Jean Paul Coupal ’07, who graduated from Stanford with a degree in economics, opened the first Coupa Café in Palo Alto in 2004 with his mother Nancy Coupal.

In 2013, Coupa Cafe began accepting Bitcoins, a digital payment system, allowing customers to pay for their lattes and arepas with the currency. “We want to be part of the technology,” Coupal ...

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Coupa, the leading AI-native total spend management platform, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Source-to-Pay Suites*.