screen scraping to API-based data sharing by the end of 2021. CEO Zach Perret highlighted plans to build a single integrated platform for digital financial products, emphasizing scaling for fintech demand, global expansion, and enhanced APIs for privacy, personalization, decisioning, and automation. The funding positions Plaid for an eventual IPO, with investors selected for their expertise in public markets and fintech. Plaid connects a complete view of users' finances and supports innovators in building financial services, operating in a competitive open banking landscape post-Visa deal termination. |
| Dec 2018 | Series C | Index Ventures (lead); Kleiner Perkins (lead); Spark Capital; New Enterprise Associates; Norwest; Goldman Sachs; Andreessen Horowitz | $250M | $2.6B | Plaid is a fintech startup providing online verification services for financial institutions like banks and stock-trading firms, enabling connections between apps and user bank accounts. In October 2018, ahead of a funding round led by Index Ventures and Kleiner Perkins with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Goldman Sachs, NEA, Norwest, and Spark Capital, Plaid was seeking to raise several hundred million dollars, potentially $250M, at a valuation as high as $3 billion. This marked a tripling of its private valuation from $1 billion reported in April 2018. At that time, Plaid informed investors it was on pace to generate about $70 million in annual run rate revenue over the next 12 months, up from $50 million projected just a month earlier. This implied a valuation multiple of approximately 43 times its annual run rate. The company had rapidly grown, with consumer account connections doubling to 20 million by 2018 from 10 million in 2017, supported by maturing clients like Venmo and Chime. Plaid's growth positioned it as one of the hottest fintechs, contrasting with competitor Yodlee, acquired in 2015 for under $600 million or about 6 times its $100 million revenue. By late 2018, Plaid supported over 10,000 institutions for Transactions, 3,800 for Auth, and 3,100 for Identity, with expansions into Canada and new products like Assets for mortgage underwriting in partnership with Fannie Mae. Post-2018, Plaid continued expanding, reaching $170 million annualized revenue by December 2020 amid 60% customer base growth, and later achieving $390 million ARR in 2024 with 80% gross margins, though not yet profitable. |
| Jun 2016 | Series B | Goldman Sachs (lead); GV; Spark Capital; BoxGroup; Omega Venture Partners; New Enterprise Associates; Amex Ventures; Citi Ventures | $44M | - | Plaid, a San Francisco-based fintech company founded in 2012 or 2013, provides APIs that enable applications like Venmo, Gusto, OptionsHouse, TransferWise, and Charitywater to connect with users' bank accounts, offering transaction data, authentication, and fraud analytics. The platform serves as a data layer between financial institutions and apps, supporting thousands of applications and reaching millions of end users through network effects. In June 2016, Plaid raised $44 million in its Series B funding round led by Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, with participation from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Amex Ventures, Citi Ventures, Spark Capital, and others, bringing total funding to around $60 million including prior rounds. The funds were intended to enhance product tools, deepen integrations with banks, access restricted data, expand into new markets including internationally, scale operations, and build better financial tools for consumers and businesses. This 2016 round followed a seed round in 2013 backed by GV (Google Ventures), Spark Capital, NEA, Felicis Ventures, and Homebrew for $2.8 million, and a Series A in November 2014 or 2015 co-led by NEA and Spark Capital for an undisclosed amount or $12.5 million to scale operations and expand the team. Investors highlighted Plaid's role in enabling financial innovation amid accelerating pace in financial services. Plaid's growth positioned it as critical infrastructure for digital finance apps like Acorns, Coinbase, Robinhood, and Venmo. Subsequent developments included investments from Visa and Mastercard in 2019, a Visa acquisition attempt at $5.3 billion in 2020 (later abandoned), and later rounds valuing it at $6.1 billion in 2025 and $8 billion in 2026 for employee liquidity. |
| Nov 2014 | Series A | New Enterprise Associates (lead); Spark Capital (lead); Felicis; Homebrew | $13M | - | Plaid raised $12.5 million in its Series A funding round on November 15, 2014, led by New Enterprise Associates, with participation from Spark Capital, Felicis, and Homebrew. The company, founded in 2013, provides a data transfer network connecting banks and financial institutions to fintech applications. This followed a $2.8 million seed round in September 2013 from Spark Capital, Google Ventures, and New Enterprise Associates. |
| Sep 2013 | Seed | Spark Capital (lead); GV; New Enterprise Associates; Felicis; Homebrew | $3M | - | Plaid raised $2.8 million in a seed funding round on September 19, 2013, led by Spark Capital with participation from Google Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Felicis Ventures, and Homebrew Capital. The company provides a modern API for banking data, enabling developers to access and utilize banking information more easily. At the time, Plaid was in private beta, with initial clients using the API for accounting, automated taxes, and expense management applications. |
Who has invested in Plaid?
24 investors have backed Plaid across its funding rounds, including New Enterprise Associates, Spark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, GV, Index Ventures and Kleiner Perkins.
Lead investors include Putnam Premier IT, Altimeter Capital, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Goldman Sachs and 2 other investors.
Plaid Investors
| Investor | HQ | Rounds | Role | First check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Lead | Sep 2013 | ||
| 5 | Lead | Sep 2013 | ||
| 2 | Lead | Dec 2018 | ||
| 2 | Lead | Dec 2018 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Sep 2013 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Sep 2013 | ||
| 2 | Lead | Jun 2016 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Dec 2018 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Apr 2021 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Sep 2013 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Apr 2021 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Apr 2021 | ||
| 1 | Lead | Apr 2025 | ||
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Start Free TrialAcquisitions by Plaid
Plaid has acquired 4 companies to date.
Last acquisition by Plaid was on March 24th 2026. Plaid acquired This Week in Fintech for undisclosed valuation.
Latest Acquisitions by Plaid
| Description | This Week in Fintech is a weekly newsletter on fintech news and opinions. Nik Milanović founded it in 2019 in New York. | Cognito is an identity verification platform that links phone numbers to personal ID data including name, date of birth, address, and SSN for user authentication. Built by developers for developers, it resolves common API issues to enable seamless integration. Businesses use it for compliance and secure onboarding in fintech, e-commerce, and service sectors. | Flannel is a branding agency based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that crafts visual identities and narratives for higher education institutions and nonprofits. The firm designs websites, annual reports, and campaign materials for clients such as Calvin University and Aquinas College. Flannel employs a team of strategists and designers who conduct workshops to distill organizational missions into cohesive brand strategies. Its portfolio includes over 50 educational projects since 2008, emphasizing accessibility standards and responsive digital experiences. | Quovo is a New York-based financial data aggregation platform founded in 2010 and acquired by Plaid in 2019. It connects to over 14,000 U.S. financial institutions via APIs, enabling aggregation of assets, transactions, and balances for robo-advisors and banks. Clients including Betterment, SoFi, and Wells Fargo use Quovo for account verification, investment tracking, and personalized insights. The platform supports real-time data streams and modular apps for wealth management. |
| HQ Country | ||||
| HQ City | New York City, NY | Los Angeles, CA | Cotati, CA | New York City, NY |
| Deal Date | 24 Mar 2026 | 20 Jan 2022 | 15 Jun 2021 | 8 Jan 2019 |
| Valuation | undisclosed | $250M | undisclosed | $200M |
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Plaid Competitors
Plaid competitors include listed companies like Marex Group, ACI Worldwide, Paymentus and dLocal, and private ones like Solaris and Stripe.
| Company | HQ | Status | Revenue | EBITDA | Valuation | Revenue Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publicly listed | $3.6B | $1.2B | $5.3B | 3.5x | ||
| Publicly listed | $1.8B | $456M | $5.2B | 3.1x | ||
| Publicly listed | $1.2B | $117M | $4.6B | 3.0x | ||
| Publicly listed | $1.1B | $229M | $4.2B | 2.3x | ||
| Private | $116M | - | $1.8B | - | ||
| Private | $6.9B | - | $159B | 23.0x |
Plaid Public Comps
Plaid is still privately-owned, but its public comps include Morningstar, Beijing Compass Technology, Mobility Global, FactSet, BGC Group, Nexi, Temenos, Marex Group, ACI Worldwide and TransUnion.
| Last FY | EV/Revenue | EV/EBITDA | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | EBITDA | Last FY | LTM | 2027E | Last FY | LTM | 2027E | |
| $2.4B | $718M | 3.7x | 3.5x | 12.5x | 11.3x | |||
| $320M | $46M | 16.8x | 13.7x | 116.3x | 101.7x | |||
| $1.8B | $637M | 4.7x | - | 12.9x | - | |||
| $2.3B | $959M | 4.8x | 4.5x | 11.7x | 11.9x | |||
| $2.9B | $389M | 2.4x | 2.1x | 17.7x | - | |||
| $7.2B | ($2.3B) | 0.6x | 1.0x | (1.9x) | 2.0x | |||
| $1.1B | $466M | 5.7x | 5.4x | 13.3x | 13.7x | |||
| $3.6B | $1.2B | 2.4x | 3.5x | 7.3x | 14.4x | |||
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Common questions about Plaid
| When was Plaid founded? | Plaid was founded in 2013. |
| Where is Plaid headquartered? | Plaid is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, United States. |
| Is Plaid publicly listed? | No, Plaid is a private, VC-backed company. |
| What is Plaid's valuation? | Plaid was last valued at $8B in its secondary sale in February 2026. |
| How much funding has Plaid raised? | Plaid has raised $1.3B across 6 funding rounds. |
| What was Plaid's last funding round? | Plaid's last funding round was a $575M undisclosed-stage round in April 2025, led by Putnam Premier IT. |
| Who are Plaid's investors? | Plaid's investors include New Enterprise Associates, Spark Capital, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, GV, Felicis, Goldman Sachs, Andreessen Horowitz, Ribbit Capital, Homebrew and 14 others. |
| What is Plaid's revenue? | Plaid's latest recorded revenue is $430M (February 2026). |
| What is Plaid's revenue multiple? | Plaid's latest valuation implies a 18.6x revenue multiple ($8B valuation on $430M of revenue). |
| Which companies are comparable to Plaid? | Companies comparable to Plaid include Marex Group, ACI Worldwide, Paymentus, dLocal, Solaris and Stripe. |
| How many companies has Plaid acquired? | Plaid has acquired 4 companies, including This Week in Fintech, Cognito, Flannel and Quovo. |
| What was the largest acquisition by Plaid? | The $250M acquisition of Cognito in January 2022 is the largest acquisition Plaid has made to date. |
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