Henri Stern is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded Privy, an embedded wallet infrastructure company acquired by Stripe in June 2025. Henri Stern's Twitter Score is 273 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #1,297 (top 0.5%) among 497,670 tracked accounts.
Henri Stern co-founded Privy alongside Asta Li, with the company launching in 2021. Privy focuses on embedded wallet infrastructure, reporting metrics including 120 million or more global accounts, 180 or more supported countries, and over $15 billion processed monthly. In March 2025, Privy announced a funding round led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Paradigm, and Coinbase, bringing total funding to over $40 million.
Henri Stern announced on June 11, 2025 that Stripe would acquire Privy, with the deal subject to customary closing conditions and expected to close within weeks; Privy stated it would continue operating as an independent product and team. Before founding Privy, Henri Stern previously worked at Protocol Labs as a research scientist on Filecoin's consensus protocol, and previously worked at Stripe.
As an angel investor, Henri Stern has backed Recall, Integral, Catapult, Salsa, Conduit, Stack, WITNESS and Fomo. Henri Stern has 7,914 followers as of October 2026 and has published 3,833 posts. Henri Stern has been mentioned by 174 accounts a total of 292 times.
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