Stripe becomes second most valuable unicorn globally at $95 billion Stripe is a fintech startup from Silicon Valley, it has now displaced Elon Musk’s SpaceX from the second place in the global unicorns list 0 claps Share on Stripe, the Silicon Valley-based fintech startup has emerged as the second most valuable unicorn globally at $95 billion, second only to Byte Dance after its latest fund raise of $600 million. This 11-year old payments startup also has plans to launch its operations in India soon. The most valuable startup in the world today is Bytedance, the owner of the popular social media app TikTok at $140 billion, according to CB Insights, followed by Elon Musk owned SpaceX at $74 billion.