Stripe Capital, PayPal Working Capital Could Merge If Acquisition Offer is Accepted

The old rumor that Stripe was interested in acquiring PayPal was apparently true. Partially anyway. This past April, Stripe, along with Block and Advent (a private equity firm), let PayPal know they were jointly interested in acquiring it. But Block dropped out of the deal and the newest acquisition offer, now public, comes from just Stripe and Advent together. While Stripe and PayPal are obviously known as payment processing companies, the two originate more than $3 billion a year in MCAs and short term business loans a year combined.

PayPal is one of the few online payment platforms to struggle with bad debt in its merchant funding program and the company had never weaponized its lending offerings to grow PayPal’s business. Nevertheless, its origination volume outpaced Stripe’s in 2025. Stripe and Advent offered $53 billion to acquire PayPal. It remains to be seen if a deal will actually happen.