Collisons' Stripe to add 1,000 Irish jobs
Stripe is to add “at least” 1,000 jobs in Dublin over the next five years, after a new fundraising round of $600m (€502m) brought its valuation to $95bn (€79.4bn). The Irish government’s Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, managed by the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) invested €42m ($50m) as part of the fundraising. The online payments firm founded by Limerick’s Collison brothers is now the most valuable ever private technology company in Silicon Valley. It also makes both Patrick and John Collison Ireland’s wealthiest entrepreneurs, with individual paper fortunes ...
Source: independent.ie
