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Adyen

Payments platform built to grow businesses

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1001+ employees
  • Fintech
  • B2B
  • Payments
  • Financial Services
  • Mobile
Nieuwmarkt en Lastage, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Company mission

Adyen's mission is to make payments choices easy for merchants.

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

36% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Adyen has been one of the most successful businesses in Europe over the last decade. When it went public in 2018 at a valuation of €7bn, it raised over €1bn and its share price popped on the first day, resulting in a valuation of €14bn. Its valuation has continued to climb by the billions.

Adyen competes with large players like PayPal, as well as outsized startups like Stripe, to power payments and provide other infrastructure to conduct digital transactions. Disrupters in the field have been buoyed by a strong rise in eCommerce activity, where some or all of a transaction by a customer is made either online or by mobile.

Adyen has been one of the companies riding the wave by helping to reduce the friction between a company choosing to take payments online, and actually being able to do it. That can take multiple steps and agreements across numerous countries — Adyen’s pitch is that it essentially handles all of it in the backend as a service for its users. Notable partners have included Autocanteen, a touchless self-checkout solution for the hospitality industry, and BILL, a small business-focused fintech platform.

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Steph

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Benefits

  • Work from home opportunities
  • Yearly trip to Amsterdam
  • Weekly happy hour
  • Paid holidays
  • Delicious healthy lunches
  • Global exchange program
  • Phantom share package

Company values

  • We build to benefit all customers (not just one)
  • We make good choices to build an ethical business and drive sustainable growth for our customers
  • We launch fast and iterate
  • Winning is more important than ego; we work as a team - across cultures and time zones
  • We don’t hide behind email, instead we pick up the phone
  • We talk straight without being rude
  • We include different people to sharpen our ideas
  • We create our own path and won’t be slowed down by “stewards”

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Sep 2015

$52.6m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Dec 2014

$250m

SERIES B

Total funding: $319.4m

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Leadership

Previously Chief Commercial Officer at Bibit (payments company) before co-founding Adyen in 2006.

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