About

Founded

2013

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Industry

Fintech, Cloud

Company Description

Plaid is a data network that powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. Plaid works with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, and Betterment, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use.

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Funding

Total Raised

$734.3 million

Valuation

$13.4 billion

Significant Investors

Ribbit Capital, GV, New Enterprise Associates, Spark Capital, BoxGroup, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Felicis Ventures, Homebrew, Thrive Capital, Goldman Sachs, Altimeter Capital, BOND, Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz

Company Traction

As of May 2023, Plaid’s API network powers 7,000+ apps and services and connects to 12,000+ financial institutions.

As of December 2020, Plaid’s annualized revenue rate reached ~$170 million.

Leadership Team

Zachary Perret: Co-Founder & CEO of Plaid. Former Consultant at Bain.

Eric Sager: COO at Plaid. Former CRO at BlueVine.

Jean-Denis Greze: CTO at Plaid. Former Director of Engineering at Dropbox.

Al Cook: CMO at Plaid. Former VP & GM of Artificial Intelligence at Twilio.

Tom Daniels: CISO at Plaid. Former Interim CISO at Square.

Press

TechCrunch (December 7, 2022): Plaid lays off 20% of staff

TechCrunch (November 17, 2022): Plaid names former Meta exec as its new payments head

TechCrunch (April 7, 2021): Plaid raises $425M Series D from Altimeter as it charts a post-Visa future

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