"The nonprofit Stellar Development Foundation was created in collaboration with Stripe CEO Patrick Collison and the project officially launched that July. Stellar received $3 million in seed funding from Stripe.[6][7]"[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_(payment_network)#Hist...

[0][6] http://fortune.com/2014/07/31/stripe-launches-bitcoin-challe...

[0][7] http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/stripe-takes-o...