# CapitalG

Type: Company

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## Timeline

- **2026-08-16**: Stripe finalizes agreement to acquire OpenRouter — Stripe Inc. finalizes an agreement to acquire OpenRouter Inc. for more than $7 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
- **2026-05**: OpenRouter reaches 8M developers — OpenRouter says it serves 8 million developers who rely on it to access more than 400 different AI models.
- **2026**: OpenRouter raises at $1.3B valuation — OpenRouter raises funding at a reported $1.3 billion valuation, just months before the reported acquisition.
- **2023**: OpenRouter founded — OpenRouter Inc. is founded in New York to provide access to multiple AI models.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### Stripe's $7B+ OpenRouter Deal Shakes Up AI M&A
2026-08-17 00:07:54 · Sentiment: Bullish · Impact: 8/10 · Sources: 2

Stripe's agreement to acquire AI routing startup OpenRouter for more than $7B, months after a reported $1.3B valuation, signals aggressive M&A appetite at the intersection of payments, AI infrastructure, and cost arbitrage. Investors will parse the 5x-plus valuation step-up, the $150M in prior funding, and the strategic logic of a payments giant buying a developer-facing AI middleware layer.
Full story: https://getfinancebrief.com/story/stripe-openrouter-7b-acquisition-finance

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