Plaid

financial technology company specializing in bank login verification
Organization business Q30610132
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Plaid

Summary

Plaid is a business[1]. Plaid ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,429 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Plaid is in the country of United States[3].
  • Plaid is in the country of US[4].
  • Plaid's instance of is recorded as business[5].
  • Plaid's instance of is recorded as financial services[6].
  • Plaid's founder is recorded as William Hockey[7].
  • Plaid's headquarters location is recorded as San Francisco[8].
  • Plaid's Commons category is recorded as Plaid Inc.[9].
  • Plaid's industry is recorded as fintech[10].
  • May 2013 marks the founding of Plaid[11].
  • 2012-07-20 marks the founding of Plaid[12].
  • Plaid's official website is recorded as https://plaid.com/[13].
  • Plaid's official website is recorded as https://plaid.com/uk/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=Search_G_EMEA_Brand_Exact&utm_content=Com&utm_term=plaid&utm_creative=430485295131&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIt5nLx_aI6gIVEB-tBh0LLgPgEAAYASAAEgJoUPD_BwE[14].
  • Plaid's product or material produced is recorded as software[15].
  • Plaid's legal form is recorded as XTIQ[16].
  • Plaid's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+30842'}[17].
  • Plaid's service status information URL is recorded as https://status.plaid.com[18].
  • Plaid's P14750 is recorded as 59C8-B0FB-34EA-ADB8-AFD2[19].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 98450079AA92C0CDB189[20]

  • Registered legal name: Plaid INC.[21]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[22]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[23]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): XTIQ[24]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[25]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[26]

  • Entity created: 2012-07-20[27]

  • LEI first registered: 2024-11-02[28]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-09-03[29]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-11-02[30]

  • Managing LOU: 529900T8BM49AURSDO55[31]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[32]

  • Authority entity ID: 5185168[33]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[34]

Body

Founding

Plaid's founder is recorded as William Hockey[7]. Recorded inception include May 2013[11] and 2012-07-20[12].

Operations

Plaid's headquarters location is recorded as San Francisco[8].

Industry

Plaid's industry is recorded as fintech[10].

Ownership

Plaid's product or material produced is recorded as software[15].

Why It Matters

Plaid ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,429 views/month).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [20] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [23] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [24] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [25] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [26] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [27] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [33] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [34] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openstreetmap way id → 243357382
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P10689]]: 243357382, Adding OSM way id claim from wikidata tag on way/243357382 in United States"
  2. 6w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 59C8-B0FB-34EA-ADB8-AFD2
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P14750]]: 59C8-B0FB-34EA-ADB8-AFD2, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269256|batch #269256]]"
  3. 15w ago · DontCallMeLateForDinner · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Headquarters location → San Francisco
    Instagram username → plaid
    X (twitter) username → plaid
    Eu transparency register id → 020121438624-71
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ [[Property:P856]]: https://plaid.com/uk/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=Search_G_EMEA_Brand_Exact&utm_content=Com&utm_term=plaid&utm_creative=43048529513"
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