Online payment platform Stripe became Silicon Valley’s most valuable private company with its latest funding round. The company announced on Sunday that it has raised $600 million from Allianz X, Axa, Baillie Gifford, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Sequoia Capital, and Ireland’s National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA), taking its valuation to a gargantuan $95 billion. As the Financial Times noted, the 11-year-old company has surpassed the valuation of Facebook and Uber before they went public. In relation to other private startups, Stripe leads trading platform Robinhood, which is currently valued at $11.7 billion, by a massive margin. Stripe raised a round…
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