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Calling all founders attending Stripe Sessions 2026 in San Francisco: head to level 2 at Moscone West for your all-day startup hub.
Meet fellow builders, join curated meetups, and connect one-on-one with Stripe experts to solve real problems fast.
Please note: Participation in any of the activities in the founders lounge requires registration to Stripe Sessions.
Meet the Stripe experts behind our products: explore what’s possible, get answers to your questions, and share your feedback. Stop by the lounge to see it in action and learn how to get started.
Stripe Invoicing
Meet the Invoicing team: learn how to scale your sales-led GTM, close enterprise deals faster, and automate payment collection with integrated invoicing and bank transfers.
Host
Sonya Kori, Product Marketing Manager, Invoicing
Stripe Radar
Meet the Radar team: learn how to use AI to identify and prevent fraud in real time, so you can reduce costs, increase your revenue, and protect against evolving fraud vectors.
Host
Caitlin Smith, AE Product, Radar
Stripe Treasury
Meet the Treasury team: learn how to store, earn, spend, and send money globally—all with a financial account that makes it easy to access funds when you need them, make your money go further, and scale faster. Get early access to 2% cashback on card spend.
Host
Arturo Villanueva, Product Strategy and Ops, Money Management
Spencer Goodman, Product Marketing Manager, Treasury
Metronome
Meet the Metronome team: learn how Stripe provides the infrastructure that turns monetization strategies into growth tools, enabling startups to deploy, iterate, and scale their pricing effectively. Attending founders receive $100,000 in billing credits.
Hosts
Michael Coughlin, Head of Solution Engineering, Metronome
Ryan Hayes, Solutions Architect, Metronome
Austin Wortley, Solutions Architect, Metronome
Will Watters, Product Marketing Lead, Metronome
Level up your monetization strategy with Stripe’s usage-based billing experts and fellow founders. We’ll discuss frameworks for evaluating the right pricing model for your AI products—from usage- and token-based to hybrid approaches, and best practices on how to use pricing as a tool for growth.
Hosts
Kunal Mahajan, Product Manager, Usage-based billing
Miles Matthias, Product Manager, Token-based billing
Louis Topper, Product Manager, Metronome
An interactive workshop for founders, product leaders, and engineers on the best pricing, checkout, and retention strategies. Hosted by Faris Aziz, cofounder of JavaScript Zurich and leader of the Stripe Community in Zurich, we’ll map out real-world scenarios, identify revenue gaps, and build a practical toolkit to optimize your pricing, checkout, and retention workflows.
Hosts
Faris Aziz, Cofounder, JavaScript Zurich
Sofia Vizitiu, Solutions Architect, Stripe
Optimized Checkout Suite
Meet the Optimized Checkout Suite team: learn how to launch a high-converting checkout page with local payment methods and adaptive pricing, so you can access new markets and scale your revenue.
Hosts
Jake Shuster, Product Manager, Optimized Checkout Suite and Payments Dashboard
Robbie Frierson, Product Manager, Stripe Checkout and payment links
Stripe Managed Payments
Meet the Managed Payments team: learn how to scale your SaaS products globally with Stripe as your merchant of record, and offload tax compliance, fraud, disputes, and customer support.
Hosts
Tim Fisher, Product Manager, Managed Payments
Alexandra Scolieri, Product Manager, Managed Payments
Stripe Connect embedded components
Meet the Connect team: learn how to use more than 40 prebuilt components to embed payments and financial services into your platform, so you can quickly launch new revenue streams and protect developer time as you scale.
Host
Emily Littlepage, Product Manager, Connect experiences
Link
Meet the Link team: learn how Link, a digital wallet built by Stripe, helps startups scale globally by increasing conversion and reducing costs—enabling hundreds of millions of customers to check out 3x faster with their preferred payment details.
Host
Jonas Ivinskis, AE Product, Link
Stripe Atlas
Meet the Atlas team: learn how to incorporate your business in a few clicks and raise funds from investors with SAFE notes. Atlas founders get access to over $50,000 in exclusive discounts for the best-of-the-internet tools to help grow your business.
Hosts
Lucas Dickey, Product Manager, Atlas and former Founder
Jason Mazzella, Strategy and Ops, Atlas
Scaling a business requires more than just a great product: it also requires a repeatable revenue system. Join Zain Abiddin—founder of GrowthPad, former subscription growth lead at Canva, and leader of the Stripe Community in Toronto—as he hosts an interactive roundtable on growth strategies that work. Learn from other founders and growth leaders on the best strategies to optimize pricing and retention, plus ones that Zain has used himself with startups to help accelerate their growth.
Hosts
Zain Abiddin, Founder, GrowthPad
Sofia Vizitiu, Solutions Architect, Stripe
Expanding into new markets can create operational complexity fast—from tax and compliance to fraud, disputes, and customer support. Join Stripe experts from the Managed Payments team and fellow founders to discuss how businesses are simplifying global expansion, what to consider when evaluating merchant of record models, and how to scale into new markets with less overhead.
Hosts
Alexandra Scolieri, Product Manager, Managed Payments
Ahmed Gharib, Product Manager, Managed Payments
Meet the Stripe experts behind our products: explore what’s possible, get answers to your questions, and share your feedback. Stop by the lounge to see it in action and learn how to get started.
Stripe Connect embedded components
Meet the Connect team: learn how to use more than 40 prebuilt components to embed payments and financial services into your platform, so you can quickly launch new revenue streams and protect developer time as you scale.
Host
Brian Clark, Product Manager, Connect experiences
Stripe Invoicing
Meet the Invoicing team: learn how to scale your sales-led GTM, close enterprise deals faster, and automate payment collection with integrated invoicing and bank transfers.
Host
Sonya Kori, Product Marketing Manager, Invoicing
Metronome
Meet the Metronome team: learn how Stripe provides the infrastructure that turns monetization strategies into growth tools, enabling startups to deploy, iterate, and scale their pricing effectively. Attending founders receive $100,000 in billing credits.
Hosts
Michael Coughlin, Head of Solution Engineering, Metronome
Ryan Hayes, Solutions Architect, Metronome
Austin Wortley, Solutions Architect, Metronome
Will Watters, Product Marketing Lead, Metronome
Stripe Treasury
Meet the Treasury team: learn how to store, earn, spend, and send money globally—all with a financial account that makes it easy to access funds when you need them, make your money go further, and scale faster. Get early access to 2% cashback on card spend.
Hosts
Jeremy Jacob, Product Manager, Treasury
Spencer Goodman, Product Marketing Manager, Treasury
Fintech is the top path for vertical SaaS platforms to generate revenue and boost customer stickiness. Join Stripe experts and fellow founders to discuss multiproduct, monetization, and product attach strategies that can safeguard your software against AI disruption—differentiating your platform, launching new revenue streams, and winning more market share.
Hosts
James Matheson, AE, Platform
Claire Haley, AE, Platform
Subscriptions are just the starting point. Join Elizabeth Sheils, cofounder of Rock Paper Coin—the leading workflow and payments platform for the events industry—to learn how she turned processing fees into a primary revenue driver. Elizabeth will share the playbook she used to monetize processing fees, increase checkout flexibility, and leverage embedded finance. Join this session with Elizabeth and other founders to learn how to generate and scale new revenue streams for your business.
Hosts
Elizabeth Sheils, Cofounder, Rock Paper Coin
Sofia Vizitiu, Solutions Architect, Stripe
Join Stripe Treasury product experts and fellow founders to learn how to make every dollar, pound, euro, and stablecoin you earn go further. We’ll cover the tools, workflows, and practical financial tips that save time and capital in the first 18 months.
Hosts
Jeremy Jacob, Product Manager, Cards
JR Farr, Product Lead, Treasury
Optimized Checkout Suite
Meet the Optimized Checkout Suite team: learn how to launch a high-converting checkout page with local payment methods and adaptive pricing, so you can access new markets and scale your revenue.
Hosts
Jake Shuster, Product Manager, Optimized Checkout Suite and Payments Dashboard
Robbie Frierson , Product Manager, Stripe Checkout and payment links
Link
Meet the Link team: learn how Link, a digital wallet built by Stripe, helps startups scale globally by increasing conversion and reducing costs—enabling hundreds of millions of customers to check out 3x faster with their preferred payment details.
Host
Jonas Ivinskis, AE Product, Link
Stripe Atlas
Meet the Atlas team: learn how to incorporate your business in a few clicks and raise funds from investors with SAFE notes. Atlas founders get access to over $50,000 in exclusive discounts for the best-of-the-internet tools to help grow your business.
Hosts
Lucas Dickey, Product Manager, Atlas and former Founder
Jason Mazzella, Product Strategy and Ops, Atlas
Stripe Radar
Meet the Radar team: learn how to use AI to identify and prevent fraud in real time, so you can reduce costs, increase your revenue, and protect against evolving fraud vectors.
Host
Ben Winfield, Product Manager, Radar
Join Stripe Atlas experts and fellow founders to learn how to use SAFEs to close investors from anywhere. We’ll cover the tactics to go from day one formation to accepting your first checks into your US company—no matter where you or your investors are located. Bring your laptop.
Host
Lucas Dickey, Product Manager, Atlas and former Founder
Join Link product experts and fellow founders to discuss what it takes to build and scale consumer AI businesses. We’ll cover monetization experiments, growth tactics, and how Link—a digital wallet built by Stripe—moves the needle for prosumer startups by increasing conversion and reducing processing costs.
Host
Dan Hill, Head of Consumer Product, Link and former Founder
Emerging fraud trends such as “pay-as-you-go” abuse can spike your costs and impact your runway overnight. Join Stripe experts and fellow founders to discuss how to get ahead of these AI-driven attacks, and learn the frameworks that teams need to protect your revenue and keep your capital focused on scaling.
Hosts
Reed Bennett, Account Executive, Radar
Jacob Meltzer, Head of Engineering, Stripe Radar
AI shouldn’t be built around hype, but the areas actually impacting your growth. Join Margot Duek, founder of TRiAGE, to learn how to “diagnose before you implement,” and the exact framework she has used to help startups reduce manual workloads by 40% and sales cycles by 90%. In this interactive workshop with other founders and builders, take away a clear view of your businesses’ highest-friction processes and where you can use AI to overcome them.
Hosts
Margot Duek, Founder, TRiAGE
Sofia Vizitiu, Solutions Architect, Stripe
