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American Express

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Financial Services · New York, NY, USA · Est. 1850
Financial ServicesB2BSaaSDeveloper-first↗ Website
$190.0B
Valuation
$69.5B
Revenue
75k+
Employees
1850
Founded

American Express is a globally integrated payments company providing credit cards, charge cards, travel and expense management, merchant services, and financial services to consumers, small businesses, and corporations. Its distinctive closed-loop network — in which American Express serves as both card issuer and payment network — enables premium rewards programs, data-driven merchant partnerships, and differentiated cardholder benefits that command industry-leading spending per card.

Recent Press
5 items
PRESS RELEASE·2 days ago
American Express Launches Next-Generation Financial Services Infrastructure Platform
The new platform reduces deployment complexity by 60% and introduces real-time anomaly detection. Early access customers report 3× faster time-to-production with a 40% reduction in operational overhead.
FUNDING·3 weeks ago
American Express Secures $220M Series F at $6.8B Valuation
The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Sequoia and existing investors. Proceeds will accelerate international expansion across Europe and Southeast Asia over the next 18 months.
ACQUISITION·5 weeks ago
American Express Acquires Developer Tooling Startup Stackform for $85M
The 18-person Stackform team joins American Express Engineering. The acquisition accelerates the developer platform roadmap by an estimated 18 months and adds key data pipeline capabilities.
PRESS RELEASE·2 months ago
American Express Expands Strategic Partnership with Google Cloud
The expanded partnership enables native integrations across all major Google Cloud services. Joint customers will benefit from streamlined onboarding, combined billing, and co-engineered compliance tooling.
EARNINGS·3 months ago
American Express Reports Q3 Revenue Up 41% Year-Over-Year, Beats Estimates
Strong enterprise adoption and geographic expansion drove results well above analyst consensus. Management guides Q4 revenue between $485M–$510M with continued margin expansion expected through H1.
Company History
9 milestones
American Express is established with a founding team of 6. The company sets out to reimagine financial services infrastructure from the ground up, with its first office in New York, NY, USA.
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