Brief Finance: Plaid At $546M ARR Growing 40% YoY and more
In this briefing: Plaid At $546M ARR Growing 40% YoY Arbuthnot Banking Group (ARBB): 2025 lower margins, 2026 profit stability KRI: Drill Results Confirm Continuity Across Three Zones Primer: Magellan Financial (MFG AU) - Apr 2026 Primer: Jana Small Finance Bank (3667144Z IN) - Apr 2026 1. Plaid At $546M ARR Growing 40% YoY Many of Plaid’s biggest consumer fintech customers contracted or decelerated circa 2021 to 2023—from Robinhood ($1.82B to $1.36B revenue, down 25%) to Coinbase ($7.84B to $3.11B, down 60%) to Affirm (71% YoY growth to 18% YoY growth)—which combined with competition from data aggregators like Finicity, MX, and Stripe (Financial Connections) & from banks launching direct APIs—directly impacted Plaid’s usage-based model and drove its revenue deceleration from 56% YoY growth (2020) to 12% YoY (2023). Plaid’s reacceleration over the last two years, with Sacra estimating that the company hit $546M in ARR in 2025, up 40% YoY from $390M in 2024 (up 27% YoY), has come as Plaid has layered on enterprise accounts (Carvana, Rocket Mortgage, H&R Block), which drive more reliable, higher-volume usage while also being more likely to adopt 2+ products from across Plaid’s suite of new SaaS products for fraud detection (Plaid Protect), credit underwriting (Plaid Check), predicting return risk (Plaid Signal), KYC (Plaid Identity), and instant onboarding (Plaid Layer), with these new products crossing 20% of ARR in 2024 and growing ~90% annually, helping flip Plaid from a ~$50M operating loss in 2024 to full-year adjusted EBITDA profitability in 2025 on ~80% gross margins.