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Plaid
A financial software connecting users' bank accounts to unlock financial freedom for everyone
At a glance
- Founded
- 2013
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Sector
- Fintech
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Plaid.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed8 investors entered at this stage
Series B and later19 investors entered at this stage
Index Ventures
Silver Lake Partners
Franklin Templeton Investments
Ribbit Capital
Coatue Management- BPBase10 Partners
Crescent Enterprises- AVAmex Ventures
Andreessen Horowitz
EQUIAM
Fidelity Investments
Thrive Capital
BlackRock
Altimeter Capital
Goldman Sachs
JP Morgan
Kleiner Perkins- MMMary Meeker
- ACACrew Capital
Ownership
Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (Feb/2026). Percentages are indicative.
Some investors are hidden on this public profile. See the full cap table on Dealroom →
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Plaid employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Jeffrey WangUnited States
Albert MalikovNetherlands
TOTownEst. 2024
Jean-Denis GrezeUnited States
Lowell PutnamUnited States
FOFolioEst. 2023
Al HertzUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
59 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Plaid was the backer or acquirer, 2019–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
6 deals across Plaid's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Plaid deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
Plaid's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Plaid on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.