Plaid is a financial services company that facilitates connections between users’ bank accounts and third-party platforms, like apps. For example, this is how apps like Venmo are able to offer direct deposits and withdrawals from users’ bank accounts—the companies can use Plaid as their transfer infrastructures rather than building out a tool for it themselves. Plaid was founded by Zach Perret and William Hockey in 2013. Perret still operates as the company’s CEO, and the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Plaid has received funding from many prominent investors, including Goldman Sachs, Visa, Mastercard, Google Ventures, and Spark Capital, among many others. Outside investment has allowed the company to grow to approximately 1,200 employees across seven countries in North America and Europe. Apps that use Plaid...