Startup formations are at a record high. More companies incorporated on Atlas in Q1 than any quarter ever: up 130% year-over-year. (Delaware incorporations up 38% year-over-year).

Start building: stripe.com/atlas.

Atlas startups are monetizing faster. Companies charging their first customer within 30 days of incorporation rose to an all-time high of 23%, 3x the rate in 2021.

.@rachvid12 of Amperical AI, Atlas's 100,000th startup, chats with @MbyM about building AI for battery energy storage, growing up without power in India, and the similarities between being a founder and doing a PhD.

Stripe @Atlas recently filed our 50,000th 83(b) election on behalf of founders. 100.00% on time. 🧡

Stripe Atlas just hit 100,000 all-time incorporations. Q1 2026 is 130% Y/Y.

After we announced Treasury, users are asking when it will be available in their country. Well, we just shipped something @Atlas founders have been asking for since day one: a real financial account that works, no matter where you live. Now with Atlas, you can try Stripe Treasury with a stablecoin-backed card. Send and receive money globally in dollars. Get a virtual card. Built right into Stripe.

A meaningful stripe @atlas milestone: we just incorporated our 100,000th startup. Of course, we took a look… and helloworld to amperical.ai, co-founded by Dr. Rachana Vidhi: @rachvid12. She is building AI-powered software for operating large-scale battery energy storage systems to help electricity grid operators improve reliability and cost. How cool! I had the pleasure to meet her today. Go startups.🔋📈

The majority of @atlas startup founders are over 35 years old for the first time. We’ve seen a surge in startup formation across all age groups, but the over 35 set has grown the fastest.

New @OpenAI perk for Atlas founders! Get two free ChatGPT Business seats for two months. In your dashboard now: dashboard.stripe.com/atlas/p….

Reminder: Delaware franchise tax is due this Monday, March 1 for all corporations that operated in 2025. Read our step-by-step guide to calculating and paying your tax: support.stripe.com/questions….

Atlas now incorporates 1 in 4 Delaware corporations.

I really get a kick out of this one: Nearly 25% of the multi-founder teams starting on Stripe @Atlas have from founders from _multiple_ countries. Not only are companies going global more quickly, but the founding teams, themselves, are more global.

The @Stripe Atlas team just published their year in review. Because Atlas now incorporates so many startups (23,000 thus far in 2025), it's an interesting snapshot of broader ecosystem trends. Some of the findings that I thought were interesting: • Atlas incorporations grew 36% Y/Y. More than 20% of Delaware C Corporations are now started with Atlas. (Delaware corporations are started for lots of reasons, obviously -- large companies creating subsidiaries, etc. -- so Atlas represents some larger fraction of overall startup creation.) • Founders of Atlas companies can come from anywhere and Europe was the fastest-growing region ( 48% Y/Y). My speculative hypothesis is that this is because dealing with incorporation is very annoying and bureaucratic in many European countries, and the knowledge that you can just use a US corporation is becoming more widespread. A lot of European leaders are aware of these issues and I'm hopeful that they'll act. • Multinational founding teams are 79% more common (among multi-founder teams) than they were in 2017. This feels like a straightforward dividend of remote work, but the effect size is surprising to me. • Time-to-revenue is accelerating. Remarkably, the median Atlas startup that incorporated in 2025 generated 39% more revenue in its first 6 months than its 2024 counterpart. And while there were more incorporations than ever this year, it is also true that a growing fraction of companies reached $100k of revenue within 6 months. That is, both quantity and some kind of quality (at least in revenue terms) are increasing. I'm not exactly sure how to explain this. I think the null hypothesis is simply that AI and stablecoins have opened the aperture of possibility, a vast surge of startups is mobilizing, and customers are eagerly flocking. • The variance is increasing. While the median company generated 39% more revenue than last year, the 90th percentile company generated 52% more, and the 99th generated 67% more. Again, this is a year-over-year change -- pretty striking. This trend aligns with the anecdotes: startups like @cursor_ai and @Lovable (both of which incorporated with Atlas) are posting truly unprecedented revenue growth figures. One of my favorite aspects of Stripe is getting to see trends like these play out in real time. If you're interested in building tools that directly enable this entrepreneurship and innovation, you should get in touch.