Plaid is a financial data infrastructure company that provides open finance APIs for account connectivity, payments, identity, and risk products. Plaid's Twitter Score is 47 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #19,457 (top 5%) among 487,142 tracked accounts.
Plaid was co-founded by Zach Perret and William Hockey and has grown into a core piece of the open finance ecosystem, connecting consumer bank accounts to thousands of applications through its API platform. In January 2019, Plaid acquired Quovo, extending its data coverage from checking and savings accounts into investment and brokerage data. In January 2022, Plaid acquired Cognito to strengthen its identity verification and compliance capabilities.
Plaid was the subject of a proposed acquisition by Visa announced in January 2020, valued at approximately $5.3 billion. The U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in November 2020 to block the deal, and by January 2021, Visa and Plaid had abandoned the merger. Separately, Plaid has moved toward settlement in the class action matter known as In re Plaid Inc. Privacy Litigation, with a proposed fund contribution of $58 million. In February 2026, Plaid announced raising approximately $575 million in a funding round led by Franklin Templeton, with participation from Fidelity Management and Research, NEA, Ribbit Capital, and Goldman Sachs Investment Partners.
Plaid has published 2,597 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 470 accounts, with 1,752 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Plaid include 217 founders, 56 angel investors, 53 influencers and 24 VCs, among them Cointelegraph, DeFi Dad defidad.eth, MoonPay, Matthew Graham, Ameen Soleimani and Tim Copeland.