Stripe

Economic infrastructure for the internet.

Today: still up
Launched: 2009-06-01
Where: YC
Team size: 7,000 people

Fintech Banking as a Service SaaS

What we know

Stripe was funded by Y Combinator on 2009-06-01 at stripe.com. The site still answers.

Across the whole register, 23% of launches whose fate we could settle are gone.

Go and look

stripe.com — the site itself
What it looked like, in the Internet Archive

Others who tried something similar

SensorSurf — gone
Swadesh — still up
GetDot — still up
Token Transit — still up
Celest — gone
Sherloq — still up
Aer — acquired
PiinPoint — still up

How we know. Show HN and Product Hunt entries are judged by asking the domain whether it still answers: gone means it no longer resolves, refuses the connection, serves a parking page, or says plainly that it has shut down. An HTTP error is not counted as gone — a server that answers 404 is one somebody still pays for. Y Combinator entries use the status YC itself publishes, which is why only those can say acquired. Search the whole register.