Stripe is on a tear.
In 10 years, the fintech firm has grown from a startup founded by 2 brothers into a $100B payment-processing behemoth.
Now, it’s applying its knowledge about scaling and its position as one of the world’s most valuable startups to fight climate change.
… is through the purchase of carbon credits. Effectively, an organization can “offset” its pollution by funding carbon removal elsewhere.
As highlighted by The Atlantic, though, “capturing all the carbon pollution released since 1850…would require more energy than all fossil fuels have generated since that year.”
Stripe’s solution is to help fund the development of technologies that can remove carbon efficiently.
The initiative is called Stripe Climate and, crucially, is available “in just a few clicks” to millions of businesses that already use its payment technology.
And without scale, it is difficult to bring the price down to a point that the technology makes economic sense.
By being an anchor partner, Stripe Climate is helping these 4 startups get to scale:
“By buying from these companies now, at a relatively high price point, Stripe is aiming to let everyone pay less later,” writes The Atlantic.