Plaid Stock
API for developers of financial services applications
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Plaid is an API to power developers of financial services applications and help them connect with user bank accounts. It allows developers to integrate and get transactional and account data from various financial institutions. Plaid provides data such as cleaned merchant name, category, street address, geocode, date, and dollar value. Its products include Auth: a solution that authorizes ACH payments based on the information users know in their heads; and Connect: a solution that offers developers with access to user-permissioned financial data. Plaid was launched by William Hockey and Zach Perret in 2012 and is operated from San Francisco, California.
Investors
BoxGroup
Scopely, Dataminr, Zipline, Plaid, Workrise, Bowery Farming, Blue Apron, Guideline, VTS, Boxed
Felicis Ventures
Wish, Scopely, Opendoor, Dollar Shave Club, Gusto, Zipline, Coalition, Plaid, Crusoe Energy Systems, Guild Education
Goldman Sachs
WeWork, Alibaba, Spotify, Compass, Pinterest, Bloom Energy, Oscar Health, Circle, Ramp, Automation Anywhere
GV
Uber, Robinhood, Jet, Impossible Foods, Lacework, Slack, Snyk, SambaNova Systems, DocuSign, Gusto
Homebrew
Chime, Gusto, Plaid, Carbon Health, Bowery Farming, Shield AI, Mercury, Tia, Shyp, Chain
New Enterprise Associates
Robinhood, Databricks, Jet, TAE Technologies, Scopely, Bloom Energy, Opendoor, Radiology Partners, DataRobot, Tempus
Spark Capital
Anduril Industries, Slack, Affirm, MessageBird, Discord, Rapyd, Plaid, Cybereason, Plume Design, Deel
Funding History
| July 2013 | $2.9M |
|---|---|
| January 2015 | $11.8M |
| June 2016 | $42.0M |
| December 2016 | $2.1M |
| December 2018 | $256M |
| April 2021 | $450M |
| July 2021 | $7.5M |
| July 2021 | $50.0M |
Management
Co-founder
William Hockey
Co-Founder & CEO
Zach Perret
Press
biometricupdate - Sep, 5 2023
Plaid face and behavioral biometrics support instant authenticated online paymentsglobalfintechseries - Aug, 31 2023
Astra Partners With Plaid to Launch Instant Authenticated Payments With Plaid Identity Verificationthepaypers - Aug, 30 2023
Astra partners with Plaidbizjournals - Aug, 29 2023
Plaid taps former Visa executive for key rolepymnts - Aug, 26 2023
Plaid Appoints Equifax SVP Cecilia Frew as Head of Open Financethepaypers - Aug, 21 2023
Plaid upgrades its income verification suitefintech - Aug, 18 2023
Pinwheel and Plaid unite to redefine direct deposit switchingprnewswire - Aug, 18 2023
Pinwheel becomes Plaid's Preferred Provider for direct deposit switching and helps power additional payroll data for income verificationthepaypers - Aug, 18 2023
Pinwheel and Plaid team up for direct deposit servicesamericanbanker - Aug, 17 2023
As more consumers shift deposits, Plaid lowers one hurdlefinextra - Aug, 17 2023
Pinwheel becomes Plaid preferred provider for direct deposit switchingtheinformation - Aug, 2 2023
Plaid’s Leadership Evolves to Prove It’s Not a One-Hit Wonderthefintechtimes - Jul, 31 2023
Plaid to Introduce Instant Payouts with FedNow Support, in Collaboration with Cross River Bankfinextra - Jul, 29 2023
FedNow will be a ‘large accelerant’ for fintech - Plaid CEOfinextra - Jul, 28 2023
Cross River to support Plaid real-time paymentsbloomberg - Jul, 28 2023
Fed’s New Payments Network Will Provide Boon to Fintechs, Plaid CEO Saysbusinesswire - Jul, 27 2023
Cross River and Plaid Unveil Faster Multi-Rail Bank Payments Solutionsglobalfintechseries - Jul, 20 2023
Bankjoy Integrates with Plaid to Enable Seamless Account Management for Businessescrowdfundinsider - Jul, 20 2023
Fintech Nuvei, Plaid Expand Partnership, Will Focus on Digital Commercefintech - Jul, 19 2023
Canadian FinTech Nuvei and Plaid broaden horizons in eCommerce verticalsthepaypers - Jul, 18 2023
Nuvei partners with Plaidseekingalpha - Jul, 18 2023
Nuvei and Plaid extend their partnership to new regionspymnts - Jul, 18 2023
Nuvei and Plaid Team to Expand Pay-by-Bankglobalfintechseries - Jul, 15 2023
NorthOne Partners With Plaid to Give Small Business More Control Over Cash Flowthepaypers - Jul, 10 2023
NorthOne partners with PlaidTechCrunch - Jul, 4 2023
Plaid will deposit open banking intel on the Fintech Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023globalfintechseries - Jun, 28 2023
PVNG Integrates with Plaid for Secure Financial Institution Connectivity for Hotelsdlvr - Jun, 24 2023
Fintech Plaid Introduces Anti-Fraud Network for Fintechs and Financial Institutionsbankautomationnews - Jun, 23 2023
FIs share fraud-fighting insights with Plaid solutionpymnts - Jun, 22 2023
Plaid Launches Anti-Fraud Networkamericanbanker - Jun, 22 2023
Plaid leans on banks, fintechs to create a stolen-identity databasebusinessinsider - Jun, 22 2023
Here's the 14-page pitch deck a startup helping people build credit through rental payments used to raise $4.5 million from Clocktower VC and Plaid's cofounderssprou - Jun, 22 2023
How Plaid grew its LinkedIn audience by 60% in one year with SproutTechCrunch - Jun, 22 2023
Plaid unveils new collaboration network aimed at giving fintechs a way to share fraud intelligencepymnts - Jun, 20 2023
Plaid Launches Tool for Cash Flow Underwritingbiometricupdate - Jun, 13 2023
Plaid doubles down on identity verification as businesses seek compliance improvementsbusinessinsider - Jun, 12 2023
From Plaid to Brex to Instacart, here are the 20 unicorns that have plunged the most in value in 2023, according to private secondary datafinovate - Jun, 10 2023
Plaid Unveils New Identity Verification Experiencethepaypers - Jun, 9 2023
American Express and Plaid announce data sharing agreementffnews - Jun, 9 2023
American Express and Plaid Announce Customer-Permissioned Data Sharing Agreement to Boost Digital Finance Options for Customersglobalfintechseries - Jun, 9 2023
Fast Track Verifications Across Plaid-powered Appspymnts - Jun, 9 2023
American Express and Plaid Streamline Onboarding for FinTech Appspymnts - Jun, 9 2023
Plaid Rolls Out Identity Verification Across Apps and Servicesfinextra - May, 23 2023
Plaid signs deal with TradeStationfinextra - May, 23 2023
TradeStation integrates with Plaid to boost account connectivity capabilitiesthepaypers - May, 19 2023
Prism Data partners with Plaidpymnts - May, 19 2023
Plaid Teams With Prism to Help Lenders Make Better Credit Decisionspymnts - May, 11 2023
Plaid Signs Agreements to Migrate Traffic to Financial Institutions’ APIsmnlo - May, 6 2023
Tinder, Plaid founders back $19M funding of this fintech founded by college dropouts for Gen-Z solopreneursspr - Apr, 26 2023
Plaid Partners with Gen Z Personal Finance App Buddythepaypers - Apr, 25 2023
Budgeting App Buddy integrates with Plaid to provide money management services for Gen Z usersfinextra - Apr, 17 2023
Finastra integrates Fusion digital banking platform with Plaidnewswire - Apr, 17 2023
Finastra and Plaid announce collaboration to give account holders streamlined access to fintech appsnewswire - Apr, 15 2023
MyBrandForce Banks on Plaid's Industry-Leading Technology to Scale Payments to Its Nationwide Gig-Force of Brand Agentsamericanbanker - Apr, 13 2023
How Plaid is building new roles within faster paymentsthepaypers - Apr, 13 2023
Plaid announces integration with Monzofinextra - Apr, 13 2023
Plaid introduces instant payoutspymnts - Apr, 13 2023
Plaid Adds Instant Payouts to Its Transfer Toolplaid - Apr, 13 2023
Announcing Instant Payouts on Plaid Transferbuff - Apr, 13 2023
Monzo joins forces with Plaid to open access for US customersforbes - Apr, 13 2023
Plaid Launches New Feature To Speed Up Bank Paymentsthepaypers - Mar, 3 2023
Kasheesh partners with Visa, Plaid and Stripepymnts - Mar, 2 2023
Plaid Launches Portal to Ease Access to Cybersecurity-Related Informationthepaypers - Mar, 2 2023
Plaid launches security portalthepaypers - Mar, 1 2023
Mission Lane expands its partnership with Plaidbusinessinsider - Feb, 28 2023
Fintech Plaid is betting on identity verification being a key part of its growth plans for 2023. Here's why.news - Feb, 27 2023
What Makes A Great Startup Name? We Look At The Latest Trendsfinextra - Feb, 26 2023
Mission Lane expands Plaid open finance partnershippymnts - Feb, 26 2023
Mission Lane and Plaid Deliver Financial Tools to Underbanked Customersdlvr - Feb, 23 2023
Fintech Plaid to Enable Safe, Fast ID Verification in Canadafinextra - Feb, 17 2023
Plaid rolls out identity and KYC integration in Canadathepaypers - Feb, 17 2023
Plaid launches identity verification service in Canadaamericanbanker - Feb, 17 2023
Plaid partners with Okta to ease banks' onboarding processfinextra - Feb, 15 2023
Plaid and Okta team on open finance accessfintechfutures - Feb, 14 2023
Ex-Plaid exec Keith Grose joins Sequence as COO - FinTech Futuresbbc - Feb, 3 2023
Plaid Cymru calls for income tax rises for NHS paycrowdfundinsider - Jan, 25 2023
Former Plaid Exec Launches New Payments Platform: Wafibuff - Jan, 24 2023
Role of Plaid developers in the fintech industrydlvr - Jan, 19 2023
PayJunction Partners with Fintech Plaid to Extend A2A Money Transfersfinextra - Jan, 18 2023
PayJunction partners Plaid for A2A money transfersnews - Dec, 27 2022
Forecast: 15 Startups We Think Could Go Public In 2023thefintechtimes - Dec, 24 2022
2022 Fintech Lessons Learned With Plaid, Integral, Cassini, Liberisbayareane - Dec, 16 2022
Bay Area job cuts: Doordash, DHL, Airtable, Plaid, Borrego Energy ax hundredsfinextra - Dec, 15 2022
Paysend enters open banking payment initiation partnership with Plaidfintechfutures - Dec, 10 2022
Open banking fintech Plaid to cut 260 jobsbizjournals - Dec, 10 2022
Fintech Plaid and proptech Doma lay off hundreds of employees as growth misses planscrowdfundinsider - Dec, 10 2022
Plaid is Next Fintech to Reduce Employees in Move to Cut Costscrowdfundinsider - Dec, 10 2022
Plaid, Airwallex Partner on Paymentsbloomberg - Dec, 9 2022
Plaid Cuts 20% of Staff as Revenue Growth Proves Elusivebuff - Dec, 9 2022
Plaid’s 20% layoffs cap an annus horribilis for fintechthepaypers - Dec, 9 2022
Airwallex partners with Plaid for ACH paymentspaymentsdive - Dec, 9 2022
Plaid cuts 260 employeesforbes - Dec, 8 2022
Plaid Lays Off 260 Employees, 20% Of Staffpymnts - Dec, 8 2022
Plaid and Airwallex Team to Streamline Paymentsfinextra - Dec, 8 2022
Plaid to let go of 260 employeescnbc - Dec, 8 2022
Tech’s pandemic hiring boom continues to bust as fintech Plaid adds to mounting layoffsTechCrunch - Dec, 7 2022
Plaid lays off 20% of staff, CEO says the fintech company ‘hired and invested ahead of revenue growth’TechCrunch - Nov, 20 2022
The latest in Plaid’s payments pushTechCrunch - Feb, 24 2020
The Plaid “mafia” begins with John Whitfield joining student loan fintech startup SummerTechCrunch - Feb, 18 2020
Meet Belvo, a YC-backed startup building a financial API for Latin AmericaTechCrunch - Jan, 27 2020
Teller raises $4M to take on Plaid in the US by providing API access to bank accountsTechCrunch - Jan, 18 2020
Startups Weekly: Plaid’s $5.3B acquisition is a textbook Silicon Valley winTechCrunch - Jan, 17 2020
We’ve gone Plaid #TechCrunch - Jan, 16 2020
Visa’s Plaid acquisition shows a shifting financial services landscapeTechCrunch - Jan, 13 2020
Visa is acquiring Plaid for $5.3 billion, 2x its final private valuationTechCrunch - Dec, 22 2019
Who will the winners be in the future of fintech?TechCrunch - Sep, 16 2019
Plaid announces strategic investment from Mastercard and VisaTechCrunch - Jul, 18 2019
Plaid introduces Liabilities to create debt-tracking apps, starting with student loansForbes - Jul, 18 2019
Plaid Gives Fintechs Access to Student Loan DataTechCrunch - Jun, 20 2019
Plaid puts Quovo acquisition right to work with new investments productTechCrunch - Jun, 18 2019
Fresh off a $2.65B valuation, Plaid co-founder William Hockey is leaving- Apr, 30 2018
Caernarfon by-pass protest by residents angry at delays- Apr, 24 2018
Welsh and UK governments agree Brexit bill deal- Apr, 24 2018
Should there be the same legal protection for the Welsh language as for race or religion?- Apr, 22 2018
Tagging domestic abusers is not enough, say campaigners- Apr, 19 2018
Concerns raised over £55m energy efficiency contractPR Newswire (press release) - Apr, 17 2018
Plaid Launches Assets and Announces Day 1 Certainty- Oct, 23 2017
Plaid launches pilot with Fannie Mae to automate asset verification in the mortgage processTechCrunch - Aug, 30 2017
Plaid delivers bank account integration to enterprise developersTechCrunch - Aug, 30 2017
Plaid delivers bank account integration to enterprise developersTechCrunch - Jun, 26 2017
Plaid puts out a ‘request for startups’ in nine underserved fintech sectorsInc. - Jun, 2 2017
Plaid Is Powering the Future of Banking and FinanceAmerican Banker - May, 24 2017
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