Adyen

Founder/s: Pieter Does
Key people: Ad Arreman (VP – Global Strategic Sales), Slava Balter (Partnerships), Nadieh Bremer (Data Visualization Designer), Tommy Bush (SVP of Business Development Global), Paul Cook (MD – Global Acquiring) and Bronagh Crowley (VP of International Sales)
Number of employees: 251 – 500

Adyen is a technology company that provides businesses with a single solution to accept payments anywhere in the world. The only provider of a modern end-to-end infrastructure connecting merchants directly to Visa, MasterCard, and 250 other payment methods globally, Adyen delivers frictionless payments across online, mobile, and in-store. Headquartered in Amsterdam and San Francisco, with offices across North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia, Adyen serves more than 4,500 businesses, including 7 of the 10 largest U.S. Internet companies. Customers includ e Facebook, Uber, Netflix, Spotify, Dropbox, Evernote, Booking.com, Yelp, Vodafone, Superdry, Mango, Crocs, O’Neill, SoundCloud, KLM and JustFab.

Adyen offers merchants online services for accepting electronic payments by payment methods including credit cards, bank based payments such as debit cards, bank transfer, and real-time bank transfers based on online banking. Adyen’s online payment platform connects to 250 payment methods across North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Pacific, and Oceania, from international credit cards to local cash-based methods, like Boleto in Brazil and internet banking methods like iDEAL in the Netherlands. Adyen provides a single solution, available for three payment acceptance platforms.

The service is used by international and multinationals companies including, Uber, Facebook, Evernote, Etsy, Nike, Spotify, Airbnb, Mango, Vodafone, Booking.com, KLM, Greenpeace, SoundCloud, Superdry and Groupon.

History

Adyen was founded in 2006 by a team of payment industry professionals (the core management team hails from Bibit and have been working together for close to twelve years). Headquartered in Amsterdam the company employs around 600 people in offices in thirteen countries.

In 2015, Adyen achieved a valuation of $2.3 billion, making it the 6th largest European unicorn.

In 2016, Adyen was ranked #10 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list.